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Xploder PS2 HDTV Player

While HDTVs are finally becoming more affordable, high-def video game consoles are not. While the Xbox 360 and the upcoming PlayStation 3 are excellent HDTV companions, they're also pretty expensive, running from $300 for the low-end 360 to $600 for the high-end PS3--not to mention the games that sell for...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Games, Game players, HDTV, HDTV Player, Sony PlayStation 2, game, image

Product reviews 2006-11-08

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MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 8 critical bulletins

The final Microsoft Patch Tuesday for 2008 will be a big one: 8 bulletins covering serious code execution flaws in a wide range of ubiquitous software. According to the company's advance notice mechanism,  six of the eight bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The...

Tags: Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Bulletin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...

Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Market player machinations may warp, but not 'kill', SOA

Dave Linthicum recently offered a somewhat dour assessment of the SOA market, determining that there at least five things killing SOA as we know it these days: Venture capitalists by micromanaging SOA vendors; Sarbanes-Oxley by scaring away SOA vendors; Big consulting firms (by mismanaging SOA...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-12-04

News to know: Adobe; Windows 7; Sun; SOA; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-like Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study Michael...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Antivirus, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Home Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Linux, Web Services, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: High-end home theater setups

Economy be damned, you want to upgrade your home theater—and do it right—for the holidays (and/or in anticipation of the Super Bowl). If you have the means to spend more than two grand on a set and the hundreds and hundreds more to round out your setup with primo components,...

Tags: Plasma, Home Theater, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Review: New REDFLY C8N Smartphone Terminal serves as a media player too

Review: New REDFLY C8N Smartphone Terminal serves as a media player tooRedfly speedHi, I am a user of Redfly Celio and i have a question. I was wondering what is more important on a windows mobile device that pair up with a Redfly unit. I tried asking Celio but they...

Tags: Media players, DOES IT, media player, REDFLY C8N Smartphone Terminal

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?

Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?Considering TV viewing is dropping..like a rock, I think most people would probably agree that a 3-d turd is still a turd.How about better TV content?One reason why I didn't buy HDTVsI knew that 3d TV will be coming,...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, turd, TV, HDTV, TV Content

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Just Bought An HDTV? Are You Now Ready To Buy a 3DTV?

This is a compilation of scenes from "House of Wax," a 1953 horror film about a monster played by Vincent Price who uses live human beings as the base for the displays in his museum. The climactic scene is about three-and-a-half minutes into this YouTube clip....

Tags: 3D, HDTV, Philips Electronics N.V., 3DTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Slicing up Sun

Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls -- one of which is from a disclosure perspective, I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Craving for that next cell phone hit

Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", and scheduled this post to be released in his absence. I'd like to tell you about a conversation I had with my friend recently; this was seconds after she had lost her purse...

Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Zack Whittaker, Telecom & Utilities

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Richard Solo 1200 - Backup Battery with Flashlight

If you own an Apple iPhone 3G and use it relentlessly throughout the day, you've probably noticed its battery life often does not last as long as you would like. This is acceptable with something like a music player, but for a cell phone, it's a little more important for...

Tags: Engineering, backup, battery, Apple iPhone, Richard

Product reviews 2008-12-02

2008 Lexus RX 400h

Photo gallery:2008 Lexus RX 400hAlthough the Toyota Prius popularized hybrids, the Lexus RX 400h was the first luxury hybrid on the market. Packaged as an SUV, it brings qualities you wouldn't expect from this type of car, such as good mileage, a finely appointed cabin, and a comfortable ride. It...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Lexus RX, Lexus

Product reviews 2008-12-02

2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?

2009: Will It Be Better For Cable TV Than 2010 ... or 2011 ... or 2012?Well, of course satellite is gaining peopleJust look at the amount of price difference between satellite and cable: half to 1/3 of the price, at most!Until cable starts DEcreasing their prices...... they are going to...

Tags: Network technology, TVs, cable number, cable television, cable, satellite

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Acoustic Research HDP100 HDMI Powerlink System

If you've paid to have your HDTV installed in any kind of permanent way, you know that the cost of installation can often overtake the cost of the television itself. Part of that installation cost involves wiring: running cables from your gear up to the TV, generally through walls. In...

Tags: TVs, Network technology, TV & Home Theater, Acoustic Research HDP100, HDMI, HDMI-cable, cable, transmitter, back-panel

Product reviews 2008-12-02

Netbooks dominate Cyber Monday sales

Netbooks dominated the Computers & PC hardware bestsellers list on Amazon this Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the U.S. Netbooks FTW! Chalk it up to a small form factor (7-10 in., about 3 lbs.) and an even smaller...

Tags: Monitor, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sales, LCD, MSI, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

CIOs vote on Vista for '09

CIOs vote on Vista for '09But what about...But what about the main loser OSes? You know, the ones that have only a tiny fraction of Vista's marketshare, even though they have been on the market longer?http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=108&qpnp=11&qpdt=1&qpct=2So, to extrapolate based on marketshare, the response would then go something like:OSX (being...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OSX, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation

Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA ViolationApple is much more evil than MS...they've just been so much less successful that no one has noticed just how evil Apple is. People are beginning to notice. :)RE: Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA ViolationI used to use Anapod Explorer for my old...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Computers Today, Apple Inc., Apple Confuses Speech, DMCA Violation, DMCA

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Nokia updates Nokia Maps and Nokia Messaging clients and services

Nokia updates Nokia Maps and Nokia Messaging clients and servicesN97 Videos and specshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CpesK7lmMgNokia N97 Data SheetPlanned Market Introduction•1st half 2009Category•ExploreInternet•Easy and fast connections to internet services •Easy text input with QWERTY keyboard and touch screen•3.5 inch sliding tilt display •Live personalized home screen with widgets•Up-to-date information via RSS feed•Fully compatible...

Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Cellular phones, Digital video, GPS, Nokia Corp., video

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

News to know: Apple and anti-virus; Vista SP2; Kumo; Palm; Linux

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)? Ryan Naraine: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus Breaking...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Nokia Corp., Antivirus, Service Pack 2, Palm Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Viruses And Worms, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02