WOW! 5 in 1 Home Theater!

How amazing the technology has evolved for just a few winks! Well not really surprising but ya know just amazed this morning when i was watching Mornings @ ANC anchored by Ricky Carandang, Marieton Pacheco, TJ Manotoc and Nina Corpuz. My "coffee minute" before going to work was extra techi while watching the television with $12,000.00, 5-in-1 Home Theater. I know some of you guys may have known or even have this at home but forgive my ignorance for i just heard and seen this 5-in-1 Home Theater Entertainment in my whole life! hehe... Imagine sitting at the comfort of your own living room watching five tv shows at once with two Paradigm Signature S8 tower speakers, two Paradigm 15-inch subwoofers, a Paradigm center-channel speaker, and four in-wall Paradigm speakers. A ssssweeettt luxury at its best. Hah! put me in front of this and i will only last ummm...3 minutes?, then everything goes round and round for watching 5 television screens all at once is not my cup of tea! heh! Popcorn please!

Viacom Slaps Google with $1B YouTube Lawsuit

Viacom has sued Google, alleging copyright infringement from video-sharing site YouTube and seeking $1 billion in damages.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, follows a Digital Millennium Copyright Act request Viacom sent to Google last month related to the unauthorized posting of Viacom videos to YouTube.

At the time, Viacom demanded that Google remove over 100,000 of its clips from YouTube, which Google acquired last year for $1.65 billion. Google said it would comply with the request.

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Cisco, Apple Settle 'IPhone' Dispute

Cisco Systems Inc. and Apple Inc. have agreed to share the "iPhone"
name, but both companies are staying tightlipped about what future
products might come from the resulting deal to collaborate on
"interoperability" between the companies' products.

Analysts said the settlement announced late Wednesday in Cisco's
trademark-infringement lawsuit could help both companies strengthen
their positions in the increasingly fierce battle to deliver video and
other applications directly to consumers' homes.
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Hitachi's World's First Terabyte Hard Drive

Listen up Digifanatics! Consumers' ability to store video, photos, music and other valued data will reach new heights as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced the industry's first terabyte (TB) hard drive. Delivering superior performance and reliability, as well as capacity, Hitachi's 1TB hard drive meets the needs of consumers who want to create, share and store their digital information, and lots of it.

Hitachi's Deskstar® 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), or 40 cents per gigabyte (GB). This new consumer-friendly price makes ultra-high storage capacity more affordable and accessible than ever before. more...

Toshiba's 4GB Postage Stamp-sized Hard Drive

All this talk about upping the storage capacity in NAND solid-state flash memory may be filling the tech blogs these days, but the hard drive is far from falling out of the picture yet. They're getting smaller and smaller these days, and now Toshiba is offering a 4GB hard disk that is only slightly larger than a postage stamp.

Less than an inch in diameter -- 0.85 inches to be exact -- the electronics maker sees the implementation of the tiny drive in portable devices like mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras, and the like. It would be a good fit for ever popular slim handsets that are making waves these days, because Toshib'a micro drive is a mere 0.197-inches thick. more...

World's First 8GB Hard Disk Embedded Phone...by SAMSUNG

Samsung Electronics Co. is reinforcing its technology leadership by unveiling the world's first 8GB Hard Disk embedded smartphone (model: SGH-i310). Samsung breaks the storage limit in mobile phones by introducing the world's first mobile phone equipped with a 8GB hard disk drive (model: SGH-i310). With the large storage of 8GB, SGH-i310 will change the way people manage and use mobile phones. Samsung is the first to adopt a hard disk drive into mobile phones and has launched three models equipped with a hard disk drive; the world's first 1.5GB HDD embedded phone (model: SPH-V5400), the world's first 3GB HDD embedded phone (model: SCH-V7900) and the world's first 3GB HDD Music smartphone (model: SGH-i300). The i310 works as a perfect platform for users by combining a phone, a digital camera, and an MP3 player with its immense storage capacity. It enables users to carry around 2,000 songs (4MB/song) wherever they go. more...

Xbox Has Arrived - again

Many said it wouldn't happen, but Best Buy stores in Canada are confirming that they will have a limited number of Xbox 360 systems in their stores on Friday December 9th. Each store is expected to have a minimum of 10 units and they will be available on a first come, first serve basis to customers when the stores open at 9am. As one of Canada's newest and fastest growing retailers, Best Buy received their fair share of the replenishment product that Microsoft has been able to supply, which is great news for anyone that missed out on launch day. more...