http://en.bywav.com Vogue and Technology - tips,reviews. Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:25:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Imagine a history in which broadcast television programming was not sent directly to television sets. Rather, it was sent to another, more expensive device in the home with a smaller screen. If you paid $40 per month, you could access at best only about 10 percent of the shows you ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/12/12/switched-on-vudu-starts-on-its-to-dos/ Word from Sony Japan says that they've got a 3.80 firmware update for their hot selling PSP in the chute. Scheduled for release on the 18th, the new code brings the following enhancements: Streaming Internet Radio player Video scene search RSS now supports OPML and pictures PSP-2000 owners with 1Seg ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/12/12/psp-380-update-brings-streaming-audio-video-scene-search-and-opml-support-december-18th/ Here's a fresh Apple rumor in the run-up to MacWorld: a TomTom GPS module for the iPhone. We just received this supposed photographic "evidence" of said device from a Dutch tipster. Our take? Might be, might not. TomTom is a Dutch company and a righteous, straight-talkin' Dutchman would never tell ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/12/12/tomtom-developing-iphone-gps-module/ Helio's warm embrace of YouTube's wide world of entertainment is nothing new, but it's getting a whole heck of a lot warmer today with the release of an all-new YouTube app for the Ocean dual slider. Basically, if you can do it from YouTube's desktop website, you can now do ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/12/12/helios-ocean-gets-a-whole-lotta-youtube/ Not that it comes as a huge surprise given the wide array of devices it already supports, but according to The Register, Orb is apparently set to finally get official with its support of both the iPhone and the iPod touch "in the next few days." As with other devices, ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/12/12/orb-reportedly-set-to-announce-support-for-iphone-ipod-touch/ We first saw Fuji's Finepix Z100fd back in July, but now that camera-buying season is in full force, PhotographyBlog has taken it out for a review and pronounced it a worthy candidate for your hard-earned cash. Of particular note was the 5X optical zoom, which is better than most other ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/12/12/fuji-finepix-z100fd-gets-reviewed-surprisingly-good/ We tend not to make a lot of predictions around here, but we've totally got odds on TIME magazine's pick for 2007 Person of the Year (and not just because we're owned by the same parent-company). Since TIME already named the iPhone both Invention of the Year ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/12/12/iphone-a-shoo-in-for-times-person-of-the-year/ It's just been a few short weeks since Revo trotted out its Blik WiFi internet radio, but it looks like the company has already outdone itself, with it now introducing the new and improved Blik RadioStation, which packs the same WiFi and FM radio as before, with some DAB functionality ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/12/12/revo-intros-blik-radiostation-dab-wifi-radio/ Portable speakers always bring with them a few compromises -- namely, they either aren't very portable or they don't sound very good. Korea's Xenics now looks to have come up with a solution to that first problem, however, with its new Music Cube speakers able to ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/12/12/xenics-music-cube-speakers-disassemble-cant-conceal-their-ugliness/ As promised, Google released the SDK for the Android mobile phone platform today. There's no actual phones running Android on the market yet, but the early release of the SDK means that as soon as you get your hands on an Android phone, there's a good chance you'll be able ... http://en.bywav.com/2007/11/12/google-launches-android-sdk/