IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (Digital Trends) 18/09/2009

Logitech Performance Mouse MX

Logitech’s Performance Mouse MX is the desktop cousin to the company’s mobile Anywhere Mouse MX, and it’s every bit as fabulous. Both mice feature Logitech’s exquisite Darkfield Laser Tracking, which enables them to function accurately on just about any surface, including glass, and both devices use Logitech’s new Unifying wireless technology, which enables a single tiny USB-powered wireless receiver to control multiple peripherals. For this review, we ran the Performance Mouse MX alongside Logitech’s new Wireless Keyboard K350 to see how it would perform – read on to find out the results.

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Variety Trade Newspaper to Charge for Online Site

Ending a three-year flirtation with free online content, Variety newspaper plans to put some of its Web site content behind a "pay wall" that will require a paid annual subscription, its publisher said Thursday. The changes at the Hollywood trade publication will take place early next year and come with new online features such as a better archive, publisher Brian Gott said. While there might be some reduction in the number of Web site visitors, currently about 2.5 million per month, the switch will help preserve paying subscribers even if readers eventually switch to reading online only, he said. "It's getting ahead of something that inevitably will happen and creating a business strategy around ma

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Wisconsin Paper Faces Backlash for Outing Web Critic

Getting named the local paper's Person of the Year was supposed to be an honor for small-town politician Dean Zuleger. But the award only enraged many townspeople. Readers anonymously flooded the Wausau Daily Herald's Web site with comments bashing Zuleger's salary, his management style, his weight. One person suggested his third chin should have been nominated. "I have just two words for Dean Zuleger, and they are ... A) anger management. B) salad bar. C) Rod Blagojevich. D) all of the above. The correct answer is D.," one posting read. Zuleger, administrator of the Wausau suburb of Weston, demanded to know who was saying all those nasty things about him, and the paper did something unusual: It handed o

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Ticketmaster Finds Another Way to Cut Out Scalpers

Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. has developed a new way to resell tickets that shuts out the brokers and scalpers it has long scorned, and instead keeps the profits for itself, musicians and venue owners. The system relies on Ticketmaster's "paperless" ticketing platform, which makes customers prove their purchase by showing a credit card and ID when they arrive at an event. Without paper tickets, there's nothing for scalpers to resell. Now with its new exchange system, Ticketmaster has come up with a way to let buyers resell a paperless ticket, while still cutting out ticket-resale leader StubHub and other brokers. That gives Ticketmaster a chance to capt

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Nielsen: Bing Continues to Gain Search Share

There's no question that Google is still by far the dominant player in the Internet search market, but according to media metrics giant The Nielsen Company, Microsoft's Bing continues to increase its share of the U.S. search market. The latest figures from Nielsen show that, during August 2009, the number of queries handled by Bing increased by 22 percent compared to the previous month, and Bing has now cracked the double digit mark, accounting for 10.7 percent of all U.S. Internet searches, if one rolls in MSN Search and Windows Live search. Google still remains the top dog, accounting for some 64.6 percent of U.S.

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DXG-125V Camcorder Takes HD to the Great Outdoors

DXG is taking high-definition to the great outdoors with its new DXG-125V camcorder, designed to let outdoor soports ethusiasts capture all their greatest moments in 720p glory. The DXG-125V offers a ruggedized, weather-resistant candy-bar design for easy one-handed operation—plus the camcorder includes the all-important carabiner for latching onto packs and gear, and a compass…you know, just in case. "The DXG-125V is a break-out product in the HD camcorder space," said DXG USA senior marketing VP Paul Goldberg, in a statement. "We are excited to bring such an exciting product to

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Epson Lights Up New Home Theater Projectors

Epson is looking to get into consumers living room and game rooms with two new home theater projectors aiming to let folks have big screen experience at a relatively checkbook-friendly price. The company's new Home Cinema 705HD projector supports 720p high-definition video, while the MovieMate 60 offers an all-in-one solution with integrated stereo speakers and a CD/DVD player. Epsons Home Cinema 705HD is a 3LCD projector offering 2,500 lumens of brightness

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HP DreamScreen Puts Music, Video, and Social Media in Photo Frame

Hewlett-Packard is ramping up for the end-of-year buying season with its new consumer-friendly DreamScreen, a new device that looks like a photo frame—and, indeed, can be set on an end table and be used to display images. But the DreamScreen aims to be much more than that: it can stream music, play video, tap into Web-based information sources, and even let people keep up with their social networking, becoming a living-room friendly digital media hum without the need for a full-blown PC. "Constant, always-on access to friends, information and entertainment is a common expectation today," said HP Personal Systems Group's worldwide marketin

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Pentax's New K-x DSLR Handles HD Video...and Breaks the Color Barrier

Pentax has taken the wraps off its new entry-level K-x DSLR, and in addition to offering a 12.4 megapixel resolution, the ability to shoot HD video, and a consumer-friendly price tag, Pentax plans to appeal to first-tiem DSLR buyers buy offering the camera in a range of body colors: red, navy, white, and the traditional DSLR black. The K-x builds on last year's K-2000 DSLR

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EBay Calls on EU to Change Luxury Brand Rules

EBay Inc. called Thursday on the European Union to change antitrust rules that allow luxury manufacturers to choose who can sell their branded goods online. Brand owners such as LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA and Richemont SA, the Swiss maker of Cartier watches, argue that luxury goods are valuable when they are exclusive and available in selected outlets — and not in an online free-for-all. The European Commission is weighing changes to rules that currently give luxury manufacturers the right to choose who distributes their products. It appears to support the luxury industry by suggesting suppliers could require online retailers to sell a certain amount of goods in an actual, bricks-and-mortar st

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Suit Up: Skype's Founders Sue eBay for Copyright Infringement

The legal tussle between Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis and online auction house eBay looks like it's going to turn into a shooting war: Skype's founders, via their company Joltid, have filed an infringement suit in the Northern California U.S. District Court accusing eBay and a group of its investors of infringing on Joltid's intellectual property on a massive scale through continued operation of Skype services. Joltid wants an injunction that would prevent eBay from using Joltid's intellectual property, as well as damages that Joltid "reasonably" believes could amount to $75 million per day. The case centers around the core peer-to-peer networking technology at the

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Google to Reincarnate Digital Books as Paperbacks

Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks. As part of a deal announced Thursday, Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of a high-speed publishing machine that can manufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300 pages in under five minutes. The new service is an acknowledgment by the Internet search leader that not everyone wants their books served up on a computer or an electronic reader like those made by Amazon.com Inc. and Sony Inc. The "Espresso Book Machine" has been ar

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HP Envy 13 and Envy 15

HP Envy 13 Hewlett Packard’s marketing arm undoubtedly intended the brand name “Envy” to refer to the emotion the notebooks stir up in adjacent coffee drinkers down at Starbucks. But given the direction HP has taken the Envy name, it might more appropriately refer to the company’s own envy of Apple. After chasing the MacBook Air with the original Envy 133, HP has now returned with the Envy 13 and 15, which look like sisters – maybe even twin sisters – to Apple’s MacBook Pros. Aluminum

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Zune HD: Hands On In The Public

Zune HD: Hands On In The Public - We handed over the Zune HD to random people in the public that were spotted rocking their tunes. Check out what everyday mp3 player fans came up with when put on the spot after taking a peak at the Zune HD.

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Friday, September 18, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Digital Trends) 18/09/2009

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