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- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the Pantech flip phone, Sony Bravia LCD TV, Acer Aspire laptop, and Canon PowerShot ultracompact. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-10-11
- Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November
- Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ($999), 2.93GHz Core i7-940 ($562) and 2.66GHz Core i7-920 ($284). Nehalem is manufactured using the same 45nm...
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- On the Linux laptop the bundle is all
- In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- News items 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- France Radio (gadget)
- Introducing the Radio France gadget with 60 stations of streaming digital radio. Simply click on the radio station you desire and play the live Internet stream. Don't pay for live audio streams, when you can listen for free. This gadget uses your windows media player and real player for audio...
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- easyStock DataGenerator (exe)
- With easyStock DataGenerator the user can produce random generated stock price data. The data looks like real stock prices but is not. User may use this type of data to test trading systems against 100% unknown data. Up to 50000 data periods are possible (end of day = 200 years)....
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- GridBuster (zip)
- GridBuster is a casual puzzle game. The object of the game is to guide the ball from the top left corner of the grid to the goal in the bottom right corner of the grid, however, the path is blocked by an array of tiles. You begin with a certain...
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- "People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"
- Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home users
- Look who’s buying Vista Home Basic hint: it’s not home usersMakes senseMakes sense. Your average small biz probably doesn't want very much. They just want something that works. If it runs the databases and the tax software, it's good enough. For a small business, a single PC is usually...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Buy an ASUS Eee Box mini PC, get free malware!
- Buy an ASUS Eee Box mini PC, get free malware!This is VERY interesting! eeePC Laptop users beware too!When I was downloading all the updates from ASUS's web site for my newly received eeePC, NOD32 stopped the Bluetooth update with the following:http://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/EeePC1000H/Bluetooth_XP_080630.zip probably a variant of Win32/Genetik trojan connection terminated - quarantinedRE:...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- The five products Apple must make
- What ought to be Apple's next leap of faith? Here are a few ideas for where Apple should go next. What are your ideas? Apple made its latest big move into new territories last year with the launch of the now ubiquitous iPhone, expanding beyond the desktop and...
- News items 2008-10-09
- Apple's $800 notebook - Winners and losers
- Apple's $800 notebook - Winners and losersYou left out Apple as a choiceI think this will appeal more to the people who where allready going to purchase an Apple laptop then a less expensive Dell or HP.It may hurt Apple a bit in that the margins I would imagine, will...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Apple invites press to 14 October notebook event
- Apple invites press to 14 October notebook eventMy Bitterness May Finally EndI had the biggest sigh of relief today when I read the news of Oct 14. For months (years?) we've been wading through rumors and disappointment so to know that Apple will FINALLY give the non-iPhone/iPod community some attention...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Laptops with mobile WiMax now available
- The first laptops with built-in mobile WiMax wireless broadband are now available in the U.S. Sprint, Intel and the computer companies announced the new WiMax configurations at an event in Baltimore just a few days after Sprint launched its Xohm service there. All of these laptops use...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?
- How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?RE: How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?apple make an 800 dollar laptop.... dont think so...maybe an 800 dollar netbook... that seems more in line with apple raping its customers...Maybe, maybe not.I know, it's a weak answer, but it really...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- I was browsing on webmagazine Salon when I came across an interesting review written by Scott Rosenberg of the book "Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know" by Randall Stross. (The title of the article is, "Google's Vulcan death grip." Boy am I a sucker.) ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- How much would an $800 Apple laptop hurt Microsoft?
- Just when the Windows marketing team thought things probably couldn't get much worse, there's word that Apple may be gearing up to launch a new Macbook with a low-end $800 price point. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Apple set to release $800 notebook
- Apple set to release $800 notebookNot the first time sub $1000Apple had a $999 notebook at one time. Actually, I think the iBook had that price tag at one time. My only hopes is that this $800 Notebook doesn't come with the specs of a Asus Eee 701.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
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