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I’m not entirely certain that mobile TV viewing is for me. I can see the service being a dig deal for those who are on trains or busses for a long time each day giving them something to fill the time that they are riding. If you like the idea of Mobile TV AT&T and LG have a new device for you. The new mobile TV capable handset is called the LG Vu Plus and is going to land at AT&T exclusively on June 6. The handset will support the new faster AT&T HSPA 7.2Mbps networks. Other features include a touch screen and a four line QWERTY keyboard. The AT&T Mobile TV service sells for an additional $9.99 monthly and new subscribers can use the TV service for seven days free when they buy the phone. The handset will sell for $149.99 after rebates and a new contract. The handset supports other premium AT&T services like web browsing and AT&T Navigator.

Canon has been working for years to bring SED or surface-conduction electron-emitter displays to the consumer market. These displays were once thought by Canon to be the future of TVs in homes because they offer high resolution and low power consumption. The problem for Canon and its early partners reprots Reuters was that at the time it began development of SEDs for home use makers of LCD and plasma panels slashed prices making developing a profitable SED TV difficult. Canon has announced that it has frozen the development of SED screens for use in homes. Canon will continue to develop the SED panels for use in commercial applications like medical equipment. Canon reports that it does not plan to write down assets related to the development of SED panels.

Summer may not be officially here, but the heat is in many parts of the country, which means that there are already many folks going to the lake, beach, or pool to cool off. Many people will be looking to make some movies while they are playing near water. The problem with getting a camcorder near water is that one splash will ruin most cameras. Toshiba has announced a new Camileo BW10 digital camcorder that is the first waterproof camcorder to come from the firm. The new camcorder is launching in the UK and will sell for the equivalent of $185. The camera can survive submersion in up to 2 meters of water and still record video. That means not only can you use the camcorder near water, you can actually film underwater with it. The BW10 records in full 1080p resolution and it will come in blue, silver, and turquoise colors. The rear screen is 2-inches wide and the camera records to SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards up to 64GB. It will launch in June.

HBO has some of the best weekly shows on TV and those shows win all sorts of awards and are very popular. The catch for those without cable is that you can only view the HBO programs if you subscribe to the pay network or wait for the content to land on DVD. HBO and Sony announced today that they are teaming up to offer premium HBO shows on the PS3 and the PSP for purchase. The HBO shows are offered in the HBO section of the PlayStation Store and will include many of the most popular shows on the network. Available programs include True Blood season one and two, Big Love seasons one through three, Entourage seasons one and two, and Eastbound and Down season one. Multiple seasons of other shows like The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Wire, Rome, and lots more are available. Exactly how much the content will cost wasn’t announced. I would be more interested if you could rent the episodes for a reasonable price.

Pioneer have outed their latest high-end in-dash navigation system, and it has brought along mobile Pandora access too. The Pioneer AVIC-Z120BT has a 7-inch WVGA touchscreen, 3D graphics accelerator, onscreen iPod/iPhone control, integrated Bluetooth for hands-free calling and wireless music streaming (along with USB connectivity and an SD card slot) and is SIRIUS XM satellite and HD Radio ready. As for Pandora, that’s courtesy of Pioneer’s PandoraLink for iPhone app, which as the name suggests requires Apple’s smartphone in order to funnel streaming music through the head-unit. When running on the iPhone, Pandora shows up as a separate source on both the new AVIC-Z120BT and Pioneer’s existing AVIC-X920BT in-dash unit. A free download, the app allows for track rating – using Pandora’s thumbs-up/thumbs-down system – from the head-unit’s touchscreen. Even if you haven’t got an iPhone, there’s plenty to like about the AVIC-Z120BT. Voice-controlled navigation, a customisable homescree

There are so many Bluetooth headsets and hands free kits on the market today that it’s overwhelming if you are in the market. More are added each day, but it is good to have choices. Sound ID has announced a new headset called the Sound ID 510 . The maker claims that the device is the first Bluetooth headset with its own iPhone app. The headset will work with any phone that uses Bluetooth 2.0 and higher. The iPhone app lets you customize the sound settings for the headset and is called EarPrint. The volume control is touch sensitive and turns up and down when the user runs their finger over the adjustment area. Battery life is promised to be up to five hours of talk time, and the device can be paired with two Bluetooth phones at one time. The headset has noise reduction modes for improved call quality. The Sound ID 510 will ship on June 6.

