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Griffin Elevator Notebook Stand

By virtue of their all-in-one design, few laptops offer an appropriate ergonomic setup for extended work. So as more of us buy laptops for use as our primary computers, accessory companies have developed a slew of products designed to make laptops workable for extended periods of time. One such product,...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, laptop computer, Griffin Elevator, Griffin

Product reviews 2007-04-12

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Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost

Tom's Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The test Testing 4 SSDs against a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive on a...

Tags: Disk, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Tom, Notebooks, Engineering, Flash Memory, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Offshoring: India still No. 1

Bangalore remains on top as the global outsourcing leader but with prices on the rise in India, locations like Beijing and Auckland are catching up fast. Bangalore has retained its position as the ideal global delivery location for businesses, according to a new report from IDC. The...

Tags: India, City, Beijing, International Data Corp., Delivery Location, Government, Vertical Industries, Outsourcing, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, offshoring, China, Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia

News items 2008-06-27

Playing a video game? No, it's health therapy

Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but now they're being used to help someone quit smoking or lose weight. Raleigh, North Carolina--Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight? Hot on the heels...

Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Health Care, Video Game, Video, Therapy, Nintendo Wii, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, video games, health, Nintendo, Wii

News items 2008-06-26

The reality TV series we all really want to watch

I'm not a big fan of reality TV shows, particularly the ones that are focused on the life of a particular celebrity. For a while, I liked watching Ozzy, and then some of Gene Simmons, strictly for the bizarre aspects, but then the morbid fascination tends to fade quickly. My...

Tags: Computer, Productivity, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-14

AMD announces Puma laptop platform, Mobile Radeon 3800 GPU

Located in the PC component capital of the world, Computex has become the tradeshow for chipsets, so it's no surprise AMD chose to announce its new mobile platform here in Taiwan today. (You can watch the press conference here.) Known by its code-name Puma, the platform itself doesn't have a...

Tags: Mobile, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Laptop Computer, Radeon, GPU, Puma, Radeon 3200, Puma Platform, ATI XGP, Chipsets, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Paglo launch talks SaaS and an open source process

Ever since it was spun out of  a company called Network Chemistry a year ago, I have been closely tracking the development of the company now called Paglo. The name comes from Francisco Paglo right, a fictitious Italian explorer who supposedly discovered New Zealand for Portugal. ...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Network, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Photos: Visiting a Nike missile site

At one time, there were more than 200 Nike missile sites in the U.S., each tasked with protecting a specific city. Today, the only one left is a restored site for tourists in the Marin Headlands, near San Francisco.The mascot of the Army''s Air Defense Artillery program was a bird...

Tags: Nike Inc., Photograph, Missile, Missile Site, AJAX, Aerospace & Defense, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Manufacturing, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-23

Photos: Where the building is the network

The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...

Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-14

Is AOL a viable option for Yahoo against Microsoft?

Is AOL a viable option for Yahoo against Microsoft?Sure....Yeah, like Yahoo needs the boat anchor known as AOL hung around its neck.A year later all the Yahoo! shareholders will be wishing Microsoft HAD purchased Yahoo. And following that up with quite a few lawsuits, I would imagine.maybe M$ should...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., viable option

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Final Vinyl (dmg)

Audio application that allows users to easily record their collection of old vinyl records using just the Griffin iMic and their turntable. Previously users wishing to record their old record collection had to hook up their entire stereo system just to power their turntable. Now users can connect the record...

Tags: Griffin Technology Inc.

Software downloads 2008-04-14

New iPhone case says it can boost reception

Griffin Technology on Friday announced its ClearBoost case for the iPhone. The company says that the case's built-in booster antenna improves reception, avoids dropped calls and helps isolate the iPhone from interference. The $29.95 case is made of polycarbonate and covers the back and sides of the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, iPhone Case, Telecom & Utilities, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-04

NCA Partner Online Series: Consultative Selling With Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization

Infrastructure Optimization is Microsoft's maturity model for business productivity and IT operations. The presenter of this webcast will cover the elevator pitch for Infrastructure Optimization, review a case study from a partner that used to deepen their customer relationship, and review the tools available today to help incorporate Microsoft IO...

Tags: Optimization, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Strategic Planning, Productivity, Strategy, Management

Webcasts 2008-04-04

Extended Loops for Distant Phones and Fax Machines, Higher Ringing Voltage and Loop Current

Enterprises are turning to Voice-over-IP VoIP and IP telephony solutions for voice communications in corporate and branches so that they can reap the benefits of converged networks and feature-rich IP-based telephone systems. While enterprises are making the migration to IP telephony, on many occasions legacy analog phones, modems, and fax...

Tags: Fax Machine, Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Fax, Telecommunications

White papers 2008-04-01

Klipsch RoomGroove (iPod speaker system)

At first glance, Klipsch's RoomGroove iPod speaker looks like just another iPod speaker. Sure, its clean lines and black cloth grille are a step up from the typical plastic boxes, but what makes the RoomGroove a bit more interesting is that you can link one RoomGroove to additional units in...

Tags: Digital music, Klipsch RoomGroove, RoomGroove

Product reviews 2008-03-10

(Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back)

(Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back)Dance Monkey Boy, Dance!!!What other company could have a manimal for their CEO and still be profitable. Only a monopoly could maintain such control. All hail, America's second favorite idiot. Homer Simpson being the first. Peter Griffin is third.RE: (Photos:...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Monkey Boy, Homer Simpson, animation, Peter Griffin, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

AMD to challenge Centrino with Puma platform

In a web-streamed press event AMD unveiled Puma, its new third-generation mobile platform. Puma is based on AMD's Griffin processor the official name for this is Turion Ultra and the RS780M chipset. All Puma based products will be based on this hardware, along with a WiFi adaptor and...

Tags: Intel Centrino, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Puma, RS780M Chipset, Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Intel and AMD finalizing new notebook technology

Within the next couple of months, both Intel and AMD will be releasing new notebook platforms. Here's what we know so far. Details of Intel's new platform, called Montevina and due in June, have been slowly leaking out for months. But Daily Tech has filled in a...

Tags: AMD Turion, Dual-core, Platform, Roadmap, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Chip, Montevina, U3300, PM45, Puma, Griffin, Processors, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-03-04

MacBook Air Diary-Day 22: Argh! Recessed headphone jack

It's almost as if Apple didn't learn anything from the recessed headphone jack fiasco with iPhone. The MacBook Air, my friends, also has a recessed headphone jack. While it's not nearly as bad as the headphone jack on the iPhone, the MBA's headphone jack is similarly recessed...

Tags: Headphone, Adapter, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Has Europe lost the offshore war?

Has Europe lost the offshore war?Can you translate that?Oh blodoy hook worms, have you not noticed that if you start using terms like "Have not addressed the holistic transformational challenges posed by offshore IT firms" people will discount anything you say. This sounds more like a sophmoric elevator pitch than...

Tags: Outsourcing, offshore

Discussion threads 2008-02-11