News "Other" December 2008 News Archive

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Digital TV Coupons in Short Supply

Posted by: Jonathan M

The government is running out of $40 coupons for converter boxes needed for the Digital TV Transition in ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

iPhone for Under $100

Posted by: Jonathan M

AT&T will be supplying Wal-Mart with refurbished iPhones to sell for ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Man Shot for Talking Too Much

Posted by: Jonathan M

A Pennsylvania man was shot for being too loud in a Philadelphia movie theater while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was playing ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

RIP VHS

Posted by: Jonathan M

VHS finally kicks the bucket as the last big distributor has shipped VHS for the last time ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Warner Backs Out

Posted by: Jonathan M

After being in a contract with YouTube for two years, Warner decides to back out and have ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Roku Gets HD Update

Posted by: Jonathan M

Netflix gives its digital set-top box a update that allows for streaming of high definition content via ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Panasonic Acquires Sanyo

Posted by: Jonathan M

Panasonic Electronics will pay 9 billion dollars to acquire Sanyo creating a new leader in the Japanese electronics market ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

New Touch Screen Remote

Posted by: Jonathan M

Philips shows off the new Prestigo SRT9320 touch screen remote that has a color screen and can control up to ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Joost to Focus on Video Streaming

Posted by: Jonathan M

Joost has shut down its desktop appication to put more focus on its video streaming site ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Most HDTV Owners not Getting HD Programming

Posted by: Jonathan M

According to a study by Comcast, one third of HDTV owners watch only standard definition on their high definition TV ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

iPhone 3G Gets Hacked Already

Posted by: Jonathan M

The iPhone 3G was originally designed to work only on the Cingular network until hackers have recently unlocked it to work on any GSM carrier ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Free Shipping Thursday

Posted by: Jonathan M

Luke Knowles, who founded FreeShipping.org, has declared Thursday to be Free Shipping day ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite

Posted by: Jonathan M

The Digital Entertainer will allow you to enjoy videos, music, and photos on your TV and comes with a 500GB hard drive ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Office Depot Closes 100 Stores

Posted by: Jonathan M

Another one bites the dust as Office Depot announces it will be closing down some of its stores as well as letting 2,000 people go in efforts to save ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Sony to Lay off 4% of Workforce

Posted by: Jonathan M

Rough economic times and low demand for consumer electronics has caused Sony to cut 8,000 workers ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Firmware Update for Blackberry Storm

Posted by: Jonathan M

Verizon has released the first firmware update for the Blackberry Storm smartphone speeding up the overall functionality drastically ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Roku/XBOX 360 Not Getting Along with Netflix

Posted by: Jonathan M

Roku and XBOX 360 users have been experiencing issues with poor quality on Netflix's streaming movie service but Netflix says they have fixed it ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

First HD Display in Times Square

Posted by: Jonathan M

JVC mounts a 35 foot long LCD display in Times Square that supports a resolution of 720p and has over one million LED lights ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

YouTube Officially Supports HD

Posted by: Jonathan M

YouTube has finally added the option to watch videos in high definition ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

NFL Goes 3D

Posted by: Jonathan M

The Thursday night game between the Raiders in Chargers was broadcast in 3D at select theaters ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Leaked Ads Show 4GB iPhone for $99

Posted by: Jonathan M

Some leaked ads of iPhone activation guides for Wal-Mart employees suggest a $99 price tag for a 4GB iPhone ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Pocket Movie Player Connects to TV

Posted by: Jonathan M

TrekStor has launched a hard drive that is small enough to fit in your pocket and can still connect directly to your TV to watch ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Nokia VS iPhone/Blackberry

Posted by: Jonathan M

In a attempt to regain some lost market share to Apples iPhone and RIMs Blackberry, Nokia talks about its new touchscreen smart phone that debuts next year ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Clearance on HD-DVDs

Posted by: Jonathan M

Borders is having a huge clearance sale on all remaining HD-DVD stock and they are going for as little as ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Blockbuster On-Demand

Posted by: Jonathan M

Blockbuster said in first few months of 2009 it will start to stream On-Demand movies to compatible Blu-ray players ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

$500 Million on Black Friday

Posted by: Jonathan M

ComScore released their financial report for Black Friday showing just a one percent increase in total sales over last year despite the horrible economic downturn we are in ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

Voodoo 3 Drivers Released

Posted by: Jonathan M

3DFX Zone has just released some new video drivers to support Voodoo3 and other video cards on Windows 2000, XP ... Read more ...

Dec

2008

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