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CES: My day one highlight? A surge protector

As day one of CES comes to a close, some quick snapshots of three of the more interesting products I've come across both on the show floor, and at the myriad press-only events that accompany the show. Belkin Conserve Surge Protector Yes, you read...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Player, Slacker Portable, DVR, TVs, Wiki, Digital Music, Notebooks, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-01-07

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News to know: Windows 7. iPhone in China, CircuitCity.com, Java, Google books, Apple history

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. Ed Bott: Windows 7 to launch October 22; RTM next month Mary jo Foley: Windows 7: The incentives are...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Circuit City Stores Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Java, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Philips Streamium NP2900

When the Logitech Squeezebox Boom came out last year, it set a new standard for Wi-Fi radios. Yes, it was expensive, but it offered excellent sound quality, a smart design, and tons of features in a tiny package--no competing products even came close. The Philips NP2900 is the first real...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Wireless LANs, Philips Electronics N.V., Philips NP2900, radio, Wi-Fi radio, album art, Wi-Fi

Product reviews 2009-06-02

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Flip Ultra camcorder, Slacker portable Internet radio, Sharp AQUOS HDTV

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Flip Ultra camcorder, Slacker portable Internet radio, Sharp AQUOS HDTVSlacker G1 4GBNot that great of a deal, there. I think these last sold on Woot! for $50.99 shipped in the last Woot-off about two weeks ago, and pop up on Woot pretty regularly.It's also worth...

Tags: TVs, Digital music, Digital media, Sharp AQUOS HDTV, Slacker portable Internet radio, Flip Ultra, Sharp Aquos, Slacker, Woot, Gadget Gal, Sharp Corp., camcorder, HDTV

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Flip Ultra camcorder, Slacker portable Internet radio, Sharp AQUOS HDTV

A Flip Ultra camcorder, a Slacker portable Internet radio, and a Sharp AQUOS LCD HDTV. Here are your daily deals for Tuesday, June 2, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the Flip Video Ultra Series Camcorder (30-Minutes) for only $49.99 with free shipping at Amazon. The...

Tags: Internet Radio, Radio, Camcorder, HDTV, Tiger Direct Inc., Sharp Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Sony debuts X-series Walkman with Wi-Fi, touchscreen OLED, noise cancellation

Watch out, Apple iPod touch: Sony today introduced its top-of-the-line Walkman portable media player, the X-series Walkman, that includes Wi-Fi capability and a 3-in. Organic Light Emitting Diode, or OLED, touchscreen. The company says the X-series Walkman's OLED screen provides "exceptional color reproduction,...

Tags: IBM xSeries, Touch Screen, Sony Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, Video, Wi-Fi, X-series Walkman, Display, Battery Life, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Satellite Radio: put a fork in it

Satellite Radio: put a fork in itI have to agreeThough I have Sirius in my truck and I do like it I bought the lifetime deal a few years ago, it's days are very numbered. With the death of DRM on music there is absolutely no reason auto manufacturers cannot...

Tags: Network technology, Advertising & Promotion, Digital music, satellite, radio, Sirius, music, satellite radio

Discussion threads 2009-02-11

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: MP3 players

I rarely see people carrying portable CD players anymore as it is much more convenient (size of players, amount of music, battery life) to burn your music to digital format or simply buy it online and download it to your PC/Mac. Many MP3 players support video too, but I'll focus...

Tags: Device, Apple iPod, Page, MP3 Player, Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Video, Apple iPod Touch, MP3, Music, Zune Device, E-series Walkman, SanDisk Fuze, Zen X-Fi, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-22

Slacker Software Player 2.1.2370 (Windows)

The Slacker Software Player is the easiest way to create personalized stations and discover new music. You can listen to your favorite artists for free and share your stations with friends. Simply download the free application and you'll have access to over 100 genre stations and over 10,000 artist stations...

Tags: Station, Slacker Software Player, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-03-19

Slacker Web Player

Before Slacker had even officially announced itself, the company branding was all over SXSW signage, and a full-page ad could be found in the SXSW music guide. So there was a decent amount of buzz in Austin the week of Slacker's launch, though mostly among the handful of tech journalists...

Tags: Slacker, Slacker Web Player

Product reviews 2007-03-21

Photos: Slacker's ambitious music product

Slacker is a distinctive new Web music service and portable music player that lets users personalize their satellite radio.

Tags: Digital music, portable music player, satellite radio, music player, satellite, radio, photograph, Web

Image galleries 2007-03-13

Don't think portable electronic devices are a risk to flight? Think again

I remember one transcontinental flight that I took back in 2004. We were at 35,000 feet, somewhere over Iowa, and we were approaching a fearsome thundercloud. So I am thinking maybe the captain is on the radio talking to Minneapolis or Chicago flight control, trying to figure a way...

Tags: Handhelds, electronic device, portable electronic device, cell phone

Blog posts 2006-04-10