I think most of you who are using an iPad today know that the things can be a real pain in your neck if you stare down at them for extended periods. This can be fixed though if you put the iPad on a stand for watching video and reading. LapWorks has a new stand that has debuted called the iPad & eReader Recliner . The device is an ergonomic stand that is angle adjustable for comfort. The bottom of the stand is a rubber cushion that cushions the iPad as you use it. The stand can adjust infinitely between upright and fully laying flat. The structure is made from ABS plastic and it has a footrest and a headrest that are each 8-inches high. You can pick one up on sale for $29.95 right now.

MSI have already told us to expect their Windows 7 MSI Slatebook tablet at Computex next month; now they’re spilling a few more details to suitably whet our appetites. According to company chairman Joseph Hsu, the Slatebook will go on sale in Q3 2010 through carrier partnerships in the US and Europe; it’ll have integrated 3G and WiFi connectivity. As the previous rumors suggested, the Slatebook will use Intel’s Zxxx range of processors, though there’s no word on whether they’ll be Z5xx or newer Z6xx at this stage. Hsu has also confirmed a multitouch touchscreen, both USB and HDMI ports, and a weight of 800g; we’ve also heard of a sub-$500 price tag before now. The Windows 7 slate will apparently be the first of a series of MSI Slatebook tablets, presumably encompassing the much-rumored Tegra 2 based model. Hsu reckons global demand for tablets is unlikely to take off until 2011, at which point he expects “supporting applications and services” to be suitably ready.

Nokia’s N900 has just been gifted a software update, though it’s not the MeeGo v1.0 firmware we’re waiting for (more bad news about that after the cut). Maemo 5 version 1.2 (v10.2010.19-1) is out in the UK today and will go global by the end of the week; it boosts email support, adds Facebook IM chat, video calling and portrait-orientation browsing, together with tweaking Nokia Ovi Maps. As of this coming Thursday, meanwhile, the Ovi Store will get a gaming boost with the addition of Jurassic 3D Rollercoaster, Zen-bound, Angry Birds (level pack), Sygic, Kroll, Weatherbug and GoGadget for the N900. There are also some UI changes and the ability to accept meeting requests from the email client. As for MeeGo, Nokia have announced that there will be no “full scale commercial MeeGo upgrade” for the Nokia N900, with the smartphone left running Maemo. That, they say, is to make sure users have the best experience with their N900, and they’ll continue pushing out Maemo updates. We imagine

Dell have finally confirmed availability for the Dell Streak – the Android MID formerly known as the Mini 5 – with the 5-inch tablet hitting O2 UK in early June, followed by a US launch later this summer. Packing a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, WVGA capacitive touchscreen, 5-megapixel autofocus camera and front-facing video camera, the Streak will also get an update to Android 2.2 Froyo with Flash 10.1 later in 2010. Check out our hands-on first impressions – and some demo video – of the Streak after the cut. While we’ve seen 5-inch MIDs before, the Streak manages to break new ground by virtue of its sheer slenderness; for once, this is a MID that you could comfortably drop into the front pocket of your jeans (assuming they’re not too fashionably-tight, of course). We’ve played both with a gloss red unit and the matte black that will be the first to launch, and both – despite being pre-production prototypes – felt well put together with little in the way of flex. Navigation

Sony’s placing a lot of hope in their upcoming motion controller, and considering the upcoming competition, that’s probably a good idea. With E3 just around the corner, there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that Sony’s holding their tongue, at least in any official capacity, to make sure that they get to announce all the goodness on their own stage. That’s not stopping video game outlets like BT Games from (possibly) ruining the whole surprise. Oddly enough, we thought we already knew when the Move motion controller was going to be launched. After all, Sony officially announced the motion-based peripheral only a couple of months ago. And with it, word that a release some time in the Fall of 2010 was mentioned. At least, “slated.” Apparently though, BT Games (which is a video game outlet) just released an advertisement in their latest brochure stating that the Sony motion controller is coming in July. No, there’s no way to confirm this at the moment, and obviously Sony isn’t going to say a

