ASUS has finally announced the Eee Box EB1501P price for the US market. This nettop PC is scheduled to hit US in the next few weeks for a starting price of around $500. To refresh your memory, this HTPC-wannabe offers a dual-core 1.8GHz Intel Atom D525 processor, a GeForce ION2 GT218 graphics card, 2GB of memory, a 250GB or 320GB setup hard drive, a slot-loading DVD-RW drive, multi-card reader, Wi-Fi 802.11n connection, 6 USB ports, eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet, an HDMI port and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium OS. A very good looking HTPC if you ask me. Just wait for a few weeks and you’ll have this baby in your living room.

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Ever since they introduce their Revo-series linup, Acer has been eyeing as your best partner in your living room. Their tiny nettop Revo has been very successful, as a silent operating HTPC that can be hooked up behind your LCD TV. Now they’re ready to introduce more stuff into your living room. Dude, it’s getting crowded here!

Acer’s new HD media player ‘RevoView’ will hit Germany soon, by the end of August for a starting price of €149, or about $199 for the 320GB flavor. There are actually three flavors for your HD-video craze: 320GB, 1TB, and 2TB models.

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Remember Apple’s 12-core beast? Well it’s already available to order via Apple’s online store, for your number crunching needs. To refresh you on what this beast is made of, the 12-core Mac Pro has two hearts powered by Intel’s 2.66GHz Xeon processor, with up to 6GB of memory, a 18x SuperDrive, an ATi Radeon HD 5770 if you really need the hardware acceleration for your flash games, and a 1TB hard drive for all your graphic projects, and some prawn as well for the boys. All this is yours for $4,999 onwards, but you can have even more depending on your needs, for a hefty price of kush.

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All these while the Snow Leopard wasn’t able to have a nice Flash playback if it’s a tough one, but Mac users can now stop being jealous that Windows fans are enjoying hardware-accelerated video decoding because the updated Adobe Flash Player finally brings GPU decoding to OS X. I guess there’s some love from Adobe after all, Steve!

Get your Flash 10.0.1 here!

The Japanese has always been rather high-tech in their devices, but touchscreen seemed to be the in-thing lately. Well that’s what JR East is hoping for. Their latest, and fairly crazy and unnecessary, vending machine sports a 47-inch touchscreen panel for users to touch around. The machine has an embedded camera that will recognize your gender and age (how about Kurosudoressā which is widely appearing in Japan?) allowing the machine to recommend a beverage suitable to whatever stereotype is attached to your particular circumstances.

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Buffalo has been making a big hit in the wireless device market. Now they have some new stuff for you, if your wireless device’s letter designation is lower than N. First up is a fairly standard router, the WCR-GN, sporting 802.11n WiFi and four Ethernet ports in a cool white design for a mere $40. Then there’s the WLAE-AG300N, a dual-port access point designed for making a pair of wired game consoles or the like wireless. That is a little pricier, at $80, but the final product, the smallest of the bunch, brings us back down to $40. It’s the WLI-UC-GNM, a USB 2.0 802.11n adapter that is barely bigger than the port it fits in, poking out just far enough for you to pull the thing back out again. Fairly priced within most people’s budget and the white router may even attract some white fruit users.

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There has been some update to the ban on BlackBerry services over at Saudi Arabia. According to MSNBC, RIM has handed over user codes that will let the country track individual users. A BlackBerry server had also been placed inside Saudi Arabia for testing purpose. But what exactly are the government getting access to? The unique pin number and code for each registered BlackBerry. That would give Saudi-authorities access to BBMs.

This seemed to be the only solution for RIM, if they want their services till still being aired up in these case-sensitive countries. Though I am nobody to judge the security flaws of these unmonitored services, but if they were to monitor terrorist activities through such means, surely other sensitive information will also be leaked out through such means if it was monitored by unethical personals. I supposed we would be seeing similar solutions over at UAE and other countries that have similar concern over this security issue.

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A year and a half ago, EVGA showed some tech bloggers their two custom designed power supply units which they planned to cater for their enthusiast X58 SLI Classified Series motherboard users. This was back in CES 2009. Back then, there are two prototype PSU designs – a modular unit for cable management aficionados, and a non-modular unit for power signal “purists” who value solid connections for a theoretically minimal load resistance. CES 2010 came and gone, and no news was spoken of those two prototypes, not even from EVGA themselves. Read more…

Apple TV has been around collecting dust, and the gang at Cupertino has been tweaking it. But tweaking doesn’t seem to be going very well actually. Engadget has a source that says the upcoming release will have something similar to the iPhone 4, which means an A4 CPU with near 1GHz speed, 16GB of flash storage, and perhaps 512MB of memory. There’s even a possibility of new iTunes streaming services that the box could take advantage of. But the sad news to this update is that there won’t be Full HD support. The new version could only punch out 720p quality videos. But this is very doubtful of being hardware limited, or locked down internally for some stupid reasons like overheat perhaps. This is because the iPhone 3GS can play back full HD videos with no sweat.

But the good thing is that this new update will have support for apps, and presumably an App Store entry. Apple is also officially changing the name of the device to iTV, abandoning the current moniker in favor of something more in line with its current i-device lineup names.

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