Filed under: Green Tech

Let’s face it. Fruit’s gotten kinda boring. Unless they’re wearing pajamas or belting out Motown classics, most household fruits lack character. A new labeling system, though, might finally give fruit that bad-boy, tattoo-parlor image it’s been lacking for so long.
Instead of bearing the same dull sticker labels, fruit may soon appear on supermarket aisles with laser brands directly etched onto their skins. Thanks to a new technology that uses aSource: Switched RSS Feed

Last week Microsoft has released a software update that would provide WPA2 support for the upcoming Xbox 360 Wireless Network Adapter N, and that got us pretty excited knowing that the Xbox 360 will soon be getting support for the new speedier Wi-Fi 802.11n standard. But imagine our disappointment when we heard that the N Networking adapter has made an appearance (at $100) in a GameStop.com catalog, only for it to be later taken off.

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Panasonic has recently revealed their new portable 1Seg TVs.  Give a warm welcome to the SV-MC75 and the SV-ME750.

Both portable TV models are waterproof, splashproof, come with 8GB of internal memory, SDHC memory card slot and 480 x 272 pixels resolution.  Pretty sweet right?  No word on pricing as of yet.

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Filed under: Hardware, Video, Reviews, Mac mini

When we first heard about the Kanex HDMI + digital audio converter a few weeks ago, I was eager to give it a trial run and see if it managed to deliver on the promise of integrated audio with HDMI video. I’ve been playing with the $70 unit for a few days now, and the answer is a qualified yes: it does the job, but depending on your home theater setup you may be able to get by with a less expensive option.

The digital-audio KanexSource: The Unofficial Apple Weblog RSS Feed

Microsoft ‘s MSN has been a good hodgepodge that gets 100 million users a month. But it hasn’t had a serious redo for ten years. So the question posed to a new team brought in to redo the site was: how do you make the site standout and really help users?

Site leader Scott Moore and Cyrus Krohn, a top lieutenant, had previously worked together at Yahoo and even teamed on a business plan for a local news product. Reunited by Microsoft, they looked over their options and one thingSource: The Local Onliner RSS Feed

Before 2007′s Shadowrun released and Microsoft subsequently closed the doors on FASA, the studio was apparently working on Shadowrun: The Awakening — a game with a full single-player campaign and unique 3D gameplay engine developed in-house. Some footage (teleport past the break to give it a look-see) managed to make its way online over at Unseen64, showing off a few environments and some character animations. As Unseen64 would tell it, the story goes: FASA brought a new art director inSource: Xbox 360 Fanboy RSS Feed

As the virtual goods market continues to grow in the US – nearly doubling this year to just over $1 billion, according to our recently released Inside Virtual Goods research report – more attention is being paid to one of the more intriguing sectors of the virtual goods payment ecosystem: offers. Offers, a form of incentivized lead generation for performance marketers, are a popular alternative payment method for a variety of free-to-play online games, and currently play a role in theSource: Inside Facebook RSS Feed

We’ve been keeping track of Facebook’s self-reported demographic statistics on the US market for a while now, and here’s the latest update for November 2, 2009. While Facebook says these stats, provided to advertisers, are not necessarily real time, they do give us a sense of how Facebook is growing.

On the whole, Facebook’s US audience grew by 6.8% in October to 94.2 million uniques (compare to latest data from Quantcast, Compete, and comScore). Here’s how Facebook’sSource: Inside Facebook RSS Feed

The short answer is “no, although Windows 7 is probably a little safer.
That being said, there are a number of security measures that apply to any operating system, that are vital to a layered defense. Windows XP is only a secure operating system if it is updated regularly and operated by users who have some understanding of Internet security. Below are the four vital security practices to go with Windows XP:
1. Install operating system and application updates promptly.<brSource: SunbeltBLOG RSS Feed

With rumors of an Apple tablet reinvigorated, shopping site Retrevo released the findings of an Apple tablet study that found $600 to be the pricing sweet spot — and the need for Apple to get a move on before more Mac users buy netbooks.

Just in case Apple does produce a tablet/slate product, consumer electronics shopping site Retrevo decided to poll its users and find out who would buy one and for what price.

News of an Apple tablet — the computer-maker’s supposedSource: iPhone News Updated RSS Feed