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That tiny little chip of color that could look a little like an iPhone if you squint? Why, that  is  an iPhone, and it’s sitting in the frankly ridiculous 8ft x 4ft Behringer iNuke Boom speaker-dock. Yours for a can-you-say-gimmick $29,999.99 when the iNuke Boom lands after CES 2012 next month, it’s a 700lbs+ monster with over 10,000 watts of power. Behringer is better known for its pro-audio equipment, including a range of mixer desks, studio monitors, preamps, microphones and MIDI kit. However the company is also looking to wade into the consumer electronics market with its new EUROSOUND, hence the eye-catching (and potentially ear-blowing) iNuke Boom. Takers for this particular speaker dock are not particularly likely, but Behringer is hoping its 49 other new products will find more favor. Of course, it’s not the first ridiculous way of getting music out of your iPhone we’ve seen: Jean-Michel Jarre invited ridicule with his AeroDream One, a system so tall that it has an integrated l

The new ENVY range isn’t the only thing HP has new in notebook sales today; the HP Folio 13 ultrabook is also ready for primetime, offering 13.3-inches of Core i3 or i5 ultraportable. Announced last month, the Folio 13 has 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, along with a 1366 x 768 display, in a 3.3-pound 0.7-inch tall chassis. There’s also WiFi b/g/n, HDMI, USB 3.0 and Dolby Advanced Audio, along with 9.25 hours battery life from a full charge. Gigabit ethernet and Bluetooth round out the main specs, and the whole thing is said to be semi-ruggedized so that it should stand up to some semi-rough treatment in your rucksack or briefcase. RRP for the HP Folio 13 is from $900, though thanks to our friends at Logicbuy there’s a $200 deal to be had. Follow their instructions and you can net the Core i5 1.6GHz version for $703.49, an impressive saving if you’re in the market for an ultraportable without an Apple logo.

HP’s updated ENVY 15 and ENVY 17 notebooks have gone up for sale as promised, offering second-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors, slick metal chassis and Beats by Dr.Dre audio. The new laptops use 1GB AMD Radeon graphics, up to 6GB of DDR3 memory and a choice of HDD or SSD storage, while connectivity includes HDMI, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth and DisplayPort. Pricing and more after the cut. The 15-inch model is 1.11-inches thick and tips the scales at 5.79 pounds, while the 17-incher is 1.28-inches thick and 7.37 pounds. Then there’s the Envy 17 3D, which throws in a full HD Radiance 3D 120Hz display, a pair of active shutter 3D glasses and a Blu-ray HD player. The ENVY 15 is meant to start at $1,100, but Logicbuy has a coupon for a Core i5 version at $949.99; meanwhile the ENVY 17 is meant to be from $1,250, but the deals site has a coupon for it from $1,099.99. Finally, the ENVY 17 3D has an RRP of $1,599, but Logicbuy has details on how to get it for $1,172.99.

Apple is readying a Siri API that could pave the way for integration with third-party apps and services, with new software engineer positions seeking help to “make the next big thing even bigger.” Two new roles have been spotted by 9to5Mac, for an iOS software engineer and senior engineer, each confirming the work-in-progress API that will tie various aspects of the iPhone experience together as the virtual personal assistant prepares to step out of beta. “You’ll need to work with them to enable access to their data and behaviors, and wire them up to your implementations. As a result, strong API design is needed to keep communications ideal” Apple iOS software engineer job listing Apple took the unusual step of launching Siri in beta rather than as a fully polished product. As we discovered inour iPhone 4S review, the voice control system – which can recognize natural speech rather than just a selection of preconfigured phrases – is capable but still limited in many ways, including w

Pandaboard.org has unveiled a new and small mainboard that is called the Pandaboard ES. This little board is one of the open source parts that is designed to be a development tool for running Android 4.0 ICS when it lands. The board is intended to support the Android Open Source Project. The little board is price very well. It will cost you $182 and has the hardware onboard with a dual-core TI OMAP4460 processor at 1.2GHz and more. The new board has major improvements compared to the original with a claimed 20% increase in overall performance and a 25% increase in graphics performance. The board also uses 1GB of LPDDR2 memory and has a SysBoot switch to allow manual boot order selection. Connectivity options include HDMI v1.3, DVI-D, and more. It also has a USB host and a USB OTG host inside. It will support WiFi and Bluetooth. The board is available globally starting today. This should make for a very nice development platform at the sub $200 price.

