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Canon takes second shot at LCDs

Canon takes second shot at LCDsPatented OLED Electron Emission DisplayColossal Storage is desirous of licensing two U.S. Patents, # 6,028,835 2/22/00 and # 6,046,973 4/4/00, which can be used for many hundreds of devices one being a ferroelectric electron emission device using an Integrated Semiconductor UV/Deep Blue Laser for...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Colossal Storage, Colossal Storage Corp., molecule, organic light-emitting diode, electron, Canon Inc., LCD

Discussion threads 2004-04-13

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CES 2009: D-Link combines router, NAS device, and photo frame in one device. Also releases 450Mbps 802.11n router.

D-Link jumps into the CES fray with two new routers that definitely stand out, one for its versatility and the other for its potential speed. The Xtreme N DIR-685 is a 802.11n router at its heart, but it also comes with an undisclosed capacity for network...

Tags: D-Link Systems, NAS, Router, IEEE 802.11n, Photograph, Xtreme N DIR-685, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Routers & Switches, Home Networking, Network Technology, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-07

CES 2009: Sony's VAIO 'pocketbook', 'Webbie' HD camcorder, OLED prototypes [day 2]

Sony made their grand debut just prior to Steve Ballmer's keynote, and boy, they know how to put on a show. Here's what's notable (I'll leave the many Bravia announcements to Home Theater blogger Sean Portnoy, who was in attendance with me and will post tonight)....

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Camcorder, Organic Light-emitting Diode, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Wi-Fi: the only network you need?

CES, the showcase of all tech that is likely to make a splash over the next year, is upon us. While reserved primarily for, as the name implies, consumer technology, there are fundamental tools and technologies that will impact businesses as well.News coming out of Las Vegas today is around...

Tags: Device, Network, Personal Area Network, Radio, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Chipsets, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Samsung P3 touch screen MP3 player

Samsung's P3 touch screen MP3 player makes its debut at CES 2009. The P3 includes a 3-inch WQVGA display, FM radio, Bluetooth, and audio and video playback.The P3 will be available in the first half of 2009 in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32 GB storage capacities. by CNET News.com

Tags: Touch Screen, MP3 Player, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Storage, MP3, Samsung P3, Keyboards, Media Players, Digital Music, Monitors & Displays, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Components, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-01-07

CES 2009: Meet Samsung's iPod killer, the touchscreen P3 [day 2]

The last of the Samsung press conference: their P3 touchscreen MP3 player. The P3, a widescreen portable multimedia player, has an "EmoTure" interface with true haptic feedback. It's a CES Innovations 2009 Design and Engineering Award honoree. The 8GB player boasts a 3-inch WQVGA TFT-LCD touch screen...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPod, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., P3, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Sun acquires cloud computing vendor

Sun Microsystems said Wednesday that it has acquired Q-layer, a Belgium company that automates cloud computing deployments. Sun didn't offer a lot of detail in its statement. Q-layer will become part of Sun's cloud computing unit. The general idea is that Q-layer's technology will allow Sun to...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Q-layer, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Backing up virtual machine data

Several suppliers of backup and/or disaster recovery software for virtual server environments have spoken with me. It seems that, like in any other are of computing, there are different approaches to backing up and recovering applications and data within a virtual machine and to deal with needs for disaster recovery....

Tags: Storage, Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Apple rolls the dice on fixed MacBook Pro batteries

Apple rolls the dice on fixed MacBook Pro batteriesIn "theory" I don't see a problem with it.8 hours use on battery along a theoretical 5 years of use out of a mobil computer. Imagine the wear and tear after a full 5 years on a mobile device like a...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, laptop computer, Apple Inc., MacBook Pro Batteries, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

AMD Neo, HP dv2 take on both netbooks and notebooks

Plugging a hole in its laptop portfolio, AMD has announced a new processor platform for very thin and lightweight notebooks. HP was the first to announce a new laptop, the Pavilion dv2, based on AMD's Athlon Neo chip. The platform, previously code-named Yukon, includes the Neo chip...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Yukon, AMD Neo, Dv3, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-01-06

The next generation Apple

Apple has been running on thin ice for a while, and with false reports that Steve Jobs was on his deathbed, didn't help things much either. Nevertheless, Steve Jobs is perfectly fine and in good-ish health, and the annual Macworld Expo is under way. I'm not in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, Student, Apple Inc., Apple iWork, Desktops, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Storage networks

Storage networksBack me upThe main selling point of SANs was the promised ability to do "offline backups". IOW since you have moved all of your data into one place, you should be able to back that stuff up to tape - in the background. Every sysadmin would welcome giving up...

Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Backups, IP storage, network, storage, SAN, Sun Microsystems Inc., Network File System, backup

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

News to know: Macworld; Windows 7; Snow Leopard; Web 2.0 security; IT strategy

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Macs vs. PCs: Is it still a 'tax' if users happily pay...

Tags: Strategy, Security, Web, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Twitter, Web 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Managed Hosting, Open Source, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Storage networks

Storage area networks sprang up largely in response to the complexities of managing storage in a Microsoft client-server world - itself ultimately a response to the small machine limitations inherent in both Windows and x86. Today, however, those limitations are receding for most small to mid range businesses and the...

Tags: Network, SAN, Server, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Networking, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Mo-Search 3.1.0 Beta (Windows)

Each year hard drives become larger and provide more storage for data, such as more: photos, videos, music and documents. With human nature, increased storage space leads to more storage used. And as the number of files on your computer multiplies, information becomes difficult to locate and people find themselves...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Beta, Meauxsoft, Mo-Search, Storage, Productivity, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-06

Advanced Exchange Recovery 2.0 (Windows)

Advanced Exchange Recovery AEXR is a powerful recovery tool for Microsoft Exchange offline storage (.ost) files. When disaster occurs on Microsoft Exchange server, such as server crashes, the Exchange offline storage files (.ost) on the client computer still contain the mail messages and all other items of your Exchange mail...

Tags: Recovery, Item, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows, DataNumen, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-06

Iomega launches new low-price Home Media Network Hard Drives

While HP is taking the high price road in the NAS market with its new MediaSmart Servers, Iomega is going the other direction with its new Home Media Network Hard Drive line. Considering how cheap hard drive prices are getting, it's a reasonable tactic. How reasonable? Iomega is selling the...

Tags: NAS, Iomega Corp., Network, Media, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7

Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7VISTA tax"Over the course of the last two years, I’ve discarded or replaced a handful of devices that didn’t work at all with Vista: several network cards, some storage adapters, a scanner, a TV tuner."Fantastic.RE: Six things Steve Ballmer won't tell...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, IT Organizations, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

HP's SaaS PPM solution

A Relevant and Robust Offering for today's IT organizations I had a chance to speak with Marc Olesen – VP SaaS for HP Software and Solutions recently. We discussed HP's offerings in the Project Portfolio Management PPM and IT Management spaces. Background: HP's software...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management Buyer, Project Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Naivete: Web 2.0's biggest security threat

Last year, when I first started poking around in social media from my security high horse, people asked me what it was like to live in two totally different worlds. Keep in mind I'm no technology thought leader, hacker or researcher -- but I've been working in security for the...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Social Media, Twitter, Internet Threat, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-01-05