Kodak bankrupt
The company that invented the hand-held camera filed for bankruptcy protection . [Reuters]
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Kodak bankrupt
Burglars abandon CDs and DVDs
British burglars have stopped stealing CDs and DVDs because, yeah, who needs ‘em? “…thefts of entertainment products like CDs and DVDs have collapsed in England and Wales, to the point that they are now taken in just 7% of all burglaries in which something is stolen…” ( Thanks, Bruce ! )
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Critics rave for Windows Phone — but who’s buying?
Nick Wingfield, writing at The New York Times , looks into why Microsoft’s excellent Windows Phone 7 mobile OS failed to take off . To the technorati, as he puts it, the reasons are obvious: Microsoft is late, everyone has an iPhone or Android already, the handsets are plastic tat, and the Windows branding is a counterproductive symbol of the bad old days: “Entering the market so late with this experience has created some special challenges for us,” says a spokesman.
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PSP Vita sales slip in Japan
Sony’s new handheld gaming console, the PSP Vita, is selling poorly in Japan . Within days of its launch, sales were slower than everything Nintendo makes, and even the PSP Old. Will Americans want a $250 handheld game console with $50 games more than Japanese? [Kotaku]
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Barnes and Noble Nook sells like hotcakes
Amazon isn’t the only place shifting inexpensive tablets by the truckload: bookseller Barnes and Noble reports that its Nook lineup of e-readers and tablets sold well over the nine-week holiday period, with sales up 70 percent on last year . [Business Wire]
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HP Envy Spectre
The Verge has a teaser video for HP’s Envy Spectre , which appears to be an ultrabook-style laptop. The original Voodoo Envy was a good-looking alternative to the MacBook Air, with a distinctive style of its own; let’s hope this new one isn’t just another clone .
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Poor review for new Polaroid
Ars Technica’s Chris Foresman reviews Polaroid’s Z340 instant camera, and finds that it captures none of the charm of the classic models . “The novelty of getting a physical print of a digital photo nearly “instantly” quickly wears off. What you’re left with is a fair-to-middling 14-megapixel digital camera with unwieldy ergonomics, poor battery life, and somewhat expensive printing capabilities.”
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Three decades of the C64
The Commodore 64 is 30 years old. [Reg Hardware]
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How to encrypt your disks
Seth Schoen at the EFF has a suggestion for an extra New Year’s Resolution: Full-disk encryption on all your computers .
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