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Dead Finger Tech: Gordon won't let me have his HTC 8525 Windows Mobile smartphone

If you've seen any of my other Dead Finger Technology interviews, then you know how this works. We find some unsuspecting person who looks like s/he is really into their technology. Then, we turn on the lights and cameras, and then we ask them whether the technology is their Dead...

Tags: Dead Finger Tech, General, Hardware Infrastructure, Interop 2007, Mobile, Personal Technology, Telephony, Wired &, Wireless

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Dead Finger Tech: Garmin GPSmap 60c goes on this cyclist's handlebars and everywhere else

Meet John Pickering. After taping a video segment for an upcoming review of some fitness technology for cyclists, I encountered Pickering on his bike as I was riding back to my home office. As we were riding, I looked down on his handlebars to see something very different from what...

Tags: Dead Finger Tech, General, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired &, Wireless

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Dead-Finger Tech: Manuel takes his Blackberry Pearl everywhere, but would leave Microsoft if he could

OK, so it has been a little while since Ive done one of my favorite types of interviews -- what I call a Dead-Finger Technology or DFT interview. In case you havent seen the other DFT interviews, this where I get someone (sometimes its someone I know, other times, just...

Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Vista, Video, Telephony, Personal Technology, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Dead Finger Tech

Blog posts 2007-03-30

CES: Leading Quake 4 professional gamer "LoSt CaUzE" talks about his Dead Finger Tech

Not only does the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas bring out the hottest technology products, it brings out the hottest professional gamers: people who make money and lots of it doing nothing but playing video games. Well, actually, the best ones are like the sports players who get paid...

Tags: General, Entertainment, Personal Technology, Video, Dead Finger Tech, Events, CES 2007, Cool Tech Gear, headphone, Rafik Bryant

Blog posts 2007-01-09

Kay may have the best tech stocking stuffers, but her iPod is her Dead-Finger tech

Meet Kay. Shes a twenty-sumthin hipster who works for an ad agency and who appears to have both a personal and professional passion for technology. She clearly loves the Internet for the way it satisfies what she says is a "human beings basic need to feel connected." When she says...

Tags: Meet Kay, Apple, Wired &, Wireless, Personal Technology, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, Dead Finger Tech, General

Blog posts 2006-12-20

Dead-Finger Tech: Sean says RIM's Pearl is the best ever but Bret has ideas for RIM

Shortly before having to turn my attention to personal business after arriving in NYC today, I grabbed a cup of coffee with Sean Mills of Bite Public Relations pictured left. He does PR for the Opteron folks at AMD and we talked a bit about performance-per-watt benchmarking which is going...

Tags: Dead Finger Tech, Wired &, Wireless, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General, RIM BlackBerry, Sean

Blog posts 2006-12-19

Additional Resources

Sidekick outage says more about the future of 'Pink' than Microsoft's cloud

This isn't about any service.This is about Microsoft in general. It brings up the question of whether they can manage a server environment. It doesn't matter what that environment is. Preservation of data is always job one. And this is the job where the failure occurred. So Pink, Azure, cloud,...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mary-Jo, Microsoft Corp., Azure, job, Pink, IT administration

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Report: 1 in 5 portable computers shipped are netbooks

No choiceThe hardware to run PC and smartphone functionality just will inevitably get cheaper and cheaper. Makers of smart phone chips like Qualcomm and all the ARM mfgrs are also going to join the party and put further pressure on the Wintel heavy pc industry. Displays will continue to get...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Desktops, portable computer, netbook, ASUS, computer

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers

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. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...

Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Gallery: Dead-Finger Tech

What's the one technology that you can't live without? Which computing device, gadget or software app will they have pry from your cold, dead fingers? We asked ZDNet bloggers which bit of technology their lives depend upon. (But no iPhones, please.) Does their Dead-Finger Tech look anything like yours? by...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Blogging, Smart Phones, Management, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Technology, personal technology, gadgets, software, David Grober

Image galleries 2009-08-07

Poll: What's your dead-finger tech?