AT&T has announced that its New York City 4G LTE network will go live this month, as the carrier targets coverage for 70m people by the end of the year, while the iPhone 4S has helped Q4 sales break new records. Around 6m smartphones were sold in October and November, AT&T CFO John Stephens confirmed today, meaning the carrier’s Q4 is well on track to best its previous record of 6.1m smartphones in a three month period. The iPhone 4S takes a fair share of the responsibility for that performance, Stephens suggested. Many customers were waiting for the fifth-gen smartphone to go on sale, he claims, hence the stronger than expected demand. Having already confirmed over 1m iPhone 4S activations in the first five days of the smartphone’s availability, Stephens declined to reveal up to date figures but said that interest in the Apple handset remains strong. As for 4G, the senior executive vice president confirmed that AT&T is on track to meet its 70m person LTE coverage target b

If you are one of the unlucky Europeans that live in an apartment building where it is against the rules to hang a satellite dish, you may be wishing you had a way to get satellite channels. If you are one of those folks, this is the perfect thing to hide your satellite tendencies from the landlord. This might look like a normal chair to place outside on your balcony, but it isn’t. This is actually a satellite dish cleverly disguised as a chair. The SatPlus Sat Chair has a dish and a LNB hidden in its design. The chair works like a 60cm dish and is made for balcony and the ruses. It might be the perfect thing for picking up channels at the campsite too. The chair weighs in at 5 kilos and will cost you about 242 euros. It’s not clear what satellite networks it will and won’t work with. You will obviously still need a converter to view the programming. We also wonder what would happen if you sit on the chair. I suspect someone’s bum would block the signal as effectively as heavy clouds.

Honda is showing off a very interesting new hybrid vehicle prototype called the HEV. The car is based on the North American version of the Honda Accord, but it’s nothing like a boring Accord underneath. According the Honda the hybrid will have performance like a V8 offers and efficiency of a 4-cylinder. Honda isn’t sure when the prototype might be turned into a real car at this time. The HEV will also use a seven-speed dual clutch transmission that Honda is developing. It will also have two rear motors with one powering each wheel along with a gasoline engine in the front of the car and an electric motor for the front wheels of the car. At low speeds, the rear electric motors will drive the car. When more force is needed the front electric motor will kick in, and if that isn’t enough the gas engine will then fire up. One of the coolest things is that the electric motors will be able to change what direction the power is driving the rear wheels from forward to reverse to help the car tu

Spotify rival Deezer has announced ambitious international launch plans for the next six months, though the company has purposefully ignored the US and Japan. December 8 will see Deezer’s web-based streaming audio service arrive in Ireland and the Netherlands, with 45 more countries by the end of the year. The company offers premium unlimited streaming of a choice of 13m tracks on the desktop, along with optional offline mobile access to tracks. Unlimited desktop streaming is priced at £4.99 ($7.79) per month and unlimited plus offline mobile access at £9.99 ($15.59) in the UK where, along with France and Belgium, Deezer has been operating for around four years. There are also new mobile deals with operators, including Orange in France, Everything Everywhere (Orange) in the UK and Belgacom in Belgium. As for the US and Japan, Deezer says that “due to market saturation and low growth forecasts” along with the fact that the two represent “only” 25-percent of global music consumption, the

ICANN started the process of approving the new .xxx domain name back in March of this year. After months of waiting people that wanted to buy the new domains can now officially get them. The addresses ending in .xxx are specifically for porn sites and was intended to allow people to identify and avoid porn sites or make it easier to find them depending on your perspective. Already about 100,000 of the domains have been sold in a restricted sale that started in September. At least two of the big porn firms online have filed suit over the sale of .xxx domains. The ICM registry that oversaw the sale claims that the suits are without merit. The two suits claim that the industry didn’t need an .xxx domain and the decision to make one was flawed. The two firms suing are Manwin Licensing and Digital Playground. Manwin runs Playboy websites. Part of the complaint is that the ICM Registry is charging $60 per address, which is about ten times the cost of other top-level domains. The ICM also cla

