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Palm Centro - glacier white (AT&T)

It's no secret that Palm has been struggling of late to keep up with the smartphone competition. A lack of innovation and a stale operating system is partly to blame. However, the company made a bit of a comeback with its Palm Centro device, which debuted with Sprint last October....

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, tradeoff, Palm Centro, Palm Inc., AT&T Corp.

Product reviews 2008-02-22

Look for Power Tradeoffs in 10GBASE-T Ethernet

IEEE 802.3, a 10GBASE-T Ethernet standard ratified in June 2006 following four years of development, is considered a mature and worthy successor to the 100BASE-T and 1000BASE-T standards, which were ratified in 1995 and 1999, respectively. The marketplace is ready for a speed upshift from the network: commodity servers have...

Tags: Transceiver, Signal Processing, Tradeoff, United Business Media

White papers 2008-01-25

RIM BlackBerry Curve 8310 - red (AT&T)

Back in May, we fell in love with the original RIM BlackBerry Curve, but a recent refresh of the smartphone has our hearts pitter pattering all over again. The RIM BlackBerry Curve 8310 keeps the same sleek design and robust messaging capabilities of its predecessor, but then adds GPS capabilities....

Tags: Handhelds, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, tradeoff, BlackBerry 8310, Bluetooth, RIM BlackBerry Curve, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry Curve 8310, AT&T Corp., EDGE, Curve 8310

Product reviews 2007-11-02

RIM BlackBerry Curve 8310 - titanium (AT&T)

Back in May, we fell in love with the original RIM BlackBerry Curve, but a recent refresh of the smartphone has our hearts pitter pattering all over again. The RIM BlackBerry Curve 8310 keeps the same sleek design and robust messaging capabilities of its predecessor, but then adds GPS capabilities....

Tags: Handhelds, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, BlackBerry 8310, tradeoff, RIM BlackBerry Curve, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry Curve 8310, AT&T Corp., EDGE, Curve 8310

Product reviews 2007-11-02

On the Stability-Scalability Tradeoff of DHT Deployment

Distributed Hash Tables DHTs provide efficient data naming and location with simple hash-table-like primitives, upon which sophisticated distributed applications can be built. DHT users provide free but unstable Peer-to-Peer (P2P) capacity. With stable DHT nodes being relatively scarce, a DHT can either rely on a small set of stable nodes...

Tags: P2P, Node, North Carolina State University, Tradeoff, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

White papers 2007-01-31

Embedded Programming With the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework

Embedded system design, like any design task, involves making a series of tradeoffs. Software developers seem always to be the victim of many of these tradeoffs, as one is forced to wade through a myriad of arcane kernels, drivers, development tools, techniques, and documentation instead of doing what one enjoys...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tradeoff, Abstraction, Programming, .Net, Application Servers, Productivity, Middleware, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-12-28

Reliability Tradeoffs in Personal Storage Systems

RAID has long been established as an effective way to provide highly reliable disk subsystems. However, reliability in RAID systems comes at the cost of extra disks and somewhat lower performance. This paper examines some mechanisms to reduce this cost in the context of integration with backup processes. These methods...

Tags: Disk, Tradeoff, Storage System, University Of Connecticut, Storage, RAID, Hardware

White papers 2006-12-10

The <strike>Four</strike> Five 'Net Freedoms

The Four Five 'Net FreedomsAccounting for choices in the real worldTwo economists are walking along the street and one of them sees a fancy watch in a store window."I want that" he says, and the other economist replies:"Obviously not"Whatever we say we believe, economics reveals what we really value when...

Tags: Government, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, states goal, tradeoff

Discussion threads 2005-08-20

Wi-Fi, cancer, and legal liability

Wi-Fi, cancer, and legal liabilityPractical ParanoiaTo recap my own experience:I wore a pager for 10 years, always on the right hip. Once day I pass a kidney stone THE most painful thing that can ever happen to anyone. In the ensuing investigation, the doctor finds ... nothing! No more stones...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, tradeoff, trade-off, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2005-07-25

The democratization of surveillance

The democratization of surveillanceOnce solutionPersonal EMP device! See those electronic thingies drop like, well - flies! Might not want to do this around your car, or cell phone, or iPod . . .So...So where can I buy these thingies...?:-)Privacy is a perceptionYou only have the privacy you can personally vouch...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., RFID, privacy, tradeoff

Discussion threads 2005-03-07

Additional Resources

Needles and haystacks: Balancing precision and recall

Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are bandied about in most every...

