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Analyst: Cheap ultrathin laptops push design limits; cracked plastic

Been eyeing a thin-and-light laptop recently? You know, the kind that usually comes prefixed with the "Macbook Air killer" tag? Be careful what you wish for. Broadpoint AmTech analyst Doug Freedman said Wednesday to CNET contributor Brooke Crothers that some...

Tags: Apple MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, OEM, Manufacturer, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Design Limit, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-02

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Psystar massacred in court

I wouldn't.....buy even with a 100% discount, Psystar is toast and part of Apple's claim would invoke a recall of all machines and buyer's info. Apart from the 'no support' from Apple, there will be no support from a defunct company too.Yep, there is pent-up demand for an expandable cheap...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Samsung Mythic SGH-A897 (AT&T)

Even though AT&T launched its live mobile TV service more than a year ago, but few support it-- the last one we saw was the Samsung Eternity, which was released in October 2008. Now it seems that AT&T may be looking to breathe fresh life to the service by releasing...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Telecom & Utilities, NOW IT, phone dialer, Mythic, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., home screen, phone, AT&T Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-14

Canon PowerShot S90

The Canon PowerShot S90 is designed for photography enthusiasts and it carries a hefty price tag to prove it. It also has some of the best controls you'll find on a compact camera for manual and semimanual shooting modes. Its lens and photo quality are top notch, too. Actually, about...

Tags: S90, Canon PowerShot S90, Canon Inc., Canon PowerShot, camera

Product reviews 2009-11-12

Onkyo SKS-HT870

Onkyo is known for having speaker expertise, even though it's not primarily a speaker company. That's because of Onkyo's success selling home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs, which combine a speaker system and an AV receiver in a single box, taking some of the confusion out of putting together your own system. The...

Tags: center channel, speaker, Onkyo

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Ultrasone Edition 8

We've reviewed a number of Ultrasone headphones over the years--everything from iPod-inspired iCans to the luxurious HFI-2200s. But the new Edition 8s are, in so many ways, a very different Ultrasone. First, the Edition 8s have, according to Ultrasone, a completely original design that doesn't share any parts with...

Tags: Ultrasone, headphone

Product reviews 2009-10-21

Motorola goes all-in for Google Android

Motorola must have decided that the only viable way of competing would be with a iPhone like device, and, Android was the only way for them to get there right away. They also probably realized that there is no way to sustain an in-house project that would be any ways...

Tags: Smart phones, Google Inc., Google Android, Apple iPhone, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Fuel efficient cars? Hyrbids run over competition.

Link to a Link to a LinkHow many links much I go to to see the !@#$ing list?Seriously. I think the L.A. Times should get an "F" in site design and you should get an "F" for not linking directly to the list. American muscle - I will...

Tags: American Muscle, car

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

HP Mini 311

The Netbook wars have heated up, with PC makers adding upscale features such as larger HD displays and faster low-voltage CPUs to systems, in an effort for push prices up past the usual $299-$399 range. We've seen HD Netbooks from Sony and others, usually with prices closer to $599, so...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Hewlett-Packard Co., netbook, NVIDIA ION, NVidia Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-08

Ballmer: Microsoft never recovered from Vista blow

Word of Mouth...... trumps design and usability. Seems that once the drumming starts in the ABM crowd, there is little to do about the avalanche of "me too-ism."Vista is a fine operating system done in by third party vendors who refused to update their drivers to work with Vista's...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NetworkManager, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

AV MP3 Player Morpher 4.0.81 (Windows)

AV MP3 Player Morpher is an MP3 Player that can play and change music in real-time. This versatile MP3 player allows you to apply powerful audio effects and filters to songs or tracks, just with one click and in real-time. Single effects include 3D Sound, Bass Boost/Limit, Duet, and Ghost....

Tags: CD, Microsoft Windows, MP3, Avnex, AV MP3 Player Morpher, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-10-02

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1

Good low-light shooting without help from a flash is a rarely attained goal in the world of compact cameras. The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1 does it with three of the company's own components: a new sensor design, a high-end lens, and a fast image processor. The combination pays off for low-light...

Tags: power button, Sony Corp., camera, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX1, sensor, Sony Cyber-Shot

Product reviews 2009-09-30

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Nikon Coolpix digital camera, QuickBooks Pro 2009, Altec Lansing Orbit portable speaker

A Nikon Coolpix digital camera, QuickBooks Pro 2009, and an Altec Lansing Orbit portable speaker for MP3 players. Here are your daily deals for Tuesday, September 29, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the Nikon Coolpix S710 14.5 Megapixel Digital Camera for $199.99 at Amazon. The...

Tags: Nikon Corp., Speaker, Intuit QuickBooks, Amazon.com Inc., Digital Camera, Camera, S710, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Cognatrix 1.6 (Mac)

Cognatrix creates and maintains multilingual thesauri, dictionaries, taxonomies or similar information structures. Supports Preferred Terms, Variant Terms, Facets and user-defined Attributes. Standard relationship types include Broader, Narrower, Related, Use, Synonym, Obsoletes. Multilingual relationship types include exact, inexact, broader and narrower equivalences. Ships with the 20 language codes for the EU...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Cognatrix, XML, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-09-26

When it comes to security, who do you trust more - Microsoft or Google?

Given their experience it has to be Microsoft.{NT}RE: When it comes to security, who do you trust more - Microsoft or Google?IMHO, Open Source applications are inherently more secure, with far more people pouring over the code.Closed source simply has the undiscovered flaws.Given that they design and make the OS...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., security, Google Inc., secure, plug-in

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.

Show me the innovation StallmanWhile Microsoft pushes forward software technology and produces modern software, open source continues to copy the trailing edge of the innovators. Want an Office97 copy? Want a media player that works on all platforms but just not as well as Windows Media Player, want...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Jason, F/OSS, Stallman, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

California screenin': Majority of residents oppose big-screen TV ban

Regulate power, not sizeThey should be regulating the power consumption of TVs, not necessarily their size. Force the companies to make big screen TVs less power hungry and more efficient. Not flat out ban them.TVs should strive to be Energy Star compliant because I'm sure many of them...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, big-screen TV

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

HTC Snap (Alltel)

Photo gallery:HTC Snap AlltelThe HTC Snap has been making the rounds to various carriers, including T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and now Alltel. Like the rest, the Alltel Snap has a heavy focus on messaging and includes HTC's Inner Circle feature to help busy mobile professionals prioritize e-mail with just a...

Tags: E-mail, Instant messaging, Cellular phones, Groupware, Handhelds, contact book, Alltel Corp., Snap, High Tech Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2009-09-14

Nokia 7610 Supernova

Photo gallery:Nokia 7610 SupernovaThe Nokia 7610 Supernova gave us deja vu when it first arrived in our offices, and it wasn't due to its common slider design. Instead, we remembered that we had reviewed a Nokia handset with that same model number almost five years ago. We thought perhaps the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, slider mechanism, Supernova, Nokia Corp., slider design

Product reviews 2009-09-02

64-bit Snow Leopard defaults to 32-bit kernel

seriously"our mid-2007 MacBook only showed 3GB available for system use through Activity Monitor despite having 4GB installed, not delivering the true 64-bit experience."If it is the Intel 960 chipset it was only supported for 2GB RAM. I have one its a chipset limitation every PC or MAC that has...

Tags: Chipsets, Network technology, Semiconductors, 64-bit, Snow Leopard, chipset, chip, Apple Inc., kernel, Apple Macintosh, 32-bit

Discussion threads 2009-08-28