Toshiba’s REGZA 55X3 TV almost had it all when the glasses-free 3D 55-inch 3850 x 2160 set was announced back in October; all that was missing was the price. That’s been rectified ahead of the 55X3 going on sale in Japan midway through this month, and as you’d expect for 4K2K and the ability to upscale Full HD, it doesn’t come cheap: 900,000 yen, in fact, or a whopping $11,578. Your money gets you quite a bit of advanced technology, mind. The QFHD – or Quad Full High Definition – display offers more pixels than most people would know what to do with, and there’s 240-zone intelligent backlighting. Face tracking is used for the glasses-free 3D, with a lenticular sheet placed across the panel and up to nine viewers supported simultaneously. It’s possible to convert 2D to 3D, too, though it’s worth noting that in 3D mode you don’t get that 3850 x 2160 resolution. Toshiba’s REGZA CEVO Duo engine is at the heart of the 55X3, and there’s support for Full HD video recording to a USB-attached h

Nokia unveiled its Nokia Maps 3D back in April of this year and they were certainly cool. The service reminded me more than a little of Google Earth. Nokia has announced some really cool new features. One of ht new features is the ability for the user to search for local attractions, restaurants, and shops. That means you can see the shop you want to visit and then get directions how to get there. The directions are given on maps with photorealistic views of the locations you are looking for. You do have to install a plug-in to get the 3D maps. After installing that plug-in, you can enter addresses in the search field as well as business names and points of interest you want to see. It will then find the thing you are looking for and put it on the screen for you to check out. The route planning is in 3D and then the routes can be shared with friends via, email, Facebook, and Twitter. The allow you to get directions for walking or driving. Those are nice updates to Nokia Maps 3D and you

This week the the group TouchType Ltd, best known for their keyboard application by the name of SwiftKey – as found on the Android Market this week on sale for 10 cents, mind you – have attained $2.4 million USD (£1.5m) in Series A financing to “accelerate consumer and OEM adoption.” This investment is sure to bring the keyboard app developers a whole new round of investments to bring the typing solution to the forefront of the Android mobile operating system world. The investment has been lead by Octopus Investments and will ultimately improve one of the world’s most popular Android apps to a whole new level of excellent. Needless to say, your humble narrator has used this keyboard in the past and each time a new keyboard is tested, SwiftKey is certainly one of the best to beat. What this new investment will do, says TouchType, is help them to increase their worldwide presence, especially in the USA and Asia, and will strengthen their commercial, executive, and technical teams. As far

We have been waiting for the Timeline since we first heard details back in September. As of yesterday, the Facebook Timeline went live in New Zealand of all places. The roll out started yesterday and it’s not clear if all Facebook users in that country have access to the Timeline or if it is staggered where some folks will get it and others won’t. The Timeline will be the place to tell your story and go back as far as you want apparently with pics of weddings, births, and just about anything else you want to include and have that stuff stay there. The old profile page would adjust and move older content down the page as you put more recent things onto the profile. That meant that important things like weddings, special events, and pics of a new baby might slip off the page and be replaced by a shot of breakfast from this morning. The new timeline will let you put those important events on the page and keep them from being hidden by things that are less important to you or about you. Th

Evernote has released a pair of new apps, focusing its notetaking expertise with Evernote Hello for remembering people and Evernote Food to do the same for meals. The two free iPhone apps aim to satisfy some of what are said to be the full service’s most common uses; for instance, Evernote Hello pulls together a face photo, time of meeting and the context, allowing for easier recall later on.

The Windows Store for Windows 8 will mandate touch- and gesture-support for all applications, allow users to install purchased apps on up to five computers simultaneously, and demand apps protect users from “unintentional large data transfers”; however, there won’t be a cooling-off period for accidental downloads. Freshly announced this week, and arriving alongside the Windows 8 beta in February 2012, Microsoft’s app store for the new OS brings with it a new batch of developer documentation for coders keen to get their wares inside. istartedsomething dug through to pick out the best bits. Some of Microsoft’s rules center on usability and consistency of experience across platforms, particularly when Windows 8 on ARM arrives (expected to be in mid-2013). The company’s “Certification requirements for Windows apps” insists that “Your app must provide the same user experience on all processor types” or, if that’s not possible, that developers need to submit separate versions for each CPU an

