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- Sony admits to PSP Go early adopter premium, are you really surprised?
- Sony admits to PSP Go early adopter premium, are you really surprised?Not worth itThere's not much reason from my perspective to own a PSP Go. I have the 3000 and with WiFi I can run off to the Sony store and buy games... which is the only way you'll be...
- Tags: Games, Wireless and Mobility, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation Portable, PSP Go
- Discussion threads 2009-06-26
- 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
- Material found in pencils may hold key to faster computer chips
- Move over silicon because graphene, the sheet-like form of carbon found in graphite pencils, may hold the key to smaller and faster electronics. In a paper published in the journal Advanced Materials, engineers at Ohio State University describe a technique for stamping many graphene sheets onto...
- Tags: Silicon, Computer Chip, Electronics, Sheet, Computer, Chip, Nitin Padture, Graphene Sheet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Microsoft retail: Redmond start your copiers?
- Microsoft retail: Redmond start your copiers?they better get this rightif microsoft doesn't get this right, they will get an even more mud thrown at them and their image will be damaged beyond repair. vista has left a horrible taste in people mouth and crappy stores will only make it...
- Tags: Operating systems, Monitors & displays, Advertising & Promotion, vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, photocopier
- Discussion threads 2009-02-16
- News to know: Cisco, Windows 7, SAP, Google Latitude
- Sam Diaz: Cisco's Q2 sees weaker sales, profits; no widespread layoffs planned Tom Steiner-Threlkeld: Cisco May Cut 2,000 Jobs. But That's Not A Layoff. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's worst nightmare: Windows 7 deemed less secure than Vista Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is UAC...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Mary Jo Foley, SAP AG, Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Palm's CES news. Just in time or too late?
- Palm may be in a good position to generate some buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show - and a major announcement about its long-time-coming operating system, called Nova, could be the thing it needs to grab the spotlight. It shouldn't be too hard to make some noise at CES this...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Mobile, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, JIT, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-15
- My father, the casemodder
- I love hearing about these wacky aesthetic computer modifications that people do. While a lot of them definitely have the "cool" factor, most aren't exactly useful or practical. But when I heard about one particular "casemod" from one of my readers, I was intrigued. It just so happened that this...
- Tags: Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Arc Wireless Freedom Blade
- As cell phones become the "everything gadget" for more people, companies have begun to cash in on the need for great reception at all times. Wilson Electronics and Wi-Ex have introduced some of our favorite products, and even Sprint Nextel offers an option of its own. A less successful product,...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, blade, Freedom Blade, phone
- Product reviews 2008-08-21
- HP Pavilion dv5-1004nr
- Note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv5-1004nr is a slightly more powerful version of the Pavilion dv5-1002nr system we reviewed earlier this month, providing a bit more processing power, more memory,...
- Tags: Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, laptop computer
- Product reviews 2008-08-19
- HP Pavilion dv5-1002nr
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv5 is a member of the company's new Pavilion lineup, introduced in June. The ID of the product doesn't differ very much from previous...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion
- Product reviews 2008-08-04
- Wirelessly networking cows
- U.S. researchers have developed a Walkman-like headset for cows. This device enables them to 'whisper wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape -- and even remotely gather them into a corral.' In fact, it could help farmers to maintain cows behind virtual fences. According to the...
- Tags: Animal, Network, Cow, GPS, Handhelds, Productivity, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- Asus M70
- The Asus M70 is the most fully loaded laptop we've seen in a long while. Aside from its massive terabyte of hard-drive space (enough to hold a few hundred movies or a few hundred thousand MP3s), the multimedia system incorporates a Blu-ray drive and a full-HD display, plus an HDMI...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Desktops, Asus M70, ASUS
- Product reviews 2008-06-06
- Sharp Electronics Gains Market Intelligence 400 Percent Faster With Mobility Solution
- Sharp Electronics needed the most accurate, most detailed intelligence possible about how its products were faring in retail stores nationwide, and it needed to get that intelligence quickly. But the paper-and-pen - based surveys that its field marketing managers took during store visits were time-consuming to collect, error-prone, and not...
- Tags: Intelligence, Mobility, Sharp Corp., Microsoft Corp., Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Macworld Expo: A tale of two keynotes
- Macworld Expo: A tale of two keynotesSolving ProblemsThe Air is stylish, but what problems does the thinness of this laptop solve? The laptop is not supremely light nor does it have a significantly reduced footprint. On the other hand, the laptop is more fragile. Mobility has actually...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, mobility, tale, Macworld Expo, Apple Inc., laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-01-15
- News to know: AMD Spider; Patch day; Mac Pros; CES galore
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hands-on with the AMD Spider - Phenom 9700, 790 chipset and Radeon 3850 graphics. Gallery right Christopher Dawson: Cheap PCs keep on coming...Good news for tight budgets Don't pay too much for memory upgrades ...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Enterprise Search, Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sales Strategy, WiMAX, Desktops, Search, Sales, Wireless, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Microsoft set to roll out 2.0 'Origami' pack for ultra-mobile PCs
- At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference WinHEC last year, Microsoft officials shared their vision for what users might expect from hardware vendors via their next-generation ultra-mobile PCs UMPCs. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft showed its planned advances for some of its own...
- Tags: PC, Ultramobile PC, Microsoft Corp., Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Open Source Cars and More
- The Consumer Electronics Show CES might be in full throws this week, but some of the coolest devices may be found off the Net -- blueprints and all. A burgeoning trend in open source hardware is putting up some devices on the Web -- from machines that make anything...
- Tags: Video, Hardware, Open Source, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- JB Hi-Fi Turns Up the Volume on Sales With Innovative Mobility Solution
- Consumer electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi needed to overhaul the outdated and manual sales process used in stores. Inefficient methods were costing the company time, money and possibly customers. In response, JB Hi-Fi gave its in-store sales staff wireless handheld devices running Windows Mobile and a customized application built using the...
- Tags: Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Sales Process, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Handhelds, Sales, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Fall Von live: Intel mobile CTO: Menlow platform to improve mobile device performance
- I'm here at Fall VON 2007, listening to Intel's Shane Wall, CTO of the Ultra Mobility Group. We want to make sure we maintain performance compatibility. We want to make sure we deliver lower thermals, power consumption and package size. In 2008 Intel will...
- Tags: Performance, CTO, Mobile, IEEE 802.11n, Mobile Device, Intel Corp., Performance Management, Wi-Fi, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Wireless, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Rumors of Mac ultralight, tablet: Part 2
- Stories are circulating online that Apple may soon release some new form factors: a small multi-touch-savvy tablet the Newton reborn and an ultralight notebook. These are products that many Mac users say they want. But will they really buy them? In my previous post, I looked at...
- Tags: Strategy, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Tablet, Tablets, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
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