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- Leaked back-of-box chart shows Xbox line winnowing down to Arcade and Elite SKUs
- Zune HD’s browser previewed, sounds just as sexy as the hardware
- Zune HD’s browser previewed, sounds just as sexy as the hardware
- The Lexicon BD-30 Blu-ray player should be able to playback everything
- The Lexicon BD-30 Blu-ray player should be able to playback everything
- Garmin Nuvifone coming in Q4, just in time for people to still not care
- Garmin Nuvifone coming in Q4, just in time for people to still not care
- Radiohead Dips Into Online Distribution Again – This Time With A Price (For Charity)
- Radiohead Dips Into Online Distribution Again – This Time With A Price (For Charity)
- Oh No, They Didn’t? Tumblr Launches a “TumbleUpon” Toolbar.
| Leaked back-of-box chart shows Xbox line winnowing down to Arcade and Elite SKUs Posted: 05 Aug 2009 01:06 PM PDT And then there were two? After Microsoft got all cute with us and introduced its current lineup of three concurrent Xbox versions, we thought we’d never get that portion of our limited brain matter back for storing more important things — like the complicated political structures of Frank Herbert’s Dune, for instance. Well, if this recently leaked photo of a revised Xbox 360 Arcade box is any indication, the regular “Xbox 360″ SKU is on the outs, to make room for just the Arcade and Elite configurations on each end of the spectrum. Hopefully this means the Elite is also going to shuffle on down to the middle SKU’s $300 pricepoint, but we’ll have to wait and see. Naturally, Microsoft might just want that third slot for a Project Natal-packing Xbox edition next year, or perhaps this whole different box situation is just a Excel spreadsheet mishap that’s gotten way out of hand. [Via Electronista] Filed under: Gaming Leaked back-of-box chart shows Xbox line winnowing down to Arcade and Elite SKUs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Zune HD’s browser previewed, sounds just as sexy as the hardware Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:38 PM PDT
 The folks over at CNET got a quick look at a recent build of the Zune HD, and the player seems to be getting rather close to a final product. Among praise for the hardware, video playback and a quite refined music player and music discovery experience, they found the Zune HD’s browser to be particularly excellent. It’s been built by the IE team, which bodes well for prospective Windows Mobile 6.5 users, and it’s apparently very comparable to the iPhone in features and speed. There’s pinch to zoom, accelerometer-based reorientation, and a good onscreen keyboard — no Flash, but from the pain it’s inflicting on the Android browsing experience, perhaps that’s a good thing. Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Zune HD’s browser previewed, sounds just as sexy as the hardware originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Zune HD’s browser previewed, sounds just as sexy as the hardware Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:38 PM PDT
 The folks over at CNET got a quick look at a recent build of the Zune HD, and the player seems to be getting rather close to a final product. Among praise for the hardware, video playback and a quite refined music player and music discovery experience, they found the Zune HD’s browser to be particularly excellent. It’s been built by the IE team, which bodes well for prospective Windows Mobile 6.5 users, and it’s apparently very comparable to the iPhone in features and speed. There’s pinch to zoom, accelerometer-based reorientation, and a good onscreen keyboard — no Flash, but from the pain it’s inflicting on the Android browsing experience, perhaps that’s a good thing. Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Zune HD’s browser previewed, sounds just as sexy as the hardware originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| The Lexicon BD-30 Blu-ray player should be able to playback everything Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:30 PM PDT
If you’re one of those geeks whose equipment simply must be compatible with every optical format, Lexicon has something for you. The BD-30 can play-back just about everything from Blu-ray discs, DVD, DVD-audio, SACD, CD and pretty much everything except of course HD DVD. The presser touts the fact that the player is future-proof thanks to the USB port, which the unit can playback files off of. We’re thinking that kind of sounds like what nearly every modern deck can do, but whatever. Lexicon isn’t traditionally a household name and chances are that if you haven’t heard of the AV company, you can’t afford it. You should probably stick to a traditional Sony or Panasonic model. These types of players are for those that have systems that utilize the RS-232 port and 7.1 analog audio output along with a $1200 remote to control them.
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| The Lexicon BD-30 Blu-ray player should be able to playback everything Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:30 PM PDT
If you’re one of those geeks whose equipment simply must be compatible with every optical format, Lexicon has something for you. The BD-30 can play-back just about everything from Blu-ray discs, DVD, DVD-audio, SACD, CD and pretty much everything except of course HD DVD. The presser touts the fact that the player is future-proof thanks to the USB port, which the unit can playback files off of. We’re thinking that kind of sounds like what nearly every modern deck can do, but whatever. Lexicon isn’t traditionally a household name and chances are that if you haven’t heard of the AV company, you can’t afford it. You should probably stick to a traditional Sony or Panasonic model. These types of players are for those that have systems that utilize the RS-232 port and 7.1 analog audio output along with a $1200 remote to control them.
