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Photos: Cracking open the Wii

A step-by-step summary of TechRepublic's project to take apart the Wii. Caution: This will seriously void your warranty.After a week of trying, I finally got my hands on a Nintendo Wii. After taking it for a test drive, I began the painstaking and somewhat frustrating disassembly process. I started by...

Tags: Game players, optical drive, photograph, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo GameCube, GameCube controller, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo GameBoy, screw, memory card, antennae, heatsink, USB port, plate, GPU, cable, console, CPU, manufacturing, board, chip, hardware

Image galleries 2007-08-27

E-passports to put new face on old documents

E-passports to put new face on old documentsWhy???Let me guess: to stop "terrorism"? Whatever. Even if real terrorism did exist, this would do virtually nothing to stop it. But this would be a great way to begin deceptively introducing Big Brother. Big Brother will not be thrust upon us by...

Tags: Homeland security, passport, terror, antennae, e-passport

Discussion threads 2004-08-18

Additional Resources

Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum

On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-01

How Kanye West influences enterprise social business strategy

Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...

Tags: Marketing, Collaboration, Analytics, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Entertainment, Business Strategy, MTV, Radian6, Jive Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-14

D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-615 - wireless router

The D-Link Wireless N Router DIR-615 eliminates any excuse you might have to not move to Wireless-N (300Mbps speed cap). With a price of about $40, the router is cheaper than even some Wireless-G routers--which cap at 54mbps--such as the Linksys WRT110. And you'll get a lot for the price....

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Home networking, router, DIR-615, D-Link Systems, Wireless-N Router, network, Web interface, wireless, wireless router

Product reviews 2009-08-13

D-Link Xtreme N Storage Router DIR-685

First announced at CES 2009, D-Link's Xtreme N Storage "all-in-one" Router DIR-685 is the first wireless router that can also work as a network storage device and as a digital photo frame. However, we wish it were a $150 cheaper stand-alone router, as its $300 asking price is too high....

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Web-Interface, D-Link Systems, router, Router DIR-685

Product reviews 2009-07-17

Wi-Ex zBoost YX510-PCS-CEL cell phone signal extender

Wi-Ex zBoost YX510-PCS-CEL cell phone signal extenderDisappointing!Disappointing! In my house 1 mile from Verizon cell tower I get 2 bars. Installed ZBoost YX500/510 CEL antennae on the roof. Three feet away from the base unit I get 4 bars. Five feet away, 3 bars. ...

Tags: Wi-Ex zBoost YX510-PCS-CEL

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

An Empirical Study of an RFID Mat Sensor System in a Group Home

This paper has been developing an RFID Radio Frequency Identification mat system to assist caregivers in a group home. In Japan, the number of group homes offering home-like care for elderly persons suffering from dementia has increased considerably. Even though the smaller number of people residing in a group home...

Tags: Home, Academy Publisher, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-04-01

Is free Wi-Fi the next big thing for broadband providers? Cablevision's success says so.

Is free Wi-Fi the next big thing for broadband providers? Cablevision's success says so.The difference between Cablevision and ComcastI have a feeling that Cablevision values their customers. I have a feeling Cablevision doesn't send their customers letters informing them they've violated some usage limit, with said limit never being...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WiMAX, Wireless and Mobility, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, Cablevision Systems Corp., Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

Buffalo Tech returns to the router game, updates NAS lineup

Several weeks ago, I posted about a court decision that lifted the ban on Buffalo Technology selling its routers and access points in the U.S., which it had done for many years. No doubt expecting victory for some time now, the company was ready within a month to tout its...

Tags: Game, NAS, Router, Buffalo, TeraStation Duo, Routers & Switches, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Network Technology, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Cable Might Try To Kill TV. It Would Not Be Suicide.

Cable operators have a love-hate relationship with TV. Giving Americans scores of TV channels,where they once had just three or four, built them into the telecommunications giants that they are today. But now, the TV business is the least profitable of the three legs they stand on....

Tags: Cable, CMCSA, VZ, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Wireless routers

OK, getting the wrong type of person a router for a gift could be a one-way ticket to holiday hell. But if you're buying for someone who's expressed a desire for one, or you want to take advantage of holiday deals to upgrade your own network,...

Tags: Wireless Router, Router, IEEE 802.11n, Linksys Inc., Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-12-15

Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFi

Hospitals may want to upgrade their WiFiGood hospitals are learningWhen my wife was diagnosed with acute leukemia and sent directly to the hospital for 28 days of treatment WiFi couldn't reach her room at the end of the hall. I bought a better antennae for hospital IT to install...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, hospital, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Qualcomm's Kayak "PC alternative" pictured

Here's a picture of Kayak, the "PC alternative" for emerging markets that Qualcomm announced yesterday. It looks pretty much the way the company described it: sort of a cross between the Apple Mac Mini--bring your own monitor, keyboard and mouse--and the OLPC's XO laptop with its...

Tags: PC, Qualcomm Inc., Kayak, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Desktops, Wireless, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Pioneer Inno XMP3

If satellite radio has a corner on any market, it's in the car; and with the increasingly narrow selection offered by terrestrial radio in many areas, it's no wonder. But for those who want to listen to Sirius or XM at the gym, in the train, or on the streets,...

Tags: Satellite radio, Network technology, Digital music, Digital media, playback screen, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Inno XMP3

Product reviews 2008-11-07

D-Link Xtreme N Dual Band Gigabit Router DIR-825

The Xtreme N Dual Band Gigabit Router DIR-825 is D-Link's latest router on the market. We view it as a worthy successor to the DIR-655 for the addition of true dual-band capability (simultaneously supporting 5GHz and 2.4GHz frequencies) and SharePort technology that turns the router's USB port into a networked...

Tags: Routers & switches, Home networking, Network technology, NETWORKING, Xtreme N Dual Band Gigabit Router DIR-825, router, D-Link Systems, DIR-655, SharePort, USB port

Product reviews 2008-10-27

What would you do with wireless broadband?

I'm not talking about WiFi here. Everyone and their brother has that. I'm talking about the emerging standard of 802.16, embodied in some areas as WiMax, but otherwise providing fast, wireless access to lots of data over quite a large area (about 50km if you have line of...

Tags: Broadband, Wireless Broadband, Broadband Internet, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-20

Wireless networking finally hits the ceiling

With the advent of multiple input multiple output MIMO technology that's used in Draft N (and some later 802.11g) products, wireless range isn't as big an issue for new networks as it has been in the past. But if you're running an older 802.11g network as I am in a...

Tags: Network, IEEE 802.11g, Ceiling, Wireless Networking, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Public Relations, Networking, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

LiveAir Networks Delivers Low-Cost, High-Bandwidth Internet Connections to "Sub-Rural" Texas Communities With Rugged, Manageable D-Link Switches

To bridge the gaps between communities, LiveAir designed an IP-enabled digital microwave tower system that would send IP traffic from hub to hub and eventually to user radios. As part of that design process, they needed a switch line that would allow them to run multiple VLANs while maintaining ease...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Microwave, IP, LiveAir Networks, Home Networking, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology

Case studies 2008-08-26

Did the DVR and HD impact NBCOlympics.com traffic numbers?

My ZDNet colleagues Tom Steinert-Threlkeld and  Ryan Stewart ran the raw numbers on Olympics online viewership. While the amount of traffic on the videos over the weekend was impressive --  3.42 million video streams with 66.7 million page views and an average visit of 15 minutes...

Tags: Olympic Games, Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, TVs, Web Site Development, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-08-12