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[2009-11-5] Garmin communicates with your car via ESP

November 4th, 2009

“Sometime next year, Garmin’s Nuvi GPS devices will gain the ability to communicate with your car through ESP. In this case, we’re not talking about psychic extra-sensory perception, but the EcoRoutes ESP module for Nuvi navigation devices. The ESP module is a small hideaway box that communicates with Nuvi units via Bluetooth. The ESP module is a hideaway box that connects to (and is powered by) your vehicle’s OBD-II diagnostics port. The device gathers information about your vehicle’s performance and relays that info via a Bluetooth data connection to your Garmin Nuvi GPS device atop your dashboard.”

[2009-11-5] HTC Cellphone Embeds Wi-Fi Router

November 4th, 2009

“An HTC-made 3G smartphone due in the U.S. early next year will incorporate an embedded Wi-Fi router, enabling multiple laptop users to share a cellular-data connection to the Internet when they’re on the go.”

[2009-11-5] Apple, RIM grab market share from Nokia

November 4th, 2009

“Though Nokia is still the leading vendor for dual-mode smartphones (Wi-Fi and cellular), its market share dropped to 35 percent in the second quarter, compared with 50 percent in the same period a year ago, according to a report released Monday from In-Stat.”

[2009-11-5] $120 Windows CE netbook tipped for Black Friday sale

November 4th, 2009

“The Chinese company Delstar has announced a seven-inch netbook that runs Windows CE on an ARM processor. The DS 700 will be sold for $120 by KMart in the retailer’s post-Thanksgiving “Black Friday” sale, according to various reports.”

[2009-11-5] Super Talent introduces world’s first USB 3.0 flash drive

November 4th, 2009

“promising transfer rates of up to 320MB/sec when relying on a separate UAS Protocol driver with a USB 3.0 port. If you’re using a stock USB 3.0 socket, you’ll see speeds as high as 200MB/sec”

[2009-11-5] Microsoft Courier interface explained in more detail

November 4th, 2009

“The images detail the Courier’s unique user interface, which draws on everything from multitouch gestures to pen-based handwriting recognition. The heart of the interface appears to be the Smart Agenda, pictured above, which pulls together all your disparate content like calendar entries, emails, and to-dos into one unified starting place, described as “Cliff Notes” to the Pagestream “novel.” The journal itself appears to be searchable by all kinds of data, including time, location, and tags, and it’s all accessed by a special multi-button pen.”

[2009-11-5] Bullish on Blu-Ray

November 4th, 2009

“Best Buy anticipates 18.6 million Blu-ray players (including PlayStation 3 videogame consoles and Blu-ray set-top players) to sell in 2010. That marks a significant hike from the 10 million units of Blu-ray hardware expected to sell this year. Many of these players include Internet video capability, further extending their appeal.”

[2009-11-4] Global Netbook Market On-Track for 35 Million Shipped in 2009

November 4th, 2009

“According to the latest market data from ABI Research, almost 35 million netbooks will be shipped by manufacturers in 2009″

[2009-11-4] Paul Allen’s Digeo files for Ch. 11

November 4th, 2009

“Digeo, the Paul Allen-backed company which developed the Moxi digital video recording device, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The filing comes just over a month after Digeo sold off some of its assets to ARRIS Group in a deal valued at $20 million.”

[2009-11-4] Redfly Mobile Companion Now Compatible with BlackBerry Smartphones

November 4th, 2009

“This accessory puts whatever is displayed on the phone’s screen on its larger, higher-resolution display, and allows users to enter text with a nearly full-size QWERTY keyboard. The Redfly was previously available only for Windows Mobile, but can now be used with several RIM devices”