Sony VAIO 3D laptop

Expected launch: 2011Expected pricing: UnknownExpected specs: 16-inch LCD display, active-shutter glasses required, 1920-by-1080 2D resolutionAbout: Little is known about Sony's first entrant in the 3D laptop category, but considering the popularity of VAIO devices, a 3D Sony laptop is intriguing. There's no word on whether this device will integrate with other Sony 3D products, what it will cost, how much storage it will have, or even what kind of processor it will carry. Expect to hear more about this device in January during CES.Image: Concept art - Sarah Purewal Expected launch: 2011Expected pricing: UnknownExpected specs: 16-inch LCD display,...

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USB External Drive – Freecom Offers World’s Slimmest Portable HDD

Hard Drives are just getting tinier and tinier and Freecom seems to be leading the pack on this miniaturization craze. Their latest offering, the Mobile Drive Mg, is only 10mm thick! That’s thin enough to forget it’s even in your pocket. But can something so small be worth the price?Thin apparently doesn’t mean small anymore because the Mobile Drive Mg is available in two storage sizes starting at 320GB and going all the way up to 750GB. That’s pretty impressive in such a small package but how breakable is this thing? You don’t have to worry (unless you sit on it) to protect the delicates inside, the case is manufactured from magnesium.With...

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Samsung WiFi Enabled Refrigerator

We’ve seen treadmills with Android tablets built-in and portable Blu-Ray players designed for your cars but does technology really need to invade every aspect of modern life? Apparently Samsung thinks so. The company that’s famous (or infamous) for its cell phones is launching a new WiFi enabled refrigerator—yes, the kitchen fridge now gets the Internet—just in case your weren’t plugged in enough.The new RF4289 features an 8 inch LCD touchscreen that lets users use apps like Pandora Internet radio, Twitter, and even Epicurious to enhance their kitchen experience. You can also download recipes right to the fridge and even leave notes for friends...

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Wireless Mouse for Computer – Logitech’s New M515 is Slick

This new wireless mouse from Logitech is really awesome for a simple reason—it has a sealed bottom. That means you never have to worry about your track ball getting clogged with gunk or your optical sensor having its view blocked by lint balls from outer space. In addition, it’s got a built-in hand detection sensor that lets this thing shut itself off (technically go into sleep mode) when you’re not touching it. That means that a battery will last you up to two years because you won’t ever “forget” to shut it off.It’s also got a pretty slick scroll wheel on top that’s billed as “hyper-fast” (whatever that means). The little horizontal grooves...

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Google's Video Play By dropping support for a common video format in Chrome, Google means to drive the Web toward one it owns.

Last week, Google stirred up controversy with a low-key announcement: in the near future, it would drop support for a widely used video format in its Chrome Web browser. Here's a primer on what Google is doing, why it's doing it, and how it will affect you.What exactly did Google do?Last Tuesday, the company announced on the blog for its Chrome Web browser that it plans to discontinue built-in support for the H.264 video format, which is used by many Web publishers. Google said that instead, it would adopt the free-to-use WebM, a multimedia format that Google has largely developed and funded itself.How will this affect you? It probably won't,...

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Smart Phone Zombie Apocalypse A researcher creates a botnet for your pocket—a likely sign of things to come.

If you have a smart phone, online criminals may soon have your number. Smart phone malware is getting increasingly sophisticated, and now a security researcher has created software that turns a smart phone into a "zombie" that can be controlled remotely.Georgia Weidman created the program, which controls an Android phone via short message service (SMS). She will demonstrate the software at the Shmoocon hacking conference in Washington, D.C., later this month.Once only theoretical, real-world cell-phone viruses are becoming more common. Last August, a scam in Russia tricked users into installing malicious software on Android phones, and using...

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Facebook Wants to Supply Your Internet Driver's License And new security measures protect everyone's data.

Although it's not apparent to many, Facebook is in the process of transforming itself from the world's most popular social-media website into a critical part of the Internet's identity infrastructure. If it succeeds, Facebook and Facebook accounts will become an even bigger target for hackers.As security professionals debate whether the Internet needs an "identity layer"—a uniform protocol for authenticating users' identities—a growing number of websites are voting with their code, adopting "Facebook Connect" as a way for anyone with a Facebook account to log into the site at the click of a button.Facebook introduced Connect back in July 2008,...

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Car Theft by Antenna (Researchers beat automatic locking and ignition systems)

No key required: A researcher shows how an attacker could start a car using an antenna. A signal from the car is transmitted to a computerized key, which is tricked into enabling the engine ignition. Credit: ETH ZurichCar thieves of the future might be able to get into a car and drive away without forced entry and without needing a physical key, according to new research that will be presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium next month in San Diego, California.The researchers successfully attacked eight car manufacturers' passive keyless entry and start systems—wireless key fobs that open a car's doors and start the engine...

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"SMS of Death" Could Crash Many Mobile Phones

The phones in many people's pockets today are miniature personal computers, and they are just as vulnerable as PCs to viruses, malware, and other security problems. But research presented at a conference in Germany last week shows that phones don't even have to be smart to be vulnerable to hackers.Using only Short Message Service (SMS) communications—messages that can be sent between mobile phones—a pair of security researchers were able to force low-end phones to shut down abruptly and knock them off a cellular network. As well as text messages, the SMS protocol can be used to transmit small programs, called "binaries," that run on a phone....

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Sony Ericsson does Xperia arc

Sony Ericsson decided that they will no longer release smartphones that are far behind in terms of OS updates compared to the rest of the mobile manufacturers, hence their latest addition to the Xperia family – the Xperia arc. This is one handset that will definitely stun you whenever you take a look at it, running on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. First unveiled at the recently concluded CES 2011, it is the first of a new generation of Xperia smartphones, so you can be sure that there will be more to come!As we mentioned above, the design is what makes the new Xperia arc a looker, where it is super slim and hence, extremely light....

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