http://www.deliton.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:49:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The release of the promised Logitech SqueezeBox Touch has again been delayed, according to a Thursday post by a Slim Devices developer on the official Logitech forum board. The last delay promised the touch media server would arrive this month, and Logitech is still keeping mum about why the device ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/02/logitechs-squeezebox-touch-delayed-yet-again/ NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker asserted at hearings today that Hulu, not NBC, was responsible for blocking Boxee from accessing its videos. When questioned about the move in justifying the Comcast NBC merger, Zucker said Hulu executives made the decision themselves since Boxee was "illegally" taking content from the streaming ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/02/nbc-says-hulu-chose-to-block-boxee-itself/ Sony’s VAIO W Eco Edition netbook, priced at $480, seeks to appeal to a wide range of users. The eco-conscious, of course, with a chassis made from 20% recycled material and a 100% recycled carrying case. Plus parents shopping for a netbook that’s safe to give their young ones, thus ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/02/sony-vaio-w-eco-edition-reviewed-eco-friendly-but-not-budget-friendly/ Standard, boring LED screens: your days are numbered! Samsung announced today that it will begin mass producing AMOLED displays with touch functions built right in. The displays will be 3.3″ WVGA touchscreens that will be, thanks to the AMOLED technology, much thinner than your average touchscreen display on current phones. ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/02/samsung-looks-to-mass-produce-3-3%e2%80%b3-amoled-touchscreen-displays/ An early look at Texas Instruments' OMAP4 chipset was made possible thanks to a Monday SlashGear report. A video playback device powered by the OMAP4 chip is said to be capable of displaying video on three independent displays at the same time that include a pico-projector. The chip should improve ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/02/tis-omap4-promises-1080p-145-hour-music-playback/ Joe Rybicki is a freelance writer who’s spent the last 13 years covering the video game and technology industries. He currently runs Plastic Axe, a blog about music games. Netbooks are, generally speaking, fairly businesslike devices. We buy them for word processing, web browsing, and e-mail, not for music production ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/02/liligaming-5-recent-netbook-friendly-games/ The iPad! A revolutionary, game-changing product. But also, far from perfect. Let's help Apple out on that second front, shall we? Don't feel like you need to stick to realistic improvements, either. Sure, me adding Flash to make Hulu usable wasn't too crazy, but please think outside the box here. Send your ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/01/lets-help-apple-make-the-ipad-even-better/ Apple as part of its iPad introduction revealed its first self-produced processor, the A4. The ARM-based chip is made by the company's PA Semi team and incorporates a graphics core into the main processor. Most details are still unclear, but it runs at 1GHz and is particularly power-efficient: Apple estimates ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/01/apple-launches-a4-its-first-custom-cpu/ Dell recently issued a BIOS fix for its Studio 17 with Core i7, designed to solve a serious crashing issue. However, after the release of Intel’s new Core i5 processor and a number of vocal user complaints about its Core i7 product, the company has made the lower-powered and priced ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/01/dell-issues-bios-fix-for-studio-17-with-core-i7-core-i5-now-default-cpu-choice/ Active Media Products has introduced a new range of 1.8-inch solid state drives, SaberTooth ZX. The three current offerings have a PATA ZIF interface and either 32GB, 64GB or 128GB of storage capacity. Their performance is rated at up to 80MBps of sequential read speeds and up to 38MBps sequential ... http://www.deliton.org/2010/01/active-media-products-intros-sabertooth-zx-ssds/