JVC is on hand at the Cedia 2011 expo with some of its cool new home theater gear. The things that caught our collective eye are the line of projectors with 4k resolution. The projectors support up to 3840 x 2160, which is four times the resolution of full 1080p projectors. The projectors include normal and reference series unit. The consumer focused versions include the Procision Series DLA-X90R, DLA-X70R and DLA-X30. The higher end Reference Series DLA-RS65, DLA-RS55, DLA-RS4800 and DLA-RS45 projectors are the high-end versions. This high-end reference series unit is also have JVC 4K e-shift tech and are also THX 3D certified and can apparently convert 2D to 3D. That conversion is done with a JVC pro 2D to 3D converter that is derived from its professional converters. While the projector is able to throw images over HD resolution, it does support full 1080p and other resolutions. The 3D projectors use active shutter glasses and have a parallax adjustment to get the ideal 3D image qua

If you own a Nintendo 3DS a new software update is now available for the portable console that brings with it some new features. That update was originally expected last month and then Nintendo said it would land December 8. That would have made the roll out start tomorrow. For whatever reason, the update is available today, a day before expected. That is certainly better than another delay in the roll out. The update has some cool new updates inside with new puzzle panels and a follow up for the StreetPass Quest game called Street Pass Quest 2. Other updates include some Mii Plaza tweaks so you get messages for achieving things in Mii Plaza. This includes things like meeting 100 Miis and those from other countries. There is also a music player for hearing tunes in the Plaza. The StreetPass map will show you where all the Miis you meet are located. The update also added 20 pieces per Puzzle Panel with four pink parts that can only be collected in StreetPass and can’t be purchased. The

Touchscreen ultrabooks to challenge the growing tablet market are expected to debut alongside Windows 8, according to sources in the manufacturing chain, as notebook makers look to differentiate their ultraportables from the MacBook Air. A new breed of LCD displays and touch panels to go with them have already begun sampling, DigiTimes‘ insiders claim, with new designs required in order to work with the sub-0.8-inch thickness Intel specifies for the ultrabook segment. Whereas previous touchscreen notebooks and convertible tablet PCs have used existing resistive, capacitive or active digitizer displays to enable touch, such systems can often add unwanted bulk. In the case of ultrabooks, where extreme portability is a primary element, new designs have supposedly been introduced to keep touch from bloating the upper notebook lid. For instance, so-called open cell display units are being trialled, where the backlight section of the panel is clad not by a separate cover but relies on the li

There are a number of head mounted displays on the market today that try and look like sunglasses and offer you a simulated larger screen for your video watching. We have talked about the offerings from Vuzix in the past with the firm showing off the Wrap 1200VR a couple months back. A new competitor on the market is from a company called Silicon Micro Display (SMD) and the glasses are the ST1080. These glasses were announced back in November so the specs were known, but the pricing wasn’t. SMD had promised that the glasses would be lower cost than the others on the market. The ST1080 haven’t met that promise with a steep price of $799. The upside to the glasses and the steep price is that these things are 10% see-through thanks to some cool screen tech. That will allow the glasses to be harnessed as an augmented reality platform since you can see through the screens. The glasses will support 1080p resolution and can be powered on the go from a USB port. Those are some nice features th

When AMD first started talking about its new Bulldozer processors there were a lot of excited geeks out there. On paper, the processor sounded really good with its 2 billion transistors and lots of nice features. Once the processors started getting into the hands of reviewers, the excitement faded for many people when it was noted that the performance wasn’t on par with the specs noted by AMD. Many of the reviews noted that the performance of the new flagship parts was barely on par with the CPUs AMD already had. The Bulldozer processors were significantly behind their Intel counterparts in performance. AMD has now come back and said that it was in error when it described the Bulldozer as having 2 billion transistors. AMD then said that Bulldozer actually had 1.2 billion transistors. What happened to the other 800,000 transistors? The die size is the same reports ExtgremeTech. The issue could be an automated AMD design process with some significant overhead according to ExtremeTech. Th