At this point, even if you don’t count the countless sightings of the iPhone HD , there’s enough evidence out there to suggest, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a new iteration of the iPhone is coming. Sure, it could all be a bunch of nonsense, and people piecing up a puzzle that means ultimately nothing, but we’re firm believers in what we can see. And, just like you, we’ve seen plenty. Take this for example: looks like AT&T is no longer placing orders for the iPhone 3G, 8GB version. On top of that, and perhaps what’s a bit more telling, is the fact that Apple has stopped shipping the handset to AT&T. Yes, these two things obviously go hand-in-hand; but, like the chicken and the egg, which came first? Was Apple already not sending handsets before AT&T stopped placing orders for them? Either answer would be quite revealing. So, start the speculation wheel, ladies and gentlemen. Does this mean that the iPhone 3GS will get dropped down in price here in the near future? Or, wi

Apple’s international launch plans for the iPad continue to chug along, with the first batch of countries – outside of the US – getting their official launch this Friday, but according to a rumor out of South Korea the most interesting iPad variant may still be at the negotiation stage. According to Telecoms Korea, Apple are in talks with carrier KT Telecom regarding a WiBro iPad , a third version of the touchscreen tablet. WiBro is the high-speed WiMAX equivalent already rolled out in South Korea, and just as a WiMAX iPad would offer much faster browsing speeds than the existing iPad WiFi + 3G, so would the WiBro model. According to the leaks, KT are looking to secure all three models, offering their subscribers the basic WiFi-only iPad, the iPad WiFi + 3G and a new, country-exclusive iPad WiFi + WiBro. Of course, there’s no official confirmation from either KT or Apple themselves, and so this has to get filed into the “vague rumor” category for the moment.

Elgato have updated their media streamer range with the EyeTV HD DVR , a small box that allows you to hook up a cable or satellite receiver and stream that content – including premium channels – to a Mac, iPhone or iPad. The EyeTV HD box allows for either permanent recording of video – which can then be transferred to a mobile device via iTunes – or live streaming via their EyeTV app. Connectivity includes component audio/video for hooking up the cable or satellite receiver, and USB for linking to the Mac. An IR blaster controls the STB, so that you can change channel or even set up recordings remotely, and there’s an IR remote in the box for local control. The $199.95 sticker price includes a year’s access to the the Elgato TV Guide, and the included software apparently makes editing ads out of the final recordings straightforward. If you’re looking to transfer old video content you can do that too, plugging in via the analog inputs.

Pandigital may be better known on these pages for their digital photo frames, but the company have another use for a 7-inch LCD: an ereader. The Pandigital Novel eschews E Ink for a full color touchscreen LCD display, Android OS and WiFi b/g/n, the latter being used for wireless connection to Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore. That means support not only for purchasing ebooks, newspapers and magazines, but use of B&N’s LendMe functionality that allows readers to share texts for up to 14 days. LendMe will work with B&N’s PC/Mac ereader clients and, we’re presuming, the company’s own nook ereader. Meanwhile there’s also multimedia support, including MP3, AAC and WAV audio, JPEG, BMP, PNG and GIF images and MPEG4 video; content can be saved to the 1GB of internal memory or to an SD or MMC memory card. Battery life is tipped at up to six hours from a full charge, and there’s an orientation sensor for page-flips, integrated desk stand and a 2.5mm headphone socket. The whole thing

Intel have officially announced their latest ultra-low voltage (ULV) Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 processors , which will be finding their way into ultraportable notebooks in the not-too-distant future. The chips all use 32nm Nehalem processes and that adds up to performance gains and power frugality: Intel reckon up to 32-percent more grunt and up to 15-percent less battery consumption compared to existing chips. There’s also support for Hyper Threading and Turbo Boost on select models across the range. TDP across the range is just 17W, and certain CPUs can be paired with Intel HD Graphics. Already Acer, ASUS, Lenovo and MSI are signed up to produce notebooks based on the new ULV processors, and Intel expect over 40 models to begin to debut in June 2010. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that the list also includes the rumored Alienware M11x upgrade, tipped this weekend.

Yahoo! and Nokia have taken to the stage this morning and, as expected, they’ve announced a partnership deal that will see them collaborate on mobile services. According to the deal, Nokia will be the exclusive provider for Yahoo!’s maps services worldwide, using Ovi Maps, while Yahoo! will become the exclusive global provider of Nokia’s Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat services. Yahoo! Maps will be “powered by Ovi”, while Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat will be “powered by Yahoo!” Ovi ID will be broadened across select Yahoo! content and services, allowing for a reasonably consistent single point of login. The first markets to get the co-branded Ovi functionality will see service in the second half of this year; that’ll be expanded globally in 2011. Frankly this sounds, in no small part, like two companies clinging to each others’ strengths in a hope to save themselves some money playing underdog.

