Highlights from last week:
Eye-Fi wireless SD card: Would you like to send your digital photos directly to your computer or an online photo service without plugging your camera into the computer? Check out this Wi-Fi-enabled SD card.
The card automatically recognizes your home wireless network. Then simply turn your camera on, and the photos are sent from the camera to your PC — no strings attached. Any camera — old or new — that uses an SD memory card to store photos will work. Priced at $99, the Eye-Fi card has 2 gigabytes of storage and, for the moment, is sold only online at retailers including Amazon.com, Buy.com and Walmart.com.
The $199 PC: How do you sell a computer for $199? You need a retailer willing to buck industry convention and put a computer that uses an open-source operating system, not one from Microsoft Corp., on its store shelves. Read why Wal-Mart was willing to take the risk.
Manhunt hacks: A violent video — banned in the U.K. and revised for the U.S. — was hacked to put the gore back in.
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Read Eric 2.0, the new blog from Eric Benderoff and Eric Gwinn, at chicagotribune.com/eric.
