HP offering one-year warranty extension to a few line of Pavilion desktop PCs

HP is now offering a one-year Limited Warranty Service Enhancement Program (LWSEP) for owners of the HP Pavilion P66xx, S56xx, and HPE-4xx Desktop Models that were bought in the United States and Canada. HP reportedly emailed owners today saying that the desktops have system boards with a slightly higher-than-expected failure rate and that these computers might experience no video at start up and might even stop responding. However, the company isn't recalling the models.

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YouTube for PS Vita now available

It was at the end of last month when we brought you word that YouTube, the world's most popular video sharing website, will finally make its way to Sony's latest iteration on what they think is the future of handheld gaming – the PS Vita. Well, we are glad to say that YouTube for PS Vita is now available as an app, and it fully intends to push the PS Vita's high-definition and 3G capabilities to the edge. This is a free download over at the PS Vita Store on PSN, where you now have yet another avenue to enjoy millions of YouTube videos on the 5" OLED display.

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Poll suggests that Windows 8 Phone name is preferred

The next iteration in Microsoft's Windows Phone series is Windows Phone 8, also known by its codename Apollo. The transition to 8 made sense, after all the previous build was Windows Phone 7.5, so 8 would naturally follow next. However given that Microsoft will be launching Windows 8 soon, some have suggested that maybe Microsoft should rebrand Windows Phone 8 to Windows 8 Phone. With Windows 8 coming in several different versions (i.e.

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HP webOS Community Edition released

In March this year, we talked about how HP has plans to release even more source code surrounding the now defunct webOS, and here we are halfway through the middle of the year and HP has just announced that they will be rolling out more of the source code for webOS Community Edition. The whole idea of this exercise is to make life a whole lot more easy for developers to tweak, make improvements as well as churn out more apps for the HP TouchPad as well as other devices. Of course, this is still a long way off from turning webOS into open source software from a proprietary operating system – which is where it is at the moment.

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Boogie Board Jot eWriting pad hands-on (video)

It's been quite some time since we've heard from Improv Electronics, maker of writing tablets such as the Boogie Board Rip. The company was on hand at CEA today to tease its latest device, the Boogie Board Jot, which like the Rip sports a reflex LCD display that doesn't require power to record your scribbles. In fact, the device only uses energy when you hit the eraser button, which means the battery should get you through some 50,000 erases. Unlike the Rip, this model has no on-board storage, which explains the cheaper $40 price.






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Smart t-shirt helps monitor ill patients

You know the saying, if you can't get the mountain to come to you, you would have to go to the mountain instead. Well, I guess the same can be said of doctors, although most folks would prefer to head to the hills than visit the doctor. This particular smart t-shirt comes embedded with its fair share of sensors that allows it to monitor patients suffering from Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and Chronic kidney disease (CKD) remotely. Of course, the flexibility of such an invention allows the smart t-shirt to be adapted, catering for folks living with other incurable chronic illnesses that require long term care.

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Vizio announces Co-Star with Google TV and OnLive gaming, available next month for $99

. Vizio on Tuesday announced the future availability of its Co-Star Stream Player. The set-top box is powered by the latest version of Google TV and includes support for OnLive's cloud gaming service. "Our focus to deliver the best consumer experience continues with today's announcement of the Co-Star, which delivers a superior smart TV interface that anyone can add to their existing HDTV," said Matt McRae, VIZIO's Chief Technology Officer.

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