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Samsung LN37A450

Samsung LN37A450Samsung LN37A450 IssuesI purchased a Samsung 37" LCD TV on August 2nd 2008 and within a short period of time it started screwing up. I thought it could have been the HDMI cables so I spend time purchasing new cables but that didn't work.When you turn it on the...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., service center, TV

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

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New Classmate PC all about "ecosystem"

We've known for a while that Intel was working a touch-enabled reference design for their new Classmate PCs. It wasn't until I had an opportunity this week to speak with some of the folks working on the project at Intel that I realized just how far this product had...

Tags: Software, Intel Corp., Classmate, Vernier, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Samsung's slick HT-BD7200 Blu-ray home theater system

The Samsung HT-BD7200 is the 2009 follow-up to the HT-X710T, and gets several upgrades including Blu-ray (replete with BD-Live capability and Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding), Netflix streaming, and the Pandora music service. by CNET News.com

Tags: Home Theater, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Blu-ray, Samsung HT-BD7200, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-01-09

Amazon EC2 launches Web-based management console

Amazon Web Services announced a Web-based management console for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. According to Amazon's Web Services blog, the console allows you to access your environment with a user name or password. It adds: No more certificates or public/secret keys to manage! If...

Tags: Web, Password, Console, Amazon.com Inc., Management Console, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-09

News to know: Palm Pre, Windows 7, CES

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Matthew Miller: Welcome Palm Web OS, now what happens with Palm OS 5 applications? Sam Diaz: Palm's Pre and OS: Home-run announcements at CES Matthew Miller:...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Windows, Phishing, Operating Systems, Web Site Development, Software, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Trust: the Satyam Partnering Disaster

The images above, taken from Satyam's website, are now worthy of the fail blog. The shock waves rippling through the markets following Satyam's chairman and co-founder Ramalinga Raju's admissions of accounting fraud are world news, being dubbed 'India's Enron'. You...

Tags: Satyam, HCL, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-09

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

This extract from BIT continues the tour of a 2002/3 Wintel data center by looking at the resumes of those working there. by Paul Murphy

Tags: HTML, Certification, MCSE, Data Center, Microsoft Visual Basic, Server, IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Data Centers, Quality, Help Desk, Training And Certification, Microsoft Windows, E-mail Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, It Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Photos: Gracenote CarStars

With a celebrity music guide, subscription music service, and a social network, CarStars helps you discover new music with the help of your favorite recording artist in your car. Gracenote launched CarStars at CES 2009 in conjunction with two other companies. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Music, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-01-08

CES 2009: Flagship Viera plasma is 54" across, 1" deep, wireless-enabled [day 3]

One more Panasonic announcement. The Panasonic TC-P54Z1 is the company's new flagship Viera model, a 1080p one-inch-thin Z1 plasma. Like the previously mentioned "world's thinnest plasma," this HDTV is NeoPDP, and features WirelessHD technology as an expansion of VIERA Cast functionality: ...

Tags: Panasonic, Plasma, 1080p, Panasonic TC-P54Z1, NeoPDP VIERA Z1, Wi-Fi, Home Entertainment, Wireless, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

CES 2009: Samsung's 117-strong HDTV 'wings of glory' [day 3]

Not much to say here except how confident Samsung is in their booth and their HDTVs. Here are two pics I snapped of the entrance to their booth in the Central Hall of the Convention Center: Call it the...

Tags: Booth, Glory, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Windows 7 Beta 1: Ribbonized For Your Pleasure

The Windows 7 Operating System has improvements over Windows Vista which include more granular tuning of User Account Control UAC security prompts, a reduced memory footprint and improved performance on less powerful systems. But will the "Ribbonization" of the new user interface created by Steven Sinofsky's...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7 Operating System, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Video: Macworld's fading future

Larry Dignan and I sit down to talk about this year's Macworld - Apple's last. There was no Steve Jobs keynote speech this year as marketing VP Phil Schiller filled in. The announcements weren't very strong and the expo floor was really lacking a WOW product to fill-in for Apple....

Tags: Apple Inc., Video, Macworld, Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-08

CES 2009: Panasonic refreshes plasma, LCD line-ups, introduces 3D plasma TV

As with Internet-connected TVs, everyone seems to be jumping on the 3D bandwagon, with Panasonic leading the way. Along with the usual upgrades to its HDTV lines, it's also showing off its 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System, which consists of a 103-inch set and Blu-ray player that can...

Tags: 3D, Panasonic, Plasma, LCD, X1 Series, Z1 Series, G1 Series, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Let 'Em Go Cold Turkey on DTV, President Obama

By February 17, Barack Obama will be president. Already, he wants to delay the DTV transition scheduled for that night. Right now, TV stations across the country are supposed to flip the switch to all-digital signals at the end of...

Tags: Barack Obama, Digital Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Obama's push for alternative energy

Today President-elect Obama was specific in his call for more spending on energy conservation and on production of alternative, not-fossil-fuel-based, energy. Some items on the Obama wish list for his hoped-for stimulus plan: double alternative energy production in three years, construct a smarter electric grid to reduce waste,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Barack Obama, Obama, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Reasons to skip Microsoft's Windows 7 Beta download

As many of you know, I'm a hardcore Mac guy - but I wasn't always this way. My experiences with Windows Vista sent me over the edge, prompting me to add the "hardcore" next to my "Mac guy" title. Still, I was excited to hear that Microsoft is releasing a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-08

CES 2009: Liveblogging Palm's press conference [day 3]

Scroll down for newest info -- wireless is spotty! PALM IS ALIVE AND WELL Here's the whole press conference, from start to finish: 1:36PM EST: I'm sitting in the second row of Palm's very crowded press conference in a large ballroom...

Tags: Card, Facebook, Phone, Palm Inc., Ed Colligan, Sheryl Sandberg, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Get smart about skills today for tomorrow's jobs

Our future will require today's high school and college students to develop a unique skill-set never seen before. We must develop 21st century skills to prepare for tomorrow, says IBM's Kevin Faughnan. Commentary - Over the next five years, the United States is...

Tags: Job, Skill, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, jobs, IBM, careers, Kevin Faughnan, IBM’s Academic Initiative, Special to ZDNet, Kevin Faughnan, IBM’s Academic Initiative, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-01-08

Lenovo announces layoffs, cutbacks

Lenovo has announced a "resource redeployment plan" of layoffs, cutbacks and consolidation as part of a move to become more efficient in the wake of changing economic conditions. Basically, the company's earnings were disappointing last quarter and the cutbacks are meant to improve its fiscal standing. It's expecting a loss...

Tags: Layoff, Cutback, Lenovo Group Ltd., Asia-Pacific, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Green tech expert clarifies data center heat discussion

Just wanted to pop in a quick update/observation from a reader regarding my "Some like it hot" post the other day. He wanted to clarify my reference to the Arrhenius equation, which I used after the Sun exec I interviewed for the story used it to illustrate what we were...

Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Degree, Green Tech Expert, Arrhenius, Data Centers, Storage, Semiconductors, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-01-08