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LG on Monday said it has struck deals with US cable providers to get support for tru2way, the new two-directional HD video standard. A memorandum of understanding between LG and six US cable providers should see the latter offer support …

Samsung today took the wraps off four new printers, with the CLP-315, CLP-315W and CLX-3175FN color laser printers for the small or home office market as well as small workgroups along with the laser SCX-4828FN to add to its monochrome …

Besides hints of turn-by-turn GPS directions, the beta 2.1 firmware also reportedly contains references to an unreleased iPod Touch known as “iPod2,1″, according to iPhoneAtlas.

The current iPod Touch carries a model designation of “iP…

Mobile executives at a Silicon Valley roundtable discussion exchanged some colorful comments about the iPhone and its impact on the mobile space. Some application developers, in particular, have been very pleased with the distribution model provided…

A switch to newer Intel-based Apple Mac Pro workstations for an upcoming rekindling of Virginia Tech’s supercomputer efforts will more than double the performance to as much as 29 teraflops and will once again put a Mac cluster in the …

A computer maker called Open Tech has announced a line of computers designed to run Apple’s Mac OS X, following in the footsteps of Psystar, the Mac clone manufacturer recently targeted by an Apple lawsuit. …

Businessweek explores the possibility of Apple introducing some sort of touchscreen laptop in the near future. While most of the article rehashes circulating rumors, the author did get some insight from iSuppli analysts regarding the feasibility of …

Adobe announced today the release of Lightroom 2, a competitor to Apple’s Aperture photo software.

“A worldwide community of photographers provided valuable insight and feedback, as part of the Lightroom 2 public beta program, ultima…

If you’re running a Unix command (inside Terminal or otherwise), and you want to quickly capture the standard output in an editable buffer (for examination or snipping), just add | open -tf after the command.

The output of the command will be placed into a new TextEdit buffer, stored in the /private/tmp folder. For example, to get the output of the command-line version of System Profiler into a text file, just type (in the Terminal window):

system_profiler | open -tf

You can then edit the document, and save it (use File » Save As to pick a save location). This method saves a step over using a redirect (>) and then opening the resulting file.

Sun’s VirtualBox is a slick new virtualization alternative to VMWare Fusion, Parallels, and the like. For some of us, we not only need to run a Windows app, but that app requires a connection to a serial device. Here’s what I did just now to get my Keyspan USA-19HS USB-to-Serial adapter working in VirtualBox under Windows XP:

1. Windows XP installed without a hitch, but it had no COM ports set up. It turns out that I hadn’t turned them on in VirtualBox, so I did that.
2. Installed the Keyspan drivers on my Mac (Leopard, 10.5.4).
3. Downloaded SerialClient, the excellent app that seems to make this work.
4. Attached the Keyspan adapter.
5. In XP, I went into the Add Hardware wizard, and scrolled down to the bottom to add hardware I pick from a list. Basically, I wanted to force XP to set up an item in Device Manager for a COM port. The device was created, but for some…