We know that most of you buy both DVD and Blu-ray versions of your optical disc titles (insert sarcasm here). But while JVC developed a combo DVD / Blu-ray format more than two years ago, no titles have been released for it. That’s soon to end, with the announcement that Japanese entertainment software developer Pony/Canon will release the first movie title on a hybrid Blu-ray/DVD disc, where else, in Japan in February. According to CDR-Info, it’s a move designed to accelerate adoption of Blu-ray. The first

AMD has released a short FAQ in response to recent feedback the company has received regarding the initial release of their GPU-accelerated ATI AVIVO Video Converter. Much of the feedback was related to the application’s feature set, quality, compatibility, and performance. Here’s what AMD has to say…  Q: What are the specific issues users of ATI Video Converter may encounter?A: Users running 32-bit software on 64-bit systems are encountering issues getting quality output from the encoder and 32-bit users

A mystery Dell website, some trademark info, info on a fashion blog site, and a wild look of surprise on a Dell exec later, speculation is that Dell has an upcoming laptop designed to be as thin or thinner than the MacBook Air. And, as time goes on, the evidence keeps mounting. Dell’s own mystery site doesn’t say much, but it does say “Adamo by Dell” and “Coming Soon.” Aside from that, nothing. However, the New York Times unearthed some trademark info on both “Adamo by Dell” and “Dell Adamo.” Both appear related

Early Saturday, Warner removed all of the labels music videos from YouTube after negotiations broke down regarding its licensing agreement with the Google owned video website.This development came as all four major labels including Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and EMI are in negotiations about their licensing deals with YouTube.”We are working actively to find a resolution with YouTube that would enable the return of our artists’ content to the site,” Warner said in a statement. “Until then, we simply

During President George W. Bush’s valedictory visit to Iraq, an Iraqi journalist launched his shoes at Bush’s head during a press conference. Since then, an assortment of games, animated GIF’s, videos, and creative websites have appeared to making light of the journalist’s shoe toss.  Alex Tew, an internet entrepreneur who made history in 2006 by selling a million pixels at a dollar a piece on milliondollarhomepage.com, created a simple flash game, sockandawe, that allows users to throw their own shoes

We’ve all done it — had two tabs or screens open, wishing we could have two screens on our laptop so we didn’t have to keep switching back and forth between windows.  Enter Lenovo Group Ltd. The company’s next ThinkPad laptop is more of a “desktop replacement” than ever. ThinkPad W700ds (a follow-on to the standard W700 model we evaluated for you here) will have a 17-inch main screen and a 10.6-inch secondary. The former is a bit larger than the a mainstream 15.4″ laptop and the latter about the same

TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today announces the launch of the first-to-market 7” Wireless Internet Camera and Photo Monitor, model TV-M7. The world’s first 7” Wireless Internet Camera and Photo Monitor connects to your wireless network, detects wired and wireless TRENDnet Internet Security Cameras and streams camera video wirelessly in real-time. It also acts like a photo frame—it displays photo slideshows and plays personal videos and music. Users previously needed

Forget about scouring the Web looking for a good deal on a Kindle or Sony Reader. Instead, Foxit Software would rather that you consider its latest device, the eSlick. Not only will the eSlick sell for less than the Kindle or Sony Reader at $259, but it also offers a decent feature set as well. What’s more, if you jump on the eSlick bandwagon early, you can pick it up for a pre-order price of $229. The unit is about the size of a medium paperback, though it’s thinner at just 0.4 inches. It has a 6-inch, 600-by-800-pixel

Picture this: It’s Saturday, and you’re watching your favorite football team compete against their biggest rival. Your team is 4th and inches away from making a first down. It’s the fourth quarter, you need a field goal to win the game, and this down will give you an excellent chance to get within range. As you anxiously watch the play, and the pileup that ensues, you can’t believe the horrible spot. As a result, your team just barely missed the mark, according to the referee. You’re sure that they made it with

Electronic Arts, the second-biggest video game publisher, boosted planned job cuts to 1,000, or 10 percent of its work force, and will consolidate or close at least nine studio and publishing locations. At least the announcement comes before the holidays and the cuts won't happen till next year.

The changes, to be carried out by March 31, will yield savings of about $120 million a year and cost as much as $65 million over the next several quarters, the Redwood City company said Friday in a statement. The actions expand on a 6 percent reduction announced in October.