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| Garmin Nuvifone coming in Q4, just in time for people to still not care Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:25 PM PDT In January of 2008, Garmin announced the Nuvifone. They were a bit light on details at the time (Who would offer it? How much would it cost?) but promised that it would be on the shelves by the third quarter of the same year. Well, that quarter passed. Then the next one. Jump forward a few more, and we’re in the third quarter of the next year – but the phone still isn’t available. Well, not outside of Taiwan, at least. As of today, it has been 1 year, 6 months, and 6 days since Garmin announced their phone. During today’s conference call, Garmin announced that the nuvifone will be available stateside in the fourth quarter (though they still wont disclose which carriers are involved). Even if they get it out by the first day of Q4 (September 1st), that’s 580 days from announcement to launch. Does anyone care anymore? Read more from the original source:
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| Garmin Nuvifone coming in Q4, just in time for people to still not care Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:25 PM PDT In January of 2008, Garmin announced the Nuvifone. They were a bit light on details at the time (Who would offer it? How much would it cost?) but promised that it would be on the shelves by the third quarter of the same year. Well, that quarter passed. Then the next one. Jump forward a few more, and we’re in the third quarter of the next year – but the phone still isn’t available. Well, not outside of Taiwan, at least. As of today, it has been 1 year, 6 months, and 6 days since Garmin announced their phone. During today’s conference call, Garmin announced that the nuvifone will be available stateside in the fourth quarter (though they still wont disclose which carriers are involved). Even if they get it out by the first day of Q4 (September 1st), that’s 580 days from announcement to launch. Does anyone care anymore? Read the original here:
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| Radiohead Dips Into Online Distribution Again – This Time With A Price (For Charity) Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:24 PM PDT
“Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” is available today on the band’s website. But there’s a difference between it and In Rainbows — it has a set price. £1.00 (or roughly $1.70) gets you the single in high-quality MP3 format. But don’t mistake this for Radiohead completely abandoning some of its online experimentation ideas, this single has a price primarily because its proceeds are going to the Royal British Legion. You see, Harry Patch was the name the last remaining UK World War I veteran before he passed away recently at the age of 111. As Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has more about Patch on the band’s blog. While I’m certainly all for paying a small amount of money to get a song and help a cause, it would have been slightly more convenient if the ban had chosen one of the more popular methods to distribute the song online, meaning iTunes or Amazon. Entering all your credit card and billing information just to get one $1.70 song is kind of a pain. But of course, had they distributed through iTunes or Amazon, it may have meant less money going to the cause. You can find the song and a preview of it here. [photo: flickr/alterna2] Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. See original here:
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| Radiohead Dips Into Online Distribution Again – This Time With A Price (For Charity) Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:24 PM PDT
“Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” is available today on the band’s website. But there’s a difference between it and In Rainbows — it has a set price. £1.00 (or roughly $1.70) gets you the single in high-quality MP3 format. But don’t mistake this for Radiohead completely abandoning some of its online experimentation ideas, this single has a price primarily because its proceeds are going to the Royal British Legion. You see, Harry Patch was the name the last remaining UK World War I veteran before he passed away recently at the age of 111. As Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has more about Patch on the band’s blog. While I’m certainly all for paying a small amount of money to get a song and help a cause, it would have been slightly more convenient if the ban had chosen one of the more popular methods to distribute the song online, meaning iTunes or Amazon. Entering all your credit card and billing information just to get one $1.70 song is kind of a pain. But of course, had they distributed through iTunes or Amazon, it may have meant less money going to the cause. You can find the song and a preview of it here. [photo: flickr/alterna2] Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. Read the original:
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| Oh No, They Didn’t? Tumblr Launches a “TumbleUpon” Toolbar. Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:23 PM PDT
What is it with all the toolbar copycat craziness lately. First, there was Digg going after StumbleUpon with the Diggbar. Then StumbleUpon, which already had a toolbar, introduced a new toolbar/URL shortening service called Su.pr. Now, micro-blogging service Tumblr is getting in on the act with its own toolbar which it is calling TumbleUpon. Could they try to be more blatant in ripping off StumbleUpon? The toolbar has a random Stumble-like shuffle button which randomly takes you through different Tumblogs in a similar way that StumbleUpon’s toolbars do. On the right there is a heart button if you want to “like” a page, a reblog button and a button that takes you to your own Tumblr dashboard. StumbleUpon’s Su.pr toolbar, in comparison, also has a random shuffle button for discovering pages Websites other people have Stumbled, and a “like” button. But Su.pr is a URL shortener with powerful analytics on the backend, while TumbleUpon is not. It is just a discovery tool which surfaces other Tumblogs of people who have overlapping “likes.” So is this a joke? Yes, and no. Tumblr founder David Karp tells us:
In a blog post today, Karp also shares some growth stats. He claims that in July, 2009, Tumblr had 50 million visitors, 255 million impressions, 650,000 new posts per day, and 5,000 new users per day. Tumblr is definitely growing, but comScore estimates a much smaller number of users: only 3.9 million uniques worldwide in June, 2009 and 68 million pageviews. That is a 3X increase in unique visitors over a year ago and a 12X increase in pageviews, but a far cry from the numbers Karp is putting out. I asked Karp what could explain this disparity. He pointed out that 15 percent of Tumblr’s blogs are on custom domains, and that the 50 million number is for visitors per Google Analytics. The same person can be a visitor more than once. Google counts 20 million unique visitors, and Quantcast counts 13 million worldwide. The site is verified by Quantcast, so I’d go with that number. Any way you count it, though, the service is showing strong growth. But really, TumbleUpon? Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors Read the original:
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In 2007, Radiohead sent a shock-wave around the music industry when it released its album In Rainbows online, letting the purchaser set the price they wanted to pay for it. Some hailed it as the 
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