Back when Apple first unveiled the iPad name for its tablet, there was no end to the jokes about the name. Those jokes didn’t last much longer than the time it took people to get their hands on the tablet and the reviews to come out. The name is now synonymous with tablets in most of the world. In China, it’s a bit different though. Apparently, a company named Proview has had a trademark on the iPad name since 2000, well before Apple started to make the iPad. A suit has been gong on in Shenzhen over the name with Proview Technology suing Apple for trademark violations with the importing of the iPad tablet to the country for sale. China is an important market for Apple, just as it is with many tech firms thanks to the booming economy in the country. Courts in Shenzhen have ruled against Apple in the case. It’s not clear yet what implications this has for Apple. Proview was seeking $1.5 billion in loot from Apple. I see two things happening. Most likely Apple will make some sort of licen

Logitech has begun pushing out the Google TV 2.0 update for the Logitech Revue, adding a refreshed UI, more comprehensive searching and – perhaps most importantly – Android Market access to the set-top box. Arriving as an automatic update, the Revue Android 3.1 update was announced as in the pipeline in late October, and is now finally in the wild, Logitech has confirmed. Google TV 2.0 is the search giant’s second significant bite at the smart TV market, after its first attempt failed to gain traction. Although the initial release was flexible and – if you had the right cable STB – worked reasonably well with multiple sources of content, the interface was confusing and the search system inconsistent. This new version – already pushed out to Sony’s Google TV range – tries to refine that experience, with a Quick Search Box that queries through TV content, online video, apps, bookmarks and regular web results. However, there’s also a new TV & Movies app that focuses on video content,

Flipboard has come a long way since its launch on the iPad last year, and now it’s ironically getting smaller: iPhone sized. Redesigned to suit the iPhone’s 3.5-inch display, Flipboard 1.7 introduces a new Cover Stories feature that automatically learns from the articles, news and photos readers are most interested in, and prioritizes content it believes they’ll also want to see. Meanwhile, there’s still integration with social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Log into your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Instagram, Google Reader, Flickr and 500px accounts, and the shared content doing the rounds on them will automatically be visible in Flipboard. There’s also a global search bar, which will search across all networks, and straightforward sharing support. Instapaper and Read It Later tie-ins allow for storing content for subsequent review. Those who have been using Flipboard on the iPad will be able to log into their account on the iPhone version and access any saved stories an

RIM has been forced to rethink branding for its next-gen smartphone and tablet OS, changing the name to BlackBerry 10 after a trademark suit saw it blocked from using “BBX” as planned. The QNX-based platform had been announced in October, with RIM hoping to pull together the OS already in use on the little-loved BlackBerry PlayBook tablet with its 2012 smartphone refresh. However, software company Basis International had already registered BBX, and secured a temporary restraining order against the Canadian company blocking it from using the name at DevCon this week. According to Basis, RIM had refused their requests to stop using BBX, and so their only recourse was to see an injunction. “Despite the fact that the two companies are not direct competitors,” the court decided this week, “the parties’ respective BBX products are highly related and target the same class of consumers, that is, business application software developers.” Basis’ argument had been that in calling its platform BB

It’s not just the Windows 8 Developer Preview coming in February 2012; Microsoft will also launch the Windows Store, its download center for Windows 8-based PCs, notebooks and tablets. The Windows 8 app store will include in-app purchasing and trials, along with support for subscriptions, while Microsoft’s revenue split with developers is set up to particularly reward those with top tier software. Those looking to get in through the door early can take part in Microsoft’s new First Apps Contest. Developers will be able to release free apps, trials (either based on a limited period of use, or with the trial offering only select features) and paid apps, including support for in-app purchase. Sales up to $25,000 in revenue will follow the by-now usual 70/30 split, with developers taking the lion’s share. However, anything beyond $25,000 will be paid out at 80/20, as Microsoft attempts to woo high-profile devs to focus on the Windows 8 platform. It’s worth noting that, during the Windows S

