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ZDNet Holiday Gift Guide 2008

Dozens of product recommendations by the ZDNet Reviews experts you trust, including cameras and camcorders, cell phones and smartphones, laptops and desktops, MP3 players, GPS navigation, networking devices and HDTVs and home theater systems.

Tags: Network, Smart Phones, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, Media Players, Digital Music, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Holiday Gift Guide, reviews, product photos, lists

Articles 2008-11-19

ThinkPad X200 reviews: Great ultraportable . . . but it's no X300

The X200 is one of eight new ThinkPads--including the SL series for small business--that Lenovo announced as part of Intel's Centrino 2 launch. The 12.1-inch wide-screen ultraportable, which replaces the popular ThinkPad X61, is designed to bring some of the features of the pricey 13.3-inch X300 to a broader audience....

Tags: intel centrino 2, intel centrino, ibm thinkpad, lenovo group ltd., thinkpad x200, x300, reviews, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, john morris

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Startup Spotlight: GroupRecipes.com

[Note: There is a lot of junk out there in the Web 2.0 space. Id like to help readers cull through some of that to find not only good services, but great ideas. So, in my weekly Startup Spotlight Ill be assigning a score to a solution based on four...

Tags: Design, Social Media, Reviews, Social Software, Community, Tech, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Quick Review: Logitech Harmony

Part of my goal with this blog is expanding on the idea of what web 2.0 is...what it means...and where it is going. More and more we are seeing delightful hybrids of web to device, like Skype phones and streaming music devices. Logitech has taken that idea and applied it...

Tags: Reviews, Two-Way Web, Convergence, Products, Web 2.0, Media, Tech

Blog posts 2007-02-20

Quick Review: Hands on with the iPhone

Whoa...slow down! Before you get all foaming at the mouth...Im talking about the Linksys iPhone for the Skype service. BUT BEFORE YOU RUN AWAY...you should read this review because this phone is outstanding and will save you money (maybe enough to buy that other...uh...iPhone)! Linksys iPhone CIT-400...

Tags: Apple iPhone, telephone, Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2007-01-31

Quick Review: Hands on With the Belkin Skype Phone

Three years ago I let go of one of the last vestiges of the wired world by cutting the land-line phone and moving to wireless. The problem with this has popped up in a number of unlikely places. One, I moved from a house to a new condo...and the reality...

Tags: Web 2.0, Tech, Design, Products, Reviews, telephone

Blog posts 2007-01-18

New Linksys Wireless-G IP Phone reviewed

Blogger BuzzMeBaby.com is out with a review of the brand new Linksys WIP300 Wireless-G IP Phone.A few of the specs:Dimensions: 4.65 x 1.77 x 0.78 inches. Battery: 900 mAH Li-Ion, with 3 hours talk time or 50 hours standby time.Memory: 16MB Flash and 12 MB SRAM. Phonebook:...

Tags: General, Reviews, Products, Cisco

Blog posts 2006-12-05

Review of Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad

At the Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad, 13 web startups have 5 minutes each to present their wares. Here are some quick impressionistic views of how it went.... In the chair is a music-based video game, where people can interact with music - e.g. generate your own content and play...

Tags: tool, Web 2.0, News, Tech, Social Media, web2con, Internet Companies, Products, Reviews, Social Software, Two-Way Web, Web as Platform, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-07

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Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the BlueAnt S1 Bluetooth speakerphone, Canon PowerShot A2100 IS, and HTC Touch Pro2. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-07-04

Cheaper ultraportables meet more powerful netbooks

There are two ways to address the limitations of netbooks: 1.) offer less-costly notebooks, or 2.) give netbooks a little more muscle. Both are now happening. The ultra-thin laptops based on Intel's ULV processors or AMD's Athlon Neo are an obvious alternative to netbooks, and they've already...

