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After a wave of rumors about the iphone 3G data rates, we’re hearing more interesting stories about the blackberry Bold at Rogers Wireless (Canada). The word on the street is that Rogers might feature the Bold as early as July 25th, before the U.S release which is supposed to happen on August 25th at AT&T. Now what are the data rates going to be? That my friends, is the question.

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ViewSonic, manufacturer of LCD screens, recently added to their VA series with a new, sexy LCD computer display. The new model, the VA2626WM comes with a 26 inch LCD screen and has a 1920 x 1200 resolution with a 6,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. In addition, it comes with HDMI inputs for Blu-ray devices and HD consoles with 1080p output signals. It also has DVI and VGA inputs and comes with a pair of built-in 2.5 watt stereo speakers. One of the main features about this LCD screen is it’s affordable price, the VA2626WM retails for $529. Expect more details on the VA2626WM when it ships sometime in July. Via [Electronista] Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed &rarr (Read the full post about ‘ViewSonic announces new 26 inch display’…)

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Never mind kids, I know a few adults who would love to decorate their walls to look like the inside of a Super Mario Bros. game with these Nintendo Wall Decals. Made with blik Re-Stik, the decals are movable and reusable (in case you have a change of heart and decide to relocate the decals to your kid’s room), and are based on the same 8-bit graphics of the original game. For $75, you get 36 decals. They also sell New Super Mario Bros. decals and Donkey Kong decals - directly on the Blik website.

Via Tokyo Mango.

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AMD aims to turn the tables on NVIDIA with a special edition Radeon HD 4800 card which was specially designed to pummel the GeForce GTX 280 into submission where sheer performance is concerned. The yet-unnamed hardware relies on a water cooling system to keep its core running at a minimum of 950MHz while the video memory will be stretched to accommodate 950MHz or more when it comes to overclocking. NVIDIA has already taken hold of the performance crown for many a year already, and the company on the whole seems intent on retaining it each year - of course, AMD still has some strides to go before it matches NVIDIA across all fronts as an equal.

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With the dawn of new information-oriented and software services on the web, many Americans are interested in using web based tools for processing their personal health information and also obtaining health information.

The Markle foundation rolled out a set of best practices backed by medical professional, health insurers, consumer groups, health care providers and finally including tech companies, such as Google and Microsoft. This new common framework of technology and policy practices also unveiled by Markle on Wednesday, endorsed by a diverse group of health industry and technology companies, aims to assuage consumer fear.

The new framework was developed by Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health private-public collaborative, with input from 46 organizations.

(Read the full post about ‘Software companies back online health records privacy framework’…)

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HP has just unveiled its xw4550 workstation that features a Quad Core AMD processor and an ATI Radeon X1250 integrated graphics card among others. Of course, you get up to 4GB of RAM thrown in for good measure, making sure that complaints of a slow computer is the thing of the past. Depending on your current needs as well as future expansion options, the xw4550 is extremely versatile since it comes in a wide range of configurable options to throw you into a daze. Prices start from $600 upwards. (Read the full post about ‘HP xw4550 Workstation’…)

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by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Jul 1st 2008 at 7:02AM
While the axe that comes with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is pretty sweet, if you were hoping to just get the game and use your Rock Band guitar, you’re out of luck. Despite rumors that Activision had opened its doors to the Harmonix-made Rock Band guitar controllers, early users of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith are reporting that the Xbox 360 version game isn’t being so friendly after all. The sad message: “An unsupported guitar peripheral has been detected. (Read the full post about ‘Guitar Hero: Aerosmith won’t play nice with Rock Band guitars’…)

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This would be hilarious if it weren’t such a sad, telling look into the minds of movie industry executives. The Cartrivision, a 1972 home VCR which preceded VHS and Betamax, contained an ingenious extra: DRM. Or, as Dan at Dan’s Data puts it, “Analog Rights Management”. It’s also a tale of innovation soured and killed by a lack of vision.

The combination TV/VCR console (an iMac for videos, if you will) could record television shows just fine, albeit at a crappy 10 frames-per-second (the frames were “stretched”, or played three times over, to fill out a full second).

(Read the full post about ‘1972 VCR Offered ‘Analog Rights Management’’…)

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FROM GAMERTELL - Ryan VanMiddlesworth has released GLaGPS, a fan-GPS project which allows Garmin Nuvi GPS units to have a voice which sounds like Portal’s GLaDOS.
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The good manufacturers of the Dash Express have been hard at work updating the software. There a few main updates to the system, which are sure to make the Dash Express even more popular.

One of the first updates involves something called MyRoute, which studies a route you go on often and figures out ways to improve on it. For example, if you are commuting from home to work, it will learn the route that you usually take. Now, next time you want to make that same trip, this program will look for faster, more gas efficient ways to get to the same place, and then you can choose if you want to go that way or not. One of the problems with the initial software in the Dash Express was the time it took for the maps to render.

(Read the full post about ‘Dash Express software receives much needed update’…)

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