Microsoft has just confirmed that the public beta release of Windows 8 will come in February of 2012, a date that was danced around tentatively, and which we covered previously. At this rate, it’s looking pretty good for Microsoft in terms of hitting its development milestones for their tablet-ready new operating system. Now they just have to gear up in hopes of reaching their projected sales, whatever that might be, and which probably will be announced in the near future by the technology giant. As we said earlier, it’s expected that Windows 8 will be officially released in 2012, but the actual expected date for the completion and shipment of the upcoming Microsoft operating system remains, at the moment, not set in stone. Still, no information has been imparted yet on precisely what will be in the public beta of Windows 8, the feature set not yet released nor specified at the moment. But it will most likely be decided by the engineers working on the project deciding which components

The City of Cupertino has just posted up today the updated campus plans that Apple submitted to the city last month for its new Campus 2 headquarters, which was announced to much publicity this summer, and was dubbed the Apple spaceship (no explanation needed, hopefully). What a truly amazing place for Apple employees to work on the next iPhone, iPad, or “i” device that comes into conception in the new Apple headquarters soon. They’re most likely able to draw inspiration from the very structure that houses them. Pretty amazing, I have to say. Check out the updated proposals of the Apple Campus 2 here: Introduction Site Plan & Landscaping Floor Plans Renderings These newly updates plans are titanic >40MB PDF files in high-resolution detail, and thoroughly document the entirely updated campus plans of the campus. To jog your memory, the Apple Campus 2 will be an fully-integrated 21st-century corporate campus surrounded by green space (with 6000 various species of trees), and

Recent Google engineering intern Andrew Munn has launched into a detailed explanation on Google+ as to why many Android devices are significantly more sluggish and less responsive in terms of user interface and experience than comparable iOS and Windows Phone 7 devices. The root of the problem? Inoptimal priority queuing on Android OS. On one side, iOS has graphics rendering queued as a real-time priority, thereby letting users self-manage which priorities are to be rendered in the background. On the flip side, Android views graphics rendering as a normal priority. As a result, Android devices tend to become more sluggish when they’re trying to perform other tasks simultaneously. The gist of the problem boiled down by Munn: It’s not GC pauses. It’s not because Android runs bytecode and iOS runs native code. It’s because on iOS all UI rendering occurs in a dedicated UI thread with real-time priority. On the other hand, Android follows the traditional PC model of rendering occurring on t

We haven’t heard much from Art Lebedev‘s design studio since, well, the update on the Optimus Polaris last summer. But the Russia design company know for its innovative usage of LCDs on high-end keyboards has announced today that they’re taking pre-orders for both its Optimus Popularis and Optimus mini six keyboards, the former priced at 31,500P, or approximately $1086 USD, and the latter at 10,900P, or around $376 USD. That’s the hefty price you pay for a sleek Art Levedev piece, indeed. Pictured above on the far left is the smaller Optimus mini six, which isn’t expected to ship until November. In the middle is the long-awaited Optimus Popularis, which is expected to ship in July. The Optimus Aux on the far right has already been released, and can be purchased along with the other two keyboards. Art Levedev bills the Optimus Popularis as “a compact keyboard with each key displaying any image and being assigned any function.”, and the Optimus mini six as an “auxiliary device with six c

Just days (three, to be precise) after information pertaining to Intel’s upcoming desktop processors was leaked, details of Intel’s mobile versions of its Ivy Bridge CPU lineup may have leaked as well. According to some internal product layouts released by VR-Zone, Intel is putting an end to the low-voltage CPU type seen in Sandy Bridge, consolidatiing the product line down to just standard voltage and ULV (ultra-low voltage) versions. Intel now has programmable TDP in its mobile processors, essentially rendering the low-voltage product line redundant. First of all, the standard-voltage lineup brings with it an ample speed boost to notebook users, with options reaching from a 2.6 GHz dual-core i5, all the way to an Extreme Edition 2.9GHz quad-core i7. For the chips possibly ending up in next year’s plethora of ULV-powered ultrabooks, Intel will be gearing up to launch two different models, a 1.8GHz dual-core i5, with the potential of up to 2.8GHz single-core turbo speeds, and a 2GHz du