We’ve made no bones of our love of NVIDIA’s second-gen Tegra chipset , and how excited we are about seeing it in upcoming tablets like the Notion Ink Adam, and unsurprisingly NVIDIA’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is just as keen on the SoC. He’s been talking up the Tegra’s potential (again) against Qualcomm’s Snapdragon – “we use the right processors to do the right job” – as well as saving some particularly biting criticism for Intel’s Z6xx Moorestown chips – “you could give an elephant a diet but it’s still an elephant” – and even teasing a little about the possibility of a webOS tablet. Huang reckons that rather than split into dramatically different netbook, ultraportable, tablet and MID segments, the market will coalesce into “leisure computing” – including netbooks with discrete graphics (perhaps evenNVIDIA Optimus) and tablets with detachable hardware keyboards. He also takes a swipe at Apple’s Flash stance, saying that it merely takes dedicated engineering work to achieve and that co

There is one thing that I really hate about shiny screens on notebooks and desktops and that thing is glare. Glossy screens are the norm and they may offer better viewing with movies and video, but the glare is a real hassle. I’m thinking that transparent AMOLED screens like the giant unit Samsung is showing off will suffer from glare along with a new problem. That new problem will be the interference with what is on the screen and what is behind the display. In theory, the transparent AMOLED screen is cool, but you can tell in the shots above that the image quality really suffers for the see though gimmick. The screen Samsung is showing off is a 19-inch unit hailed as the world’s largest transparent AMOLED. The tech does have some interesting applications though like windshields with the ability to show data right in front of the driver. Check out the video below to see a similar 14-inch transparent OLED screen in action.

OCZ first debuted the new Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSDs in April. When the SSDs were introduced, they were offered in 50GB, 100GB, 200GB, and 400GB capacities. The company has now announced that it is offering new solutions in the lines with 400GB and 480GB of storage. The new SSD offerings are still 2.5-inch drives that will be good for users wanting SSD performance but needing more storage space than the small boot drives typically seen in the SSD market. Both the Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSDs have the almost identical performance. Both offer up to 250MB/s read and up to 240MB/s write speed. Random 4K rewrites are up to 22,500 IOPS on offered on the Vertex 2 line. The drives use the SATA 3Gb/s interface. Pricing on the new SSDs is unknown at this time.

Only recently have the new 2010 line of Core processor from Intel become widely available. This fact has lead to lots of machines getting updated recently like the MacBookupdates. A roadmap has leaked that shows Intel is set to add a new part to the Core i5 line. The new CPU is reportedly called the Core i5-580M and will replace the 540M in the line. The new CPU will run at 2.66GHz and needs 35W of power to operate. The CPU is also said to feature Turbo Boost technology. The main difference between the i5-580M and the i7 part with the same clock speed is that the i7 has 4MB of L3 cache compared to the 580M’s 3MB. However, the clock speed on the i7 part is expected to get a boost to 2.8GHz despite the fact that the roadmap didn’t show such an upgrade. The new i5 is expected this fall.

The performance close of an SSD with the pricing of an HDD; that’s what Seagate promise is possible with the new Momentus XT range. A series of 2.5-inch laptop hard-drives, the Seagate Momentus XT use a hybrid combination of 4GB of SSD memory paired with a 7,200rpm HDD: by using the SSD partition with Seagate’s new Adaptive Memory technology – which learns typical drive use and prioritises key files – the company reckon users will see around 400-percent performance improvements on regular 7,200rpm HDDs but at a quarter the price of a true SSD. Adaptive Memory basically monitors which files are opened frequently and which data is regularly accessed, and intelligently shifts those into the faster, solid-state memory. The first time you open a file, Seagate say, the Momentus XT is on a par with a regular 7,200rpm HDD; the second time, it’s more like an SSD. Over time, the hybrid drive creates a custom partition in the SSD memory suited to how the individual uses their machine. Since i

The new SDXC format is ushering in memory cards that look like the SD cards we have had for years, but pack huge amounts of storage into the small space. The SDXC format can handle up to 2TB of storage capacity. We have seen 64GB SDXC cards before like the one from SanDisk that sells for about $350. Team is set to debut its own 64GB SDXC card at Computex. The new card uses the SD3.0 interface and is backwards compatible with SD2.0 as well. It offers write protection and is designed for use in digital cameras and camcorders. The card promises up to 30MB/sec maximum read speed and can store up to 136K high-resolution photos.

