a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/156334/samsung_to_launch_thin_bluray_disc_player_at_ces.html?tk=rss_news"img vspace="16" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/01/01-05-09samsungbd.jpg" //aWe don't have any hard details yet, but word on the street is that Samsung is planning on pairing up its a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/samsung-prepping-6-5mm-lcd-for-ces/"6.5mm (.2-inch) thick LCD HDTV/a with an equally svelte Blu-ray deck just 39mm (1.5 inches) thick. We'll find out more during Wednesday's press event, we're sure -- any bets on whether "thin BD players" will be this year's "thin displays?"pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/homeentertainment/" rel="tag"Home Entertainment/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/samsung-to-launch-1-5-inch-thin-blu-ray-player-at-ces/"Samsung to launch 1.5-inch thin Blu-ray player at CES/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:05:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.pcworld.com/article/156334/samsung_to_launch_thin_bluray_disc_player_at_ces.html?tk=rss_newsRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/samsung-to-launch-1-5-inch-thin-blu-ray-player-at-ces/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1419324/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/samsung-to-launch-1-5-inch-thin-blu-ray-player-at-ces/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/g2Aut83m-x9BSZ3eRfvH6GyYDzM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/g2Aut83m-x9BSZ3eRfvH6GyYDzM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=iVUEEW1j"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=iVUEEW1j" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=cTFgsLdb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=cTFgsLdb" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/ANxkDeusIxk" height="1" width="1"/

div align="center"a href="http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/12/asus-r50a-full-review/1"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-28-08r50a.jpg" //aa href="http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/12/asus-r50a-full-review/1"br //a/div ASUS's a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/r50a"R50A UMPC/a has been sort of lost in the company's flood of Eee PCs, and maybe for good reason -- the crew at UMPC Portal just reviewed the $2,000 handheld and came away unimpressed. Although the software package overall was described as "atrocious" and the lack of a keyboard was annoying, the biggest problems were all essentially related to running Vista on the 1.33GHz Atom Z520 CPU with 1GB RAM -- you can delete bloatware and use a bigger stylus, but you can't fix "pretty bad" performance on the lowest possible graphics settings. Ruh roh: Sony's upcoming a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/vaiop"VAIO P/a supposedly has a a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/25/sony-p-series-netbook-unveiled-underwhelming/"similar 1.33GHz Intel chip/a in it and runs Vista. Here's hoping Sony's got something a little more impressive up its sleeve for us than what ASUS managed to put together here -- otherwise the full R50A review at the read link might be discouragingly prophetic.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"Handhelds/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/asus-r50a-umpc-reviewed-same-internals-as-the-vaio-p-runs-vi/"ASUS R50A UMPC reviewed -- same internals as the VAIO P, runs Vista poorly/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:19:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/12/asus-r50a-full-review/1Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/asus-r50a-umpc-reviewed-same-internals-as-the-vaio-p-runs-vi/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1413147/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/29/asus-r50a-umpc-reviewed-same-internals-as-the-vaio-p-runs-vi/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hXqofoDYxz3aIdLEd5SeFOPRZhI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hXqofoDYxz3aIdLEd5SeFOPRZhI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=7eQJRiw6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=7eQJRiw6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=sYC56NfN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=sYC56NfN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/wEzcyNjNRNM" height="1" width="1"/

div align="center"a href="http://jkontherun.com/2008/12/27/psions-netbook-trademark-defense-psion-responds/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-24-08-psion-letter3.jpg" alt="" //a/div br /Psion, Psion. We hadn't really heard from the British portable maker since the halcyon days of the Series5, but it's back and making waves with a a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/24/psion-teklogix-sending-out-cease-and-desist-letters-to-netbook-cen/"series of nastygrams/a asserting its trademark of the word "netbook." Psion's legal team followed up with jkOnTheRun, and according to them, it's only going after those sites and companies "making a direct, financial profit from use of the 'Netbook' trademark." (As opposed to profit in kind, we suppose -- did you know our advertisers pay us in toaster waffles and aviator sunglasses? True story.) Psion says it's mostly focused on retailers and manufacturers using the term netbook to sell machines, not "straight blogs" and other sites. Of course, that means next to nothing, since Psion says it'll still go after those sites that have sponsored ads or for-profit links containing the word "netbook" -- including automatically-placed ads and links like AdSense and Amazon affiliate ads that site owners typically have no control over. em+10 weasel/em, dudes. Anyway, considering the widespread adoption of "netbook" in the past year with nary a peep from Psion, we'd say the term is pretty well generic and no longer a valid trademark at this point -- we'll see how it goes when it drags the first heavy-hitter using the term (a href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=intel+netbook"like Intel/a) into court.br / br / emDisclaimer: Nilay's a lawyer and secret Asian netbook ODM, but he's not /emyourem lawyer and this isn't legal advice or analysis./empFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/psion-says-its-only-going-after-those-profiting-from-the-term/"Psion says it's only going after those "profiting" from the term netbook/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:17:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://jkontherun.com/2008/12/27/psions-netbook-trademark-defense-psion-responds/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/psion-says-its-only-going-after-those-profiting-from-the-term/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1412858/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/psion-says-its-only-going-after-those-profiting-from-the-term/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/QlQg6XybBKiMjrnTTxxTJgjD4Ak/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/QlQg6XybBKiMjrnTTxxTJgjD4Ak/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=6hVpr6EV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=6hVpr6EV" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=s5f5oVgF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=s5f5oVgF" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/kgGjInkgh4w" height="1" width="1"/

