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- Bose On-Ear Headphones (black)
- With a potent blend of quality products and what seems like an almost ubiquitous marketing campaign, Bose had managed to persuade thousands of people to spend large sums of money on the company's QuietComfort 3s and QuietComfort 2s noise-canceling headphones. While those models are mainstays in the business-class section of...
- Tags: QuietComfort 3, headphone, On-Ear, QuietComfort 3s, Bose
- Product reviews 2008-05-15
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- Denon AH-NC732
- Bose has managed to persuade thousands of people to spend large sums of money on the company's QuietComfort 3 and QuietComfort 2 noise-canceling headphones. That has emboldened companies such as Denon--which can leverage its own highly respected brand--to come up with its own pair of $300 noise-canceling headphones. Alas, Denon...
- Tags: AH-NC732s, headphone, Bose, Denon
- Product reviews 2008-10-01
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Deploying Mobile Backhaul - Ethernet Microwave Technology Choices for Lower OPEX
- This paper focuses on methods for reducing OPeration EXpenditure OPEX enabled by the shift to advanced Ethernet microwave backhaul solutions. Microwave is the preferred backhaul technology by most of the world's mobile operators. Outside of the U.S.A., nearly 70% of all backhaul traffic travels over microwave links. Microwave is instant,...
- Tags: Ethernet, Mobile, Microwave, Ceragon, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-06-01
- iTouchless Pure-Ear active noise-canceling headphones
- Active noise-canceling headphones can be a sanity saver in noisy planes, trains, or offices, but their high price has kept them out of reach for many of us. The iTouchless Pure-Ear active noise-canceling headphones ($129) offer an affordable active noise-canceling headphone option for those seeking sonic refuge on a budget.Cosmetically,...
- Tags: headphone, iTouchless Pure-Ear, iTouchless Pure-Ear headphone
- Product reviews 2008-03-20
- LTB Q-BASS Wireless Headphones
- When it comes to wireless headphones, there's Bluetooth, and then there's everything else. The LTB Q-Bass wireless headphones ($149) fall into the latter category, giving it some advantages and disadvantages compared with the competition. On the upside, the LTB Q-Bass headphones offer superior audio quality compared with the A2DP Bluetooth...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, wireless, battery, LTB Q-Bass, headphone
- Product reviews 2008-02-14
- Five lessons the rest of Microsoft can learn from Zune
- If you buy into Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's logic, consumer -- not enterprise -- is where the action is, these days. The cool tech innovations are coming from the consumer world and being adopted by business, not vice versa. So what learnings can the rest...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Game Players, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Radiohead's DRM experiment
- Radiohead's DRM experimentBut you didn't give money to RadioheadFair enough if you were just sampling and found you didn't like it, but what are the odds you'd pay to a band you DID like? That, of course, is the million dollar question. Clearly, MOST aren't paying of their...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, Radiohead, music, ComScore Networks Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- System Analyser (zip)
- System Analyser gives comprehensive information about your system: Bios, Network, Dos, CPU/FPU, Cache, Memory, SPD, Video, AGP, Monitor, Drives, partitions, IDE, ATAPI, SATA, CD-Rom, DVD, Blue-ray Disk, RPC2, Lpt, Rs232, Mouse, Keyboard, IEEE 1284, Modem, Fax, ISDN, Sound, ASPI/CAM, SCSI, DMI, PCI, PCI Express, PCMCIA, Plug and Play, APM, ESCD,...
- Tags: PCI, Serial ATA, Y2K, BIOS, Modems, Storage, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2007-10-11
- Creative Aurvana X-Fi headphones
- There's no shortage of noise-canceling headphones on the market, but only one pair features Creative's sound-enhancing X-Fi technology: the Creative Aurvana X-Fi headphones. These headphones offer good sound quality and a comfortable fit, but it'll cost you--about $300, to be exact. The Aurvana X-Fi's design is somewhat counterintuitive, in that...
- Tags: headphone, Aurvana X-Fi
- Product reviews 2007-09-14
- Philips SHN7500 Noise Canceling Headphones
- Philips SHN7500 Noise Canceling Headphones are a peculiar product. They happen to be one of those unusual pieces of gear that, depending on how you look at it, has a very smart--or kind of silly--design.The basic premise behind the headphones, which carry an MSRP of $100, is that you wear...
