News Archive for 09/01/12

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Sennheiser HD 800

01/12, 9:35pm

First Look: Sennheiser HD 800 headphones

Electronista at CES had a chance to try out Sennheiser's new HD 800, the company's latest flagship headphones geared for audiophiles. At first glance, the housing is clearly more modern and technologically-inspired than the relatively drab exterior of the predecessor products, the HD 600 and HD 650. More importantly, the company developed entirely new 56mm ring-shaped transducers that boast an incredible frequency response of 6 Hz to 51,000 Hz. The annular design is said to vibrate the entire air volume over the transducer to create a full-bodied sound with clarity at the low end, but without causing the high-frequency distortion found with large drivers.

HAVA for iPhone

01/12, 5:35pm

HAVA for iPhone enables TV viewing, recording

Monsoon has announced upcoming iPhone support for its TV placeshifting hardware, HAVA. Designed to work through broadband Internet or a network-connected PC, HAVA allows users to watch and control live TV, including satellite and TiVo content. With the iPhone application, users will have access to an on-screen remote from which they can watch TV, pause, change channels, browse a program guide and launch recorded shows.

Servoy iPhone App Builder

01/12, 3:35pm

Servoy posts iPhone Application Builder

Software-as-a-service company Servoy has released the iPhone Application Builder, a tool meant to simplify web application development for iPhones and iPod touches. The tool is said to run on any SQL database, whether local or hosted online, and support the creation of business-oriented apps without any necessary programming expertise, thanks to the use of a special mini-IDE. The Builder takes metadata from databases and tables and generates all forms and objects.