We mentioned last week that the Amazon Kindle App for Android devices is due to land this summer. That will allow lots more users to access the Kindle bookstore. Asus has announced that it will be including the Kindle app on several of its computers. The Kindle App will be pre-installed right out of the box on Eee netbooks including the 1005PE and the UL30A-X5K and UL30VT-X1K ultrathin notebooks. The app will let the user read any of the titles from the Kindle bookstore right on the notebook or netbook. We have talked about the Kindle app for PCs before. It lets the user read the book on the computer and on the Kindle eReader and can synchronize the readers place and book marks between the two devices. Bestseller titles start at $9.99.

Kobo’s ereader isn’t expected to arrive at Borders in the US until June 17th, so hopefully that will give the manufacturer a little time to finesse the firmware. According to one thread over at MobileRead, the Kobo’s much-touted Bluetooth connectivity – allowing for short-range, cable-free transfers of ebooks to the device – has a significant flaw in that it won’t update its books list after wireless use. Ironically, the only way at present to force an update is to plug in a USB cable and unplug it. That USB cable can either be the PC connection – basically causing the Kobo to be mounted as an external drive and then unmounted – or the mains adapter. Considering Bluetooth is meant to cut out the number of cables you carry around, it’s a frustrating shortcoming. What makes it particularly annoying is that you can apparently send ebook files to the Kobo from an Android smartphone, opening up the possibility of downloading new titles on your phone and manually transferring them across

LG haven’t been shy in showing off their upcoming 3D HDTV range, but so far the company has been keeping pricing close to their chest. With the LCD sets’ debut on Amazon, however, all that has changed; we now know that the mid-range LX6500 series will be priced from $2,699.99. That gets you the 47-inch LG 47 LX6500 ; for $3,599.99 you can have the 55-inch LG 55LX6500. Amazon don’t have any release information to guide us on when we might expect the two sets to begin shipping; originally we heard it would take place in the second week of May, but that’s obviously been and gone. Both HDTVs support Full HD 1080p resolution, TruMotion 240Hz, LG NetCast internet-connected widgets and streaming, and a 20W speaker system. Of course we imagine it’s the 3D capabilities that most buyers will be looking for; for that you’ll also need LG’s shutter glasses for everyone watching, which cost $125.

While Nokia ’s overall specifications for the N8 generally met with approval – if not, in the case the 12-megapixel camera, outright lust – the smartphone’s 680MHz processor led to some criticism that the phone might not keep up with its Android and Windows Phone rivals. Over at Finestfones they’ve apparently had enough hands-on time with an N8 prototype to run some benchmarking tests, and the reassuring news is that, in comparison with previous Symbian handsets, it’s quite the little speed demon. They used an app called Speedy Go! which benchmarks Symbian devices, and which allows the N8 to be tested both with its graphics accelerator turned on and turned off. Off, the prototype N8 posted a score 54-percent higher than the Samsung Omnia HD and 180-percent greater than the Nokia N97. Meanwhile the N8 maxed out the FPC Bench 3D graphics testing, ranking 60fps – the highest the app can count – in every category. According to Finestfones, the improvement in results is because, while so

We weren’t exactly disappointed by the Alienware M11x gaming ultraportable’s performance when we reviewed it a few months back, but nor would we turn our noses up at a speed boost should Dell be so kind. As the rumors suggested, Dell are apparently planning to slot Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 CPUs into the 11.6-inch notebook, and according to Pearce Clune, Head of Consumer Operations for Middle East, Africa and Turkey, we can expect it next month. Shuffle Magazine interviewed Clune at DCC 2010, and he broke the news that the M11x is indeed throwing out its current Pentium SU4100 1.30GHz and Core 2 Duo SU7300 1.30GHz processor options in favor of the faster Intel chips. That would potentially make the M11x the fastest 11.6-inch notebook you could buy. As for the other half of the rumors – that Dell would use NVIDIA’s Optimus technology for intelligently switching graphics – there’s no word. However, the current M11x models do indeed use NVIDIA GPUs, and so it seems likely that Dell wo

