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- Navigon 7100
- Editor's Note: Portions of this review were taken from our evaluation of the Navigon 5100, as the two systems share similar features.Just recently, we reviewed the Navigon 5100 and were pretty impressed by this newcomer for its useful set of navigation features, including the integrated traffic receiver, lane assistant function,...
- Tags: Keyboards, Memory, menu page, user interface, Navigon, Navigon 7100, Navigon 5100
- Product reviews 2007-10-15
- Navigon 5100
- Though it'll be tough to stand up to the big boys such as TomTom and Garmin, the Navigon 5100 has a fighting chance by offering some useful navigation features that go beyond the basic turn-by-turn directions. First, there's a traffic receiver integrated into the sleek device and you get a...
- Tags: Memory, Navigon 5100, Navigon
- Product reviews 2007-09-14
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- Perlow@PEPCOM
- Arriba and Feliz Navidad, Gringos! Your economy is screwed! Now go buy some expensive toys, America! See Jason Perlow's PEPCOM Gallery. Ah yes, the annual holiday PEPCOM party at the Metropolitan Pavilion. It was truly a surreal experience attending the popular and...
- Tags: Backup, Electronics, NAVIGON, Cat Genie, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
- HP unveils Centrino 2 business tablet PC
- The good people over at AVING USA have images of HP's new business tablet PC in the Korean market, the 'Compaq 2730p,' packed with Intel Centrino 2 power. According to pictures, the machine is loaded with a 12.1-inch WXGA LCD screen, Intel Core 2 Duo L9400 (1.86GHz)...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Centrino 2, Intel Centrino, PC, Tablet PC, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Sony NV-U83T
- First introduced at CES 2008, the Sony NV-U83T is the company's flagship portable navigation system. With a focus on safety, the NV-U83T features a number of nice and unique features, including pressure, gyro, and acceleration sensors to provide for more accurate positioning even when driving through tunnels and in between...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, display, Sony NV-U83T, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-04-30
- Sony MEX-BT5100 - radio / CD / MP3 player
- Forget add-on modules and external hands-free calling speakerphones. The easiest and cleanest way to make calls in the car is routing them through a built-in Bluetooth phone system. If you're among the majority of drivers who doesn't have a factory-installed calling system, Sony's MEX-BT5100 is a useful all-in-one stereo and...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, CD, radio, MP3, MP3 player, Sony MEX-BT5100, phone, joystick, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-04-07
- Sonim XP1 - yellow (unlocked)
- In the age of cell phones as fashion accessories, the demand for rugged, durable handsets has remained decidedly small. But even though they constitute a niche market, fans of burly models are particularly vocal. For much of its life Nextel has mastered this sector well, with Sanyo and Casio contributing...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Sonim XP1
- Product reviews 2008-03-13
- San Clemente chipset gives HP lead on energy efficiency
- The January 30th 2008 batch of test results are in for SPECpower_ssj2008 energy efficiency benchmark and it looks like Hewlett Packard has claimed the energy efficiency lead with their newest low-cost 2U HP Proliant DL180 G5 server. The secret to their success appears to lie in the selection of the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Power Consumption, Power Supply, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Watt, Intel Corp., Chipsets, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Analysis: Server Side Java energy efficiency versus load
- With the arrival of the latest standardized energy efficiency benchmark from SPEC, we have a good way to measure server efficiency. In light of the recent controversy over flawed energy efficiency studies that have unfortunately been touted by so many in the press instead of SPEC, I thought I'd offer some more in-depth analysis...
- Tags: Performance, Java, Workload, Efficiency, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Analysis, Intel Corp., Energy Efficiency, SPEC, Neal Nelson, Performance Management, Servers, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- (Photos: Kodak EasyShare All-In-One printers)
- (Photos: Kodak EasyShare All-In-One printers)Kodak 5100 printerI made the mistake of buying one. The printer quit printing black after the second ink change. The warenty had expired, I contacted Kodak. They told me to download the newest drivers. That did not work, so I contacted them again. They told me...
