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- Reinvigorating Microsoft's mobile strategy
- MS should give up and go homeNobody wants Windows Mobile. It's declining share and the increasing share of competitors makes it also-ran.Many are not wanting Windows at all as evidenced by its declining market share.There is no reason for Windows on the mobile device given reliability and performance are...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, strategy, Microsoft Corp., phone, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?
- If by precious you mean fascistthen yes they are...great...Get ready for the Jobs cultist starting another holywar because you "tarnished" their cyber-religion.Precious.The marketplace is what it is because of ownership. Apple owns the store they built and has the identical right that Disney or The Atlantic or Toyota does to...
- Tags: Public relations, Microsoft Windows NT, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Turtle Beach Ear Force X41 - headset
- Wireless headphones have been around for a while, but it's only been in the past few years that quality has gotten high enough for discerning listeners to consider using them. Many manufacturers, for instance, have turned to infrared IR technology for wireless signal transmission, which powered the Turtle Beach X4...
- Tags: Game players, Consumer electronics, Turtle Beach, headphone, X41, Microsoft Xbox, headset
- Product reviews 2009-11-20
- Sonos ZonePlayer S5
- We've long been fans of the Sonos Digital Music System, which lets you stream all manner of digital audio throughout your home, but we were always a bit disappointed that Sonos didn't sell a speaker that had the system's ZonePlayer networking component integrated right into it. Well, that's exactly what...
- Tags: Ethernet, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, Network technology, Wireless and Mobility, Sonos
- Product reviews 2009-11-20
- ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall
- Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Dell's answer to Apple's Mac mini - The Inspiron Zino HD
- People Actually Buy These Things?Almost a $1000.00 for a cutsey, low powered designer computer? Do people actually buy these things? Maybe they should check out your Very Best Kit list.adrian please 959$ you dont put 959 for a low-end entry level machine you can have...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Mac Mini, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Bing 2.0 debuts
- Bing Image SearchSpeaking of Bing, I recently did some Bing Image Searches, and found that they produced better results than Google Image Searches.Just keeps getting better.I don't know how anyone using Bing could find anything to complain about. In fact all the complaints I do see come from people...
- Tags: SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Microsoft gives up to 1 million Xbox modders the boot from Live
- Exactly. I could not agree moreno different then many other things.In NASCAR, the team owns the car, NASCAR the rest.You are perfectlly free to do with your car whatever you wish, NASCAR just will not allow you to run it at their events.Microsoft is not stopping them from modifying their...
- Tags: Game players, Linux, Games, EULA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, hardware functionality, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- WD TV Live HD Media Player
- The first few rounds of network media streamers we tested weren't necessarily recommendable. Sure, this was partially because most of these devices depend on Windows Media Center for connectivity and content, but we also had issues with their interfaces and performance.Fast forward a year and it's safe to say that...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, Digital media, Microsoft Windows Media Player, TV, media, HDMI, USB
- Product reviews 2009-11-07
- NetGear WNHDEB111 HD Gaming Wireless N Networking Kit
- Editors' note: As the NetGear WNHDEB111 HD Gaming Wireless N Networking Kit is a gaming networking accessory, we didn't put it through the same testing process we use for wireless routers.While home wireless products continue to invade the marketplace, the demand for high-speed wireless performance increases. At this point,...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Wi-Fi Protected Setup, Netgear Inc., router, wireless, network
- Product reviews 2009-11-05
- 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
- Yes, based on Mac history, Windows 7.5 will suck less
- Ummmm..."Windows 1: Shipped in 1985 and nobody cared.Windows 2: Shipped in 1987 and few cared.Windows 3: Came out in 1990 and PC users cared, especially with Windows 3.1 in 1992 (And I include here the introduction of Windows NT, which I believe was given a 3.x number.)Windows 4: Windows 95....
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7.5, Mac history, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-11-01
- Yahoo: Giving users a mobile experience, not a mobile OS
- M$ to buy Yahoo in less than 2 yearsSo, why should Yahoo be all that concerned about developing a mobile OS? Once the search deal is closed and given 12 months to prove M$' bing can slowly grab market share from Google, M$ will, in fact, complete a purchase of...
- Tags: mobile-OS, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-10-24
- Tritton AX900
- Among all the video game accessories available today, no other market seems to be expanding as rapidly as the video game headset. With most current-generation consoles able to produce 5.1 surround sound, finding a headset solution to handle such a request is now much easier than before. We've tested a...
- Tags: Games, Tritton Technologies, headphone, headset
- Product reviews 2009-10-22
- Asus Eee Top ET2002
- Nvidia wants us to tell you that its GeForce 9400M graphics chip, aka Nvidia's Ion technology, pulls Asus' Eee Top ET2002 up from the depths of Nettop misery by imparting it with better-than-terrible graphics and video processing. We agree that the 9400 chip improves the ET2002's visual chops, but a...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Games, Semiconductors, Keyboards, Video cards, Game players, nettop, chip, game, HDMI, ASUS, graphics
- Product reviews 2009-10-20
- Tritton AX 720
- Among all the video game accessories available today, no other market seems to be expanding as rapidly as the video game headset. With most current-generation consoles able to produce 5.1 surround sound, finding a headset solution to handle such a request is now much easier than before. We've tested...
- Tags: Game players, Games, Consumer electronics, Tritton Technologies, headset
- Product reviews 2009-10-14
- Why Mac open source gets no respect
- "Since Macs generally cost less than PCs"THEY ARE? Since when? And that doesn't jive at all with "Macs are upscale"... and cheaper. Mmmm no.No counterpart to XBMC?There are a ton of Media Center applications for windows, including Windows Media Center, which is fairly adept at just about...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Mac people, Apple Macintosh, XBMC, MCE, Unix
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Netgear Digital Entertainer Live
- The first few rounds of network media streamers we tested weren't necessarily recommendable. Sure, this was partially because most of these devices depend on Windows Media Center for connectivity and content, but we also had issues with their interfaces and performance. Unlike the company's previous solutions to home...
- Tags: Corporate communications, PRODUCTIVITY, Storage, Digital media, Digital music, Netgear Inc., Digital Entertainer, Digital Entertainer Live
- Product reviews 2009-10-08
- Steve Ballmer and licensing: The video
- Loud and clearI thought he answered the question fully. Another of my translations seem to be doing a lot of them today :-("There are no changes possible to the rules which will retain the level of revenue expected by shareholders. Any further changes will result in savings to customers alone....
- Tags: Financial accounting, Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Xbox360, shareholder, SKU, development cost, Steve Ballmer, video
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
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