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- US Internet usage in July 2008
- Sessions/Visits per Person 59 Domains Visited per Person 108 Web Pages per Person 2,431 Duration of a Web Page Viewed 0:00:53 PC Time per Person 67:54:51 Active Digital Media Universe 164,890,048 Current Digital Media Universe Estimate 223,642,961 ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For Simplicity
- Finally, a fight over remote controls that rely on hand motion, more than buttons. Oh, Nintendo's Wii has about a half-dozen buttons, plus a four-cornered "plus sign" for directional instructions. Well, Hillcrest Labs of Rockville, MD, can top (actually, undercut) that. It markets...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover
- If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Power management through Intel's Nehalem
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Patrick Gelsinger, senior VP of the company's digital enterprise group, speaks about advances the Nehalem processor would bring to power management. And Rajesh Kumar, an Intel fellow, explains "turbo mode" and why the simple idea of getting machines to have zero energy...
- Videos 2008-08-20
- Intel unveils Nehalem 'turbo mode'
- At IDF, the chipmaker announced a power-control feature in its new micro architecture, claiming it is 'pretty compelling' for enterprises. Intel unveiled on Tuesday a new aspect of its upcoming microprocessor architecture, which promises better power management and efficiency. Speaking in the afternoon keynote on day...
- News items 2008-08-20
- eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?
- Over the past couple weeks, I've been conducting polls about ebooks as I think about doing some publishing. The overwhelming response to the polls has been that there is not a sufficiently broad selection of books available in e-formats, regardless of what format, whether for Amazon's Kindle, the Sony Reader...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Intel chairman highlights partnerships around the world
- At the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, company Chairman Craig Barrett explains how, by collaborating with teachers and doctors around the world, technology can improve lives. Demonstrated are an inexpensive digital whiteboard created from a Wii, and a cell phone that can read bar codes on a health ID...
- Videos 2008-08-19
- Another way to ditch your gadgets the green way and earn some money in the process
- For about a year now, a Web site that started life as Second Rotation has been buying back electronic gadgets including cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices, gaming consoles, camcorders, satellite radios and portable hard drives. No matter how old. During that time, the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals
- The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Android security team appeals to hackers
- Android security team appeals to hackersSoftware and the Internet are too fragileHackers wreck stuff for big money and International domination of the industry.Hackers wrecked the core of digital so it can not function correctly.The BIOS has been wrecked with virus.Take your evidence to the FBI and stop hackers that way.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Muxtape has RIAA problems
- The roll-your-own radio site Muxtape has temporarily closed down due to some "legal kinks" with the RIAA, Cnet's Webware blog points out. EFF's Fred von Lohmann addressed sites like Muxtape in a News.com article, saying that in theory they should be protected by...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR
- Last week I wrote about how bloggers could better work with public relations folks. While I won't to get into the habit of writing about PR I think we'd all agree that, like it or not, there's a direct correlation between it and social media, especially when we're talking...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining
- Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest companies despite being around for years, but is actively used by adaptive spammers increasingly abusing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- MixVibes Producer (zip)
- MixVibes Producer is based on the DVS technology Digital Vinyl Software. It allows you to spin your digital media files (mp3, wave, aiff, ogg vorbis, wma, Audio CDs) from your PC with CD or vinyl decks. All you need is a PC and an audio interface (USB, FireWire, PCI compatible)....
- Software downloads 2008-08-19
- ZC Dream Photo Editor (exe)
- ZC Dream Photo Editor makes you easily blend your digital photo onto another picture a landscape picture in any size. You can rotate or edit your photo. You can also add some pretty frames, flowers, cartoon, jewelry, icon pictures, or write your comments on the photo to make it more...
- Software downloads 2008-08-19
- Insignia NS-BRDVD
- Pundits debate whether Blu-ray will be as successful as DVD, but they're relatively united on one issue: the prices of the players need to drop before the format takes off. The Insignia NS-BRDVD is part of a new breed of bargain players we've seen this year, and its $300 list...
- Product reviews 2008-08-18
- More info on USB 3.0 emerges
- More info on USB 3.0 emerges4.8Gbps Huh?Not too shabby, now only if I can think of a consumer computer peripheral that can utilize that speed. With the other bottle necks in data storage devices such as hard drives I think there is a need to improve those data...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?Great blog.It is about the browser nowadays. The age of convoluted proprietary lock-ins is going going but not quite gone .....An awful lot of devs are now building web based sharing tools, and any IE only dev, if it still goes on, is by the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Photos: Dell netbooks revealed
- At the D: All Things Digital conference, Michael Dell was caught carrying a version of his company's upcoming netbook. So Dell decided to share with everyone. by Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2008-08-18
- cloud computing - lowercase, please. hold the (TM)
- cloud computing - lowercase, please. hold the TMStrange First StepO.K. so now it is legal to use the term "cloud computing" to talk about the subject. Great. I hope efforts are made to actually make the technology viable for most businesses and users. This legal battle is as absurd as...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
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