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Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices

I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

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iTablet goes OLED,??bumped until late 2010

$2000? I doubt it.Apple puts themselves in a "premium" price range, but $2000 for a 10" tablet? Even they're not THAT crazy.No ThanksDon't need or want either, waste of space...If I want real gaming, I'd rather play real games on my PS3 or Wii on my flat screen; or on...

Tags: SunSHINE, iTablet, organic light-emitting diode, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Apple hints at possible pen-based tablet

Pretty much anything that includes the words "Apple" and "tablet" in the same sentence is going to get the attention of the blognoscenti, but when it comes from Apple itself, people pay attention. Exhibit A is 9 to 5 Mac's piece today about a patent...

Tags: Patent, Handwriting Recognition, Termination, Apple Inc., Ink Manager, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-11-12

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck less

Ummmm..."Windows 1: Shipped in 1985 and nobody cared.Windows 2: Shipped in 1987 and few cared.Windows 3: Came out in 1990 and PC users cared, especially with Windows 3.1 in 1992 (And I include here the introduction of Windows NT, which I believe was given a 3.x number.)Windows 4: Windows 95....

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7.5, Mac history, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-01

Kodak 5250

The ESP 5250 is Kodak's latest upgrade to last year's ESP 5 all-in-one AIO, which should be obvious from the almost identical design. Aside from looks, the printer does make improvements to print quality and most notably, output speed, but the printer still isn't perfect--it's missing an auto-document feeder and...

Tags: Scanners, Printers, Monitors & displays, Eastman Kodak Co., ESP 5, ESP, scanner, printer

Product reviews 2009-10-29

NumberKey for iPhone 2.0 (Mobile)

NumberKey for iPhone turns your iPhone and iPod touch into a numeric keypad for your notebook. It features black, white, silver, and classic skins, option to switch from clear key to delete key, On and off function of the comma key, carousel key panel, tab key, connect easily and automatically...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Balmuda, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Vizio VF551XVT

Photo gallery: Vizio VF551XVTWe're willing to bet that when Vizio announced the VF551XVT back in January, plenty of savvy HDTV bargain hunters marked down "June" as the time they'd buy this 55-inch LED-based LCD. Then the company pushed its release back to September. Then it announced that the...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Vizio VF551XVT, Vizio

Product reviews 2009-10-23

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Apple's bumper crop of fall hardware, reviewed

Apple yesterday released a cornucopia of new consumer hardware and the reviews are starting to roll in. No firm benchmarks have been conducted but several outlets have posted preliminary reviews of Apple's Fall 2009 hardware. Macworld likes the LED-backlit displays in the new...

Tags: Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Hardware, FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole story

RE: Nine out of 10 corporate PCs can run Windows 7 ... but that's not the whole storyMost corporate PCs were not updated to Vista, because Vista didn't add any additional values; required more powerful hardware and had a very bad name from the start.Most companies will also not upgrade...

Tags: Operating systems, Software Developement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, corporate PC, PC, Win7, whole story, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Sharp LC-52LE700UN

Photo gallery: Sharp LC-LE700UN seriesLCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 MSRP for the 52-inch model. LED has become a lot more mainstream since...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-LE700UN series, Sharp LC-LE700UN, LCD, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Sharp LC-40LE700UN

Photo gallery: Sharp LC-LE700UN seriesLCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 MSRP for the 52-inch model. LED has become a lot more mainstream since...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-LE700UN series, Sharp LC-LE700UN, LCD, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Sharp LC-46LE700UN

Photo gallery: Sharp LC-LE700UN seriesLCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 MSRP for the 52-inch model. LED has become a lot more mainstream since...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., Sharp LC-LE700UN series, Sharp LC-LE700UN, LCD, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Windows 7 demo: Search tools

The has to be the laziest piece of work ever!You have condensed Ed Botts work into a paragraph, including his video, and then posted it. Can you not write your own piece about Windows 7 search?Hope its better than Vista searchI was really surprised how bad the search is in...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PRODUCTIVITY, SEARCH, Microsoft Windows 7, search tool, Windows 7 demo, Vista Search, Microsoft Windows Vista, tool, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

HP TouchSmart 600

The HP TouchSmart 600 shows how getting an early jump on unproven technology can pay off. HP was first to market with a touch-based all-in-one PC more than two years ago. Now that Windows 7 has spurred almost every major desktop vendor toward multitouch, HP has the advantage of years...

Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, audio ouput, Hewlett-Packard Co., TouchSmart 600, Sony Corp., HP TouchSmart

Product reviews 2009-10-13

Samsung UN46B8500

Photo gallery: Samsung UNB8500 seriesIf you watch football or read CNET, chances are you've noticed ads for Samsung's so-called LED TVs. The company has released three series of these super-thin LED-based LCDs so far this year, the 6000, the 7000, and the 8000 models, but it's saved the...

Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung UNB8500, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-06

Samsung UN55B8500

Photo gallery: Samsung UNB8500 seriesIf you watch football or read CNET, chances are you've noticed ads for Samsung's so-called LED TVs. The company has released three series of these super-thin LED-based LCDs so far this year, the 6000, the 7000, and the 8000 models, but it's saved the...

Tags: Engineering, Monitors & displays, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung UNB8500, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-10-06

Report details action plan for smart grid standards

It shouldn't surprise you to hear that the 90-page smart grid standards document released in late September by the U.S. Commerce Department lists no fewer than 80 standards that are vying for some role in the nation's smart grid infrastructure. The analysis ("NIST Framework and Roadmap for...

Tags: Action Plan, Standards, NIST, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-06

The new way to get rooftop solar installed: standard-sized shingles

Old newsUni-solar has done this already. They may look better compared to a normal panel installation. But most thin-films are only 5-9 % efficiency compared to silicon with is 10-16 %. Plus the heat can drop this efficiency due to the lack of underside cooling.RE: The new way to get...

Tags: Semiconductors, UNI-SOLAR

Discussion threads 2009-10-05