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Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including an overclocked Velocity Micro PC for students, a camera backpack and a phone so good it made the list twice.Here''s our weekly roundup of the new products CNET reviewers liked best. 1. Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition...

Tags: photograph, camera, Motorola Razr2 V9, Toyota Highlander Ltd., Read CNET', Velocity Micro, Velocity, Motorola Inc., overclocking, music player, Bluetooth, speakerphone, backpack, crossover, keypad, HSDPA, grip, train, video card, adapter, Intel Core 2 Duo, motherboard, speaker

Image galleries 2007-08-18

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Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 Pro - headphones

Ultimate Ears has been a familiar name to musicians and other audio professionals for a decade, but in the past few years, the company has churned out a variety of headphones for several consumer lines that range in affordability. Earphones in its Metro.fi, Super.fi, and Triple.fi lines have gained a...

Tags: aperture, Y-cable, Ultimate Ears, Triple.fi 10, ear piece, headphone

Product reviews 2008-07-22

2008 BMW X6 xDrive35i

Photo gallery:2008 BMW X6Even after driving the 2008 BMW X6 for a week, we're still not sure what to make of it. BMW's marketing campaign calls it the coupe's evil twin, but with the 3-liter twin-turbo inline six-cylinder in our xDrive35i model, it doesn't feel particularly diabolical. It seems more...

Tags: BMW AG, BMW X6, Infiniti

Product reviews 2008-07-15

Brightening outlook for solar energy?

Wanted to add another couple of links related to Harry's post yesterday about SolarCity. The actual news of the day is the company's new 8,200-square-foot facility in Phoenix, from which it will run its SolarLease program. One thing that Harry didn't mention in his post is...

Tags: Solar Energy, Investment, Utility Solar Assessment Study, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows

Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Paravirtualization Method, Microsoft VMM 2008, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-01

I'm done with the MacBook Air (for now)

I've come to the conclusion that the MacBook Air isn't the best Mac for me. Everything that I've previously written about the MBA still remains true: I love its tiny form factor, light weight and ability to be able to be tucked into almost any bag, but at...

Tags: MBA, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-06-24

First 'stable' Wine puts Windows apps on Linux

First 'stable' Wine puts Windows apps on LinuxRidiculousPoor W32 support. Basically no .NET support.It must be wonderful to spend 15 years working on something billed as a 'Windows Compatibility layer' and, in spite of not meeting any sensible compatibility benchmark with perhaps the exception of Photoshop, declare oneself at version...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux User, Microsoft Windows, wine, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

2008 Suzuki XL7 Limited

The 2008 Suzuki XL7 Limited is about as much crossover SUV as you can get for the money. Its ride quality and cabin materials might not be on a par with those of other models in the segment, but the XL7 Limited does pack an impressive payload of features--including one...

Tags: Suzuki XL7, pylon, display, camera, Suzuki XL7 Ltd., XL7 Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-05-23

2008 Infiniti EX35 Journey

Photo gallery:2008 Infiniti EX35 JourneyInfiniti delivers a unique new car with the 2008 Infiniti EX35 Journey, packing it full of over-the-top technology that all proves useful. The EX35 fits the crossover mold, a segment in which Nissan/Infiniti has plenty of experience from prior models, such as the Murano and FX45....

Tags: Monitors & displays, navigation system, AVM, interior, Infiniti EX35, cone, Infiniti

Product reviews 2008-05-20

Commercial OpenSolaris ships

After a three-year incubation period, Sun's long promised OpenSolaris, the third open source variant of Unix, was officially delivered Monday. "It's the first Opensolaris operating system that's fully supported," said Jim McHugh, vice president of Solaris marketing for Sun. OpenSolaris will compete in a...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-04

Sony CDX GT620IP - radio / CD / MP3 player

Standing on the shoulders of the entry-level Sony CDX-GT420IP, the CDX-GT620IP delivers as-standard iPod connectivity with some stylish and useful faceplate controls, including a dedicated browser interface for digital media libraries. With the ability to play a range of digital-audio discs, an aux-input jack, and some advanced audio tweaking capabilities,...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, MP3 player, MP3, CD, radio, CDX-GT620IP, Apple iPod, Sony Corp., Sony CDX-GT420IP, digital audio

Product reviews 2008-05-02

Intel: Netbook shipments about to ramp

Intel is putting a lot of faith in the so-called netbook market and reckons that mobile Internet devices are about to take off too. What was telling about Intel's earnings conference call was how confident the company was about the netbook market--a tweener category between laptops and...

Tags: Mobile, Paul Otellini, Internet Device, Intel Corp., Mobile Internet Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Intel says business is fine, especially in notebooks

The key message from Intel's earnings call last night: consumers and businesses are still buying lots of PCs and microprocessors despite economic woes in the U.S. The ramp of the company's latest 45nm Penryn processors, which first appeared in servers, then notebooks, and finally desktops, is impressive....

Tags: PC, NAND, Intel Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Sony MEX-BT5100 - radio / CD / MP3 player

Forget add-on modules and external hands-free calling speakerphones. The easiest and cleanest way to make calls in the car is routing them through a built-in Bluetooth phone system. If you're among the majority of drivers who doesn't have a factory-installed calling system, Sony's MEX-BT5100 is a useful all-in-one stereo and...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, CD, radio, MP3, MP3 player, Sony MEX-BT5100, phone, joystick, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2008-04-07

2009 Dodge Journey

Photo gallery:2009 Dodge Journey R/T AWDCrossover vehicles are all the rage. There is nary a midsize sedan on the market that isn't in line to be redesigned as a small wagon or SUV loaded with family-friendly options and sold as a minivan substitute. Into this fray comes the 2009...

Tags: MyGIG

Product reviews 2008-04-03

Researcher: Critical vulnerability found in VMware's desktop apps

Researcher: Critical vulnerability found in VMware's desktop appsShared Folder are enabled by default ?On my VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 build-59824 setup, the option "Shared Folders" is set to DISABLED. I have not changed it, it came that way by default. This contradicts the statement that it is ENABLED by default.what do...

Tags: Shared Folder, desktop, VMware Inc., CoreLabs

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

With friends like these... how can Seesmic fail?

Having secured $5.5 million of funding from investment group Atomico (Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and co.), Loic Le Meur admits he didn't need the money. And yet he's enlisted a further twelve individual backers for his new startup Seesmic -- which has been described as "Twitter for video" --...

Tags: Board, Connection, Image, Investor, Seesmic, Pendants, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-02-18

Misys walks the open source walk

Misys fulfilled a promise today, releasing the code to its Mysis Connect as open source during a conference in Los Angeles. The code's importance goes beyond its value to the open source community. As Tim Elwell, the company's chief open source officer, told ZDNet this week it's...

Tags: Misys, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100

Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100Necessary?I'm not sure even the "hardcore gamer" needs a 10Gbit home network. Heck, I stream HD content and I don't even have a need for a gigabit network... yet.Unless you're hammering the bejesus out of your network, it's not necessary. Neat though it...

Tags: NETWORKING, Games, GigE, latency, network, Gbit home network, GBit, home network

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

More consolidation as Agresso closes in on CODA?

In a regulatory statement made on its website, UK enterprise financials vendor CODA today announced it has been approached by Agresso in what looks like a friendly takeover: Coda plc ("CODA" or the "Company") announces that on 18 December 2007 it received an indicative approach from Unit 4 Agresso...

Tags: Consolidation, On-demand, CODA, Unit 4 Agresso, Approach, COA, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-14