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Samsung LN26B360
Photo gallery: Samsung LNB360 seriesTo a bargain HDTV shopper, the array of small-screened LCDs must seem inexhaustible and indistinguishable, but among recent models we've reviewed, the Samsung LNB360 stands out with the best picture quality. It's no reference-level display, mind you, but it managed to beat out the...
Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung LNB360
Product reviews 2009-11-20
Samsung LN32B360
Photo gallery: Samsung LNB360 seriesTo a bargain HDTV shopper, the array of small-screened LCDs must seem inexhaustible and indistinguishable, but among recent models we've reviewed, the Samsung LNB360 stands out with the best picture quality. It's no reference-level display, mind you, but it managed to beat out the...
Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung LNB360
Product reviews 2009-11-20
Download Accelerator Manager 4.1.4 (Windows)
Download Web video and music, accelerate, schedule, resume, recover, and manage Internet downloads. Download Accelerator Manager DAM is made for Internet file and social video, music, and more, downloading, from most media sites, like YouTube, etc. DAM is fast, light, easy to use, free and safe. DAM v4 releases MediaGrabber,...
Tags: Download Accelerator, Microsoft Windows, Tensons, Download Accelerator Manager
Software downloads 2009-11-14
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
Apple drops (another) Mac OS X security patch
Less than a week after fixing 19 Mac OS X security vulnerabilities, Apple is on the patch treadmill again. The company released Security Update 2009-004 to fix a solitary BIND vulnerability that could lead to denial of service attacks.  Apple warns: A...
Tags: Apple Macintosh, BIND, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine
Blog posts 2009-08-12
SmartTime Class Scheduler 3.1 (Mobile)
With Smart Time Class Scheduler you can schedule classes, sports, activities, homework and work. Appointments and reminders are integrated into one unique view. Smart logic looks at your appointments, then finds time and orders your reminders. The dynamic day line shows you how much you can fit into today, and...
Tags: Mobile, Appointment, Left Coast Logic, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
Software downloads 2009-08-12
Sony BDV-E500W
Now that Blu-ray players are officially a $100 commodity, it's no surprise that manufacturers are trying to cram the technology into home theater systems at the lowest price possible. Sony's BDV-E500W ($800) takes a decidedly more high-end approach, offering Blu-ray playback in a 5.1 home-theater-in-a-box HTIB system, with step-ups like...
Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, surround speaker, Sony BDV-E500W, Sony Corp., speaker, home theater
Product reviews 2009-07-20
Arval Deploys Service-Oriented Architecture, Ensuring Position as a Trail-Blazer in the Car Leasing Industry
Arval wanted to retain dynamic and forward-thinking reputation in the car-lease market through custom-made applications, including customer relationship management, contracts, repair, and invoice processing applications and make the custom-made applications more flexible and maintainable. The challenge was to migrate multiple user interfaces to a single homogenous environment for improved user...
Tags: Car, Oracle Corp., Industry, Invoice, SOA, Arval, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies 2009-07-01
IBM on Sustainability: Time For Real Time
Its hard not to be impressed with the strength of focus coming from IBM these days on sustainability. I'm ususally pretty sceptical about sustainability marketing efforts and IBM have a high hurdle to jump to reach a point of public credibility. But on the other hand technology companies, more than most sectors, are obliged to lead...
Tags: Sustainability, IBM Corp., James Farrar
Blog posts 2009-06-01
Toshiba 55ZV650U
Photo gallery: Toshiba ZV650U seriesAs LCD and plasma vie for popularity and picture quality bragging rights, one perceived weakness of the LCD camp has provided a reason for TV makers to charge more for step-up models: image blurring. Higher refresh rates like 120Hz and now 240Hz aim to...
