IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (I4U News) 19/01/2011

Panasonic Uses High Tech insulation to Show a Boy in Bahrain Snow for the First Time

It rarely snows here in Texas, but it does on occasion. We had a good four inches a week or so back for instance. One place it never snows would be in the middle of the desert in Bahrain. A project...

Apple Confirms iPad 2, Retinal Display Looks Unlikely

I love the smell of iPad rumors in the morning. It smells like...well, mostly like crap. About 80% of Apple product rumors are either wildly untrue or (like the iPad 2 cameras) so obvious as to not...

Starbucks Rolls Out Nationwide Mobile Payments

Starbucks has been testing payments for drinks in its stores using mobile phones around the country in a few select areas for a while now. The coffee house has announced today that it is now rolling...

Puget Systems Launches Serenity Home Theater and Serenity mini PCs

Puget Systems unveiled a new line of silent PCs last year that made little noise despite having some really nice hardware inside. The company has added to the Serenity line with a couple of new...

TankBot is controlled from your iPhone

I have looked at some of the cool RC toys from MyDeskPets before and liked them a lot. The company has announced that a new toy is coming called the TankBot that can be controlled from your iPhone,...

Vizio and LG Settle Patent Suits

Vizio has announced that it and LG have settled any litigation between the two that had to do with patent infringement. The legal battle goes all the way back to 2008. The legal settlement for the...

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together Available for Pre-Order

Tactics Ogre is available at Amazon for $38.99. Pre-Order bonus, order this game, and receive a Tarot Card Deck featuring unique illustrations by acclaimed artist Akihko Yoshida. The cards are...

The Sims 3 Outdoor Living Stuff Available February 1, 2011

The Sims 3 is available at Amazon for $19.95. Pre-order this game, select Release Date Delivery at checkout, and get it the day it comes out. That way you have it before anyone else. The Sims have...

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare is available at Amazon for $27.15. If you are a gamer who is serious about their games than this may be the game for you. It has plenty of zombies and gore to...

The GoBiz Boundary Microphone: A Lecture Hall Stress Test

Yesterday I reviewed the i-Microphone smartphone attachment. While windy weather and a few good friends were enough to stress test that product, the GoBiz Boundary Microphone required slightly...

Mugshots To Start Going Viral On Facebook?

To some, getting arrested for driving under the influence is embarrassing but to many more it's a very serious offense. And a California city has a new idea to make sure it doesn't happen so often....

More 3D Blu-Ray Players Than Non-3D In Japan

Japan is always looked to as being ahead of the curve in technology, and the latest advancement in home entertainment is no exception. While we're still scrambling to get people interested in 3D tech...

Sprint Data Plans Jumping $10

If you're sitting on a Sprint 3G data plan, you probably felt pretty smug when 4G customers were told they have to pay an extra fee for their data packages. Well guess what. Now the joke's on you as...

3M Natural View Screen Protector for iPhone Review

Chevy Sold a Car Every 7.4 Seconds in 2010

The car guys and gals at Chevy are offering up some stats on their sales for 2010. According to the carmaker, it sold a car every 7.4 seconds in 2010. That works out to 4.26 million vehicles sold in...

PopCap Plants vs. Zombies Hits Nintendo DS

I have played Plants vs. Zombies on my iPhone and iPad before and the game is really cool. The developer of the game - PopCap - has announced that it is set to launch the game on the Nintendo DS. The...

Apple Commands 87.4% Of Tablet Market

Research firm IDC has just released its statistics about the burgeoning "media tablet" market and, not surprisingly, the iPad is taking more than the lion's share of the industry.According to IDC,...

Sanyo Unveils New Ultra-portable and Short Throw Projectors

Sanyo has announced a pair of new projectors aimed at the user that wants a big screen in a small space. The new projectors include the PLC-WL2503 with an ultra short-throw lens and a MSRP of $1695....

The Future of Green Gadgetry: Electrolysis?

Solar Power is pretty nifty, and Horizon's hydrogen fuel cells are a definite glimpse into the future of clean energy. But I recently stumbled across a green energy solution on Yanko Design that...

Final Fantasy XIII Gets A Sequel

Don't confuse it with Final Fantasy XIV or Final Fantasy Versus XIII, or even Final Fantasy Agito XIII, but Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be a completely true sequel to the 13th in Final Fantasy's...

Apple To Merge iTunes / Safari?

A new rumor has popped up along the grapevine, claiming that Apple plans to merge Safari and iTunes into a single thing. This would turn iTunes from a traditional application to a browser-based app....

Active Media Products Silver Bullet Flash Drive is Water Proof

Active Media Products has a penchant for tossing bullet shaped flash drives onto the market. My favorite was a big .50 cal bullet that it unveiled a while back. The latest bullet shaped flash drive...

Nanodots Geeks Set World Record for Largest Magnetic Sculpture

I have played with Nanodots before and the little magnetic BB's are really cool. I tried to build all sorts of things, but my construction chops arenâ€™t that great so my stuff tended to break....

Panasonic HDC-TM900K 3D Camcorder Available for Pre-Order

The Panasonic HDC-TM900K is available at Amazon for $999.00. Getting a new camcorder is a big investment. You want to make sure you are getting all the features you want for the price you want to...

SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS-I SDHC card launches

If you are the sort of photography buff that likes to shoot lots of high resolutions images and HD video using a high-end DSLR camera that supports the UHS-I specification, SanDisk has a new memory...

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IT News HeadLines (I4U News) 19/01/2011

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