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- Panasonic debuts digital photo frame with audio
- Panasonic has announced the upcoming release of a digital photo frame, the MW-10, which will also feature an audio system and iPod dock. The frame hosts 9-inch WVGA LCD screen, which can display photos from a CD, SD memory card or from its 4...
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Worried about your printing habits? You're not alone.
- Worried about your printing habits? You're not alone.??? ?????? ??????????? ??????????????? ???????? ?????????????????????? ???????????????? ??? ?????????? ??????????????????? ????????????????????????????? ?????????????? ?????Worried?No.Concerned?No.Give a s_h_i_t?No.More and more of my "printing" is to PDFs that never turn into paper.What little paper I consume (2 reams per year, at most) is not worth worrying about.For...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-09
- Pico projector phones by the end of this year?
- Pico projector phones by the end of this year?Good for casual readingI picture myself lying in bed and projecting the pages of an ebook on the ceiling.Display technology is there, but not the powerThe prototype I saw had to be plugged in to project, otherwise it would drain the battery...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- RF Calculator 1.0 (Mobile)
- RF Calculator is useful for any telecommunications student or professional. RF Calculator can solve six different formulas, four using either standard or metric forms of measurement. Formulas included are Frenzel zone, free space path loss, conversion from dBm to mW, conversion from mW to dBm, earth bulge, and link budget....
- Software downloads 2009-06-30
- Reliability Analysis of the APC Symmetra MW Power System
- This paper is a quantitaive reliability analysis of the APC Symmetra MW UPS performed by MTechnology, Inc. MTech. In contrast to common MTBF calculations based on summing component failure rates, this study used techniques of Probabilistic Risk Assessment PRA to calculate the likelihood of over 680,000 potential failure modes. The...
- White papers 2009-04-08
- A Twitter primer for administrators
- A Twitter primer for administratorsNow if only...I could think of a real reason to convince my friends to get on! I do see the business potential but for individuals and the plain "micro-blogging" concept, not so much...For whatever reason, I find Twitter fun and kind of irresistible, but I don't...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-06
- Bright day for Silicon Valley solar company
- Solar collector panels. Courtesy SolFocus. SolFocus of Mountain View says they will be helping build several solar collector installations in Greece. Partnering with an investment firm and an engineering firm, SolFocus says the original agreement for solar collection work in Greece has been increased...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Free antenna experiment…any takers?
- Free antenna experiment…any takers?This is old...I found an article on this about 3 years ago in either Science Digest or Discover Magazine. I didn't need to try it because my wireless router is only about 20 feet my my living room PC, so I can't offer up any proof...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- Swedish greentech will miss the Bush Admin
- Swedish greentech will miss the Bush AdminA couple of pointsFirst, Mercedes did not fail to save Chrysler, but rather ran them into the ground. I would hold out little hope that Fiat would be any better. If Chrysler is to be sold again, one of the Japanese manufacturers...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- News to know: Windows 7; Oracle patches; CES wrap; Satyam saga
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft reboots borked Windows 7 Beta The Windows Blog: Here's where we stand Joe Brockmeier: Windows 7 as "Linux killer"? How times have...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- MW exhibitors: traffic down about 20%
- A couple of exhibitors I spoke to on the show floor here at Macworld Expo told me that booth traffic was down "about 20 percent" over last year. Some were higher or lower but a couple said 20 percent was a good number. Some exhibitors selling products directly on the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- Raise taxes? On gasoline? How about mothers' milk?
- Raise taxes? On gasoline? How about mothers' milk?Again?He's not even president yet. How about laying some of the blame on the current president? You know, the one who inherited a $500 billion surplus upon entering office and parlayed it into a $10 trillion debt upon leaving?...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-02
- Prius panic and other money matters
- Courtesy: Toyota. Time to follow the money. Toyota has pulled back from its plan to assemble the hybrid Prius in the U.S. The Japanese carmaker has decided to not complete a factory being built in Mississippi. Originally the factory was slated to assemble...
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Bay Area: sunny upside
- The past decade has seen a surge in solar installations across the San Francisco Bay Area and the Silicon Valley leads the region. Top five counties in the region: 1. Santa Clara County [San Jose]: 2,462 solar installations 2. Alameda County...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Court's decision is boon for alternative energy
- Court's decision is boon for alternative energyWhen will they learn?The last 168 BILLION DOLLAR round of stimulus checks did NADA for our economy. We must not as a nation forget the role the high cost of our dependence on foreign fuel played in the demise of businesses from the largest...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Google Chrome vulnerable to data theft flaw
- Google Chrome vulnerable to data theft flawChrome vs IEI'm having a hard time really get too concerned about issues raised about non MW browsers. For years the public was ignorantly suffering under the merciless dictatorship of IE, never aware of other options. Poor MS now they are having...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- A Low-Power Wideband CMOS LNA for WiMAX
- In this brief, the design of a low-power inductorless wideband Low-Noise Amplifier LNA for worldwide interoperability for microwave access covering the frequency range from 0.1 to 3.8 GHz using 0.13- m CMOS is described. The core consumes 1.9 mW from a 1.2-V supply. The chip performance achieves ª11 below 10...
- White papers 2008-10-19
- RealDVD: A walk through the complaint
- RealDVD: A walk through the complaintRealMEHI'd love a way to legally copy my DVDs to my computer's HD so I can watch them without a disc in the drive. However, I'd never buy anything from Real to do it.Software doesn't copy DVDs...... people do. Real might want to talk...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Episode 61 - The Smelly Laptop
- Episode 61 - The Smelly LaptopIt is obvious as to why you where not hiredto do these ads. ;)RE: Episode 61 - The Smelly LaptopOK, you have WAYYYYYY too much time on your hand. You really didn't have to go through all that to say you didn't like Vista....
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
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