Tags: Monitors & displays, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba ZV650U, Toshiba ZV650U series, LCD
Product reviews 2009-05-19
Toshiba 42ZV650U
Photo gallery: Toshiba ZV650U seriesAs LCD and plasma vie for popularity and picture quality bragging rights, one perceived weakness of the LCD camp has provided a reason for TV makers to charge more for step-up models: image blurring. Higher refresh rates like 120Hz and now 240Hz aim to...
Tags: Monitors & displays, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba ZV650U, Toshiba ZV650U series, LCD
Product reviews 2009-05-19
Toshiba 47ZV650U
Photo gallery: Toshiba ZV650U seriesAs LCD and plasma vie for popularity and picture quality bragging rights, one perceived weakness of the LCD camp has provided a reason for TV makers to charge more for step-up models: image blurring. Higher refresh rates like 120Hz and now 240Hz aim to...
Tags: Monitors & displays, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba ZV650U, Toshiba ZV650U series, LCD
Product reviews 2009-05-19
Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?
Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?Can good worms solve the Conficker problem?I like the idea in theory but then you are doubling worm traffic due to the good guys fighting the bad guys. One way around that is to have a worm kill switch to kill it once all...
Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, worm, good worm, Conficker problem, Conficker
Discussion threads 2009-04-09
Sychron OnDemand Desktop 3.0 - another take on desktop virtualization
Although the industry's attention has largely be focused on server virtualization and consolidation, there is a very dynamic market for desktop virtualization as well. From time to time I have the chance to speak with executives of companies focused on this market. This time, I had the chance to chat...
Tags: Environment, On-demand, Provisioning, Virtual Desktop, Sychron OnDemand Desktop 3.0, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
Blog posts 2009-03-30
Mirage MX 5.1
Just when we thought satellite/subwoofer systems couldn't get any smaller, along comes the ultracompact Mirage MX 5.1 retailing for $1,200. (Mirage calls it a "Home Theater System," but it's really just a surround speaker package that requires a separate AV receiver/amplifier.) Just how small is it? Each MX satellite speaker...
Tags: speaker, Mirage MX 5.1, deflector, satellite
Product reviews 2009-02-20
Cloud Bursts as Coghead Calls It Quits
It's been a stormy week in Northern California with torrential rain and power cables downed. People used to flicking a switch and getting electric power have been deprived of that utility. Coghead, a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications...
Tags: Web, Intuit Inc., Customer, Coghead, Caspio, Software As A Service (SaaS), Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Operational Planning, Managed Hosting, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Business Operations, Oliver Marks
Blog posts 2009-02-19
Quantum holographic storage: it works!
Quantum holographic storage: it works!Star Wars Geeks building a HolocronA new attempt. The old way used different colored lasers to store information in a artificial crystal. but I think this one will work better as long as the material stays stable.the crystal idea was a cube and was multi-layered...
Tags: holographic storage, storage, Quantum Corp.
Discussion threads 2009-02-03
2009 Mercedes-Benz CL550
Photo gallery:2009 Mercedes-Benz CL550Mercedes-Benz pushed the automotive technology envelope substantially this decade with the S-class sedan, but following close on that model's heels has been the beautifully sculpted Mercedes-Benz CL550 coupe. Both the S-class and CL-class get tech features such as night vision, massage seats, and adaptive cruise control, and...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz CL550, Mercedes-Benz, car
Product reviews 2009-01-27
Zvox 325 (Black Finish)
Over the past few years, the market for single-speaker music and home-theater systems has grown by leaps and bounds, and it now includes offerings from Yamaha, Cambridge SoundWorks, and Polk. One of the first speakers to catch our fancy, the Zvox 315, is still available and priced at $199, which...
Tags: Pat Metheny, Zvox 325, speaker
Product reviews 2008-12-08
Denon DHT-FS5
Denon's DHT-FS5 is an unusually compact single speaker surround system with an unusually compact list price--just $500. That means it sells for less than half the asking price of its big brother, Denon's up market DHT-FS3. Even so, the two units have a lot in common: they're almost the...
Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Denon DHT-FS5, Denon, speaker
Product reviews 2008-12-04
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