Filed under: Digital Cameras Hurry on over! We had originally thought that Kodak had this award in the bag , but now that General Imaging (GE) has pumped out a trio of cameras that nearly put us to sleep, we’d say the race for the lamest introduction at Photokina is officially back on. Up first on the chopping block is the E1055W, a GE-branded point-and-shoot with a 3-inch LCD monitor, 10.1-megapixel sensor, blink / smile detection and a 5x optical zoom. Following that is the E1050TW, which packs most of the same hardware but also includes a 720p movie mode

Go here to read the rest:
GE intros E1055W, E1050TW and A1030 point-and-shoots

Filed under: HDTV , Home Entertainment We were told that Sling Media was getting ready to ship the Slingbox PRO-HD , and looky here — one just showed up, looking just slightly less imposing than in the press photos. The $400 box isn’t a huge departure from previous Sling gear apart from the inclusion of component and coax digital audio inputs and outputs, but combined with the just-released Windows SlingPlayer 2.0 software, it’s the first Slingbox that can stream HD video.

Read the rest here:
Slingbox PRO-HD unboxing and hands-on

The new MySpace Music launches tonight for everyone. But like Hulu , another joint venture backed by News Corp.

More here: 
Like Sister Site Hulu, New MySpace Music Is Just For U.S. Users

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Elderly

Continued here: 
Wearable airbags keep the elderly from hitting the ground so hard

Saul Hansell / Bits : T-Mobile Lifts Bandwidth Cap for Google Phone   —  T-Mobile raised some eyebrows Tuesday when it disclosed that buyers of its highly touted new Internet phone, the HTC G1 that uses Google’s Android software, would face restrictions if they exceeded 1 gigabyte of cellular data a month.

Read the original: 
T-Mobile Lifts Bandwidth Cap for Google Phone (Saul Hansell/Bits)

Filed under: Robots Erector’s WiFi-enabled Spykee robot hasn’t even begun to ship to mere mortals just yet, but through some random acts of wizardry, Sven was able to grab hold of one and give it the ole unboxing / impressions treatment (on video, no less). It could be the novelty factor, but he seemed pretty stoked with the whole package, and the clip waiting in the read link gives some real hard-hitting insight as to whether or not this $300 character deserves a spot in your family. Give it a watch, won’t you?

Read more from the original source:
Erector’s WiFi-enabled Spykee Spy Robot unboxed and toyed with

Go here to read the rest: 
A New iPhone Killer Announced From an Unlikely Source

Jason Snell / Macworld : Don’t drive iPhone developers away, Apple   —  One of the presenters at the recent C4 Mac developers conference made a point about Apple that is incredibly relevant to how the company is viewed, especially by the media and rabid Apple fans.  To paraphrase his statement, in dealing with Apple …

Read more from the original source: 
Don’t drive iPhone developers away, Apple (Jason Snell/Macworld)

Ravello Billing is built on standards-based architecture.

Go here to read the rest:
Ravello Solutions Releases End-to-End Billing Solution

Insurer has licensed EQUCAT’s Gulf of Mexico Offshore Energy Model for portfolio risk management and underwriting.

See more here:
Torus Insurance Will Use Solution from EQUCAT