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How to calibrate your HDTV

Have you bought a shiny new flatscreen HDTV to replace the old boxy clunker, get it all set up, and notice that the picture is, well, worse? The colors are wonky. The contrast is, too. You call this progress? The New York Times has...

Tags: Color, Code, HDTV, Digital Video Essentials, Datacolor, Service Menu, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-04-15

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Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA

Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...

Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008

Americans spent $1.23 bln on video games, hardware and accessories in April 2008, up 47% from April 2007. Total hardware sales grew 26% to $426.2 mln, with the Wii selling 714,200 units, followed by the handheld Nintendo DS at 414,800. Software sales surged to $654.7 mln from $389.4 mln in...

Tags: Software, Video Game, Video, Hardware, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Games, Sales, Personal Technology, AM

Blog posts 2008-05-16

No, really, we're studying physics

I've only recently discovered the joys of roller coasters; according to my 13-year old, I have a very manly scream. I guess that's a compliment. Regardless, I'm taking my physics class to Six Flags New England (made possible in part by a generous donation from Rocky's Ace Hardware,...

Tags: Physics, Insurance, Financial Planning, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-15

OCZ debuts DIY gaming notebooks

Here's something that fans of building their own PCs will be interested in - OCZ has launched a build-it-yourself gaming notebook kit. The idea is simple. You buy a kit (currently there's no word on pricing but the wording on the OCZ website suggest that this will...

Tags: Game, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-15

BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking

Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Does the Kindle have iPod-ish potential?

Amazon's Kindle may meaningfully contribute to the e-tailer's revenue in a couple of years, according to Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney. Mahaney's take--delivered in a research note outlining the bullish case for Amazon--takes a few leaps Techmeme. Mahaney has little data on the Kindle (just like the rest...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Insurance, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Flash Player 10 codename "Astro" goes beta

We made available a prerelease version of the Flash Player last night which has a lot of new features. There isn't yet a tooling release we just posted a new Flex SDK that works to support the Flash Player beta so for the time being this is primarily so that...

Tags: 3D, Macromedia Flash Player, Flash Player 10, Complex Effect, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Photos: Cracking open the Atari 2600

Check out the joystick ports, circuitry, and other parts that made the venerable game console tick.The Atari 2600 in all its cracked-open glory. I never owned one of these consoles--I was an Intellivision II man. (George Plimpton convinced me it was better.) Do you still play your Atari 2600?...

Tags: Joystick, Photograph, Atari Inc., CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-15

The newspaper's last stand

Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...

Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Aliph releases new Jawbone that is 50% smaller than the original

IMHO, one of the best Bluetooth headsets you can buy after getting the swing of putting it on and off is the Aliph Jawbone. Today the announced a new model that has several improvements that look like they actually listened to what consumer wanted changed. There should be one at...

Tags: Gram, Battery, AT&T Corp., Model, Aliph Jawbone, Battery Life, Engineering, Retail, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Mobius Seattle 2008; First impressions of the HTC Advantage X7510

As I stated in my Mobius Seattle 2008 Day one post eric lin from HTC gave each one of the attendees the new HTC Advantage 7510 device. These may not come to the U.S. due to Qualcomm import issues, but you will be able to pick them up from U.S....

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobius, Key, HTC Advantage 7510, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

The real question: Is Microsoft still interested in Yahoo?

I actually believed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he said he was walking away from buying Yahoo. I wasn't among the crowd who thought Ballmer was just posturing, waiting for Yahoo stock prices to plummet and Yahoo shareholder lawsuits to mount before sweeping back in and getting Yahoo for a...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Happy Family Electronic Album (rar)

Happy Family Electronic Album help you manage your pictures, photos, with 150 transform effect, and generate a complete electronic photo albums or VCD, DVD format paper to facilitate burning of CDs. The CD which will be able to directly broadcast. It is simple that Happy Family Electronic Album operate ,...

Tags: Theme, Picture, Photograph, GuangZhou HwaFull Software, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2008-05-15

Digital Camera (exe)

All data recovery software, data recovery services for hard drive/disk recovery and remove bad sector from hard disk/drive. Password recovery utility from tally. NTFS/FAT partitions recovery. We provide physical data recovery training, cyber forensic training, tracking e-mail accounts, IP tracing, recovering deleted evidence. This version is the first release on...

Tags: Data Recovery, Digital Camera, Camera, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-05-15

PhotoRecovery for Digital Media (dmg)

PhotoRecovery for Mac OSX is an easy to use application and is compatible with Memory Sticks, SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Floppy Disks and most other forms of digital media. Simply insert your digital media into the reader, and run PhotoRecovery on the media, and then save the pictures off to another location....

Tags: Digital Media, Memory, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-05-15

Photos: Where the building is the network

The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...

Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-14

Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?

Watching Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates go through the paces during his last Microsoft CEO Summit keynote on May 14, I couldn't help but ponder again why Microsoft thinks it needs to be both a business and a consumer software vendor. From May 13 to 15, Microsoft officials...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tech Innovation, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-14