div align="center"a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=enamp;sl=deamp;u=http://community.sevenmac.de/Sinan/albums/89/734amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.sevenmac.de/exklusive-bilder-zum-kommen-snow-leopard%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3Dglh"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-28-08sl32.jpg" alt="" //abr //div span style="float: right; margin-left: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;"scriptdigg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Leaked_Snow_Leopard_Image_Potentially_Indicates_32_64_bit';/scriptscript src="http://digg.com/api/diggthis.js"/script/span Apple's said it's taking a break from adding flashy features to OS X to focus on the foundations and stability of the system with a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/snowleopard"Snow Leopard/a, and this latest leaked screenshot might indicate that those foundations are moving to 64 bits -- it shows System Preferences saying it needs to restart in 32-bit mode to open the Network panel. That's certainly interesting, given the rumors that Apple's a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/snow-leopard-to-drop-powerpc-support/"dropping support for non-Intel machines/a and maybe even 32-bit Intel processors with this release, but it could also just mean that whoever took this screenshot doesn't have a 64-bit-friendly version of that preference pane installed. (We're guessing the latter, since there are a lot of 32-bit only Core Duo Intel Macs out there.) Restarting apps to change modes seems pretty clunky, though -- shades of System 7 and the 32-bit Enabler, for the olds -- so we're hoping Apple's got a more elegant solution in the works. Macworld's just a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/16/apple-announces-final-macworld-steve-jobs-wont-deliver-keynote/"around the corner/a, we're sure we'll hear more from strikeSteve/strike Phil soon.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/leaked-snow-leopard-image-potentially-indicates-a-32-64-bit-di/"Leaked Snow Leopard image potentially indicates a 32 / 64-bit divide/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:14:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=enamp;sl=deamp;u=http://community.sevenmac.de/Sinan/albums/89/734amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.sevenmac.de/exklusive-bilder-zum-kommen-snow-leopard%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/leaked-snow-leopard-image-potentially-indicates-a-32-64-bit-di/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1412846/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/leaked-snow-leopard-image-potentially-indicates-a-32-64-bit-di/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ojW5AIhYuUtg1dvhnpvOM7JjvtQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ojW5AIhYuUtg1dvhnpvOM7JjvtQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=rgh3KkPb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=rgh3KkPb" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=EOU3M7Dm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=EOU3M7Dm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/8OiPwA7sTCY" height="1" width="1"/

div align="center"a href="http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/digihunter/post.htm?id=63008075"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-28-08vaiop.jpg" //abr //div Sony isn't being too coy with the VAIO P, is it? In addition to that a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/24/sony-vaio-japanese-teaser-suggests-something-long-thin-and-co/"teaser image/a, oh-so-beautiful a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/01/fcc-leaks-tiny-vaio-with-wwan-sonys-first-netbook/"FCC shot/a, and mistakenly-posted a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/25/sony-p-series-netbook-unveiled-underwhelming/"specs page/a, CNET's uncovered this pic of the rectangular netbook with its lid open. We can't really tell if the machine pictured has that crazy 8-inch 1600 x 768 display we'd heard about, but there's a lot of the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/sony-vaio-tt-unboxing-hands-on-and-impressions/"VAIO TT/a in those lines -- so much so we're wondering if it's a 'shop, albeit a super-hot one. Of course, there's no word on pricing, but we're hoping it's somewhere close to reasonable -- we'll find out in a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/sony-teaser-site-says-revolutionary-new-vaio-coming-january-9t/"just a couple weeks/a at CES.br /br /strongUpdate:/strong We knew it looked a little too much like the TT -- a href="http://ctec3.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2008-12-24-2"it's a 'shop/a. Oh well, at least we can dream.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/is-this-the-vaio-p/"Is this the VAIO P?/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:12:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/digihunter/post.htm?id=63008075Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/is-this-the-vaio-p/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1412812/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/is-this-the-vaio-p/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NyFUneeN_dxEsnKmzuU_PwSn42I/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/NyFUneeN_dxEsnKmzuU_PwSn42I/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=5DhH7n4h"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=5DhH7n4h" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=SpkzV2mH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=SpkzV2mH" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/0zJ9ab8VWOQ" height="1" width="1"/