Given Google made significant mention of their acquired AdMob technology at Google IO this week, it would’ve been embarrassing had the FTC turned around and failed to approve the deal. Happily – for Google – that’s not the case, with the final, unanimous judgement of the FTC investigators being that the Google AdMob deal is not, in fact, anti-competitive. Ironically, Apple’s own entrance to the mobile advertising segment, in the shape of iAd, helped Google’s argument. “As a result of Apple’s entry (into the market), AdMob’s success to date on the iPhone platform is unlikely to be an accurate predictor of AdMob’s competitive significance going forward, whether AdMob is owned by Google or not” FTC However the FTC says it will “continue to monitor the mobile marketplace” to ensure that none of the participants – Google and Apple included – are taking advantage of their leverage in a way that harms competition or indeed consumers. The commission has apparently been tracking Google and

Look out, Pixel Qi, Liquavista are looking to take on your 3qi indoor/outdoor viewable displays with some slick multi-mode panels of their own. The company has been demonstrating their new LiquavistaVivid technology, a dual-mode display which can automatically flip between a paper-like monochrome setting – ideal for ebook reading indoors and out – and an LCD-like full color video-capable setting. Meanwhile it’s also more power frugal than regular LCD, with Liquavista claiming users will see up to 4x the battery life compared to traditional panels. It’s based on the company’s electrowetting technology which, while sounding like the experience you’d have losing bladder control while lying on an electric blanket, is actually a manufacturing technique that is 100-percent compatible with traditional LCD production. Unfortunately, while Pixel Qi display panels are expected to show up in devices on the market soon, Liquavista’s LiquivistaVivid displays won’t be commercialised until 2010/20

We’ve been pestering HTC for a hardware-QWERTY blessed high end Android smartphone for some time now, and that needling might have come to fruition. Mention of the HTC Vision – along with the HTC LED and HTC Glacier – has been found buried in the company’s website, complete with a profile that basically sounds like the HTC Desire only with a hardware ‘board. Assuming that’s the only main difference, that would leave the Vision with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, capacitive touchscreen and HTC Sense, along with what’s likely to be a 5- to 8-megapixel autofocus camera. The handset is unlikely to arrive as the Vision, however, that being an internal codename. What would remain to be seen is whether the Vision would run Android 2.1, as with HTC’s current line-up, or the newer Android 2.2 Froyo officially announced yesterday at Google IO. The company has said that it is working on the new version for “future devices” while confirming that 2010 model year Android devices would also likely

Smartbooks may not have breached the market at the pace ARM hoped for, but even with that delay the first models in the wild are getting mixed reviews. Over at Carrypad our old friend Steve “Chippy” Paine has been putting the Airlife 100 through its paces since unboxing it earlier this week, and while it’s nowhere near perfect there are some real strengths, not least lengthy battery life even when always connected to a 3G network. In fact the battery could be the Airlife 100’s biggest strength: the smartbook managed 18hrs of mixed use from a 90-percent charge, including 7hrs with the screen off (ovenight) and 3G and WiFi active all the time. That’s with no user-effort to eke out extra runtime, and works out to an iPad-besting performance. Unfortunately, browsing isn’t as fast as on an Intel Atom based netbook, there’s no Flash support and you can’t send files – such as photos – to the Airlife 100 via Bluetooth, only from it. The biggest problem, it seems, is Android itself, or at l

Corsair offered up a couple new SSDs recently called the F100 and F200 in the Force Series. This week Corsair has added more SSDs to its Force series with the unveiling of the F60, F120, and F240 SSDs. The new SSDs boast 285MB/s read speeds and 275MB/s write speeds across the board. The F60 is a 60GB SSD, the F120 is a 120GB unit, and the F240 is a 240GB unit. I have no idea why the picture of the F120 shows 200GB when the specs state 120GB of storage. Perhaps 120GB is formatted capacity, but that is not specified. All of the new SSDs use the Sandforce SF-1200 controller for improved write endurance and ECC data protection. Corsair is mum pricing, but the SSDs will ship in June.

It’s hard to miss the fact that the iPad is selling in droves right now. Apple has stated a few weeks back that it has already sold a million of the things and the launch in the UK was delayed again recently. Analysts have already stated that they think the iPad is more likely to cannibalize iPod sales than Mac sales. AllThingsD reports that the analysts might be wrong on that point. Analysts at RBC Capital estimate that Apple is selling more than 200,000 iPads each week, which would put iPad sales volume higher than the sales of Mac computers in the US. That huge sales number also puts iPad sales very close to the number of iPhones sold each week. Analyst Mike Abramsky figures that Apple is selling 110,000 Mac computers per week and almost 246,000 iPhones each week. Even with the huge sales numbers, the analysts say that there is still some pent up demand for the iPad with shortages and out of stock issues in many locations. Abramsky raised his iPad outlook globally from 5M to 8M sol