Earlier today we found that the Xbox 360 Dashboard update promised for today was just a bit delayed – now we learn from Microsoft’s Major Nelson that though the update was delayed through much of today, the first set of customers will be getting their Xbox LIVE update within the next few hours. For those of you just learning about this situation now, Microsoft is updating your Xbox 360 with new software today if not inside the week with several new bits of functionality. Amongst changes are updates to your Kinect sensor (if you have one) and new bits of content in your streaming TV service. You’ll find that the update will be rolling out for users in some areas of the United States in just a few hours (read: today) and will continue throughout the next few days barring any giant holdups like we had this morning. Inside the update you’ll find that changes include gesture and speech-controlled navigation throughout the menus of the console, a comprehensive streaming media update for Xbox

Players is an upcoming movie starring Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bobby Deol, Sikander Kher and Omi Vaidya. Its an official remake of Hollywood blockbuster "The Italian Job" Players is Directed by - Abbas Mustan. The music of this film is composed by Pritam. This Title track is sung by Neeraj Shridhar, Siddharth Basrur, Mauli Dave.

Song: Right by ur side Movie: Ra.One Starcast: ShahRukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal Music: Vishal Shekhar Music Label: T-Series

Song ~ Raftaarein Movie~ Ra.One Starcast~ Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal Singer~ Vishal Dadlani Music label~ T-Series Enjoy the full movie version of Raftaarein track from much anticipated movie Ra.One. After Dildara,Chammak Challo & Criminal, this is our latest offering.

Song~ Let it be Movie~ Desi Boyz Starcast~ John Abraham, Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, chitrangada singh Music~ Pritam Music Label~ T-Series

Verizon may be preparing to launch an online video streaming service next year that will rival similar services like Netflix and Hulu as well as traditional cable providers. Citing sources familiar with the situation, Reuters reported today that the service will be rolled out to markets that do not currently have Verizon’s FiOS cable offering. Although the details are still unclear, Reuters’ sources claim that the service is expected to have a narrow scope of offerings, focused mainly on a package of movies similar to Liberty Media’s Starz Play and Viacom’s Epix or children’s programming such as from partners Walt Disney or Viacom. Verizon has been wanting to explore providing a service to those customers seeking to “cut the cord” from traditional cable services and is said to have been in discussion with program providers over the last two years. However, the move could impact both Verizon’s current relationships with cable TV partners such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright Ho

The folks at what will soon be simply Sony have released the XPERIA active here in the United States this week officially, complete with protection against elements of all kinds and connectivity on AT&T – though you’ll be purchasing the device off-contract at first. This 1GHz single-core processor toting Android device has a 3-inch HVGA display that’s scratch resistant, Wi-fi connectivity (or AT&T 3G if you wish), wrist strap, compass widget, heart rate and pulse monitoring apps, and a lovely orange coloring around the edges of the chassis. All this and a 5-megapixel camera for $340 unlocked – seem like your next device of choice, or has Sony dropped a brand new completely impenetrable brick? While it’s important to trust your instincts on this, there’s always a celebrity sports person to call up on the device you’ve just purchased to ask if you’ve done the right thing – in this case, it’s tennis superstar Maria Sharapova and her strange skull-cap haircut. It was back a few mon

The long delayed DirecTV TiVo DVR may finally be arriving as soon as this week. Following DirecTV and TiVo’s reconciliation in 2008, talks began of TiVo returning to DirecTV’s set-top box in 2009, but that has yet to materialize until now. According to a forum post by a member that appears to be an employee or otherwise associated with DirecTV, the new TiVo-toting DVR is set to arrive on December 8. It will initially be released only in select markets. The forum post reveals that the new TiVo set-top box will be available only in the following ten major US cities: Chicago IL, Denver CO, Los Angeles CA, New York NY, Philadelphia PA, Phoenix AZ, Sacramento CA, San Francisco CA, Seattle WA, and Washington DC. A nationwide rollout for other markets is still being evaluated. However, this new TiVo-powered DVR will carry a $5 per month TiVo service fee in addtion to the $7 DVR service fee and the $10 HD Access Fee. With the new TiVo box, users will be able to access all of DirecTV’s live, on

Consumer Reports  has released its latest survey of US wireless customers, revealing once again that AT&T scores the worst in customer satisfaction, repeating its last place ranking from the previous year. And once again, of the four major US wireless carriers, Verizon takes the top spot. The satisfaction survey is based on feedback from more than 66,000 Consumer Reports subscribers with both standard and no-contract providers. The most satisfied customers actually came from smaller lesser known carriers with Consumer Cellular ranking first followed by U.S. Cellular and Credo. However, Consumer Reports editor Paul Reynolds suggests that the overall high consumer satisfaction with the smaller regional carriers may be due to those consumers demanding less. Reynolds says that although satisfaction is high, these carriers are not for everyone as some are only regional and do not offer much in smartphone selection if any. Hence, those requiring faster data speeds, broader coverage, and

