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- Gallery: Dead-Finger Tech
- What's the one technology that you can't live without? Which computing device, gadget or software app will they have pry from your cold, dead fingers? We asked ZDNet bloggers which bit of technology their lives depend upon. (But no iPhones, please.) Does their Dead-Finger Tech look anything like yours? by...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Blogging, Smart Phones, Management, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Technology, personal technology, gadgets, software, David Grober
- Image galleries 2009-08-07
- Gallery: Mutant Clones from China
- One of the most interesting groups of technologists in China are the shanzhai. They form small companies which cluster together in larger groups, trying to produce new gizmos so fast that nobody can quite catch up with them. by ZDNet
- Tags: China, Group, Shanzhai, gadgets, ZDNet
- Image galleries 2009-08-04
- Vintage gadgets on display in NYC
- From the Blickensderfer Portable Typewriter to the Apple Tablet Prototype and every Dyson G-Force Vacuum and Polaroid Land Camera in between, the temporary Gizmodo gallery installation at Reed Annex in New York was the place to see vintage gadget milestones alongside the newest technology of today. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: product photos, Gizmodo, gallery, vintage, gadgets, New York, event photos, Apple, Andrew Nusca
- Image galleries 2008-12-04
- Amazon Kindle at the Continental President's Club Lounge
- Jason Perlow takes the Amazon Kindle for a spin with a glass of Jack Daniels. by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Jason Perlow, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, kindle, amazon, consumer electronics, gadgets
- Image galleries 2008-10-21
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- Showing you some of the gadgets college and university students really shouldn't live without. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Student, Zack Whittaker, Gadgets, University, Pen drive, Cell phone, Laptop, Computer
- Image galleries 2008-07-25
- Father's Day gifts for gadget freaks
- The top five gifts I want the Father's Day Fairy to drop off at my place this Sunday. by Josh Taylor
- Tags: Freak, Josh Taylor, gadgets, gear, product photos
- Image galleries 2008-06-11
- Monument to cost rises over Copacabana
- The old Copacabana nightclub in New York, across from the Javits Convention Center, will come down in favor of a 1 million square foot, 45-50 story tall medical device market.The World Product Centre is the brainchild of Israel Green, and will be built by Extell Development, best known for residential towers....
- Tags: Medical Office Equipment, Medical Equipment, Hospital Equipment, Home Health Care Equipment, General, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Xbox division post $1.9 billion loss
- Microsoft continues to plough money into Xbox, but a profit is nowhere in sight.On Friday the Xbox division posted a staggering $1.9 billion loss. This loss is partly down to the absorb $1.2 billion the company had to throw as upgrading the 360s warranty and maintenance program. I'm betting that...
- Tags: Microsoft, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Wireless USB notebooks appear
- Wireless USB finally comes to Dell and Lenovo notebooks. It's been announced today that Dell's Inspiron 1720 notebook and Lenovo's ThinkPad T61 and T61p models are the first PCs to be certified for Wireless USB.Wireless USB is compelling indeed. Imagine being able to break free of the wiring clutter that...
- Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, cable, Gadgets, notebook, PC, USB, wireless, wireless USB
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
- While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...
- Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Take a lunchtime break and play the mobile phone celebrity guessing game
- If you are looking for something to do while on a break from work or want to have a bit of fun with your friends, then head on over to participate in the Gear Diary Celebrity Guessing Game III contest. The winner will be selected randomly from the entries who...
- Tags: iPhone, Giveaway, Gadgets, Feature phones, BlackBerry
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- T-Mobile giving some free HotSpot @Home phones to loyal customers
- I don't know if T-Mobile has been reading my HotSpot @Home blog posts, but today when I got home I had a nice surprise on my door step. T-Mobile sent me a complimentary Samsung t409 HotSpot @Home mobile phone in "appreciation of my commitment to T-Mobile". This actually couldn't have...
- Tags: Feature phones, Gadgets, Wireless carriers
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Safari for Windows: it syncs
- When Steve Jobs made his WWDC announcement regarding Safari for Windows, there was much discussion about how this would broaden the iPhone developer community, yada yada.Well, sure. But one important thing about Safari for Windows went largely uncommented-upon: When you're using a phone browser, you really need bookmarks...
- Tags: Software, Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- It's content that drives the adoption of new technology
- Many companies still seem to be missing the point. Outside of a small number of tech-heads, it's content that drives the adoption of new technology, not how cool the technology actually is.Two areas where this simple but trustworthy rule of thumb has been forgotten are home entertainment and games consoles. ...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Gadgets, Gaming, Hardware, HD-DVD, Marketing, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- The well-traveled iPhone
- Am I crazy, or did my iPhone travel round trip to Shenzhen and back before arriving in Southern California?iPhoneDevCamp got front-of-Business-Page coverage in today's L.A. Times.I enjoyed Cringely's well-headlined piece, predicting a 3-G version by Christmas, as well.
- Tags: Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Nokia adds Skype and Adobe Flash support to the N800 Internet Tablet
- My Mobile Tech Roundup podcast co-host Kevin Tofel had a chance to see and play with the N800 and Skype while at the Digital Experience event a couple of weeks ago. James just posted that Nokia was quick to deliver on the promise of Skype for the Nokia N800 Internet...
- Tags: Gadgets, Linux, Mobile software, Nokia, Nseries, Ultra portable PC
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- LG to offer "YouTube" phone
- The Korean tech giant LG has signed an agreement with Google to develop a cellphone aimed specifically at YouTube users.Apple's iPhone might allow you to watch YouTube videos, but LG's phone goes several steps further, allowing you to record video and upload them directly to YouTube. The phone will also...
- Tags: Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Has Steve Jobs dropped the iTunes ball?
- Has Steve Jobs been too focused on the iPhone over the past six months and allowed problems to develop over in an established part of Apple's business - iTunes. The New York Times reports today that Universal Music Group has notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract...
- Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Apple, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, DRM, Gadgets, In the news, music, Steve Jobs, Thoughts, Universal Music Group
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Delivery for iPhone online orders 2-4 weeks out; iTunes 7.3 won't save my library
- The Apple Store came back online at 6:00 p.m. PDT, and my order was processed exactly eleven minutes later. Shipping is estimated for "2-4 weeks" from today, expedited shipping was an additional $10.00, plus California sales tax of $47.20. Hey, it's better than $1,500, or worse, and ordering...
- Tags: Gadgets
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Why I'm buying an iPhone
- As if anyone needed to list more reasons to buy an iPhone. But I haven't seen anyone save Steve Gillmor write about most of the reasons I'll be buying this device, so here they are.By consolidating phone, contacts, email, music, podcasts, video, and Web in a single device, the...
- Tags: Attention, Copyright, DMCA, Gadgets, User generated content, Video
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
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