Smartphones were one of the brightest spots in the mobile device market last year and this year with the economy continuing to suffer. The devices have sold in increasing numbers as consumers look for a single device that can serve more than one function. Samsung’s VP or marketing Lee Woo-jong told Reuters that Samsung believes that the smartphone market in 2010 may grow 50% and that a massive growth in the OLED display sales business is expected as well. Many of the new smartphones are starting to take advantage of OLED screens. To take advantage of the expected boom in smartphone sales and OLED screens Samsung has announced that it is investing $2.15 billion by 2012 to build the world’s largest plant for making ultra-bright AM-OLED screens. Shortages of the high-end screens built by Samsung are making it impossible for carriers to keep up with demand from consumers on devices like the HTC Droid Incredible sold by Verizon. The large manufacturing plant will help stop screen shortages

With the Apple iPad blowing up right now the sheer number of competing tablets with similar functionality coming to market is vast. It seems like every day there is another new eReader coming that offers a feature set like the iPad. The latest of these iPad competitors is the Eken M003 . The M003 has an 8-inch LCD in full color and runs Android as the operating system. With Android built-in the device can surf the web and lots more via a WiFi connection. The M003 is priced at $240 and has a SD card slot that works with cards up to 32GB allowing for lots of storage expansion. You can check out the video demo of the Eken M003 below.

If you are on a computer that is still working well for your needs, you probably aren’t in the market for upgrading to a new machine or mainboard right now. The only downside for lots of folks with older machines that still work well is that the PCs lack USB 3.0 ports to support the new and much faster USB 3.0 storage devices starting to land on the market. Sharkoon has a new expansion card for PCs that slips into a vacant PCI-E x1 slot. The expansion card offers two USB 3.0 ports and offers sustained data rates of 5GB/s. The host controller card has a NECnPD720200 chip. The NEC chip allows the device to conform to Intel xHCI-rev0.96 specifications. A 4-pin plug is built into the card for getting power to the USB ports offering power over the network and the card works with XP, Vista, and 7 in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.

Apparently, while people who like to use P2P file sharing networks are sharing music, movies, and other data amongst each other they are also sharing sensitive personal information at the same time. A new study has found that thousands of sensitive documents are on P2P networks today. The study was conducted by researchers at Dartmouth College and the study researchers were looking to see how easy it was to download health data from P2P networks. According to the study, the researchers were able to download 3,000 files that contained information including insurance details, diagnosis information, and personal info that can be used in identity theft. One of the file downloads had information on 28,000 patients and other files contained enough information to be classified as a “major breach” under federal law. The information reportedly made its way to P2P networks when employees installed P2P apps like Limewire or BearShare on work computers.

There are those who back up their data and then there are those who want to back up their data and have it protected with RAID5. If you make your living with video or just don’t want your collection of digital home movies to get lost, backing the video up on a device with RAID protection is ideal. iStoragePro has announced its latest RAID storage array called the iT4UFER tower 4 bay RAID system. The device has lots of connectivity and can connect to a PC via USB, Firewire, or eSATA ports. It also supports Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 video editing software. The RAID enclosure has four bays that support up to 8TB of storage and the drives in the array are hot swappable. The machine has cooling fans designed for low noise output and it can be used on Mac, Windows, and Linux systems.

If you have one of those snazzy little netbooks that has the oomph to run HD video really well and you want to watch Hulu on the big screen in the living room, but lack HDMI out, what are you to do? That lowly VGA port isn’t going to help you out much, what you need it the new Gefen USB to DVI HD adapter . This adapter plugs into the USB port on any notebook or desktop and can support full 1080p output. Once you get that DVI port going, you can use an adapter to turn the DVI into a HDMI cable that your TV can support. The adapter needs no power supply and gets all its juice from the USB port. The adapter will support PC resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 and six of the adapters can be connected to a single PC. The adapter is available now for $149.