Tags: Netbook, Vostro 1220, 6-cell Battery, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-07-03

AppStore Sales 1.0 (Mac)

AppStore Sales it's small, but powerful utility for monitoring purchases your application in AppStore. Features: Support daily, weekly and monthly reports Auto-downloads daily reports from iTunesConnect Detail information for daily downloads. Count of purchases, updates and re-downloads Summary information for all application Various graphs and charts Count of new...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Banana Developers, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-03

Tailoring Web technology to a bespoke dress shirt business

Tailoring Web technology to a bespoke dress shirt businessLoving itloving it!RE: Tailoring Web technology to a bespoke dress shirt businessI've been buying all my shirts online for a while now with mixed results. You really need to be careful with some of the smaller players who may not have a...

Tags: Web site development, Web, web technology, ShirtsMyWay, shirt

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

PhoneFlix 1.3 (Mobile)

With PhoneFlix your iPhone can add and remove movies from your Netflix Queue, change the position of a movie in your Netflix Queue, search and browse through Netflix's catalog of over 100,000 titles including new releases, classic movies, and TV favorites, and view your recent activity, recommendations, and reviews. PhoneFlix...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Mobile, Next Mobile Web, PhoneFlix 1.3, TVs, Smart Phones, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-07-02

HP Pavilion dv7-2185DX

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores.Few manufacturers have the art of making upscale-looking 17-inch (and even 18-inch) multimedia laptops down to a science like HP does....

Tags: Desktops, Processors, HP Pavilion, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2009-07-01

Motorola Rokr S9 HD - black

When Motorola came out with the Motorola Rokr S9 headset two years ago, stereo Bluetooth headsets were still fairly new, and the S9 gained popularity because of its sports-centric design. Now that more phones have stereo Bluetooth capability (including the iPhone 3G thanks to its latest firmware update), Motorola is...

Tags: music player control, Motorola ROKR, Motorola Rokr S9, Motorola Inc., Motorola Rokr S9 HD, headset, Rokr S9 HD

Product reviews 2009-07-01

Phiaton PS 320 Primal Series headphones

With the number of people listening to music on the go, it's no surprise that portable headphones are flying off the shelves. For those who are looking for extreme portability, the obvious choice is earbuds, but certain users are uncomfortable sticking things in their ears. For them, there are compact...

Tags: headphone, PS 320, Phiaton PS 320, Phiaton PS 320 headphone, Bose

Product reviews 2009-07-01

Asus G71GX-RX05

Editors' Note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. Do you want a little more flash with your computing experience, but you're on a budget? The Asus G71GX-RX05 serves...

Tags: Games, Processors, Notebooks, Asus G71GX-RX05, ASUS

Product reviews 2009-07-01

Samsung Axle SCH-r311 (U.S. Cellular)

Now that U.S. Cellular finally has taken notice of CNET, we've had the opportunity to review a range of the carrier's phones, from sweet multimedia handsets to models built for texting. The new Samsung Axle SCH-r311 falls into neither camp, but it's an acceptable phone for basic communication. Its...

Tags: U.S. Cellular, VGA Camera, Samsung Axle, phone, camera, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-07-01

ASUS VH236H - LCD display - TFT - 23"

The Asus VH236H is available for around $190 from e-tailers. For that price you not only get HDMI and DVI support, built-in speakers, a headphone jack but also great movie and game performance. We'd prefer to have more ergonomic options and a less frustrating OSD menu, but with its...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Pressing Menu, LCD, TFT, ASUS VH236H, S/A, ASUS, bezel, OverDrive, OSD, Samsung SyncMaster P2370

Product reviews 2009-07-01

Maxtor BlackArmor PS 110 - hard drive - 500 GB - Hi-Speed USB

Maxtor's new 500GB BlackArmor PS 110 external hard drive ($160) provides trustworthy storage and data backup solutions for the consumer that needs more space. The shape and design of the drive isn't a far departure from the FreeAgent Go, another thin external HDD from Maxtor's parent company Seagate. The PS...

Tags: Backups, Maxtor Corp., Maxtor BlackArmor PS 110, FireWire, hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC

Product reviews 2009-07-01