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Barkeep 1.0 (Mobile)

Barkeep is the new iPhone application that lets you keep an exact and comprehensive record of all of the above in an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand format. This application is perfect for those who find themselves wishing that they could remember the name - or even ingredients, price, type of glass, or...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Active Gaming Media, Barkeep, Smart Phones, Food & Beverage, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2009-09-28

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Nokia N86

The Nokia N86 8MP first made its appearance at GSMA 2009 and stepped up as the most advanced camera phone in the company's N series of multimedia smartphones. Nokia even went as far as to say that it could replace your standalone point-and-shoot camera. We can't say we agree with...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Nokia N86, Nokia Corp., camera, Nokia N86 8MP

Product reviews 2009-09-29

Western Digital debuts 2TB, 7200RPM enterprise-class hard drives

Western Digital on Tuesday announced that it is now shipping 2TB, 7200RPM enterprise-class desktop hard drives with WD's 500 gigabytes-per-platter technology. The company's family of Caviar Black drives (pictured, below) is intended for gaming, high-performance desktop systems and workstations; while the 2TB WD...

Tags: Hard Drive, Performance, Positioning, High-performance, Western Digital Corp., Branding, Leadership, Performance Management, Processors, Marketing, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Sony PlayStation 3 Slim - 120GB

Photo gallery:Sony PlayStation 3 SlimBack in 2004, four years after first launching the PlayStation 2, Sony brought out a new, much more compact PS2. Timed to come out just as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was hitting stores, the redesigned console helped breath new life into the PS2 franchise. It...

Tags: Game players, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-08-19

CES 2009: Don't count out those Millennials or Online Media, Cell Phone on the rise as entertainment device, says Deloitte

 The idiot box is still king, but don't count out online advertising. (Source: Deloitte LLP) At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Deloitte LLP revealed the results of its 3rd State of the Media Democracy Survey, which are likely to be...

Tags: Social Networking, Deloitte LLP, Advertisement, Phone, Japan, Cell Phone, Online Media, TV, Survey, Entertainment, Millennials, Entertainment Device, Idiot Box, Early-adopter Millennials, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-07

News to know: Palm, Oracle, Google, Mac sales and iPhone Nano

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Palm's CES news. Just in time or too late? Larry Dignan: Oracle's second quarter: A mixed bag, cost cuts likely Richard Koman:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Oracle Corp., Palm Inc., Net Neutrality, Sales, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-16

CA Internet Security Suite 2009

CA Internet Security Suite 2009 will probably have some admirers, but we're not among them. If you are a network administrator, you'll appreciate the long and torturous installation path; however, the average person will grow frustrated at how many times you have to enter your personal information, create passwords, or...

Tags: Construction, Firewalls, Network security, SECURITY, CA Internet Security, Computer Associates International Inc., CA Internet Security Suite, personal firewall, window

Product reviews 2008-11-24

News to know: Gates' new company, Apple, Android, Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary-Jo Foley: Bill Gates founds a new tech company John Morris: Apple: Mac sales still strong, some "interesting ideas" for netbooks Sam Diaz: Steve...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Blu-Ray, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Software As A Service (SaaS), Smart Cards, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-23

The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC

The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PCWhy such an expensive processor?Surely you can cut a couple of hundred dollars off the price and not lose too much performance by getting a lower spec processor.That way you could keep both hard drives (great for keeping the data separate from the...

Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), video, PC, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

TechCrunch50: Day 2

Yesterday's presentations were a lot of fun to cover. I'm getting right back into the grind today. 6:30 a.m. Here is a list of today's presentations: Alfabetic Presented by Oded Broshi and Arik Kopelman DropBox (Presented by Drew Houston...

Tags: Facebook, Phone, Tim O'Reilly, Mark Cuban, Mytopia, Swype, Mixtt Redefining, iMindi World, Popego Cut, exchangeP, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Channel Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS

Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OSPerhapsbecause I said best bitsThe next OS from Microsoftshould employ the best bits of what is available, whether they are Microsoft ideas or not - most of the best ones have not been. For example, it should at the very least...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Toshiba's Satellite P105: Productivity ace or gaming demon? We're not sure anybody knows.

