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- Chumby One
- Photo gallery:Chumby OneWith a name that sounds more like a "Sesame Street" character than a sophisticated Internet media receiver, the Chumby One ($99) is a challenging product to describe to people. First, think of all the stuff you care about on the Internet: the news, photos, videos, weather, stocks, and...
- Tags: INTERNET, Monitors & displays, TVs, Chumby
- Product reviews 2009-12-02
- Nokia sues Samsung, LG over LCD price fixing
- Poor Nokia... unable to gain market tractionFirst go after Apple and then hardware suppliers... cry us a river.Or maybe just make something innovative that people will want to buy.You missed the point@crobertsIt has nothing to do with gaining traction. I'm certain Nokia does not make their own LCD displays (and...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Nokia Corp., LCD, LCD Price, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LG Electronics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Zoom Q3
- Photo gallery:Zoom Q3The advent of dedicated, pocket-size video cameras, popularized by Flip, Kodak, and Creative, brought a welcome change from the bulky tape recorders of the past. Most users praise the simple operation and basic features of this new breed of video cameras, but in some cases, the limitations can...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Zoom Q3, video
- Product reviews 2009-11-30
- LG 42LH20
- Photo gallery: LG LH20 seriesWe can't fault the LG LH20 series for trying. The company's least-expensive lineup of LCDs for 2009 offers more features than its competition, including the only USB port for digital photos and by far the best selection of picture adjustments. All of those tweaks...
- Tags: LG Electronics Inc., LG LH20 series, LG LH20
- Product reviews 2009-11-30
- LG 26LH20
- Photo gallery: LG LH20 seriesWe can't fault the LG LH20 series for trying. The company's least-expensive lineup of LCDs for 2009 offers more features than its competition, including the only USB port for digital photos and by far the best selection of picture adjustments. All of those tweaks...
- Tags: LG Electronics Inc., LG LH20 series, LG LH20
- Product reviews 2009-11-30
- Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?
- Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx offers more multitasking muscle than many of the other mainstream budget retail laptops we've recently reviewed. Helped by a 7,200rpm...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Overall IT, lid, Hewlett-Packard Co., AMD Turion II, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., keyboard, HP Pavilion
- Product reviews 2009-11-24
- LG 32LH20
- Photo gallery: LG LH20 seriesWe can't fault the LG LH20 series for trying. The company's least-expensive lineup of LCDs for 2009 offers more features than its competition, including the only USB port for digital photos and by far the best selection of picture adjustments. All of those tweaks...
- Tags: LG Electronics Inc., LG LH20 series, LG LH20
- Product reviews 2009-11-24
- New iPhone worm found in the wild
- But I thought Apple OS X was immune from ALL such things. nt...When you jailbreak your iPhoneyou give it the ability to run things other the "Apple Only" software.Any I thought Zdnet was immune to trolling?Just kidding. I knew it wasn't.I don't think that Apple ever claimed their OS...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Operating systems, iPhone platform, Apple iPhone, worm, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Birth of Venus Login Screen 1.0 (Windows)
- Change the way you login to your computer. Let an artistic image welcome you as you start your computer. Set the Famous painting" The Birth of Venus" as your Windows XP Login screen.
- Tags: Screen, Computer, Home Company, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-22
- Google makes Chrome OS open source today
- I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- 2010 Honda Fit Sport
- Photo gallery:2010 Honda Fit SportSince its introduction to the U.S. market in 2007, the Honda Fit has endeared itself to small car lovers with its economical engine and flexible interior. The car received an update for 2009, gaining size and an optional navigation system. Those updates came just in time,...
- Tags: Saving Grace, Scion xB, Honda Fit, Honda Motor Co., car
- Product reviews 2009-11-19
- Office 2010 Beta 2: More than just a bunch of pretty icons
- Of course its better, they stole ideas fromOf course 2010 is better, they stole (oops, innovated) most of the new ideas from Office MVPs that built add ins to previous versions. (There is a very silent revolt going on in the MVP ranks over it and many long term...
- Tags: Numbering, Microsoft Office, Office MVP, ribbon, Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- EnergyXT 2.5.2 (Windows)
- EnergyXT is a powerful, yet easy to use application for music creation and production on your Mac or PC. Record instruments such as guitar and keyboards, play virtual instruments and make drum beats with the built-in drum machine. Mix your tune with professional sounding effects, save as MP3, and share...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, MP3, Guitar, XT Software, EnergyXT, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Vizio VO320E
- Photo gallery: Vizio VO320EVizio chose to adorn its VO320E 32-inch LCD with claims of environmental consciousness, saying the little set exceeds Energy Star guidelines by 15 percent. But that's not a very high standard, and according to our tests the Vizio, while definitely no power hog, sips just...
- Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, Vizio, Vizio VO320E
- Product reviews 2009-11-16
- Toshiba 32AV502U
- Photo gallery: Toshiba AV502U seriesWhen we say the Toshiba AV502U series can produce relatively deep black levels, the key word is "relatively." It's perhaps more accurate to say that its shade of black outdoes most other less-expensive, lower resolution small-screened LCDs we've seen by a narrow margin. It...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, menu system, Toshiba AV502U, Toshiba Corp., LCD
- Product reviews 2009-11-16
- Why I'm letting someone else run my Exchange 2010 server
- Why ironic?Given that exchange is the de facto standard in business email/cal having their products working as perfectly as possible with exchange is a must. Not only that, they advertise this functionality. Did you expect it to fail miserably? Your expectations must have been low. Heh.It took yearsNative Exchange support...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, E-mail servers, Groupware, Exchage, download page, Apple iTunes, IBM Corp., server
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- LG 60PS80
- Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...
- Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80
- Product reviews 2009-11-02
- LG 50PS80
- Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...
- Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80
- Product reviews 2009-11-02
- Nintendo to supersize DSi handheld
- Welcome to the DSi... EMDEEvenMoreDistortedEdition...Umm... making the picture bigger, without upgrading the resolution = blocky, smeary, even worse graphics.Yeah, it sports a screen bigger than the PSP-3000 while producing less than half the resolution. Awesome. RE: Nintendo to supersize DSi handheldI thought that the DSi was a huge improvement...
- Tags: DSi, Nintendo Co. Ltd., handheld
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
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