Filed under: Networking

Netgear’s looking to make powerline networking a tad more convenient with its new XEPS103 Powerline Network Extender, which will let you spread your network from any old router to any electrical outlet in your house. What’s more, if you also happen to have a compatible Netgear router, you can simply ditch your old power adapter and replace it with the extender. While it won’t give you a 200Mbps transfer rate, you’ll still get a decent 85Mbps, which you can put to use with any HomePlug 1.0 Powerline device. Those that just need the extender can get one now for $80, with a bundle including Netgear’s XE103 Wall-Plugged Ethernet Adapter set to follow later this summer for an unspecified price.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Seeing how the original Q came to CDMA first, it’d only make sense that the updated version of the now-ubiquitous QWERTY smartphone — currently announced only in GSM / HSDPA form as the Q9h — would return to its roots. Morning Paper (the folks that brought us the Palm Gandolf) is reporting that the Motorola “Nelson” is getting prepped as we speak, offering up Windows Mobile 6, a 2 megapixel cam, miniSD expansion, Bluetooth, and EV-DO data in an “ultra thin” package. As you might recall, the Q9h originally got passed around as the “Norman,” so “Nelson” would be a totally appropriate name for a CDMA counterpart. Sprint’s getting passed around as a potential carrier for this one (seems logical enough to us) but we’ll have to wait this one out for a little more detail before calling it a done deal.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: Features

You read the keynote, now see all the live photography in far higher res than our in-column coverage. (We’ve also included a few shots that didn’t make it into the liveblog, too.) Or, you know, skip this post entirely — we won’t fault you if you’re on Apple overload today.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

You should know by now that these brief claims of superiority won’t mean much when the other camp flips the numbers around and cranks out a jaw dropping figure of its own, but the North American HD DVD Promotional Group has recently announced that it’s currently livin’ the high life. Supposedly, standalone HD DVD players now hold 60-percent of the market share amongst standalone high-definition disc players, and the recent “aggressive spring retail and marketing campaigns” are to thank. Unsurprisingly, Toshiba’s heavily (albeit momentarily) discounted HD-A2 was dubbed the “best-selling next-gen DVD player model to date,” and we were even told that over 75,000 HD DVD titles were sold in the final week of May alone. The countdown for the Blu-ray rebuttal starts… now.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Filed under: Laptops

It appears that Dell won’t just be lining the shelves of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club with cheap-as-free desktop offerings this year, they’re also prepping a laptop to keep the budget shoppers happy. Unfortunately, that’s all we know right now, other than that Dell is planning the model for “later in the summer.” Well, that and the fact that we don’t plan to be blown away by the release.

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!