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Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom

After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...

Tags: Station, Radio, Logitech, Boom, Music Services, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-04

Audiovox's RCA Infinite Radio: Internet radio with Wi-Fi for $149

I wrote about Logitech's Squeezebox Boom Wi-Fi-enabled music streamer a couple of weeks ago (and will have a hands-on review later this week), and mentioned that at $299, the Boom wasn't really going to take Internet radio much closer to the mainstream at that price. Now Audiovox has released the...

Tags: AudioVox, Internet Radio, Radio, Wi-Fi, Infinite Radio, Boom, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-20

Biofuel blasted by nay-sayers

The international boom in biofuel production is NOT a good thing according to some international watchdog groups. Friends of the Earth and others just published a report asking the European Union to stop pushing for more biofuel production. The report especialy criticizes practices in Indonesia where...

Tags: Boom, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-11

A generation of gamers turns out to be ready-made for the battlefield

In the science fiction novel "Ender's Game," the best and the brightest kids were gathered up and taken to a special military training camp where they learned to play a video game against an invading force. All the while they were told this was just training, just a game in...

Tags: Boom, game

Blog posts 2006-02-14

Additional Resources

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Turtle Beach Ear Force X41 - headset

Wireless headphones have been around for a while, but it's only been in the past few years that quality has gotten high enough for discerning listeners to consider using them. Many manufacturers, for instance, have turned to infrared IR technology for wireless signal transmission, which powered the Turtle Beach X4...

Tags: Game players, Consumer electronics, Turtle Beach, headphone, X41, Microsoft Xbox, headset

Product reviews 2009-11-20

Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?

I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Google Inc., desktop app, netbook, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans

the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Microsoft to share some details on IE 9 at PDC show this week

Tabs that dont hang and,1. HTML 5 standards compliance ahead of Chrome and FF2. Better plugins3. CSS 3 compliance4. FASTER!Trying to develop for IE8 is still a pain!Addon supportFor things like AdBlock Plus.Also, an x64 version of silverlight.Grow upso do not read this blog - OK? Prefer Firefox but...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8, Mozilla Firefox, IE 9, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Samsung upgrading its UbiCell CDMA base station to 3G next year

Samsung has announced that their UbiCell Personal CDMA Base Station will go 3G in 2010. But other than that, it's pretty hush hush. Basically, the station eliminates the need for any pesky land line services. The plug-and-play station provides in-home cellular service securely over...

Tags: Base Station, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., 3G, Ethernet, Routers & Switches, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-11-17

What a decade taught Larry Augustin

Larry Augustin's story is proof that second acts in business are possible. Most of those who boomed during the dot-boom were never heard from after the dot-bomb. But not Larry. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Proof, Larry Augustin

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier

Vive Le Resistance!Michael - Resistance to Change, Immunity to Change - there is a lot of activity on the "real work" beyond tech and into enacting and leveraging change agents of Enterprise 2.0 lately... great that we're all surfacing these issues in increasingly large forums.For a bit more flavor on...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, transparency, worker

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

News to know: HP-3Com; AMD; Google; Blockbuster; Bing 2.0

News to know intro: Sam Diaz: HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook Larry Dignan: Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante John Morris: AMD updates roadmap, promises "supercomputer in your lap" ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Blockbuster Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Games, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-11-12

Green building boom

Somebody please explain something here.How can these green building--and associated manufacturing--jobs not be the same old "not green" jobs just slid into a new spot? Are these in addition to the "not green" jobs. Are the old "not green" just canned and dropped from the rolls of humanity....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, McGraw-Hill Construction, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Green building boom

Green building growth predicted for the U.S. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Green, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Black Book Caller for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

With Black Book Caller for iPhone choose a few of your favorite contacts to be part of your black book. Then, when you want to hook up, just give your iPhone a shake, and boom instant call. It features create a special list of contacts, shake the phone to make...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Bearded Pony, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Gratuitous Space Battles demo (Windows)

Gratuitous Space Battles is a strategy / management / simulation game that does away with all the base building and delays and gets straight to the meat and potatoes of science-fiction games : The big space battles fought by huge spaceships with tons of laser beams and things going zap!,...

Tags: Ship, Microsoft Windows, Positech Games, Gratuitous Space Battles, GSB, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Thanksgiving Boom for Firefox 1.0.2 (Windows)

Celebrate the fall harvest, family and the things we're thankful for. We've gathered some great sites into the toolbar from online games and holiday history, to the recipes you'll need to wow the family. Explore the links, enjoy the theme. These themes are free and we switch your default search...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Brand, Theme, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, Brand Thunder, Branding, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Ecoboom for Firefox 1.0.1 (Windows)

Be green with this eco-friendly nature theme for your Firefox browser. Includes links to leading sites, environmentally friendly products and an easy way to contribute to rain forest preservation--you're browser is something to be proud of. These themes are free and we switch your default search engine to BING, ASK...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Brand, Theme, Microsoft Windows, Brand Thunder, Branding, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Tritton AX900

Among all the video game accessories available today, no other market seems to be expanding as rapidly as the video game headset. With most current-generation consoles able to produce 5.1 surround sound, finding a headset solution to handle such a request is now much easier than before. We've tested a...

Tags: Games, Tritton Technologies, headphone, headset

Product reviews 2009-10-22