- Tags: Printers, Eastman Kodak Co., printer, Kodak EasyShare All-In-One, Kodak EasyShare, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-01-19
- Inside Intel's Harpertown Processor
- Apple yesterday announced significant updates to their Mac Pro and Xserve lines featuring Intel's "Harpertown" processor–but what's in a name? Intel's quad-core Xeon 5400-series "Harpertown" processors run at up to 3.2GHz and are based on the new 45-nm Intel Core microarchitecture. The new chips are known for...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Intel Corp., Apple Macintosh, Intel Xeon, Processors, Apple Inc., Components, Hardware, Semiconductors
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Build a Mac Pro equivalent workstation for 1/3 the cost
- Conventional wisdom tells us that a digital content creation and CAD professional had to fork out $6000 to $10,000 dollars for a high-end 8-core dual-processor workstation, but this is Real World IT where I say screw conventional wisdom. I've put on my mad scientist hat again and brewed something up...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, Memory, Wisdom, Dual Processor, Intel Corp., Mac Pro, FBDIMM, Series Motherboard, Chipsets, Serial ATA, Workstations, Mice, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Storage, Peripherals, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- A comparison of quad-core server CPUs
- A comparison of quad-core server CPUsRE: A comparison of quad-core server CPUsI am a firm supporter of competition an so I cannot wait for AMD to sort out their quad CPU problems.Very timely post!George, hats off to you as usual. There has been a lot of talk on the DV...
- Tags: Processors, SuperMicro, Tom, quad-core, quad-core server, CPU, AMD Phenom
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- Navigon 2100
- Navigon's line of portable navigation systems seems to follow the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, offering three different flavors with one to hopefully match your tastes and needs. For the gadget hounds and GPS enthusiasts, there's the Navigon 7100 with its advanced features like Bluetooth and traffic services,...
- Tags: GPS, Memory, Keyboards, SD expansion slot, user interface, menu page, NAVIGON, Navigon 2100
- Product reviews 2007-11-19
- More images and products from supercomputing 2007
- The SC07 supercomputing conference was a very interesting show for me this year and it was my first time attending this conference. Here are some more interesting products that I haven't covered yet all the way from the very high-end to entry-level HPC computers. Sun's 3456-node "petascale" constellation cluster...
- Tags: Processor, Blade Server, Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Power Supply, Motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Supercomputing, Tyan, 1U, TST, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Gallery: Personal computers from the 1970s
- The latest image gallery in TechRepublic's series of "Dinosaur Sightings" offers a look, inside and out, at 1970s-era consumer computers. The gallery showcases a number of vintage machines from the collection of Steven Stengel, including [see below, clockwise from upper left]: the IMSAI 8080, one of...
- Tags: PC, Apple Inc., Computer, Gallery, Productivity, David Grober
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- (Photos: Dinosaur Sightings: 1970s computers)
- (Photos: Dinosaur Sightings: 1970s computers)The Stone AgeI was in high school when a lot of those were built. We had Apple IIs in school I eventually got one for home, I had an Atari 400, Commodore Vic 20 (I don't remember the memory expansion pack sizes with it) and...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Dinosaur Sightings, computer, photograph, NorthStar Z80, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Intel launches Caneland MP platform and Tigerton CPUs
- Intel has announced the launch of the "Caneland" 7300 series MP (multi-processor) 4-socket chipset and the Tigerton XEON MP 65nm CPU. The clock speeds for the new chip are 1.6, 1.86, 2.40, and 2.93 gigahertz and they are based on Intel's Core Micro-architecture which launched last summer with the Core 2 Duo desktop and Xeon 5100 series dual processor server platform. The 50...
- Tags: Chipset, Server, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., X4 DDR2, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Unified Communications Solution Helps Telecoms Giant Practise What IT Preaches
- KPN wanted to enable KPN to reap the collaborative benefits of a unified IP network, reduce its operating costs and install an enterprise network that it could demonstrate to its customers. An enterprise-wide multi-site IP network built around the Nortel Communication Server 1000 for Voice over IP for 20,000 users....
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Information Technology, Unified Communications, IP, Networking, Network Technology, Desktops, Telecommunications, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-09-07
- Unified Communications Delivers 'Convergence Innovation' and the Foundation for Success
- The MaRS Discovery District is a 700,000-square-foot next-generation research facility, bringing together academic, business, capital and scientific research communities to collaborate on and commercialize new scientific discoveries. Central to MaRS' success was a leading-edge information technology infrastructure capable of serving as the foundation for advanced collaboration and research. A Nortel...
- Tags: Innovation, Multimedia, Nortel Networks Corp., Unified Communications, MaRS Discovery District
- Case studies 2007-08-24
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