Nokia are going full-steam ahead with their own package of services – the feature-toting update to Ovi Maps earlier this week is proof of that – but are they also planning a deal with Yahoo! which will see the latter company’s email, search and other applications and services built into certain Nokia models? That’s what All ThingsD are reporting, having been invited to Yahoo!’s “Project Nike” launch next week with the promise of “an exciting announcement about providing global consumers with rich online and mobile experiences”. They dug around and came up not only with the Nokia connection but some particularly snide comments about both firms. According to the sources they’ve spoken to, the Yahoo!/Nokia deal won’t involve a Yahoo! branded cellphone but instead see several features from the company’s mobile services division preloaded onto a range of Nokia handsets. That would, bizarrely, put them up against Nokia’s own mobile services: the company already has a growing email platfo

HP’s confirmation that it would be putting webOS into tablets and even printers was happily received, but anyone looking forward to a webOS-based netbook should think again. According to Monty Wong, vice president of the personal computing systems group at HP Taiwan, netbooks are too like mainstream computers to make them appropriate for webOS, and as such the company has no plans to develop them. Meanwhile he also had some news on the HP Slate. Wong says that the HP Slate – DigiTimes have capitalised the name, which leads us to presume they (and the HP VP) are referring to the original Windows 7 based tablet, rather than a webOS based machine – will arrive on the market by the end of October 2010. He’s also predicting a “wide range of software and application support” in time for that launch. It was rumored that the Windows 7 tablet project had been put on hold while HP rushed a webOS slate onto the market, considering the mobile OS a better challenge to Apple’s iPad. No word, me

Google TV, according to those invested in the project, is going to bring you the next generation of TV. Basically, that means it’s going to be bigger than big. Some might even say huge . And with partners like these, we imagine that Google may be right in their assumption. Of course, we’ve detailed Google TV for you already, but it never hurts to bring you the full press release, now does it? As you already know, Google TV is a way that brings your TV, and your Web, together in one, logical place, running on Android 2.1. With intuitive navigation, both with a remote and keyboard, you’re able to utilize Google’s Quick Search Bar to find whatever it is your looking for swiftly, and quickly access the content you want on the fly. And if you’ve got a DVR hooked up to the rig, you’ll be able to easily program a show to record, right from the Quick Search. Partnering with Sony, DISH Network, Logitech, Intel, and Best Buy means that Google has every base covered with their Google TV introduc

Android developer? Itching to get your hands on the Android 2.2 Froyo SDK ? Run, don’t walk, to the Android Developers site (currently pretty sluggish, be warned) where you can now download the new SDK complete with APIs for all the shiny new functionality announced at Google IO today. On offer is an 18MB core download, onto which you can then bolt individual packages catering for different Android OS releases. Versions all the way back to Android OS 1.5 are available, or you can shun the older devices and just focus on the 2.x builds.

YouTube have jumped on board with Google TV , introducing YouTube Lean Back, a custom feed of streaming videos that can be set up from the desktop and then fed into a user profile viewed on your HDTV. Viewers will also be able to subscribe to other channels from users they follow, together with seeing the general categories, all in a useful living room friendly UI. As well as YouTube Lean Back there’s also a new NBA streaming app system and an update to Google Listen in the shape of Listen & Read. The latter allows for podcasts – whether audio or HD video – directly accessed on your television. There’s also integration with Google’s language services, allowing for instantaneous subtitle creation translated from the broadcast language to whichever other language you’d prefer (and that Google support. More details on Google TV here, and you can sign up for more info at google.com/tv

Google have, as expected, announced Google TV . Claiming that people watch on average 5hrs of TV per day, and that there are 4bn TV users worldwide, Google have added search functionality to the TV experience. Google TV is based on Android with the Chrome browser and full Flash support, and there’ll be Logitech set-top boxes that daisy-chains in-between your HDTV and your existing cable or satellite box, or standalone Sony HDTVs or Blu-ray players with Google TV integrated. In a demonstration punctuated with technical problems, as the Bluetooth keyboard refused to hook up to the Google TV box, the Google IO team showed how viewers would be able to search for channels or for specific programs via an on-screen search box, overlaid on top of whatever was being fed from the cable TV tuner box. It’s also possible to set a timed DVR recording direct from the UI. Type in a search query, however, for a show and you can also see online content as well as what’s available through broadcast TV

Google have boosted Android’s streaming functionality , including the ability to not only choose apps from the Android Market through a desktop browser interface and then installing them to your device OTA, but also wireless music streaming from a home media store to an Android device. The latter works on the technology Google acquired when they bought Simplify Media. In the demonstration, Google showed a full media library and then, with a simple tap of “push all”, making that music available to the mobile device. The library could then be browsed on the smartphone and played over the wireless network. There are still questions, like whether it can be used over 3G as well as WiFi, but it all looks very user friendly. Meanwhile the Android Market gets a new music tab which can be used to install audio.