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- Kasha's Rap Toolbar (exe)
- An Internet browser toolbar for rap lovers. This takes your standard toolbar functions and gives them a rap music edge. Always be 1 click away from your favorite genre. This toolbar incorporates functions such as rss feeds, search box, mail checker, weather check and a radio preprogramed with stations such...
- Software downloads 2008-10-10
- Logitech Squeezebox Boom
- One of our favorite streaming-audio products in recent years is the Logitech Squeezebox Duet. That unit makes it fairly simple to access a wide range of Internet- and PC-based digital audio sources, and listen to them in any room of your home. But the Duet is a two-part product--a...
- Product reviews 2008-09-10
- Salesforce quarter on target
- Salesforce quarter on targetIs Salesforce.com the new ADP ... or the next Datapoint?This headline recently appeared in several places across the Web:"Salesforce.com Passes $1 Billion Annual Revenue Mark"THIS IS NOT TRUE. I don't know whether this material misstatement arose from media manipulation or an honest mistake, but it's genesis...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-24
- Apple acknowldges reception problem in iPhone 3G
- Apple acknowldges reception problem in iPhone 3GWhy only 2%If there is a problem with the phone, why would it only affect 2%. It seems that if it were a hardware, software, or service problem, it would affect all iphones or all iphones in specific areas and not sporadically in certain...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- iPhone 3G issues blamed on Infineon chips
- iPhone 3G issues blamed on Infineon chipsWhooot!Go Apple!... Deny till you fix it... then you never had a problem right? Sounds good to me.It's user error.Buying the first gen of any product (the first of the 3G iphones) means you take greater risk. One question nobody seems to ask,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Panasonic Viera TH-50PZ850U
- Ever since we gave the Panasonic TH-50PZ800U an Editors' Choice award as our favorite plasma HDTV so far, we've been bombarded by variations of the same question: "Is the more expensive TH-50PZ850U better?" After finally getting the chance to review the 850U, our answer is "no." The TH-50PZ850U is the...
- Product reviews 2008-07-01
- LG Dare (Verizon Wireless)
- One of the most notable fallouts of the Apple iPhone launch last year is the ever growing trend of touch-screen phones. LG was one of the first manufacturers out the gate with phones such as the LG Voyager and the LG Vu dazzling us with features that we couldn't get...
- Product reviews 2008-06-27
- IT catfight in Portland, OR
- IT catfight in Portland, ORSacraficeMy company just finished an ERP release, successfully!It takes whole company sacrifice and requires separate Change Management groups to come to power to lead staff and executive management with the project and the temporary sacrifices in business process and political ownership. It takes years of...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Want XP on your new Dell? $50, please
- Want XP on your new Dell? $50, pleaseWindows Vista all the way!I haven't used Windows XP since January 2007. Windows Vista is so much better than Windows XP. When will people wake-up and see Windows Vista as the best, most secure, operating system currently available?how about a no...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- The ultra portable/subnotebook market continues to grow
- The ultra portable/subnotebook market continues to growHate to give them too much credit, butOLPC has a lot to do with this. They largely caught the public's imagination with their little XO, despite some ongoing problems with deployment and infighting. They also helped drive some cost savings. At...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Samsung Access
- Though Verizon Wireless ruled the mobile TV roost for more than a year, AT&T finally offered Big Red some competition last month with the launch of AT&T Mobile TV. Like V Cast Mobile TV, AT&T's service offers stunning video quality, but its real appeal depends entirely on the handsets that...
- Product reviews 2008-05-10
- Samsung Glyde SCH-U940 (Verizon Wireless)
- Photo gallery:Samsung Glyde SCH-U940Ever since we first played with the Samsung F700 last year at CTIA, we've been waiting for it to come to America. And starting today, it finally has arrived on our shores--at least in a way. The new Samsung Glyde SCH-U940 for Verizon Wireless offers the same...
- Product reviews 2008-05-08
- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are ZDNet Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including Apple's new iMac, the LG Vu, and a USB drive that turns any PC into a wireless router. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-05
- Deja vu all over again on health insurance
- Deja vu all over again on health insuranceNothing's gonna happenThe same thing will happen that happens every time they talk about "health care reform". They'll make minor changes that have almost no effect and move on. The great "reforms" of the past have consisted of allowing prior healthcare...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Deja vu all over again on health insurance
- A New England Journal of Medicine editorial on health insurance out today warns we could be heading back to another Harry and Louise moment, alluding to the failure of health care reform in 1994. The proposals offered by John McCain on the one hand and Barack Obama...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- LG Vu
- Photo gallery:LG VuThe LG Vu has been a long time coming. Ever since we saw the LG Prada early last year, we wanted a similar handset for the U.S. market. Not soon after, we grew jealous of our international cousins for having access to the LG Viewty, the 5.0-megapixel successor...
- Product reviews 2008-05-01
- Seagate patents Compact Flash - 10 years late!
- Can "prior art" be too prior? Dramatic evidence of America's broken patent system surfaced in last week's lawsuit by Seagate against STEC, the innovative developer of high-performance flash drives. Imagine winning a patent for something invented 10 years before. Seagate may sue SANdisk next. Seagate owns...
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- OXML as Microsoft's swivel point
- OXML as Microsoft's swivel pointYes, but...There's always a but isn't there? Correct me if I'm wrong but from what I've observed Microsoft isn't really going to follow what the folk on the ISO committee are going to do to both fix and develop OXML.It is all just a deja vu...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Virtual User (zip)
- Do you want that your computer work for you, or to help you in your daily work, such as expediting work that requires many steps of entry, transport or import data and interfaces, as well as to offer courses without having to attend or speak much within them or simply...
- Software downloads 2008-04-15
- Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?
- Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?Wow then why is Microsoft even doing an whitepaper?Because it's obvious that you have all the answers. What's stunning is that you have all the answers yet none of this is done. Bottom line: This proposal is complicated....
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
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