Editors Note: This blog entry is accompanied by an extensive image gallery that shows the various angles and features of the Satellite P105 as well as three other Vista-equipped notebooks from Toshiba. The entire gallery starts here.According to Toshiba, the Satellite P105 series is "designed for portable productivity and entertainment."...

Tags: General, Vista, Hardware Infrastructure, Entertainment, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired &, Wireless, Image Gallery, Satellite P105

Blog posts 2007-02-01

Microsoft clarifies Windows Vista content protection measures

In a post on the Windows Vista Team blog, Microsoft has clarified a number of points about the content protection measures present in Windows Vista.The post by Dave Marsh, Lead Program Manager for Video, provides some background to the issues surrounding content protection in Vista and also includes a very...

Tags: Microsoft, Vista, content protection, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2007-01-23

Wii beats out PlayStation 3 in U.S.

Wii beats out PlayStation 3 in U.S.Wii = WeakEver walk through the mall during Xmas and come across those foreign guys and gals, touting those wands in front a 15' TV screen playing tennis or racket ball? Well, the Wii is that on steroids. Yup, just as bad but on...

Tags: Games, Game players, Sony Playstation, Nintendo Wii, game, Sony PlayStation 3, console

Discussion threads 2007-01-11

Can Digg go mainstream?

Despite the seemingly continuous hand-wringing over the susceptibility of Digg to gaming and biases--or perhaps because of it—Digg is a favored topic, destination and “affiliate” among everyone writing on or about the Web.This post reflects the omnipresence of Digg in the online tech community: We ask “Digg this,” at the...

Tags: INTERNET, Digg

Blog posts 2006-12-19

ASUS G1 (Core 2 Duo 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD)

Laptop-loving gamers are often stuck with portable systems that are nearly as bulky as the desktop computers they so studiously avoid. Recently, Asus has scored with interesting design ideas such as the leather-bound ultraportable S6F, and the company's industrial-flavored G1 is also something you don't see every day: a midsize...

Tags: Games, Notebooks, Desktops, Asus G1, laptop computer, game, ASUS

Product reviews 2006-12-18

Building a $1,000 Core 2 Duo PC

Building a $1,000 Core 2 Duo PCWhat about the OS?I guess Linux is free...How much for a "barebones" system?Right now, my hardware needs are not much outside wanting a better CPU; My 700MHz Athlon is starting to show its age. I'll be giving that system to my mother,...

Tags: Video cards, Processors, motherboard, video card, Intel Core 2 Duo, eVGA, hardware, PC

Discussion threads 2006-07-21

Samsung Q1 Ultramobile PC

Starting at $1,099, the Samsung Q1 seeks to combine elements of a laptop, a tablet, a PDA, a PVP, an MP3 player, a GPS module, and a gaming handheld into a form factor that falls between that of a smart phone/Pocket PC and an ultraportable laptop. When we first laid...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Handhelds, PC, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., ultramobile PC, keyboard, Samsung Q1

Product reviews 2006-06-05

ClayGun 1.0 (Mobile)

is an arcade-style score-based shooting game (shoot'emup).It blends attractive graphics and sound, well-thought-out gameplay and fun story lines; to bring a console-quality shoot'emup to your Pocket PCThe game has various levels of difficulty and will interest a novice as much as the hardcore shooting games player.Game PreviewYou can download the...

Tags: Mobile, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-03-06

Judge blocks California video game law

Judge blocks California video game lawgood newsWhen we were all young we were constantly exposed to sexual and violent media. How many of us turned into serial killers?Why is it suddenly now we don't trust kids to do the right thing? Are they really all mentally unstable, such that when...

Tags: Games, Corporate communications, game, video game, government, video

Discussion threads 2005-12-22