After teasing the netbook market for months, ECS has finally announced that the G10L is heading to Stateside and it will be available starting September. According to what we know, for now, the G10L will be shipped in 8.9 or 10 inch models and will be sold at an entry-level price of $399. It will [...]
The American war deserter is one of an estimated 700 U.S. military personnel currently residing in Canada seeking refuge from the long reach of the U.S. Navy. On June 3, MPs voted 137 to 110 in favour of a resolution that called on the federal government to allow U.S. war resisters to apply for permanent resident status in Canada and to cease all deportation and removal proceedings against t
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We know you've been sitting on your hands since January, waiting for Samsung to ship this SpinPoint M6 500GB, 9.5mm laptop drive wonder. That whole "released in France" thing was just rubbing it in your face, and we apologize, but it looks like your wait is finally over: OWC's Woot! shop has the drive for sale as of now. You can't buy one sans enclosure, but the $310
She was busily promoting her casino flick “21” overseas for the past month, but Kate Bosworth has made her grand return to the States - arriving at LAX airport on Thursday after spending time in Sydney. And yesterday, the slim starlet was spotted leaving Rite Aid drug store with some household needs, dressing casually in...
Poor Americans! They have finally received the Nokia N95 8GB model while the rest of the world have long enjoyed the uber-capable smartphone’s release for quite some time now already. This means those living Stateside can finally rock on with this handset that features a wide range of portable entertainment functions and high-speed HSDPA connectivity on 850/1900 MHz networks in the Americas. Each purchase will come with half a dozen months’ worth of free navigation service which comes included with Nokia Maps. Read more...
Los Angeles played host to the North American premier of the acclaimed Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG. The hotrod sport sedan from the Stuttgart is the three-pointed star’s eight-cylinder answer to the Audi RS4 and BMW M3, and Benz’s stubborn obsession with the torque converter aside, it presents a compelling case for those on the market for a big ferocious 451-hp 6.3L V8 in a small German package.Mercedes even brought out the head of AMG, all the way from
Affalterbach, Germany, to unveil the car personally. The sheet was lifted to reveal a resplendent (that’s right, resplendent!) C63 in a pearl white that’d make a First Lady’s jewelry box jealous. Click on the images above and below to get a good look at the C63 AMG, because with over 450 horsepower, it may be the only chance you have to see it sitting still.
MERCEDES-BENZ C63 AMG MAKES US DEBUT AT L.A. SHOW
2008 MY C63 AMG Sedan Features 451-Horsepower AMG V8 EngineLOS ANGELES – The high-performance Mercedes-Be
Samsung's P2 and T10 Bluetooth players: Stateside in SeptemberReady for it? We've got the release date for Samsung's tasty new Bluetooth media players with FM tuners: the YP-P2 and YP-T10. September. Ok, it's not so much a date as a range, but mark your calendars anyway and get to saving. How much? Good question, Sammy ain't saying, but you'd best start combing your pockets for the couple of hundie they'll demand. Think about it: the P2 (pictured) brings a proper 16:9 widescreen, 3-inch touchscreen display with up to 8GB of audio/video-hungry flash while the T10 wraps 4GB of your audio and video in a 0.3-inch, super thin dose of sex-ay. Just check the gallery and full specs after the break if you need more convincing.(Via Engadget.)
UFO Interactive has published a handful of relatively quirky titles in the United States over the last year. Though the games have been hit and miss in quality, their lower priced label has been successful enough for the company to warrant in investing in procuring the publishing rights to more Japanese titles.If a rash of updates are to be believed on the Gamefly website, it seems that the horizontal arcade shooter Shin Chuka Taisen may be coming stateside from the company under the name Monkey King: The Legend Begins. With no information provided from the game's link yet and with UFO Interactive not responding to a request for inquiry into the title, I'm unable to confirm for certain whether or not this title is the Starfish developed shooter. However, the name of the game, release date, and history of UFO Interactive all seems to work in the favor that we may be playing Shin Chuka Taisen on American systems by the time the year is up.The second game that is of interest for thos
Arcade Heroes, courtesy of Kevin Williams of The Stinger Report, posted some details of the AAMA Gala held earlier this month. Everything from America's Army to an upright cabinet of Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift was showcased on the show floor. One of the surprise announcements coming out of the event dealt with Sega finally outlining plans to bring Virtua Fighter 5 stateside, despite it already being available on home consoles. I'm a bit shocked by this decision, but I can definitely understand their motivation to try to compete with the waves that Tekken 6 is sure to make when it is finally released. It may also be surprising to see what sort of response this also reinvigorates into the console versions of Virtua Fighter 5. I wasn't able to establish whether or not the version Sega is bringing stateside is based on the latest arcade release or whether or not the game will support the .NET features (Virtua Fighter 4 didn't when it was released here). I'll have more inform
According to a recent update on Gamestop.com, Hori's fighting stick designed for the Wii will be released here in the United States in November. Though the arcade stick has not yet been released to the Japanese market, I have been patiently awaiting my import pre-order so I can retire my Classic Controller and play Guilty Gear Accent Core with a bit more style. The price point for the controller is a easy to swallow $49.99, and if any indication is given by the recent popularity of Hori products on the second hand market, it would probably be in your best interest to pre-order the joystick so you won't have to deal with the possibilities of being unable to find one after its release. I usually don't encourage gamers to provide Gamestop and EB Games an interest free loan, however, after seeing the prices of the Dead or Alive 4 stick skyrocket on the second hand market, I can't help but think this arcade stick will see the same sort of increase in price. With the target audience
It looks like Transformers fans who aren’t hip to buying imported bots are in for a treat, Hasbro is bringing everyone’s favorite jerk stateside.
