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Windows Live rooted in MSN's past

Windows Live rooted in MSN's pastIf at first you don't suceed . . .. . . try again with more features.Gadgets like Widgets?Hrm... Wonder where Microsoft got the idea for that?Yeah. Copy, Cut, and Paste; that's the Microsoft way.Hailstorm...The part the article doesn't specify is that Hailstorm was not...

Tags: INTERNET, Desktops, Operating systems, MSN, Microsoft Corp., Gadgets like Widget, desktop, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, Hailstorm, Microsoft Windows Live

Discussion threads 2005-11-03

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Photos: Gadgets we're thankful for, part 2

Still More Crave contributors give thanks for their most-appreciated consumer electronics of the moment. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-21

Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?

The MacArthur Foundation just released a study suggesting that, not surprisingly, given the integration of social media into business and modern culture, the time kids spend with so-called new media, is generally neither wasted nor particularly harmful. In fact, as one of the lead researchers points out in the...

Tags: Youth, Media, Social Media, MySpace, Barack Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-21

News to know: Dell; Army bans USB drives; Salesforce; Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging' Sam Diaz: Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising. Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., USB Flash Drive, Internet, Open Source

Blog posts 2008-11-21

The top 10 Vista sidebar gadgets

Not everyone is a fan of Vista gadgets, but Deb Shinder has a large collection of them that she finds extremely useful. Here are the ones that top her list of favorites.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog and as a photo gallery.

Tags: Vista Sidebar, Photograph, Gadget, Deb Shinder

Download resources 2008-11-21

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Bargain Apples

Apple is undoubtedly one of the hottest tech and consumer brands in the world and they should easily sell more than 2 million Macs and 20 million iPods in the upcoming holiday quarter. With all the Mac gear out there it's sometimes hard to choose. Here are...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Battery, Richard Solo 1800 mAh Battery, Inserts, NewerTech Voyager, Engineering, 3G, Digital Music, Digital Media, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-20

EIC podcast: Jerry Yang; BlackBerry Storm; Gadgets

On this week's EIC squared Dan and I talk Yahoo's new CEO, Verizon Wireless and the BlackBerry Storm, CES and pushing gadgets in a down economy. First, the big news of the week was Jerry Yang and his move to step down as CEO of Yahoo. A...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Podcast, Yahoo! Inc., RIM BlackBerry, CEO, Handhelds, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Photos: Gadgets we're thankful for, part 1

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the Crave team shows gratitude for everything from routers to BlackBerrys to an old-school game console. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Games, Game Players, Team Management, Routers & Switches, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Management, Networking, Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-20

Walt Mossberg picks hot holiday gadgets

At a Churchill Club event, The Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg shows CNET News Editor in Chief Dan Farber new gadgets consumers might want to consider buying for the holidays. Mossberg demos some new tech products including RIM's new Blackberry Storm, the MinoHD by Flip Video, and Sony...

Tags: Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Walt Mossberg, Dan Farber, Blackberry Storm, MinoHD, Xperia X1

Videos 2008-11-19

TechRepublic's Geek Gift Guide 2008

Even when economic times are tough, technology geeks love to give and receive gadgets. And despite budget constraints, geeks still want the best gadgets. TechRepublic has brought together reviews and photos of some of the best geek gifts on the market for the 2008 holiday shopping season. From...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Geek, Cloud Computing

Download resources 2008-11-19

New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web

If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...

Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Top 5 Father's Day gadget gifts for sons to give

Father's Day is coming up, and for sons everywhere, that means a little indulgence in Dad's favorite activities. Here at ZDNet, that means gadgets, so here are five items Dad needs in his gizmo toybox. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Gadget, Andrew Nusca, off topic

Image galleries 2008-11-17

Microsoft launches online store: Is there deeper meaning here?

Microsoft has launched something long overdue: An online store. Yes Virginia, you can download Windows. The launch is a bit quiet. Trevin Chow, a senior program manager at Microsoft, announced the "first-party" store on his blog. The software giant's Windows blog also plugs a purchase of Microsoft's...

Tags: Electronic Software Distribution, Product, Online Store, Microsoft Corp., Chow, Microsoft Store, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Poll: Are smartphones worth it?

The Dow dropped more than 400 points yesterday, again. 401ks are tanking. Corporations, big-box and small, are taking nosedives.  Grocery store sales are up; restaurants are losing business and the Fed's freaking out. Oh, and that new smartphone is about to come out. Do you bite? ...

Tags: T-Mobile G1, Phone, Smart Phone, Smartphones Worth, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-13

News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing Larry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai'; Aims to better compete with Intel AMD: Does the resurrection start...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Best Buy Co. Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Shanghai, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Oracle Gadgets: Flexible Desktop Access to CRM Data Goldmines...

Oracle, who have several code line families to care for and nurture, are announcing Siebel CRM 8.1.1 today, and more intriguingly from a collaboration perspective 'Oracle Customer Relationship Management CRM Gadgets for Sales', more evidence of the effort being put into Social CRM by Oracle. As the...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Data, Siebel Systems Inc., Gadget, CRM, Sales Strategy, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-12

CES 2009 Preview: All quiet on the gadget front

Your dear Toybox editor attended the official press preview in New York City for CES 2009 tonight, camera in hand, to bring you wonderful pictures of the best new and future gadgets. The general feeling? A whole lot of companies are keeping mum this year, and it's...

Tags: Quiet, Gadget, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Coming soon, but not really soon enough: A certification to weed out shady electronics recyclers

Just carved out a half-hour to sit on the teleconference for the Basel Action Network BAN, which is a watchdog on the problem of toxic waste around the globe. The issue about which BAN is truly up in arms this week relates to the export of containers full of computers,...

Tags: Certification, Electronics, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-10

A Kindroid in every pot?

A Kindroid in every pot?We need open source text books as well. Text books are still way tooexpensive, and the friction of paying the licenses and keeping track of them would kill this kind of roll-out.Silliest idea everIf you start mixing and matching functions of different devices, you turn it...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Text Book, Electrovaya, Kindroid, pot, tablet

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

PowerDock perfect fit for multi-iPod households

If you're a multi-iPod/iPhone household (and who isn't these days?) you probably fight a constant battle to find somewhere to charge your gadgets. I know that I do. Griffin Technology has released what may be the perfect solution for poly-iPodic households – the PowerDock. The PowerDock features...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, PowerDock, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-07