Streaming Video Will Finally Surpass DVDs as Most Popular Movie Viewing Medium in 2012

March 24, 2012

Give it another couple of generations and America’s young folk will think of DVDs the way the current generation thinks of VHS. DVDs are a dead format in the making, and they’ve already begun their march down death row. Find that hard to believe? Consider this — according to IHS Screen Digest, in 2012 Americans [...]

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Upgraded TiVo Premier Launching Tomorrow

March 24, 2012

The DVR is the best thing to happen to television since the advent of color, and TiVo quickly became the proprietary eponym (or genericized trademark, or synecdoche, or whatever you want to call it) for the technology. Tomorrow, TiVo is launching a new 500GB version of its TiVo Premiere product that will hold 75 hours [...]

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ADATA Launches New Line of DDR3L ECC Memory for Micro Servers

March 24, 2012

With an eye towards micro server applications and enterprise cloud computing solutions, ADATA rolled out a brand new line of DDR3L ECC SO-DIMM memory modules featuring low voltage, large densities, and rapid processing capabilities.. There are 1333MHz and 1600MHz kits available in 4GB and 8GB capacities, each of which requires 1.35V, according…

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G-Shot HD575T Optical Camcorder by Genius is Brilliantly Slim

March 24, 2012

The smart folks at Genius recently kicked off their foray into the camcorder business with the launch of the G-Shot HD575T. The G-Shot is a hybrid high-definition touchscreen optical camcorder with “one of the slimmest” profiles around, the company claims, but despite its comparatively thin stature, it’s capable of shooting Full HD 1080p video…

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Flying Dutchman is Lying Dutchman in elaborate hoax

March 24, 2012

A cleverly designed human birdwings hoax has the whole Internet bummed out it’s not real. [Read more]

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Thunderbolt storage roundup: The hair-pulling irony

March 24, 2012

CNET editor Dong Ngo rounds up Thunderbolt storage devices currently on the market and shows the reasons why they make him pull his hair out. [Read more]

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Great sling shot games that aren’t named Angry Birds

March 24, 2012

Angry Birds Space is the big mobile game release this week, but there are plenty of slingshot games worthy of your iOS device. [Read more]

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How Box.net became Box.com for just shy of a million bucks

March 24, 2012

CEO Aaron Levie got lucky: The company that owned the dot-com of his company name wanted a lot, but not as much as they could have held him up for. [Read more]

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First drive in the electric VW eGolf

March 24, 2012

Volkswagen began its 20 vehicle testing program for the eGolf, and let CNET editor Wayne Cunningham behind the wheel for a short drive. [Read more]

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Apple’s New iPad Ships To Even More Countries

March 24, 2012

Apple managed to sell three million iPad units in the opening weekend, and that was only in a handful of countries. Now, the flood gates are really opening up. The new iPad will hit stores starting on the 23rd in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,…

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