Start lurking in Wal-Mart aisles in September, because he’s an exclusive to the big blue box. I’m not sure if anyone refers to Wal-Mart as the big blue box, but I think we should start. Anyway, Starscream rules so I’m pretty happy to see this guy head on over here. Sure he was a ginormous dick, but he was such a lovable dick. It was also sweet that he got turned to dust in the film just when he finally usurped Megatron. Poor guy never caught a break.
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The first retail-bound volume shipments of Apple Inc.’s hotly anticipated iPhone device arrived successfully in the United States this past weekend, touching down quietly at a handful of drop locations just six days before the device is due to go on sale at nearly 2000 Apple and AT&T retail locations. People familiar with the matter say the intrinsically valuable freight was carried inbound
iAfrica reports that DaimlerChrysler [sic] has sent its first shipment of South Africa-made Mercedes C-Class sedans to the U.S. Some 380 left-hand drive Mercs left the Republic's East London manufacturing plant on Thursday and hopped a boat for Baltimore, Jacksonville and Long Beach. The automaker will repeat the process every two weeks for the foreseeable future, devoting 70 percent of the plant's capacity to servicing the U.S. market. Will the Merc's prestige boost South Africa's image as a major manufacturing center for the German carmaker and others? Not surprisingly, the local pols are saying amen to that. "The mere fact that we are exporting internationally means that we are now on the international map," said Buffalo City municipal spokesperson Darby Gounden "However, the manufacturing of the C-class gives us in the region an opportunity to improve confidence and our image in world markets." As for U.S. consumer acceptance of South African-bu
Automotive News reports that Th!nk is about to offer their new City car for sale in the USA. The Th!nk City glides from rest to 30mph (ha!) in 6.5 seconds, tops-out at just over 60 mph and sports ABS, dual airbags and air con. Th!nk claims she'll go (slightly) more than 100 miles between charges. Obviously, not a road tripper, but for running down the street to buy orange juice, not a bad option. Especially if your bicycle has a flat. Aside from folks being put off by the City's diminutive size, we only foresee one real hurdle -- the damn price. Th!nk wants you (yes you) to cough-up somewhere between $15k and $17k for the City. That's some serious cash-- especially when compared to $12k for a Smart ForTwo or $15k for a "real" car like a Suzuki SX4. On top of tha
While FoMoCo puts lipstick on Volvo in hopes of a quick sale, it's quietly bringing several Ford Europe models to the U.S. in the hopes of reinvigorating small car and crossover sales. The Ford Fiesta imminent arrival is no secret, but Automotive News [sub] is reporting that Ford's next U.S. Focus will be European engineered on the global C1 platform. Ford's C-Max and Kuga-- a pair
High gas prices are achieving what thousands of Euro-lusting domestic fanboys couldn't: an influx imported premium European sub-compacts. Automotive News [sub] reports that Mercedes has revived plans to bring its next gen A and B-Class stateside. Expect four-door, coupe and crossover variants to jump the puddle sometime after they make their 2011 European debut. [...]
MG first introduced its mid-engine F (later TF) roadster way back in 1995, but new owners Nanjing (SAIC) are still trying to sell the damn thing. Production of 500 TFs for the British market began this month at the Longbridge plant, in a run-up to restarting regular production. And until recently the Chinese firm was [...]
Just when Farago begins to question his ongoing coverage of the UK’s obsession with speed cameras, thenewspaper.com proves the significance of the story… Redflex and American Traffic Solutions (ATS) are already raking in tens of million of dollars of loot from dubiously justifiable red-light cameras; corrupting officials, invading privacy and subverting government [...]
While TTAC has Tesla on a Death Watch, aspiring Chinese EV-automaker BYD is getting massive street cred in The People’s Republic. In case you’ve got something called a life, BYD stands for “Build Your Dreams.” Since late September, “BYD” also stands for “Buffet’s Yankee Dollars.” Omaha’s Oracle liked the company so much he wrote a [...]
