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Building a sub $1,000 gaming PC

Building a sub $1,000 gaming PC3 ArgumentsFirst, your timing is horrible. Any gamer with the patience for the kill would tell you that while your system is cheap, you are on the eve of a Videocard/Processor Refresh. Second, I don't like your Motherboard because it lacks quad core...

Tags: Games, Processors, gaming pc, game, DX 10, PC, processor

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

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Gateway DX4300-11

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.Gateway hasn't fared well with its most recent round of DX-series mainstream retail PCs. Neither the DX4300-03 nor the DX4822-01 received positive marks, and...

Tags: Video cards, LANs, DVD, Consumer electronics, Semiconductors, Network technology, NETWORKING, Gateway Inc., graphics

Product reviews 2009-11-25

AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology

AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...

Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Barnes and Noble e-book reader 'Nook' to be unveiled today

What is the difference between this and the Que?RE: Barnes and Noble e-book reader 'Nook' to be unveiled todayWell, the Kindle is still pretty pricy for me. I was in Toys R Us the other day and they had a Sony e-reader (1st time I've ever ACTUALLY seen one....

Tags: E-books, Kindle DX, e-book, Nook, Barnes & Noble Inc., e-book Reader, Kindle2, pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

News to know: Oracle; Sidekick; Win7 party; Google; Yahoo Hack day

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. Jason Hiner: Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prize Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Federal Government, Internet, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Government, Management

Blog posts 2009-10-12

News to know: Dell; Xerox, Android, NewEgg, Win7, Windows Mobile,

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. Andrew Nusca: Dell Latitude Z 16" thin-and-light revealed; Lamborghini angles hide boardroom muscle Gallery: Hands on with the Dell...

Tags: Xerox Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Storage, Andrew Nusca, Newegg.com, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Dell Latitude, EC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Ivy League students: Kindle DX a 'poor excuse of an academic tool'

Ain't no substitute ...... for a genuine, old-fashioned, annotated book.Yet...This is just round one.But this also demonstrates the liability of a closed architecture. If this were an open platform (not necessarily F/OSS, but at least one that allowed for modifications to the software) you can bet there would be countless...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Ivy League, Kindle DX, tool

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Zune HD: No YouTube in the browser for you

patheticI don't care much about youtube (I much prefer TED conference with top minds/scientists to that popular crap :P) but being a social media users (msn, FB and the like) I know for a fact that many people spend lots of time on this site and it is now imperative...

Tags: Team management, Turnabout, Web browser, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Hands-on with the Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600

BooksDid you get the Cory Doctorow books from Project Gutenberg? If so, what format did you download them in?Connectivity?The Sony sounds like it's worth a look, but I didn't see much about connectivity. Does the PRS-600 include lifetime free wireless like the Kindle, or must it be tethered...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Reader, Adobe PDF, Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600, Sony Reader Touch Edition, Hands-On

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

SONY goes "Open Kimono" with sexy new e-Readers

Sound like checkmate, they have everything the Kindle does for less $$ $They even have better quality. I want to buy one right now although it has to have the books that I want.At the risk of sounding fanboy-ishI must ask. How does the 6" $299 Sony touch (but...

Tags: E-books, e-book, Sony Corp., e-reader, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

10 reasons why e-readers make sense in the enterprise

TechRepublic guest post: In case you haven’t heard, e-readers are making an impact. They’ve been around for some time, but only now (thanks, in part, to Amazon’s Kindle) are they being taken seriously. The e-readers’ biggest fan is the avid reader, but this doesn’t have to (and most likely won’t)...

Tags: E-reader, Employee, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Palm's Pre can't offset Sprint's subscriber losses

Sprint called the launch of the Palm Pre a success, but it wasn't enough to offset a net subscriber loss of 257,000 in the second quarter. The subscriber loss, which came amid a churn rate of 2.05 percent, illustrates Sprint's challenge. The company is launching new handsets---Palm...

Tags: Palm Inc., Sprint Communications, Subscriber Loss, Palm Pre, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Will Apple's rumored tablet be an 'iPod touch DX'? It's all about perception

In the race to bigger, more powerful mobile devices, Apple ought to take a lesson from Amazon. First, the rumor: Apple's rumored touchscreen tablet device got more traction today in a Financial Times article stating that the device will...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Device, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Tablets, Notebooks, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Amazon: Shares tumble late as Q2 sales fall short; quiet about Kindle

Amazon made headlines this week by looking ahead with the announced acquisition of online shoe retailer Zappos. But the second quarter performance was all about the Kindle e-Book reader. The online retailer today reported second quarter net income of $142 million, or 32 cents per share, down...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-23

$299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!

$299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!Great writeup, but... Much thanks, Jason, your usual great blogpost... but I really do not see the point of these readers... Like you, I have tons of books on pdf and chm(and thanks for the heads-up reminder on the IBM Redbooks, that had...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Adobe PDF, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

$299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!

The large format version of the Kindle, the $489.00 DX, pictured above, is capable of displaying native PDF files. So what's preventing the cheaper and smaller model from doing this? Oh Amazon. You taunt me. Like Lucy Van Pelt, just as about I'm...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Amazon.com Inc., PDF Feature, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Amazon drops Kindle e-reader price to $299; is it enough?

Amazon drops Kindle e-reader price to $299; is it enough?For me, noFirst we had copiers, printers and scanners, all separate. I remember talking to a computer dept. sales person and made an off the cuff remark about how the manufacturers should integrate them into one device. The sales person scoffed...

Tags: E-books, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, PRODUCTIVITY, Media players, Amazon.com Inc., e-reader

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Algebra 3.0 (Mobile)

This is the software for the Palm device, which does algebraic calculations! There are many softwares for numerical calculations, calculators etc. But this software does calculations algebraically! -- Calculation: If you have a complicated expression, e.g. (a-b)^2-(a-b*(a+b)+a*b it simplifies to -A*B+2*B^2It also calculates e.g. 3*4*c*d/(17*c+7*c) Result: D/2 You can enter...

Tags: Software, Mobile, Calculation, Ing-Buro Pfenninger, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-08

McAfee Avert Stinger 10.0.1.624 (Windows)

Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system. Stinger utilizes next generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed DAT files,...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Microsoft Windows, Stinger

Software downloads 2009-07-06