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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Now that Uncle Walt has gone and opened the floodgates, details are starting to pour in on Sprint’s imminent release of the Touch Diamond, a device that should actually manage to get the carrier damn close to the top of the Windows Mobile pile (for a short while, anyway). PC Magazine is now reporting that it’ll be available on September 14 for $249.99 on a two-year contract after $100 rebate, a sum that would put it squarely in the “average” category for on-contract smartphone pricing in these parts. Of course, with the Touch Pro allegedly just around the corner, it remains to be seen just how much love this thing is going to get; nothing like a good, old-fashioned QWERTY-versus-touchscreen fight, is there?

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Source: Chris Ziegler

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As head of the newly merged Sirius XM Radio, Mel Karmazin faces the task of integrating two companies and finding hundreds of millions of dollars in cost cuts.

Source: By DEALBOOK

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Filed under: Gaming

Getting the Wii to run backup disks has never been quite as easy as running homebrew, but that might be about to change — there’s apparently a secret recovery mode that can be accessed with a special GameCube memory card. Not much is being revealed yet, but apparently if a “device” with a unique ID signature is present in the slot at boot, the Wii will drop into recovery mode and happily run whatever you throw at it, from backup disks to homebrew code. Hopefully we’ll find out more soon — video after the break.

Update: It looks like the recovery mode is only good for fixing “certain bricked consoles” — so much for that.

[Thanks, brakken]Continue reading Secret Wii recovery mode discovered, allows backup disks to run UPDATE: Maybe not.

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Source: Nilay Patel

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Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

Look, we aren’t kvetching about yet another 1080p projector for under two grand, but Epson’s getting a tad carried away by claiming that its PowerLite Home Cinema 6100 is the first 1080p PJ under $2k. Sanyo’s $1,995 PLV-Z700 notwithstanding, this 3LCD beamer is still a pretty good value, offering up a 1,920 x 1,080 native resolution, 18,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and Epson’s exclusive Dynamic Iris system, which allows light to be controlled precisely on a frame-by-frame basis. Additionally, the E-TORL lamp delivers 1,800 lumens to light up even a mildly lit room, and the 22dB operation should keep most folks sufficiently pleased with noise output. As for ports, you’ll find two HDMI 1.3a sockets, an S-Video / composite jack and a VGA connector. Check it this November for $1,999.

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Source: Darren Murph

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Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment

The HD projector flood gates have officially opened here at CEDIA, and next down the waterfall is Epson. The company is introducing the PowerLite Pro Cinema 7100 (shown after the break) and 7500 UB (pictured above) today, both of which boast a full 1,920 x 1,080 native resolution using the latest-generation 3LCD chips. As for the former, it features an 18,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio while the latter comes up with 75,000:1. Hit the read link for lots, lots more details on the pair, but here’s the low-down on pricing / availability. The Pro Cinema 7100 ships in November for just under $3,000; the Pro Cinema 7500 UB lands just before Christmas for around $4,500.

Continue reading Epson churns out 1080p PowerLite Pro Cinema 7100 and 7500 UB projectors

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Source: Darren Murph

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Filed under: Laptops

Now that OLPC has met its One Laptop Per Child goal (in uh, Niue) it’s time to go whole-hog retail. According to Matt Keller, OLPC chief in EMEA, OLPC will resurrect its Give One, Get One XO program in late November with the help of Amazon’s big retail guns. Prices haven’t been disclosed nor has the nimble Sugar or poky XP OS selection. But if history serves, we’ll be looking at $399 for the Sugary pair just like last year.

Update: As it turns out, OLPC says that a dual-boot XP and Sugar OS XO will be shipping in the “next month of so.” Happy pappie?

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Source: Thomas Ricker

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The price control would substantially cut the roaming fees that individuals are charged to send text messages and limits that could reduce the cost of surfing the Internet.

Source: By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN

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Rival software maker Dassault Systèmes accused Siemens of posting confidential business data about Dassault clients on Siemens’s intranet.

Source: By DAVID JOLLY

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