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BlackBerry patent app addresses "battery slump" monitoring, management issues

A new BlackBerry patent application published just yesterday would improve the ability of BlackBerry devices to read voltage levels. The patent app is entitled System and Method for Managing Battery Slump. As we often do when discussing patents, let's read the Abstract...

Tags: ADC Telecommunications Inc., Signal, Battery, Monitoring, Trigger, RIM BlackBerry, Transmission, Patent App, Abstract, PA, Battery Voltage, ADC 600, Engineering, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-18

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New Pogoplug brings hard drives online with additional USB ports, bright colors

Not what it started out to bePogoplug is still deeply proprietary, and not the server that they portend it to be. there is no external support beyond a browser interface. Sure I can go any where and have the information on Pogoplug's proprietary page, but the original mission was to...

Tags: USB port, Pogoplug, hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

PowerArchiver 2010 11.61 (Windows)

PowerArchiver is an archive utility that provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools through an easy-to-use interface that seamlessly integrates with Windows Explorer. PowerArchiver natively supports ZIP, 7-Zip, CAB, LHA LZH, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE,...

Tags: Disc, 7-zip, ConeXware, PowerArchiver, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-18

The weirdest Easter egg ever seen on Facebook

Contra...Isn't that the extra lives/weapons cheat code for Contra on NES?The Konami Codehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_CodeInterestingly, the article already makes reference to the Facebook Easter Egg.Funny you should mention that...It's apparently called a Konami code (http://twitter.com/the_pc_doc/status/5813662529)I'm waaaay too young to know that :)RE: The weirdest Easter egg ever seen on FacebookThis is very...

Tags: Web browsers, weirdest Easter egg, Facebook, Easter egg, Konami Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Google Maps and the mystery of the non-existent town

anagram softwareDid you get the words "not real" out of it? With an extra "G" left over?Brilliant!Good find! If that isn't the solution, then it sure is one heck of a coincidence.It wouldn't surprise me at all if that is it. Similar things -- adding a fictional item...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Network technology, Zack, Yahoo Maps, Google Inc., Google Maps, Argleton

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

2010 Infiniti QX56

Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...

Tags: Infiniti QX56

Product reviews 2009-10-30

Windows 7 will shine in medicine

not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Web 2.0 Summit video: GE shows off mini ultrasound device

Not uniqueSonoSite makes a similar product. As part of a an upgrade of portable ultrasound used by the PA's to place central lines in a hospital chain, SonoSite reps used their latest & greatest product at the bedside on my patient who has known abnormal subclavian vein issues that...

Tags: video, SonoSite, CPR, patient, General Electric Co.

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

WinSay 1.0 (Windows)

WinSay is a simple "Say" command for Windows -- something that does not otherwise exist in a simple-to-use form like this. Specifically, WinSay is a command-line tool that performs text-to-speech conversion. This gives you the ability to easily integrate speech into programs, scripts and third-party software, thus allowing things like...

Tags: Clay Hellman, WinSay, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-21

Massachusetts becomes Canada as reform debate nears climax

Obamacare ship is sinkingPeople saw the light with the failed socialist experiment in mASSachusetts, so liberal politicians like Barnie Frank can stuck their health care reform where the sun doesn't shine.Yeah, the ship is sinking, but it is Obama who's rearanging the chairs to give Pelosi and Reid front row...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

PA Semi ARM chip bound for Apple tablet

I saw this comingI was watching the History Channel and Nostradamus predicted the coming of the Anti Iphone A tablet will do as good as the Newton....Unless they came up with some really new and gotta have feature like it can run for 16 hours I just don't see the...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, apple tablet, chip, tablet, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

PA Semi ARM chip bound for Apple tablet

Back in May 2008 Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed an upcoming, larger, "version of the iPhone" based on Intel's Atom platform. His comments were later retracted by Intel corporate who claimed that Schwaderer’s comments were misinterpreted. In its carefully-worded apology, Intel implied that Atom wasn't suitable...

Tags: ARM, Apple Inc., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Chip, Tablets, Notebooks, Smart Phones, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Components, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-05

The Security Analysis and Enhancement of Photographic Authentication

The aims of this project were to analyze the security of Photographic Authentication PA systematically, show that PA is vulnerable under the polling attack, and give some suggestions to enhance its security. To achieve the above goals, an automatic attack tool is designed to analysis the security of PA systematically....

Tags: Photograph, Authentication, Attack Tool, Security

White papers 2009-09-30

AT&T takes the phone out of iPhone

Funny...Im on the east coast too and live in rural america to boot eastern shore. Verizon has the [b]best[/b] coverage hands down. 100% here - better than VerizonI'm on the east coast and have no issues with my iPhone. Rock solid and reliable. Better than the Verizon NOTwork.RE:...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., phone, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

News to know: Adobe; Sergey Brin; Apps.gov; Oracle; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Adobe to acquire Ominture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer' Larry Dignan: Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Sergey Brin, OIN, Enterprise Service Bus, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Tablets, Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Pennsylvania has coal, may get first U.S. low emission coal burner

Future Power PA is seeking a federal grant to accelerate construction of "near-zero" emissions plant. This coal-burner is to be built near Good Spring, Pennsylvania, chosen not for its symbolic name but for its porximity to a large anthracite mine. Future Power says it aims to have the plant...

Tags: Pennsylvania, Houston, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-15

In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadband

Translation: That's about 180KbpsFor the DSL speed. And given that they were uploading from another DSL connection, that's pretty close to a common upload cap of 256kbps in the US. Would that be called Beaker Net...instead of Sneaker Net?RE: In South Africa, carrier pigeon faster than broadbandHmmm.Maybe Linux...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, carrier, bandwidth, broadband, latency

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Megaphone 1.1.1 (Mobile)

With Megaphone transform your iPhone into a microphone, PA system, or Megaphone when you plug it into amplified speakers. Just plug in a stereo or amplified speakers into the headphone jack, launch megaphone, and start talking. Plug the iPhone into an FM transmitter for a wireless microphone.

Tags: Apple iPhone, Microphone, Mobile, Smudge Apps, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-03

Bose QuietComfort 15

In designing its fourth-generation consumer noise-canceling headphones, the QuietComfort 15s, Bose has done something interesting. Instead of coming up with a whole new look for its headphones as it did with the QuietComfort 3s, Bose has left the basic design of its popular QuietComfort 2s intact and simply redesigned them...

Tags: QuietComfort 3s, Bose, headphone

Product reviews 2009-08-21