India Printers

AT&T and Lenovo have announced AT&T Tech Support 360 , a new SMB-focused tech support plan for small and medium-sized businesses with select Lenovo PCs. The bundle gives businesses access to live, 24/7 technical support with a single purchase along with the PCs. The models in question include the Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 and T400 laptops, and the ThinkCentre A58 small form factor desktops–all of which are available with up to $200 in savings through February 2010 when compared to buying the PCs and plans individually

Continued here:
Lenovo, AT&T Unveil PCs with SMB Tech Support Plan

‘Tis the season for building systems — well, ’tis always that season, but right now you’ve got a pretty nice spread of components to pick from, whether you’re into the AMD or Intel flavor of things. Of course, if you’re feeling really spendy, or just want to have a different top-end processor from the guy next to you at the LAN party, then sometimes you have to get creative.

See the rest here:
Core i7 not hot enough for you? Pick up your prototype Core i9 on eBay

I’m sure you’ve heard that song from that play called “ The Internet is for Porn .” Turns out, it is! Researchers from the University of Montreal were trying to determine to habits of men in their 20s vis-à-vis pornography , but they ran into a problem: they couldn’t find enough men who said they didn’t watch porn! Men are dogs, et cetera et cetera. So what were the results, seeing as though they couldn’t find anyone who didn’t watch porn?

The rest is here:
Yes, Virginia, the Internet is for porn

EA announced that the demo to their much anticipated game, Dante’s Inferno would be available before the Holidays for your gaming enjoyment. The “Gates of Hell” demo lets users play through the entire first level of the game, introducing us all to the horrors abound in the Nine Circles of Hell. The demo opens with the protagonist returning from the crusades only to find that the love of his life has been murdered, and her spirit stolen by Lucifer.

Read the original:
Spend Christmas In Hell: Dante’s Inferno Demo Comes Just In Time For The Holidays

Yamaha Japan today announced the YSP-5100 [JP], a digital sound projector for your home theater. Sized at 1,200×90×212mm and weighing 11kg, Yamaha says the device is suitable for 50-inch TVs or video projectors. It supports 7.1 surround sound and is compatible with dts-HD, dts ES and Dolby TruHD/Digital Plus/Digital/ Digital EX/Pro Logic and Pro LogicⅡ/x.

The rest is here:
Yamaha Japan announces new digital sound projector for home theater systems

There’s a bit of a tizzy this week about Sprint allowing police officials to read up to 8 million “pings” on its network in order to track felons. Sprint made it considerably easier for police to do this by adding a special “portal,” probably a phone number-based dump of GPS data for phones over time, to the service they offer upon receiving a court order or a subpoena. I wonder, however, if this 8 million number isn’t far too high to be within the realm of sanity and/or if this number should make us concerned.

Read the original here:
Is Sprint letting the police follow us around?

Tokyo-based Kenko-Tokina , normally known for its camera accessories, has announced a cute Disney-themed digital camera [JP] for the Japanese market today. Spec-wise, this 8MP point-and-shoot camera isn’t anything special, but that’s what you’d expect from a camera whose case shows Mickey Mouse giving Minnie a bucket of hearts. You’ll get a 1/2.5 CMOS sensor, 4x digital zoom, 16MB of internal memory, an SDHC/SD memory card slot (up to 8GB), a USB 2.0 port and a 2.36-inch TFT screen

Read more:
Kenko-Tokina’s super-cute Mickey Mouse camera

A friend of mine just asked me a few minutes ago whether she should spring for an SSD in her new laptop. No way, I told her — SSDs are improving far too quickly for a consumer to invest hundreds of dollars in something guaranteed to be superseded almost instantly. And lo and behold, almost as I was texting her, I noticed this post over at Giz about the newest Microns breaking speed records that were probably set within the last couple months.

See more here:
New Micron SSDs fastest in the world – but for how long?

After watching Generation Kill , my anxiety for our troops went up quite a bit. War is an ugly business to begin with, but when you’re driving around a battlefield in an unarmored Humvee with electrical problems, it tends to look even uglier. Afghanistan is still an extremely hairy theater, and the vehicles they’ve had over there over the years ( years , people) just weren’t cutting it

Follow this link:
New off-road military vehicle for Afghanistan looks solid as hell

AT&T is just plan awful in parts of NYC, but yet Tyler, from the ABC show V , managed to get reception on his iPhone high above NYC in a gigantic spaceship. How is that possible when I know for a fact that the iPhone is basically useless in most parts of the city? Rubbish.  Maybe, just maybe, we’ll find out in a later episode that each V spaceship is actually part of an evil AT&T plan, but a side effect is that each ship actually improves cellular reception

