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The Toybox in 2008: A retrospective

It's been an incredible year. This blog was launched, ZDNet Reviews was overhauled, and a whole lot of news 'n' reviews came through The Toybox pipeline. And through it all, you readers were here with us. Here's a recap of the best stories: January:...

Tags: ASUS, Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., T-Mobile, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Blu-ray, ZDNet Reviews, CES 2008, Josh, Andrew, Firefox 3 Beta 5, Flip Mino Camcorder, MSI, BlackBerry Storm, Barack Obama, CES 2009, Handhelds, Hd Dvd, Hardware, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Bill Gates on the origin of PC clones

At the 20th anniversary of the PC event in 2001, Gates and Compaq founder Rod Canion reflected on the events that created the modern PC business.

Tags: PC, Desktops, Hardware, News, bill gates, microsoft, steve ballmer, george clooney, bono, u2, CES 2008, seattle

Videos 2008-06-27

Video: Bill Gates' last day

At CES 2008, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates and some of his closest friends debuted a comical look at what life would be like as Bill's last day approaches. Many of entertainment's biggest heavyweights, such as Bono from U2, actor George Clooney, and director Steven Spielberg, got some laughs...

Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, News, bill gates, microsoft, steve ballmer, george clooney, bono, u2, CES 2008, seattle

Videos 2008-06-24

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Motorola and Palm; will 2009 be designated as a comeback year?

Many of us believed that Palm was on the ropes and getting ready to go down for the count at the end of 2008, but they came out swinging at CES with the announcement of the Pre and WebOS. Motorola was a leader in the mobile phone business for years,...

Tags: Palm Inc., Motorola Inc., Motorola DROID, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Review: Celio rolls out BlackBerry client for the REDFLY Mobile Companion

I've been a fan of the REDFLY Mobile Companion for a couple of years and purchased the C8N in November 2008. If you remember there are two models of the REDFLY Mobile Companion, the C7 and C8N, that give you a large display and keyboard to use with your Windows...

Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-03

News to know: Culture of cheap; Microsoft, Nokia; eBay; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Culture of cheap: How discount computers cost the consumer Jason Perlow: Der Frankenputer: A Last Hurrah at...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Nokia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Cloud Computing, Phishing, Virtualization, Sales Strategy, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Word, Smart Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Sales, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Motorola Endeavor HX1

Though the Aliph Jawbone is so named for the voice activity sensor that touches the side of the face, it is not actually a bone conduction headset. The sensor on the Jawbone is just there to detect your voice and help separate it from the surrounding noise. Few headsets can...

Tags: Final pricing, headset, Endeavor HX1, Motorola Inc., CrystalTalk, Motorola Endeavor HX1

Product reviews 2009-07-24

Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month

A Microsoft spokesperson just confirmed for me the news I first read a few minutes ago in a story by Ina Fried of CNET News. The official date on which Windows 7 will be available for general purchase is October 22, 2009. The RTM code will be delivered...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2009-06-02

CES attendance falls off a cliff in 2009

CES attendance falls off a cliff in 2009it was expectedwith a bad economy and no great keynote regarding Linux devices, there is no good reason to attend.RE: CES attendance falls off a cliff in 2009Not really surprising, with trade shows themselves becoming passe, and the worst economy in a very...

Tags: Linux, Consumer Electronics Show, cliff

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Samsung LN52B750

Photo gallery: Samsung LNB750 seriesOne of our favorite HDTVs of 2008 was the Samsung LN52A650, which has remained in our lab for more than a year as a comparison model representing LCD TVs that use a conventional backlight as opposed to LEDs. Now that 240Hz processing has arrived...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung LNB750, Samsung LNB750 series, LCD

Product reviews 2009-05-14

Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - Frank Eliason's reply

As I mentioned in the post Outrageous Comcast updates to customer agreement - all your systems belong to us, Comcast has revised its residential customer services agreement and imposed those revisions on subscribers. Here is a pointer to the revised customer services agreement for those of the legal persuasion. ...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Tru2way, Agreement, Frank Eliason, Frank Eliason Analysis Frank, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-04-04

Will Android and Windows Mobile get squeezed as smartphone market shakes out?

While the iPhone has shown that there is a large consumer market for smartphones, the primary market-driver for the smartphone is - and will remain - enterprises and small businesses. This dynamic is similar to the PC operating system market. Think about Windows Vista. It has largely...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Platform, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Business, Microsoft Windows, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian Inc., Informa, BlackBerry Let, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Polk Audio SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater

We first saw the Polk Audio SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2008, where we chose it as just one of three home audio finalists for Best of CES. While it ultimately didn't take the crown, we were still looking forward to the final product:...

Tags: Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Polk, DVD console, DVD, TV, speaker, console

Product reviews 2009-03-09

Gefen EXT-WHDMI wireless HDMI extender

Photo gallery:Gefen EXT-WHDMIIn 2008 we gave the Best of CES award to the Belkin FlyWire, the first mainstream wireless HDMI system that was promised to go to market. After numerous delays that system still is not available, but the idea is still going strong. CES 2009 saw multiple manufacturers, including...

Tags: Corporate communications, TVs, Gefen EXT-WHDMI, transmitter, HDMI system, HDMI, wireless

Product reviews 2009-01-30

Graphics market shrank last quarter, but AMD-Nvidia battle continues

As the PC market goes, so goes graphics cards. After "defying gravity" in the third quarter of 2008, the market for graphics processing units GPUs came crashing down to earth in the fourth quarter, according to Jon Peddie Research. The industry shipped a total of 72.4 million...

Tags: Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, GPU, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Follow four writers and four MIDs on the Mid Moves tour around the world

Mobile Internet Devices MIDs were the hot topic of CES 2008, but we never really saw them hit the market in large numbers in 2008. At CES 2009, there were MIDs again shown to the crowd, but the small notebook aka netbook category is what people seem to be more...

Tags: Mobile, Internet Device, Mobile Internet Device, Mid Moves Team, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-01-21

Is the Crunchpad Linux tablet a viable web surfing device at $299?

Is the Crunchpad Linux tablet a viable web surfing device at $299?General Purpose Computer.I don't see it flying. Keyboard is King. It depends on the applications. In the living room as a media center control, etc, it will probably find a market. The difficulty, when you...

Tags: Keyboards, Channel management, Notebooks, Crunchpad Linux tablet, viable web surfing device, web surfing device, Web

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:  Steve Jobs takes "medical...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Another Eye-Fi product wins CES 2009 Last Gadget Standing contest

In addition to meeting with folks and browsing the show floor at CES, I also make sure to attend the Last Gadget Standing competition event. I wasn't able to make it to CES this year and when I went searching around for the winner I thought I was finding the...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Winner, Wireless, Eye-Fi Video Card, HeartMath, Corporate Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Would you buy a Dell smartphone?

Wired's Priya Ganapati has indicated that PC behemoth Dell may be readying its own smartphone to arrive as early as next month. Some analysts posit that Dell could make an announcement at 3GSM or the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona in mid-February of this year. One analyst from Kaufman...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Smart Phone, Ganapati, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-14