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- Wireless service boosters: A good idea but we shouldn't have to pay extra
- You would think that the news of an AT&T Femtocell product - basically, a network extender that can help boost a weak cell phone signal in homes and buildings - would be a welcome product, especially for the iPhone users who regularly have to deal with dropped calls. ...
- Tags: Network, AT&T Corp., Wireless Service, Wireless, Network Extender, Networking, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Wireless And Mobility, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Verizon Wireless Network Extender
- Verizon Wireless likes to boast it has the best network coverage in the nation, and indeed, we've had plenty of readers tell us they rarely have a problem with signal strength on their Verizon phones. However, that doesn't mean there aren't any dead spots or areas with weak coverage. Verizon...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Open Access, Network Extender, network, Verizon Wireless, Verizon Wireless Network Extender, GPS
- Product reviews 2009-02-19
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- Wireless service boosters: A good idea but we shouldn't have to pay extra
- You can get them to waive the costsI had a very similar problem with Sprint. I simply sent an email to dan@sprint.com, and within 48 hours I had a free AIRAVE device with no additional monthly charges. The device works well. I don't even have it connected...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, E-mail, Wireless and Mobility, wireless, wireless service
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Red Hat: Microsoft taking cloud back to the 80s
- Red Hat should feel right at home then because using their software is like using something out of the 80's. I'll prefer a modern company like Microsoft instead of a company based on 30 year old technology such as Red Hat. My theory is that Red Hat is...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NT-kernel, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Linux, Unix
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Harry Potter and the search for a true Media Center experience
- Using Windows Media Center[i]I'm not saying that such a device exists, but having a combination of media streamers, extenders and digital video recorders would be perfect. Having a box which allows you to stream all kinds of media from a shared folder on your PC over a wireless N network...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, TVs, Microsoft Windows, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, DMA2200, extender, Media Center PC, PC, TV, Microsoft Windows Media Center
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Harry Potter and the search for a true Media Center experience
- After spending hours researching, learning and trying to understand media streaming over a wireless network, I took a bold move and bought a Linksys Media Center Extender DMA2100 without entirely knowing what it would do, provide me, or even if it was what I wanted. I took...
- Tags: Potter Inc., Windows Media, Media Center PC, Network, PC, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Media Extender, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Windows 7, netbook support in the works for Windows Home Server
- Windows 7, netbook support in the works for Windows Home ServerWin 7 Support?I've been running Win 7 for months and using it with my Windows Home Server without issue. It backs up files and I was able to use the WHS to restore a file that I accidentally overwrote...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), netbook, server, WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Win 7
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
- Discontinuation Day: HP pulls plug on MediaSmart TVs, Linksys switches off its Media Center Extenders
- On the march toward the integration of the PC and the home theater, there have been numerous casualties, and today apparently you can add a couple more to the list. Gizmodo has confirmed that HP has finally given up on a couple of its living-room initiatives, specifically the MediaSmart TVs...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Media Center PC, Media Center Extender, Linksys Inc., Media Center PCs, Web Site Development, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Scott Adams' "home server" would be a massive DRM and vendor lock-in
- Scott Adams' "home server" would be a massive DRM and vendor lock-init already existsWindows Home Server?Apple will charge...One dollar less than "crazy expensive". That's the magic of Steve Jobs.Smart Home technologyAbout 20 years ago I worked with a company that installed custom control systems for edifices that controlled lighting,...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Construction, Bluetooth, TVs, PRODUCTIVITY, Digital media, TV & Home Theater, Apple Inc., Scott Adams, Apple TV, digital-rights management, home server, HVAC, TV
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9150
- Many of the networked-media players we've looked at recently rely heavily on interfacing with Windows Media Center, the digital media hub software that's available on many--but not all--PCs running Windows XP and Vista. Some models, such as the HP MediaSmart Connect, can operate in "WMC Extender mode" or via their...
- Tags: Home networking, Media Center PCs, Digital media, NetGear
- Product reviews 2009-04-21
- One Cisco Unified Computing System beats 15 coal-fired energy plants
- So what's the power of one Unified Computing System being rolled out by Cisco Systems and partners such as EMC, VMware and Intel? Hard to be precise, but the memory capacity and power savings should capture the attention at least of the Internal...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Cisco launches bid to capture the data center
- Cisco Systems has just launched what it considers a "critical step" in its Data Center 3.0 strategy, promising an ecosystem of partners which include chipmaker Intel, tech consultancy Accenture, virtualization software provider VMWare, Microsoft, the labs unit of enterprise software firm SAP, storage maker EMC and...
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week
- Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the Nissan Altima Hybrid, a Panasonic DVD recorder/VCR combo, Verizon Wireless Network Extender, and Asus' new all-in-one PC. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-02-21
- Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores
- Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail storesWhat's Microsoft going to sell?Windows 7. Office. Anything else? Oh. Mice. Anything else?Well.....by the time they set up displays of their eleventeen versions of Windows, there won't be much room left for anything else, will there?Maybe they could use one...
- Tags: Retail, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., own family, retail company
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- CES 2009: Hands-on with Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system
- With its past purchases of Linksys and set-top-box maker Scientific Atlanta, Cisco hasn't exactly been subtle about its intentions to be a major player in the connected home. Thus far, those acquisitions hadn't produced anything particularly noteworthy, but that appears to change with the company's new Linksys by Cisco Wireless...
- Tags: Speaker, Cisco Systems Inc., Director, Linksys Inc., Wireless, Home Networking, Networking, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-01-11
- Staying on Top of Enterprise Extender: Proactive Monitoring, Management & Optimization
- HPR totally supplanted SNA/APPN's traditional 'Intermediate session routing' functionality with three new, function-rich components. These three HPR routing components, in the context of EE, then rely upon UDP, a connectionless protocol often blocked by firewalls, for their end-to-end network transport. UDP, in its turn, uses IP, with all of its...
- Tags: Optimization, Network, Monitoring, IP, UDP, Software Diversified Services, Networking
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Linksys Media Center Extender DMA2200 - DVD player / digital multimedia receiver
- With the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft hopes to get consumers one step closer to having a dedicated "family room" PC. Included in nearly all versions of Vista is Windows Media Center, a sort of multimedia portal that can access and play all kinds of digital media stored on...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Home networking, Consumer electronics, multimedia, Media Center PC, DMA2200, Linksys Inc., DVD, DVD player
- Product reviews 2008-12-08
- Going back to Windows Media Center
- Going back to Windows Media CenterWindows Media CenterI am also a Time Warner customer who quit their DVR boxes in favor of Windows Media Center. For over a year, I've had great controlling two digital cable boxes with an IR blaster and using Media Center as my DVR. ...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Digital media, DVR, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows Media Center, Going Back, Windows Media, digital video recorder, cable, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release
- Is it a major release or just a revamped Windows Vista? That’s the big question surrounding Windows 7, which made its public debut in a keynote address by Steven Sinofsky today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft executives showed off the new Windows...
- Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows 7, Network, Window, Microsoft Windows Vista, Feature, PowerShell Scripting Language, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- RealNetworks: Rip those DVDs (with a dash of DRM)
- RealNetworks: Rip those DVDs with a dash of DRMScam for your moneyWorthless...!Since most companies are going Media Centerstyle, this is a stand alone product.Facts do not say anything about HD resolution.Only thing this would be good for is laptops and travel. Buying licenses for multiple pc's is not my idea...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Consumer electronics, Digital media, DVD, digital-rights management, RealNetworks Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
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