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- A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards
- Freezing it?"Popping it into a sealed plastic bag and freezing it for a few hours."Pardon my ignorance - what does this do to help?Except in this case, the problem is almostcertainly fried electronics because of the method in which the drive failed.Strange. Hu?I can't say how it works, but I...
- Tags: logic board, hard drive, hard-disk recovery, Cooling
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute
- Cap and TAX dramatically increases green house gassesGood for the chamber of commerce to have their eyes open. All this energy tax legislation does is move energy consuming manufacturing off shore to countries where the production of that energy is dramatically more pollution producing. Apple needs to pull it's head...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Obama, manufacturing
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Samsung working on a 480Hz HDTV?
- Some people question the value of 120Hz refresh rates for LCD HDTVs, and even more wonder if 240Hz is worth the extra expense. But it's a spec with buzz, so it shouldn't be entirely surprising that Samsung is supposedly working on 480Hz sets that it may reveal at the IFA...
- Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Frame, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?
- We all know that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a revered figure in the consumer electronics industry for pushing the envelope and getting filthy rich doing it. But does the magic of Apple product success hide a poor business manager? ...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Bill Taylor, O'Grady, Consumer Electronics, Leadership, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Peeling stickers inspire new path for stretchable electronics
- For some, there's inspiration to be found in unremarkable daily minutia. A team of researchers who studied stickers peeling from windows say that what they've observed could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics. [caption id="attachment_1595" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Delamination demonstration -...
- Tags: Surface, Team, Window, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Electronics, Team Management, Construction, Management, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- AMR Research: Apple has the best supply chain; Dell No. 2
- AMR Research on Thursday unveiled its annual ranking of enterprise supply chains and Apple and Dell finished No. 1 and No. 2.Ă‚Â AMR's Supply Chain Top 25 is a report that ranks companies based on their ability to use their supply chain as a competitive weapon. According...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Dell Computer Corp., AMR Research, Apple Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory
- Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...
- Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- UK government to collect Facebook data?
- The UK government is currently proposing new measures to keep details on communications between British users on Facebook. Updated: see below. Facebook on the other hand have criticised the intelligence services, saying they were "excessive" and "overkill", according to sister-site ZDNet UK. It's not...
- Tags: Facebook, U.K., Social Networking, Government, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- What TomTom suit may really be about
- What TomTom suit may really be aboutCan't wait for my TomTom 730 GPS to arrive!I compared Garmin to TomTom and purchased the TomTom 730 (instead of the Garmin nuvi 760). They are 95% comparable with the following key exceptions:Map updates are free with TomTom, Garmin you must pay more Microsoft...
- Tags: Investment, OPEN SOURCE, Construction, TomTom, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-03
- Closing the loop: Circuit City's liquidation
- Closing the loop: Circuit City's liquidationLiquidation - LaughableThey raised prices on TV's. (52 inch samsung ln52a630 was 1899 on Friday and was 2499 on Sunday).Their liquidators really need to realize that in tough economic times people are more price conscious than ever. I would surprised if they can move 1.8...
- Tags: Product marketing, Circuit City Stores Inc., liquidation, vulture
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- Getting a charge the wireless way
- Want to thank the contributors to Texas Instruments' TInergy blog for pointing out some information about Fulton Innovation, a company that is experimenting with what it calls "wireless power." Fulton is behind an initiative called eCoupled Intelligent wireless power. I am NOT a physicist, so I...
- Tags: Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Palm's Pre and OS: Home-run announcements at CES
- The odds were against a comeback by Palm as it prepared to make news at the Consumer Electronics Show. The smartphone space suddenly got crowded by the big names - iPhone, Blackberry, Android. And poor Palm - a pioneer in PDAs and smartphones - got pushed to the bottom. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- The future of Blu-Ray? Watch porn
- The future of Blu-Ray? Watch pornThe future of Blu-Ray? Watch pornDon't forget to factor in the higher cost of blue-ray or at the time hd-dvd. We can find free porn on the internet, no need to pay the $25 for an HD dvd. Some of the adult stores...
- Tags: BIOS, Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Music CD, Watch Porn, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- Best Buy hunkers down; Consumer electronics sales plunge; Home office remains solid
- Best Buy on Tuesday offered a recent snapshot of consumer electronic sales and the picture--high def, LCD, plasma or otherwise--isn't pretty. As a result, Best Buy is cutting capital expenditures by about 50 percent and offering voluntary separation packages to employees. The electronics retailer's fiscal third quarter...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Consumer Electronics, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Moixa Energy USBCell AA NiMH batteries
- Moixa Energy USBCell AA batteries are practical for an on-the-go gadget addict. These attractive, compact batteries resemble other nickel metal hydride AAs, except for a bright green cap covering the USB plug. Instead of tossing them in the trash or nestling them into a recharging unit when out of juice,...
- Tags: Engineering, Call2Recycle, Moixa, Moixa Energy, battery, USBCell, USBCell battery
- Product reviews 2008-10-08
- Whatever happened to CMP?
- When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials “CMP” are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...
- Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover
- If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...
- Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Robofish teams of underwater robots
- Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...
- Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-07
- Over a quarter of iPhones are "unlocked"
- It was always to be expected that a certain number of iPhone purchasers would go through the trouble of "unlocking" their device so it could be used on any network they want. This involves some work, and though web sites dedicated to the subject abound on the Internet, I always...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Apple iPods: Are we saturated yet?
- Apple iPods: Are we saturated yet?I don't have one eitherNo plans to get one as well. Just too far down the list of priority items and besides there are cheaper alternatives one can get as well.I don't have one either.Never have, never will...We will save the US economy!!I am also...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Digital music, Digital media, Nothing, job, Apple iPod, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
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