Year: 2009

Universal Studios Home Entertainment
(http://www.universalstudios.com), or USHE, has launched an array of
enhanced iPhone and iPod touch-enabled features and social web-based
offerings with the release of upcoming titles “Bruno,” “Funny
People,” “9,” “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love,” “Public
Enemies” and “Inglourious Basterds,” all available this holiday
season.

These innovations include the pocket BLU app, which offers iPhone and
iPod users touch further enhancements to the Blu-ray experience, and
social BLU, which offers Blu-ray users more ways to interact with

Bowers & Wilkins (http://www.bowers-wilkins.com) has announced MM1
desktop speakers for Macs and PCS.

CalDigit (http://www.caldigit.com) is now offering support for 2TB
hard drives. Previously 1.5TB drives were the maximum capacity
available to users. CalDigit is now offering a 33% increase in
storage at no additional cost and, lesser capacity products now have
a lower price tag.

The CalDigit VR is a two-drive RAID system and is now available in
capacities up to 4TB. It sports a quadruple interface; its modular
design also provides two hot swappable drive modules. It has a front
LCD and includes software for configuration and monitoring.

The Khronos Group, an industry consortium creating open standards to
enable the authoring and acceleration of graphics and dynamic media
on a variety of platforms and devices, has announced the release of
the OpenWF 1.0 standard.

OpenWF is an operating system-independent and hardware-neutral
foundation for building windowing systems and providing display
control functionality in accelerated mobile and embedded devices.

Bowers & Wilkins (http://www.bowers-wilkins.com) has announced their
first ever headphone: the P5 Mobile, which is due for release in
January. It comes supplied with a Made For iPod approved cable, which
allows for speech and device control.

The use of specially developed ultra-linear neodymium magnets and
highly optimized Mylar diaphragms provide the best possible sound
quality while isolating as much noise as possible, according to the
folks at Bowers & Wilkins.