- Tags: headphone, dongle, Philips Electronics N.V., Philips SHN7500 Noise Canceling Headphones, noise cancellation, seal
- Product reviews 2007-09-13
- APT Golf (exe)
- Improve your golf game and keep track of rounds you play. Calculates handicap using USGA rules. Also can keep additional statistics including putts, greens in regulation, and fairways hit. Statistics can be broken down by par 3s, par 4s, and par 5s. Can keep track of any number of golfers....
- Tags: Statistics, Games, Regulations, Personal Technology, Government
- Software downloads 2007-07-30
- JVC HA-NC250 Noise Canceling Headphones
- JVC has built a reasonable reputation for producing inexpensive noise-canceling headphones, and those 'phones have done well in terms of sound quality. Still, there's nothing wrong with taking a step up in the world, which is exactly what JVC is doing with the HA-NC250 Noise Canceling Headphones. Compared to previous...
- Tags: JVC, headphone, HA-NC250 Noise Canceling Headphones, noise-cancellation, noise-cancellation feature
- Product reviews 2007-07-18
- That which survives: The problem of data longevity
- That which survives: The problem of data longevityRead until I fell asleepThe author has that effect on most people. A writer could boil down this long winded "blog" down to three or four lines.All of this Babble as an excuse to rantabotu Microsoft office. What a sad little...
- Tags: Word processors, shareware, Corel WordPerfect
- Discussion threads 2007-07-02
- A free Cardo Scala 700LX Bluetooth headset (value $65) goes to the ZDNet reader who...
- It's week #6 of ZDNet's Deputy Tester of the Week program and so far, we've named 11 ZDNet audience members as deputy testers who get to keep whatever technology I send them. Here's a list of what we've given away so far: Three copies of Balesio's PPTMinimizer (value $30 each) Two copies...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Video, Telephony, Product Giveaways, Personal Technology, Mobile, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Targus Travel-Ease Noise Cancellation Headphones
- If you're among the many who want Bose's QuietComfort 2 noise-cancelling headphones but think $300 is too much to pay for them, something like Targus' $70 Travel-Ease Noise Cancellation Headphones are probably going to catch your eye. While not a true knock-off of the QC2, their design has certainly been...
- Tags: headphone, Targus
- Product reviews 2007-05-10
- Microsoft brings Windows Live Messenger to XBox 360
- Microsoft has released a major update to the XBox 360 which brings Windows Live Messenger functionality to its games console, connecting the device to the millions of users for whom Messenger is already their IM client of choice. Right now 360 users can input text using a virtual on-screen keyboard...
- Tags: Social Networks, Microsoft, Instant Messenger
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Adobe: Upgrade your hardware for Creative Suite 3; stay tuned for pricing details
- On Adobes first quarter earnings conference call it became clear in a hurry that if you want to get the full impact of Creative Suite 3 you better upgrade those Macs. Meanwhile, more color on Creative Suite 3s impact and pricing will come next...
- Tags: Operating systems, pricing, Cs3, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Creative Suite, operating system, Adobes, hardware
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- CES: Leading Quake 4 professional gamer "LoSt CaUzE" talks about his Dead Finger Tech
- Not only does the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas bring out the hottest technology products, it brings out the hottest professional gamers: people who make money and lots of it doing nothing but playing video games. Well, actually, the best ones are like the sports players who get paid...
- Tags: General, Entertainment, Personal Technology, Video, Dead Finger Tech, Events, CES 2007, Cool Tech Gear, headphone, Rafik Bryant
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Best deal on a Blu-ray player? How about Sony's Playstation 3?
- Over the holidays, someone told me the best way to lay your hands on a cheap Blu-ray player is to purchase a Sony Playstation 3 (since they can playback Blu-ray Disc...given how Sony is a major proponent of Blu-ray Disc instead of the competing HD-DVD). Looking at the product...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Game players, DVD, Consumer electronics, Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray Player, Sony PlayStation 3
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
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