When it comes down to it, there’s only so much technological gadget bits that one person can possibly want for the holidays*, so when you get to that point with the electronics lover in your life, there’s always the old fallback: a big bit of rock. Not just a sack of pavers you stole from your neighbor, no way, this is the BugHouse Future Fossils series of life-sized decorative editions made with a cement casing to make sure you’re in the right place when it comes to displaying the future’s past in classic connected items. These mothers range anywhere from $50 to $500 USD and most of them are unlimited in the amount that you can buy. Why not stock up on your cement-laden Atari controllers for the low low price of only $65 USD apiece? Truly this is the dream you’ve been dreaming of ever since your auntie Agnes told you that your glass case full of calculators was terrible to behold. Also included in this series is an Opympus 35mm still camera, a Technics turntable for all your stone rec

The folks at MIC Gadget have found a MacBook Air knockoff from China called the AirBook that looks near identical to the real thing upon first glance. Without having a side-by-side comparison and without booting up, those less familiar with Apple products could easily be duped into thinking it was the real deal. The AirBook looks amazingly similar, but sports a slightly larger footprint and a profile that’s a hair thicker. Instead of having an aluminum unibody design, the AirBook uses matte plastic made to look like aluminum. It has isolated black keys and a large multi-touch trackpad as well as a MagSafe-like power connector. But, the overall fit and finish is noticeably lacking when compared side-by-side with the real MacBook Air and it boots up Windows with its 1.8GHz Atom dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM. It does, however, have an SD card slot, USB 2.0, and mini-HDMI port. You can check out the similarities and differences for yourself in the video below. MIC Gadget also did an e

Though your humble narrator may review tablets, smartphones, desktop computers, laptops, and gadgets of all kinds, and would give you a fair look at the load of them, one thing remains true of the first item on that list without fail: at the end of the day, I really could do without a tablet. The same could be said about a desktop computer, but that ship sailed a long time ago if you believe your everyday average tech blogger. Why would I want a machine that I had to leave in one place when I’ve got this perfectly good portable screen connected to a keyboard right here in front of me? More to the point, why would I want then to remove the keyboard piece of this puzzle when it wasn’t causing me any trouble or amount of discomfort in any way in the first place?

Verizon has issued a statement today denying claims that it is intentionally blocking support for the Google Wallet mobile payment app on the upcoming Galaxy Nexus. The response comes after a Google spokespersonconfirmed yesterday that Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus would not support the company’s NFC-based payment app, spurring rumors that rivalry from Verizon’s own NFC payment system was in play. “Recent reports that Verizon is blocking Google Wallet on our devices are false,” said the carrier in a statement today. “Verizon does not block applications.” Instead, Verizon explains that the reason Google Wallet cannot be supported is related to a hardware issue. Unlike other applications, Google Wallet would have to be integrated into a secure element where sensitive financial data is stored. This component is proprietary to Verizon phones. Hence, the two companies are still in commercial talks regarding the issue. However, since Verizon is involved with AT&T and T-Mobile in their own NFC-b

Last we heard about Grand Theft Auto III for the mobile platform, it was back when the  action figure special edition  was announced, then when the  NVIDIA Tegra 3 optimized news  came out – now we’ve got a date and a price for the apps that’ll be blowing up your mobile devices soon. What we’re dealing with here is the 10th Anniversary Edition of GTA III, and the price for both Android and Apple’s iOS devices will be a cool $4.99 with a release date of December 15th – that’s next week! Get your guns out and start preparing to mow down some hookers, because it’s thieving time again! What you’re going to be looking at here in the image above and the gallery below is a set of screens provided by RockStar Games showing off the Android version of the newest release of GTA III — that’s the hooker scene and the one with our hero wielding a bat. Below this paragraph and in the gallery below are two iOS screens as well, one with a couple of automobiles flying through the night, and another with