Tags: Recall, Pregnancy, Attivio, Spam Email, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, search, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet, Sid Probstein Attivio, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

GlimmerBlocker 1.4.2 (Mac)

The problem with other ad-blockers for Safari is that they are implemented as awful hacks: as an InputManager and/or ApplicationEnhancer. This compromises the stability of Safari and very often create problems when Apple releases a new version of Safari. GlimmerBlocker is implemented as an http proxy, so the stability of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Vitality ApS, GlimmerBlocker, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-06

Jobs responds to iPod touch camera snub

In a curious omission, Apple neglected to include a video camera in the third-generation iPod touch announced yesterday. It's curious because the video camera from the iPhone 3GS successfully made the jump to the new fifth-generation iPod nano -- leapfrogging the iPod touch in the process. ...

Tags: Job, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, Video, Apple iPod Touch, Camera, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Dell's 11.6" Inspiron 11z thin-and-light arrives; $399 Windows 7 PC

I'm looking for a 12"12" non-tablet laptops are not to small to have a CD-ROM drive.That's what my wife keeps saying nt ;-)ntYuck!Absolutely NO Celerons for me, thank you.Dell, you are slipping!Instead, she just settles for you three times?]:)Looks like a good tradeoff on hardware, but, will not run...

Tags: Processors, Notebooks, Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Intel Celeron, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Sony's Reader: The road ahead

Sony launched two new e-readers, including one that hits the $199 price point and could bring e-books to the masses. Yet Sony is facing stiff competition from Amazon's Kindle, Plastic Logic (in 2010) and a rapidly expanding field of competitors. Also see: Sony launches two new readers...

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Sony Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Dead-Finger Tech: Apple MacBook Pro (13-inch unibody, 2009)

Dead-Finger Tech: Apple MacBook Pro (13-inch unibody, 2009)I'm with you thereI bought my 13" Mid-June Unibody 2.26Ghz MBP 3 weeks ago and it has impressed me. I upgraded the hd and ram for $150. I bought it just for mobility since I have a great workstation and large LCDs at...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Notebooks, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, LCD, Apple MacBook Pro

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Lenovo IdeaPad S12 (Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, XP Home, black)

When we first heard Lenovo had an IdeaPad S12 on its way, we were expecting the long-anticipated Nvidia Ion-packing version, which will include graphics power decent enough to accomplish HD video and even some demanding gaming. Instead, we got a configuration that includes an Intel Atom N270 processor and GMA...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Processors, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, IdeaPad S12, netbook, Lenovo Group Ltd., Intel Corp., Intel Atom

Product reviews 2009-07-24

Google's Brin: Time to speed up the web

Google's Brin: Time to speed up the web sci-fi applications listi want to see at least a couple of examples of the mentioned application that were sci-fi 10y ago and that will suddenly become non-sci-fi because of the faster web.No senseIt doesn't make sense to make everything in web. Who...

Tags: Channel management, Well Let, Google Inc., level language, NOW IT, Web

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

HTC Touch Diamond (Verizon Wireless)

Editors' note: The Verizon HTC Touch Diamond is similar to the unlocked Touch Diamond in design. For this review, we will be concentrating on the different features and performance compared with the unlocked version as well as the Sprint HTC Touch Diamond. For a full description of the smartphone's design,...

Tags: Smart phones, Flash memory, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Verizon Wireless, Verizon Communications Inc., memory, smart phone, Sprint Communications, HTC Touch, expansion slot, Verizon HTC Touch Diamond, High Tech Computer Corp., microSD expansion slot, performance

Product reviews 2009-04-22

Canon Vixia HF200

Photo gallery:Canon Vixia HF20Canon's acquitted itself quite well with a nearly identical trio of flash-based AVCHD camcorders, the HF10/HF11/HF100, and follow-up models HF20 and HF200 manage to improve upon their legacy. The only difference between the two models is color and memory configuration: the HF20 has 32GB built in, while...

Tags: HF20, HF200, camcorder, Canon Inc.

Product reviews 2009-04-20