Samsung to launch music download service

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. 005930.KS on Friday said it plans to introduce a line of digital music players and a download service, under an agreement with privately held media provider MusicNet.

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Belkin Releases Accessory Line for Samsung Players

Well I’ll be a monkey’s blue-assed uncle. It was just a little while ago that we presented our first, exclusive look at the Samsung YP-K5 MP3 player and Belkin already has a line of accessories out for this player. The other Samsung players Belkin will be accessorizing are the T9 and Z5. For a little…

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Pioneer BDR-103: HD DVD/Blu-ray Combo Burner to Ship Next Year

Pioneer announced it will release a dual-format HD DVD and Blu-ray writer sometime next year. The BDR-103 will integrate both formats into one drive, and it will support recordable and rewritable discs on both formats as well as play back prerecorded content. Other manufacturers such as Toshiba, Samsung and LG have dabbled with the idea…

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Thermidor Liberty Shelf: Motorized Refrigerator Shelves Are Way Cool

As appliance manufacturers grope for techno-ideas with little success, Thermidor creates an innovative design that could actually be useful: the Liberty Shelf, motorized refrigerator shelves that move up and down to accommodate items of various heights. Sure, you can do this manually, but have you tried it when the shelf is full of 40-ounce Colt…

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Philips 9-inch PhotoFrame: Two Inches Bigger, That’s About It

Philips already has our attention with its beautifully-designed 7-inch photo frame, and now a 9-inch unit augments the mix but doesn’t add a lot more features. The pixel count of this larger screen wasn’t noted, but word is that it’s a “high-performance LCD screen” with increased levels of sharpness, brightness and contrast. In addition to…

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Philips 9-inch PhotoFrame: Two Inches Bigger, That’s About It

Philips already has our attention with its beautifully-designed 7-inch photo frame, and now a 9-inch unit augments the mix but doesn’t add a lot more features. The pixel count of this larger screen wasn’t noted, but word is that it’s a “high-performance LCD screen” with increased levels of sharpness, brightness and contrast. In addition to…

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Philips 9-inch PhotoFrame: Two Inches Bigger, That’s About It

Philips already has our attention with its beautifully-designed 7-inch photo frame, and now a 9-inch unit augments the mix but doesn’t add a lot more features. The pixel count of this larger screen wasn’t noted, but word is that it’s a “high-performance LCD screen” with increased levels of sharpness, brightness and contrast. In addition to…

Friday, September 1st, 2006

IFA 2006: Samsung unveils stunning YP-K5 music player

Yummy. At IFA 2006 in Berlin, Samsung took the opportunity to show-off the forthcoming YP-K5, a uniquely designed music player that boasts a speaker that slides out, turning it into a freestanding mini-boom box. According to Samsung, the sound will not be the kind of tinny noise you’d expect from most tiny speakers and…

Friday, September 1st, 2006

Samsung SC-DC164 10,000 Word Review Spoiler: it’s teh suck

Here’s a review of the low rent Samsung SC-DC164 camcorder. It’s the base model that records to little DVD discs. Ordinarily, that would be the end of the story. But David Kender of Camcorder Info knows his stuff. He gives this camera the gadget equivalent of an invasive body cavity search. The resulting review…

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Samsung SC-DC164 10,000 Word Review Spoiler: it’s teh suck

Here’s a review of the low rent Samsung SC-DC164 camcorder. It’s the base model that records to little DVD discs. Ordinarily, that would be the end of the story. But David Kender of Camcorder Info knows his stuff. He gives this camera the gadget equivalent of an invasive body cavity search. The resulting review…

Monday, August 28th, 2006


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