Here is the original post:
Apparently the writers of V have never used an iPhone in NYC

Acer, no stranger to netbooks with Google-backed operating systems , is hoping to have the first Chrome OS netbook on the market by the second half of next year, according to DigiTimes. The company has apparently been developing the machine since the middle of this year. Acer’s JT Wang “expressed his confidence that the company will be the first vendor to launch [a] Chrome-based netbook in the market during a recent interview with Digitimes.” The second half of 2010 is light years away as far as technology development is concerned but, hey, now you have something to talk about at your next dinner party

Here is the original post:
Acer aims to be first to market with Google Chrome OS netbook

Does anyone remember the Japanese anti-burglar mat for stores and restaurants I blogged a few months ago? Well, there’s another security system from Japan and it clearly raises the bar: It’s a new mechanism, dubbed Capture, for these places and it sprays stinky agent on thieves who won’t be able to get rid of the stench for a week.

View original post here:
It’ll linger for a week: Japanese security system sprays stinky smell on thieves

Some more Psystar news for y’all. You’ll recall that the renegade company was more or less shut down last week, slapped with an injunction and expected to pay Apple an awful lot of money. Put all of that aside for a minute, for there’s new news: Apple and Psystar have struck a deal ! The deal, which ends a 17-month-long legal battle, means Psystar will stop selling computers pre-loaded with Mac OS X.

Continued here:
Psystar, Apple reach settlement: No more PCs pre-loaded with Mac OS X (but Rebel EFI may be safe)

LG has announced a new Windows Mobile 6.5-based smartphone, the eXpo . But unlike other 6.5 smarties on the market, the newest member of the LG family is packing just about everything but the kitchen sink including a 1GHz processor, a built-in fingerprint sensor, and an optional Pico Projector. Maybe they should have named it the LG SwissArmy Knife Phone

See the original post:
LG announces GW820 ‘eXpo’ smartphone w/ 1GHz processor and optional projector

Infrastructure automation company Elastra has announced the second version of Elastra Cloud Server Enterprise Edition, which hooks into Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services EC2 platforms, according to TechWeb . Elastra lets developers configure apps via point-and-click for cloud deployment. The company has added Oracle database, Oracle Biologic application server, and other apps with the move to version 2.0, the report said, and can export apps to either Amazon EC2 or Windows Azure

See original here:
Elastra Cloud Server Hooks Into Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2

As you likely know, Tiger Woods was in an accident under apparently mysterious circumstances early Friday morning. Predictably, the reports and reactions thereto pertaining varied somewhat in quality and timeliness, and predictably, this has led to paroxysms of futurist glee in some and sullen condemnation by others. Now that the smoke has cleared, we can examine the event, which is certainly worth a little inspection despite its obvious triviality, with a little perspective.

Read the rest here:
Real time, real discussion, real reporting: choose two

USB 3.0 is just around the corner (kind of), and the first computer hardware manufacturers are getting ready to deliver products supporting the new standard (even though there were some backlashes along the way). Last month, Asus announced the world’s first USB 3.0 + SATA 6.0 PCI-E card . In May, NEC said they’re going to release the first USB 3.0 host controller

The rest is here:
Buffalo announces world’s first 12x Blu-ray burner (and it’s USB 3.0, too)

Unless your gloves are made of human flesh, in which case oh my god , then you probably have to take them off when you need to make a call or launch an app on your fancy iPhone or myTouch. I tend to use my nose when it’s too cold to take off my gloves, but only when no one’s around. I suppose I could just sew in a couple strands of conductive thread, as described in this little project, but then… oh, wait

See the original post:
Winter is coming; modify your gloves to work with your phone’s touchscreen!

You wouldn’t think quieter cars would be a problem, but then again, you’re probably not blind. Hybrids and electrics make so little noise that they pose a serious risk to blind people, who often use the sound of a car passing to determine whether it’s safe to cross the road. Nissan’s Leaf, it was announced , will make a “beautiful and futuristic” noise at low speeds so that unaware pedestrians won’t get run down.

Here is the original post:
Chevy Volt’s UFO noise to be driver-controllable

I’ve never hidden my disdain for Metacritic (and GameRankings, but mostly Metacritic), the Web site that aggregates review scores for video games (and movies and so forth). It’s an insane concept: let’s round up all of these ostensibly separate opinions, throw ‘em in a blender, and come up with a single, solitary number that conveys a game’s entire worth

See more here:
Study: Nobody pays attention to video game scores (especially Metacritic ones)