Tech does not need to be "dead finger" to be successfulI mean I could get along just fine without my G1 phone or my netbook as long as I had my laptop and a regular cell phone. But that does not mean I would go back to that. My G1...

Tags: PDAs, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Desktops, dead finger, phone, netbook, PDA

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Poll: What's your dead-finger tech?

They're not called Crackberries for nothing. Technology can be addictive. With 5.2 million iPhones sold in the most recent recessionary quarter, it's clear that a whole lot of folks just got to have their gadget fixes. A while back, former ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind coined a phrase for...

Tags: Gadget, Tools & Techniques, Smart Phones, Notebooks, Blogging, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Internet, David Grober

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Canon PowerShot digital camera, iPod sale, 3M pico projector

A Canon PowerShot 12MP digital camera, a sale on refurbished iPods, and a 3M pico projector. Here are your daily deals for Tuesday, August 4, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. The Canon PowerShot, Rachel King's pick for Dead-Finger Tech, is a powerful point-and-shoot for the price....

Tags: Canon PowerShot, Apple iPod, 3M Co., Digital Camera, Camera, Canon Inc., Projectors, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Dead-finger tech: 3G USB Modem, Prestigio Powerbank 501

Dead-finger tech: 3G USB Modem, Prestigio Powerbank 501Prestigio looks like TekkeonPrestigiohttp://www.prestigio.com/products/Computer-peripherals/power-battery/Power-Bank-501Tekkeonhttp://www.amazon.com/Tekkeon-MP3450-myPower-Rechargeable-Battery/dp/B000S9JWJI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1249383665&sr=8-1

Tags: Cellular phones, Prestigio Powerbank 501, Tekkeon, Dead-Finger Tech, 3G

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

Dead-Finger Tech: Apple Time Capsule

Dead-Finger Tech: Apple Time CapsuleSingle Drive Still...............Just a shame the Time Capsule has a single drive. I have the highest regard for Hitachi Deskstar drives, but when that goes, you are buggered.Why won't they make a dual drive mirrored one or a 3/4 drive raided one. After all, WD's swanky...

Tags: Storage, Apple Time Capsule, Apple Time Inc., Dead-Finger Tech

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

News to know: Microsoft; Apple; Google; Hack attacks

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. Mary Jo Foley: What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search) Microsoft denies holding up Win 7 tools...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows 7, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS, Keyboards, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Peripherals, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Apple MacBook Pro (Gallery: Dead-Finger Tech )

Apple MacBook Pro (Gallery: Dead-Finger Tech )I love my Desktop Macs, but...Now that Apple has developed the 8hr internal laptop battery I'm more inclined to consider another laptop (which I haven't done in a while), but my desktop Macs are worth their weight in gold. I only wish that I...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., laptop computer, Dead-Finger Tech, Apple Macintosh, Gallery, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Dead-finger tech: 3G USB Modem, Prestigio Powerbank 501

Connectivity is addictive, and in my line of work it's a prerequisite for timely assessing the latest cybercrime incidents as they emerge in order to properly respond to them. Next to connectivity, I put mobility as the second most important success factor, in particular my ability to increase the average...

Tags: Connectivity, Network, Battery, Wireless, 3G USB Modem, 3G, Wireless And Mobility, Cellular Phones, Engineering, Wi-Fi, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Dead-Finger Tech: Google Maps

Dead-Finger Tech: Google MapsYeah... just like Yahoo Maps.Google Maps, Yahoo Maps.. Bing Maps... same stuff different web address.RE: Dead-Finger Tech: Google MapsPsssssst I use a Garmin GPS does the same thing and is more convient Than a Google map and you can carry it with you.Too True.Personally, I like the...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, Dead-Finger Tech

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Dead-Finger Tech: Google Maps

You may have noticed the term "Dead-Finger Tech" floating around the ZDNet blogs recently. No, we're not talking about zombies. The term refers to a piece of technology that you can't live without -- the one that if it were to break, or you were to...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Maps, DFT, Web Site Development, Transportation, Internet, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-08-03