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Technology is great, it's us that's flawed!

Can you put the window up after the ignition is turned off?Just a guess - my vehicle has a feature that allows me to raise or lower the windows after the ignition is turned off unless I open a door. It's convenient because I don't have to turn the...

Tags: Construction, window, black box

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

The 8 Essential Elements of Internet Security

The evolution of Internet content toward social media and Web 2.0-based sites presents new challenges for organizations. Critical applications have become Web-based, and non-browser generated Web traffic - think iTunes and peer-to-peer networking - has exploded. One has a business Internet connection for two things: Web-based applications (Web site admin...

Tags: Internet Connection, Web, Collaboration, Broadband, Internet Security, Black Box, Internet, Channel Management, Marketing

White papers 2009-08-21

Network Security From the Bottom Up: Before the Firewall, Consider the Lock

It has been said that the most secure computer is one that's by itself in a locked room. It should be turned off. Obviously, this is not a computing situation that's going to work for most organizations, but the general idea that isolating computers increases security holds true. Securing hardware...

Tags: Firewall, Financial, Network, Black Box, Hipaa, Networking, Network Security, Security, Regulations, Healthcare, Government

White papers 2009-06-30

Judge uses black boxes to keep bad drivers in line

Judge uses black boxes to keep bad drivers in lineJudge uses black boxes to keep bad drivers in lineAs these EDR boxes become more popular, some form of control and notification system apparently needed to be devised, thus the NTSB stepped in and threw down some uniform regulations.RE: Judge uses...

Tags: bad driver, black box

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Highway regulators: Car 'black boxes' can't be secret

Highway regulators: Car 'black boxes' can't be secretThey said that about governors, too ...... and you can disable those just by buying a third-party engine-management chip. APR, for example, makes chips for Volkswagens and Audis that change the behavior of the engine, making it a bit less conservative less reliable...

Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, black box

Discussion threads 2006-08-22

Thinking inside the box

Thinking inside the boxMessage has been deleted.Oh boy... another one... Mr. MeyerDear Mr. Meyer,You need to get experience of some other companies who already went that path and I could mention one of very large corporations I used to work for.Software sale is ultimately different than hardware and no you...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, hardware, software, black box, security, Software sale

Discussion threads 2005-03-28

Additional Resources

Spice up your power management

InterestingChecking out the plug-in. Nice article. Harry should take notes.Power management messed up my laptop.Long, long ago in a land far, far away (Win 98) I had a laptop that I upgraded to Win XP. After upgrading the laptop and installing SP2, Laptop performance went in the...

Tags: Notebooks, power management, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Whistler XTR195 Battery-Operated Radar/Laser Detector

Whistler XTR195I paid just under $50 for the little guy last black Friday at Radio Shack.It was to be used within the city and some highway. Suffice it to say it actually works.Readings and beeping of a 2/3 of a mile proved that it actually was a trap. I generally...

Tags: Engineering, radar, detector, battery, laser

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Zvox Z-Base 575

Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 575Sound bars feel like they've been around forever now, but they're still a relatively new product; consider that the groundbreaking Yamaha YSP-1 debuted back at CES 2005. Since then, the exterior design of the units hasn't changed much, with the vast majority still consisting of a long...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zvox Z-Base 575, HDTV, TV

Product reviews 2009-11-16

Vizio VO320E

Photo gallery: Vizio VO320EVizio chose to adorn its VO320E 32-inch LCD with claims of environmental consciousness, saying the little set exceeds Energy Star guidelines by 15 percent. But that's not a very high standard, and according to our tests the Vizio, while definitely no power hog, sips just...

Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, Vizio, Vizio VO320E

Product reviews 2009-11-16

Booq Boa Squeeze

A great laptop backpack has several important qualities: good protection, a comfortable feel, ample storage pockets, and ideally a design that transcends the staid world of computer bags. We may have found the perfect mix with the $100 Booq Boa Squeeze. In a compact frame, the Boa Squeeze has more...

Tags: Notebooks, laptop backpack, laptop computer

Product reviews 2009-11-12

Canon PowerShot S90

The Canon PowerShot S90 is designed for photography enthusiasts and it carries a hefty price tag to prove it. It also has some of the best controls you'll find on a compact camera for manual and semimanual shooting modes. Its lens and photo quality are top notch, too. Actually, about...

Tags: S90, Canon PowerShot S90, Canon Inc., Canon PowerShot, camera

Product reviews 2009-11-12

LG Chocolate Touch (Verizon Wireless)

When the LG Chocolate first came into the scene with the VX8500 model back in 2006, it was preceded by a ton of hype. And such is the case with its fourth and most recent incarnation, the LG Chocolate Touch. As the name indicates, it is a touch screen phone...

Tags: LG Chocolate, phone, home screen, touch screen, LG Electronics Inc., Verizon Wireless

Product reviews 2009-11-07

Toshiba Satellite T135-S1309

Sometimes, it takes a good retail excursion to find a deal that isn't otherwise possible. Case in point: the Toshiba T135. While we have already reviewed two different versions of Toshiba's Windows 7 entry to the thin-and-light laptop landscape, we were pleasantly surprised by this retail-only configuration. This is not...

Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite

Product reviews 2009-11-06

RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700It's been about a year since the original RIM BlackBerry Bold made its debut, and while it remains a very solid device, it's about time that a flashier, faster model took over the reigns. And that device would be the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700. Not only...

Tags: Handhelds, BlackBerry Bold 9700, RIM BlackBerry, RIM BlackBerry Bold, RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700, Research In Motion Ltd., T-Mobile, Bold 9700

Product reviews 2009-11-05

Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717 - carbon black (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717The Sony Ericsson Equinox is the first phone from the manufacturer to land at T-Mobile since the TM506. In many ways the Equinox is a fitting successor; like the TM506 it has a thin flip phone design and it sports a similar feature set that includes...

Tags: display, Equinox, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, phone, T-Mobile

Product reviews 2009-11-03

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

eAuthorize 5.1 (Mac)

Process credit cards or electronic checks right from within your FileMaker solutions. You can enhance your solutions by providing a direct connection to the trillion-dollar industry of electronic transactions. Simply by adding one field and one relationship, developers are able to add credit card authorization to any solution. This is...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Credit Card, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales

Software downloads 2009-10-31

Onkyo SKS-HT870

Onkyo is known for having speaker expertise, even though it's not primarily a speaker company. That's because of Onkyo's success selling home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs, which combine a speaker system and an AV receiver in a single box, taking some of the confusion out of putting together your own system. The...

Tags: center channel, speaker, Onkyo

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Kodak 5250

The ESP 5250 is Kodak's latest upgrade to last year's ESP 5 all-in-one AIO, which should be obvious from the almost identical design. Aside from looks, the printer does make improvements to print quality and most notably, output speed, but the printer still isn't perfect--it's missing an auto-document feeder and...

Tags: Scanners, Printers, Monitors & displays, Eastman Kodak Co., ESP 5, ESP, scanner, printer

Product reviews 2009-10-29