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First impressions of the MWg Zinc II Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device

I first heard about MWg at the Mobius 2008 event back in May and had a chance to see their Zinc II device. An evaluation model just arrived at the end of last week and my first impressions can be viewed and read about in the video, image gallery, and...

Tags: Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Zinc II, MWg Zinc II, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Hardware, Peripherals, Software, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-29

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PDAmill launches eight games for the iPhone/iPod touch, most 99 cents

Some of my favorite games on my Windows Mobile devices are from PDAmill and I was pleased to just receive a note that eight of their games (soon to be 11) are now available for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The games include Bowling for Burgers, The Corsair, Gamebox...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, PDAmill, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Apple iPod Touch, Games, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Personal Technology, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Apple removes anti-virus recommendation

Apple removes anti-virus recommendationBottom Line:Way to go-perpetuate the notion that Macs are "immune" to malware. Do you even bother to read what you write?What acctually happened was..Some user came upon it - sent a nasty email about how he was sold on a Mac because of the 'inability to be...

Tags: Desktops, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, antivirus, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

E pur se muove (and yet it moves)

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Ivan Arce On January 15, 2008, the Vatican released a statement indicating that Pope Benedict XVI had canceled his visit to Italian La Sapienza University as a result of a series of protests...

Tags: Information Security, Galileo Galilei, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Brenthaven Sling II

We're fans of the sling-style laptop bag, which combines the shape of a backpack with an across-the-chest strap more commonly seen on messenger bags. The end result: a bag that sits high on your back but distributes the weight across your body instead of all on one shoulder. While many...

Tags: Smart phones, Notebooks, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Digital music, laptop compartment, zipper, laptop computer, strap, Brenthaven Sling II

Product reviews 2008-11-26

2009 Honda Civic LX-S Sedan

Photo gallery:2009 Honda Civic LX-SIt's hard to beat the Honda Civic's combination of price, performance, and quality. Refreshed for 2009 with a new, more aggressive front end featuring a three-opening front air dam, the Civic retains its 140 horsepower engine, slot car handling, and most of its space-age looks. Honda...

Tags: Bluetooth, T505, Honda Motor Co., Honda Civic, LX-S, cabin tech, GPS

Product reviews 2008-11-25

Samsung Saga (Verizon Wireless)

As Verizon Wireless is wont to do, the carrier is unleashing all its goodies right before the holiday season, from the RIM BlackBerry Storm to the HTC Touch Pro to the subject of this review, the Samsung Saga. Like the Samsung Ace for Sprint, the Saga offers world-roaming capabilities but...

Tags: Mice, Smart phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Verizon Wireless, trackpad, Samsung Saga, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Epix

Product reviews 2008-11-24

ZDNet Holiday Gift Guide: Top desktops for any budget

Desktops get little love these days as more and more users opt for notebook PCs. Laptops have closed the gap in recent years in terms of features and performance. But the fact remains that desktops deliver a lot more bang for buck. In fact, you can...

Tags: Game, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Gateway Inc., PC, Memory, Microsoft Windows, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Quad-core System, Studio, Flash Memory, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-24

News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Would you 'Kumo' it? Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business Brian Sommer: Taleo's November to forget ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Reliability Labs, E-mail, Home Entertainment, Handhelds, Open Source, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide

Update, 12/4/08: It's been brought to my attention by a diligent reader that several of the products listed in this guide were from 2007, and not this year. I compiled this guide as an aggregation of several listings online; clearly, some of the listings were old...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-23

The brutal truth - but not, I think, about Vista.

The brutal truth - but not, I think, about Vista.Er... You DO realize......that a "minimally qualifying" system hasn't been made in this millennium... Right?Empirical evidence?Try installing Vista on a minimally qualified system, add the typical worker's software, drivers, and other standard cruft required by companies, and tell us how long...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, brutal truth, Microsoft Windows XP, network

Discussion threads 2008-11-22

Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out

Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking outIntriguingI am definately intrigued by those performance figures. If AMD can pull it off it may just be my next platform of choice. I have been looking for a decent quad core rig to replace my current dual core, and didn't...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, desktop, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Phenom II, chip, AMD Phenom, desktop chip

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out

AMD will announce its second-generation Phenom quad-core chips at the big Consumer Electronics Show in January. But at the current rate at which the company is leaking information about its first 45nm desktop processors, there may not be much left to say by the time they get to Vegas. ...

Tags: Desktop, AMD Phenom, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Core, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-21

AMD's Phenom II shows overclocking potential

AMD's Phenom II shows overclocking potentialAMD roadmapsI'll believe all this when the CPU is released. When AMD starts meeting the roadmaps, maybe we'll start believing again.I can't wait for the 65w version.But I don't think it'll be possible to have a 45w quad-core processor from AMD, but I can...

Tags: Processors, overclocking, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, processor, AMD Phenom

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

AMD's Phenom II shows overclocking potential

After initial overclocking disappointment with the Phenom, AMD has put effort into giving the Phenom II a fair amount of overclocking overhead. At a demo yesterday journalists were shown a 45nm Phenom II processor running at 4GHz air-cooled, 5GHz using dry ice as a coolant, and well over 5GHz...

Tags: AMD Phenom, Overclocking, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Deneb, Release, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Can a price cut, TV ad give Zune a lift?

Can a price cut, TV ad give Zune a lift?MS faces the same problem as Linux against Windows. Zune is NOT an iPod.NT.Flash-based Zunes are excellent PMPsAlthough, I must say, the new iPod nano looks good tooso...you're asking if a 10 and 20 dollar price cut can sell the zune?Im...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, TV, Microsoft Zune, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats up

More SaaS movement from a major software vendor CA yesterday announced the availability of two software as a service SaaS solutions. One is targeted for the IT management space while the other is oriented around governance. CA is taking its on-premise enterprise...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Solution, Information Technology, On-demand, Computer Associates International Inc., PPM, GRC, Virtualization Technology, PPM Solution, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Flip Video MinoHD (black)

Earlier this year, Kodak released the Zi6, a mini camcorder supplying HD resolution. The whole HD spin upped the ante for Flip Video, the current market leader in the straight-to-Web mini camcorder category. While we like the Zi6, it has some small drawbacks that make it hard to fully endorse...

Tags: Corporate communications, USB Connector, Flip Video MinoHD, Mino, Flip Video, video

Product reviews 2008-11-15

AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal

Lost in all of the inaccurate commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company's product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and keep up with a deep-pocketed Intel. In the past year, AMD has announced plans to spin-off manufacturing, abandoned efforts to...

Tags: Platform, Plan, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, DDR3, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-14

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureBring in the ClonesIn that timeframe, there was no way I could afford any computer from a brand name (I didn't have Billy's rich parents and had to work at Burger King to feed my tech habit). The two things that made my choice easier...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Sun Microsystems Inc., PC, computer, Amiga

Discussion threads 2008-11-14