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CES 2009 Preview: All quiet on the gadget front

Your dear Toybox editor attended the official press preview in New York City for CES 2009 tonight, camera in hand, to bring you wonderful pictures of the best new and future gadgets. The general feeling? A whole lot of companies are keeping mum this year, and it's...

Tags: Quiet, Gadget, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-11

The calm before the Macworld Expo storm

SAN FRANCISCO -- There's a quiet, serene kind of feeling in the Fourth and Mission area of San Francisco tonight. The kind of quiet before something big happens. It's not completely silent though. People are buzzing about the under construction lobby of...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Quiet, Keynote Address, Corporate Communications, Apple iPhone, San Francisco, WiMAX, Notebooks, Strategy, Hardware, Management, Marketing, Notebooks & Tablets, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Deer Creek Cottage Screensaver (zip)

The Deer Creek Cottage Screensaver will let choose the glowing light of eveningtime or the still and quiet of the moonlight. One of Kinkades cottages to delight your winter and your Holiday. Deer Creek Cottage Screensaver has rippling water, falling snow and many, many transitions, as well as beautiful images....

Tags: Quiet, Deer Creek Cottage Screensaver

Software downloads 2007-12-10

Image Gallery: ABACUS Smart Watch 2006

It has been kind of quiet on the MSN Direct front over the last year or so, but ABACUS has released five different models in the last few months that have improved significantly on the older SPOT watches.

Tags: quiet, MSN

Image galleries 2007-06-04

Photos: The 'personal blimp' takes flight

A small company called Skyacht has a hot-air airship that could make cruising the treetops a quiet, relatively affordable pastime.

Tags: quiet

Image galleries 2006-12-29

Additional Resources

Catholic Church flirts with green tech of the solar sort

Poking around the Web looking for green technology news on an otherwise quiet Thanksgiving weekend, when I came across this item about solar panels being installed in Vatican City. Apparently, the new Roman Catholic pope has a green bent. According to news reports,...

Tags: Green Technology, Catholic Church, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-29

ZDNet Holiday Gift Guide: Top desktops for any budget

Desktops get little love these days as more and more users opt for notebook PCs. Laptops have closed the gap in recent years in terms of features and performance. But the fact remains that desktops deliver a lot more bang for buck. In fact, you can...

Tags: Game, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Gateway Inc., PC, Memory, Microsoft Windows, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Quad-core System, Studio, Flash Memory, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-24

H2O + C = cool idea

Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...

Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis

DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...

Tags: Cargo, Financial, Raw Material, Vessel, Globalization, Great Unwind, Reports, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-22

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs and hybrids

The auto industry may be in a tizzy, but that doesn't mean you can't get a great deal on a new vehicle. And who doesn't love a little holiday cheer in the form of a four-wheel gift? Here are 2008's best cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs and...

Tags: Car, Page, SUV, Honda Motor Co., Minivan, Manufacturer, Manufacturing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Google Chrome to be pre-installed on PCs in 2009?

Google is reportedly thinking about cutting deals with PC makers to have its Chrome browser pre-installed on new computers, a move that could position the Internet giant to not only boost its presence in search but also put some of its branded apps - Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader and...

Tags: Google Inc., PC, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Microsoft vs. Google Web-based office battle heats up again

After a few months of relative quiet, the war of words and customer wins is on again, with Microsoft and Google battling over which company will be more successful in providing office applications over the Web. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Microsoft launches online store: Is there deeper meaning here?

Microsoft has launched something long overdue: An online store. Yes Virginia, you can download Windows. The launch is a bit quiet. Trevin Chow, a senior program manager at Microsoft, announced the "first-party" store on his blog. The software giant's Windows blog also plugs a purchase of Microsoft's...

Tags: Electronic Software Distribution, Product, Online Store, Microsoft Corp., Chow, Microsoft Store, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-14

News to know: CES preview, Google tracks flu, NebuAd sued, Ad porn blocker

 Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: CES 2009 Preview: All quiet on the gadget front Sean Portnoy: Third-quarter HDTV sales pace slows, plasmas show new signs of life ...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Video, Beta, Matthew Miller, Corporate Communications, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Microsoft Startup Labs delivers its first four Live Mesh apps

One of the tidbits that got lost in the Professional Developer Conference PDC shuffle was the quiet delivery of a set of new applications Microsoft has built to showcase Live Mesh known as the "MeshPack." by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley, Application, MeshPack Application, Productivity, Corporate Governance, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Foreign governments attack White House, Obama, McCain campaign systems

Foreign governments attack White House, Obama, McCain campaign systemstsk, tsk...MISLEADING headline!!!Man, just when will folks like you stop your xenophobia??!! Whatever happened to the terrible horrible Russians that you guys kept telling the public that they wanted to invade and control us?!! Get a life!!In case you haven't...

Tags: SECURITY, govt, Foreign governments attack, Obama McCain, Foreign Government, White House, attack

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

On the Mac mini's passing: not so fast

On the Mac mini's passing: not so fastThe Mac Mini is the only Apple device I would consider buyingThe 2 people I know who bought a Mac Mini are very happy with it although they very quickly replaced OS X with Windows so they could use the far superior MCE....

Tags: Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Microsoft Only, mini, Apple TV, Apple Inc., Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, WMC, TV, MCE

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Altec Lansing iMT702 inMotion Max

As the heir to Altec Lansing's venerable iM600 portable iPod speaker system, the iMT702 ($199) has some big shoes to fill. We're not thrilled with all of the changes Altec Lansing has made, but the net result is a great-sounding portable system with a compact design and balanced, detailed sound.DesignThe...

Tags: inMotion Max, Altec Lansing

Product reviews 2008-11-05

Is George Ou right?

Is George Ou right?Individualized drillIf every student must learn extensive details by rote, each student can work with a computer to learn at his own pace.Why the periodic table is considered important for all I'm uncertain. But so long as it must be learned, let the computer do the...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Workforce management, Jargon, Technolgy, computer, Facebook, tool, programming

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Staying on topic: Using community channels for political conversations?

As election day nears, it's not surprising that people's thoughts -- and their blog posts and comments on mailing lists -- turn to politics. The question is what's appropriate for discussion, and where? And should tech businesses stay out of politics altogether? This has come up in...

Tags: Blog, Tim O'Reilly, Mailing List, Blogging, Internet, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-04