HP today announced a new brand of affordable notebook PCs that merge business functionality with sophisticated design to stand out from the crowd.

The HP ProBook series joins the award-winning HP EliteBook series to form one of the most versatile business notebook portfolios in the industry. Inspired by minimalism, the design of the new HP ProBook series combines matte and glossy surfaces while stripping out the extraneous, leaving only a stylish and …

SRS Labs, Inc he industry leader in surround sound, audio and voice technologies, announced today that it has successfully deployed multiple new audio, surround sound and voice solutions for the mobile phone market on leading multimedia applications processors and baseband chipsets, including Texas Instruments’ OMAP 2xxx and 3xxx processors, Telechips’ multimedia applications processors and on select Qualcomm MSM baseband chipsets. In addition, SRS has developed new, specialized mobile solutions …

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest maker of computer memory chips, said Wednesday it was replacing all heads of its overseas units as part of a reorganization aimed at coping with the deepening global economic slump.

what the company called the biggest-ever personnel reshuffle in its 40-year-old history, Samsung also reassigned 85 percent of the workforce at its Seoul headquarters, or some 1,200 employees, to production lines, sales operations or regional offices.

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Lenovo announced that its latest ThinkVision monitors already meet or exceed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star 5.0 proposed criteria now, nine months before the monitor criteria take effect in October 2009. EPA released final criteria for computers in mid-November 2008 and announced in mid-December that criteria for monitors would be completely finalized in March 2009.

Twelve ThinkPad laptops, several Ideapad laptops, and two desktop PCs — the ThinkCentre M58 and M58p …

3ality Digital to Provide Digital Production, RealD to Co-Sponsor CES Presentation and Cinedigm to Deliver Satellite Distribution and Nationwide Network of Theaters

Sony Electronics is teaming with FOX Sports and an all-star roster of technology providers to deliver the first live 3D presentation of next month’s college football FedEx Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game between the University of Florida and University of Oklahoma. The announcement was made here during …

Samsung Selects Broadcom’s Third Generation Blu-ray Chipset Solution to Power Blu-ray Products in Its 2009 Lineup

Broadcom Corporation a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its third generation Blu-ray chipset solution has been selected by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to power products in its 2009 lineup of Blu-ray Disc(R) players and home theater systems. Broadcom’s newest chipset solution provides all of the processing functionality to enable …

When it comes to gifts, they say it’s the thought that counts. Guys hope you are thinking gadgets, but many cost an arm and a leg. Here’s a gift you can afford that they will flip over — Find One Find All(R) Key Finders (or FOFA(R) for short) from Melbourne Designs, LLC.

These tiny 2-way wireless devices can be attached to keys, wallets, cell phones, TV remotes or anything you want …

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of professional LCD displays and projectors, has recently introduced its new P Series Widescreen Desktop Display. Sporting a 22-inch bright screen, this desktop display has been designed to offer the professionals an advantage of a top grade desktop display within their budget.

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Lenovo today announced its greenest, most secure and most manageable ThinkCentre desktop PC yet, the M58/M58p, with Power Manager, a ThinkVantage technology that allows PC users to control their electricity consumption remotely, and available for the first time ever on a ThinkCentre PC.

Power Manager allows customers to save energy and lower electricity costs by enabling system administrators to monitor and remotely control the amount of electricity used by all Power …

From the minds at Sequoia Studio, E-note is a conceptual project that explores the future of Post-its (insert legal copyright here). E-note uses tactile and flexible electronic paper technology, powered by a solar captor. E-note can be stuck, and unstuck easily using special “Gecko” glue, inspired by biomimicry. It even has a visual alarm/organizing function, changing from 1 of 8 colors. I need this on my desk NOW!

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Epson Imaging Devices Corporation (“Epson Imaging Devices”) today announced the development of a new 3.5-inch amorphous silicon TFT (a-TFT) liquid-crystal display (LCD) for use in mobile devices.

This a-TFT LCD makes use of the company’s Photo Fine Vistarich Neo wide viewing angle technology, an evolution of its Photo Fine Vistarich technology with improved transmittance and contrast. The high-contrast LCD produces beautiful still and moving images even when viewed from …

The S1V30080 melody/voice chip features a 5-channel melody synthesizer function capable of simultaneous playback of five-octave melodies on five channels. The chip is also equipped with built-in voice ROM (approx. 30 sec. for 8 kHz sampling and 15 sec. for 16 kHz sampling) capable of two-channel playback. The melody synthesizer function and the function for reading data from the built-in ROM are completely independent, making it possible to mix both …

Epson Imaging today announced the development of Photo Fine HR transflective amorphous silicon TFT (a-TFT) liquid crystal displays (LCDs) for use in mobile devices. Photo Fine HR (High Reflect) enables both high visibility and low power consumption in a wide range of indoor and outdoor environments. Samples of two new displays equipped with this technology are scheduled to ship in late October.

Recent years have seen increasing demand for high visibility …

Intel has started a campaign to place its MID chip inside as many mobile phones and net devices as possible and their most immediate strategy is to start fighting ARM chip inside the iPhone, bashing and buzzing around about the poor iPhone performance due to the ARM won’t get Intel any good position at Apple.

“The shortcomings of the iPhone are not because of Apple,” Intel’s director of ecosystems for its …

Sony Ericsson today reveals its stunning new television commercial for the new C905 Cyber-shot™ camera phone. The company commissioned professional photographer Matt Stuart to take photos, using the 8.1 megapixel C905 Cyber-shot™ camera phone, to use in the launch of its new commercial.

A number of enormous photos taken by Matt Stuart using the C905 Cyber-shot™ camera phone are placed in unusual locations, to show how anyone can experiment and be …

HP today announced two new consumer desktop PCs and a color display designed to have reduced impact on the environment.

The HP Pavilion Verde Special Edition a6645f and HP Pavilion Phoenix Special Edition a6655f desktop PCs include AMD® energy-efficient processors and recyclable packaging.

The 25.5-inch HP w2558hc Vivid Color Display offers a wide range of new features, including a built-in webcam and 15-in-1 card reader, for enhanced entertainment and connectivity.

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The Portable Blu-ray Super Multi Drive supports on the Quiet Drive Technology reduces the noise level of audio and video playback while also delivering increased writing reliability. Liquid Crystal Tilt/Blur Compensator plays and records to discs more reliably – the AD Research technology that compensates for warped discs. Dual/Double Layer recording provides nearly twice the capacity of a single layer recordable Blu-ray-R (25 Gbytes vs. 50 Gbytes).

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Combing Color Film Print Technology with ocean wave patterns in design along with a weight of at most 2.5kg (including battery), MSI VR630 is much more portable than other 16” notebooks in the market. Besides, featuring independent numeric keypad to the right of the keyboard, so users requires no extra learning process on the part of the user. Additionally, VR630 has a Multi-DVD burner, 3-in-1 card reader, and 3 well …

With over 2 million downloads for their hugely popular games iGolf and iBowl, today, SGN has launched iBaseball, the third game in a series of Wii-like games for the iPhone. Like previous SGN games released for iPhone, iBaseball leverages the innovative accelerometer mobile technology platform for the iPhone to let baseball fans, sports and gaming enthusiasts practice their baseball pitches and hitting on-the-go.

iBaseball allows players to play an inning …

Apple today announced that all four of the major networks are offering primetime programs in stunning high definition on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com), including viewer favorites “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Lost” from ABC, “CSI” and “CSI: Miami” from CBS, “Bones” and “Prison Break” airing on FOX, and “Heroes” and “The Office” from NBC Universal. The iTunes Store is the world’s most popular online TV store with over 200 million TV episodes …