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This Just In: 3-D Isn’t a “Crucial” Television Feature

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 21 at 10:46 am PT

Sales of 3-D TVs are up, the NPD Group says, but whether consumers watch content in 3-D is a whole different story.

Flat-Screen TV Prices: Anything but Flat

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 8 at 1:35 pm PT

So much for falling TV prices.

Bye-Bye, Thrive Tablets; Hello, Toshiba Excite

Lauren Goode in Product News on April 10 at 5:00 am PT

Toshiba is rolling out a line of new tablet devices, including a giant 13-inch stay-at-home device.

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More TV Buyers Look to LED Screens

Lauren Goode in News on February 23 at 1:23 pm PT

For the first time, more U.S. TV buyers are looking to purchase LED TVs rather than cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) TVs, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli. Consumers who planned to buy an LED-backlit TV jumped to 54 percent in the last quarter of the year, a 32 percent increase from the third quarter; the share of CCFL-backlit LCD TVs dropped to 25 percent from 56 percent. The report comes just a couple days after Samsung, the world’s largest LCD-panel maker, said it would spin off its LCD business to focus more on higher-margin OLED screens.

Picking the Brightest, Most Efficient Bulb

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 17 at 3:41 pm PT

Katie offers a brief guide to the latest energy-efficient light bulbs.

You Know You’re Going to Watch It: All About the Times Square Ball

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 31, 2011 at 5:30 pm PT

It’s said a billion people watch the six-ton ball drop every year. Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about it.

One More Thing: Apple’s New MacBook Air

Beth Callaghan in News on October 20, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Steve Jobs’s “one more thing” today at Apple’s Town Hall event was the new MacBook Air, or, as he put it, “what would happen if a MacBook hooked up with an iPad.” The quick details: Complete unibody construction, all solid state storage, and there are two models, each with two configurations: an 11.6-inch model with either 64 gb or 128 gb of storage for $999 or $1199, respectively, and a 13.3-inch model with either 128 or 256 gb of storage for $1299 or $1599, respectively.

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New TV Tech Could Be Boon for Venture-Backed Chip Companies

Scott Denne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 26, 2010 at 8:21 am PT

The move to new display technologies and demand for new applications are turning televisions into the next growth segment for chip companies, and venture-backed companies could benefit. Annual sales of semiconductors into televisions will grow by $2.9 billion this year to $12.2 billion, according to a new report from iSuppli, a semiconductor research firm that expects that pace of growth to continue on through next year.

Apple Adds a Bit of Pro to Low-End MacBook

John Paczkowski in News on May 18, 2010 at 5:59 am PT

With no fanfare whatsoever, Apple refreshed its entry-level MacBook this morning, swapping it out for a faster machine featuring longer battery life and a better video chip. With a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an Nvidia GeForce 320m graphics chip and 10 hours of battery life, the updated MacBook is similar in spec to the 13-inch MacBook Pro.

iPad TV?

John Paczkowski in News on February 5, 2010 at 4:31 pm PT

Could Apple’s future as a multichannel video distributor lie not with AppleTV but with the iPad? Might the “best of TV” iTunes subscription offering the company has been pitching to TV networks since last November be primarily intended for that device and not the company’s sleeper AppleTV platform?

This Just In: 3-D Isn’t a “Crucial” Television Feature

Flat-Screen TV Prices: Anything but Flat

Bye-Bye, Thrive Tablets; Hello, Toshiba Excite

More TV Buyers Look to LED Screens

Picking the Brightest, Most Efficient Bulb

You Know You’re Going to Watch It: All About the Times Square Ball

One More Thing: Apple’s New MacBook Air

New TV Tech Could Be Boon for Venture-Backed Chip Companies

Apple Adds a Bit of Pro to Low-End MacBook

iPad TV?

The Android Invasion Continues: Motorola Debuts the Backflip

The GPhone Lives: Google Uncrates the Nexus One “Superphone”

Apple Updates Mac Lineup, Announces Multitouch "Magic Mouse"

Apple Updates Mac Lineup, Announces Multitouch “Magic Mouse”

Cree Q1 Sales, Profit Beat, Forecasts Profit in Line

Apple: A Ship That Leaks From the Top?

Report: New MacBooks, Justifications for Buying Them, in Production

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What's Up With Apple?

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Putting a Computer in Hibernation

These Two Laptops Are Small and Sleek, But Come With Flaws

Buying a Laptop Means More Attention to Special Features

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