Yes, Sony has declared a war on the clamshell, packaging that is. We wrote earlier about Amazon.com’s “frustration-free packaging” initiative, and this is an example of a similar initiative, aimed at getting rid of those clamshell packages that seem almost lethal. We call them lethal because (and I know you’ve experienced this if you’ve opened up any of these packages) those edges can be as sharp as a knife when you try to cut or pry them open. But while Amazon.com has no brick-and-mortar operations to worry

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According to a report today in the Wall Street Journal, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has decided to give up on its practice of mass lawsuits as a way to deter illegal file-sharing. Instead the industry is apparently going to use a “three strikes” policy, similar to that under consideration in the E.U. and France. The WSJ says that the RIAA is negotiating with ISPs over the “three strikes” policy. If the RIAA detects illegal file-sharing taking place, it will send an email to the ISP,

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The Logitech Harmony 1000 is the new way to control your electronic devices, including television sets and DVD player. It features a brilliant 3.5” color touch screen that allows for one-touch activity-based control of even the most sophisticated A/V components. Navigation controls located on the right side of the panel make it easy for you to scroll through several options. Say goodbye to the wasted time and unnecessary complexity of multiple remotes controlling multiple devices. This deal ends Monday at 12:00pm ET.

NVIDIA Releases Version 2.1 Beta of the CUDA Toolkit and SDK DECEMBER 19, 2008- NVIDIA has announced the availability of version 2.1 beta of its CUDA toolkit and SDK. This is the latest version of the C-compiler and software development tools for accessing the massively parallel CUDA compute architecture of NVIDIA GPUs. In response to overwhelming demand from the developer community, this latest version of the CUDA software suite includes support for NVIDIA Tesla GPUs on Windows Vista and 32-bit

ASUS Makes Available World’s First Skype Certified Standalone Videophone Developed in Partnership with Skype, the Eee Videophone AiGuru SV1 Enables Free Unlimited Video Calls without the Need for a Computer Taipei, Taiwan and LUXEMBOURG – ASUS today made available the world’s first Skype Certified videophone dedicated to unlimited video calling over the Internet – the AiGuru SV1, part of the Eee Videophone product family. Boasting a large 7” display and a built-in webcam, speaker and microphone, the WiFi-capable

Sony Electronics, the pioneer in optical storage devices, introduces yet another group of powerful DVD writers with 22x speed – the Sony Optiarc AD-7220S/A series Being one of the fastest DVD Writers available today with stable recording quality, the Sony AD-7220S/A series delivers a fast recording speed of 22x when writing to a single layer DVD+/-R disc.“We are excited to announce the launch of one of the fastest DVD-RW writers available in the market today. As the size of data is increasing day by day, higher

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