Wednesday online book retailing giant Amazon.com unveiled the newest version of the Kindle e-book reader.
The new model, the Kindle DX, is a bigger-screened, more expensive version ($489!) of Amazon’s popular gadget. The DX is thin and light, can display more shades of gray (perfect for b/w newspaper and magazine content), and, says InformationWeek, it “shows [...]

Router and networking behemoth Cisco today announced its plans to acquire the privately-held Pure Digital Technologies, the makers of the popular, inexpensive little Flip Video cameras.
Cisco calls the reported $590 million acquisition “key to Cisco’s strategy to expand our momentum in the media-enabled home and to capture the consumer market transition to visual networking.” Ned [...]

Updating a story we first told you about in January, wireless memory card maker Eye-Fi today announced the release of two new wireless SD memory cards that will upload videos directly from a digital camera to a computer and the Web. In addition to automatic photo uploads, the next generation Eye-Fi cards can deliver users’ [...]

Rain Recording has announced the latest edition to their LiveBook Diablo mobile audio workstation series. The new LiveBook Diablo quad core audio notebook claims “true desktop level performance” and is outfitted Intel’s Core 2 Quad mobile processors, dual high performance hard drives and up to 8 gigabytes of RAM.
LiveBook Diablo is comprised of “high performance” [...]

Maingear Computers has announced the availability of a new PC targeting Photoshop, graphic design, video production, pro audio creators, the Remix Workstation.
Starting at $2,000, the Remix Workstation features high-end audio and graphics features, liquid cooling and sound insulation to minimize noise.

At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, a convention that focuses on music and audio technology, Alesis announced their USB Recording Kit, an all-in-one computer-recording system.
The USB Recording Kit lets you connect the pair of AM2 condenser microphones to the iO|2 digital-audio interface to record stereo audio, using the included Steinberg Cubase LE 4 digital audio workstation software. You can monitor [...]

Tuesday, we noted something that didn’t get a lot of attention in the hype surrounding Apple’s introduction of new MacBooks: Apple is killing off FireWire.
Apple’s decision to eliminate FireWire connections in its MacBook lineup has angered legions of Apple fans that use Mac laptops for creating music, videos and new media. The lack of FireWire [...]

There’s something very important missing from the new line of MacBooks that Apple introduced today: FireWire ports.
Here’s the port lineup for the new MacBooks:

MagSafe power port
Gigabit Ethernet port
Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)
Mini DisplayPort
Audio line in
Audio line out
Kensington lock slot

Yep - if you’ve bought a FireWire audio [...]

Music Marketing is now shipping the Professional C6 and C6x computers, compact Windows audio workstations.
The C6 with 2GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM powered by an Intel 3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and the C6x with 4GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM powered by an Intel 2.5 GHz Core 2 Quad processor both offer two internal hard [...]

If you’re doing audio work on Windows, Rain Recording may have just released your dream machine.
They’ve introduced the ION 64, a true 64-bit computing platform designed for audio and video production.
Powered by two AMD Opteron Quad Core processors, the ION 64 has eight processor cores, up to 64 gigabytes of RAM, and room for 4 [...]