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- News items 2008-10-15
- High-tech manufacturers rev up Oregon e-recycling program
- The Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company is flipping the switch on its state-wide electronics recycling program in Oregon. The next three months will represent a pilot phase, funded by Panasonic Corp. of North America, Sharp Electronics Corp., Toshiba America Consumer Products and CRT Processing, which is an e-waste recycling...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Does the credit crunch represent a silver lining for open source?
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- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Data Doctor Recovery Digital Camera (exe)
- Digital camera data recovery software restores your deleted pictures, snap shots, images, and corrupted precious photographs. Software is easy to use and recovers all accidentally formatted stored pictures, still images from your favorite Canon, Kodak, Nikon, Fuji, Konica, HP, Agfa, FujiFilm, Polaroid, Casio, Olympus, Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, NEC, Imation, Sanyo,...
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Samsung Sway SCH-U650 (Verizon Wireless)
- It's clear that Samsung loves two things: slim slider phones and midrange camera phones with a flip design. Indeed, we've seen a deluge of such models over the last few years, with the latest in the slider camp being the Samsung SCH-U650 for Verizon Wireless. Also called the Sway, (why,...
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
- Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link - digital AV player
- There's little doubt that TV is moving more toward an on-demand model powered by content that's pulled from the Internet rather than traditional broadcast sources. But products that pull in video from networked PCs and various online sources--everything from the Roku Netflix Player to Apple TV to the Xbox 360--still...
- Product reviews 2008-10-06
- CEATEC Roundup: Sony's 0.3mm OLED display, Sharp's solar-power TV, Panasonic's LifeWall concept
- While we all wait around until January for the Consumer Electronics Show, an event like CEATEC Japan can give us a taste of the future for home theater. And since ZDNet didn't offer to fly me over there to check it out first-hand (cough, next year, cough), I had to...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Vudu offers new format to stream 1080p HD movies to its BX100 player
- As I mentioned in my post yesterday about Netflix, one of the obstacles video-streaming services are going to have to overcome is the quality of the files they're sending to big HDTVs. Apple has recently introduced 720p HD files on iTunes to download to its Apple TV device, but lesser-known...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Velocity 103
- We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- Riding the AAPL seasaw
- On Monday Apple shares shed 17.7 percent of their value closing at US$105.26 amid all the market turbulence. Some investors took advantage of the sharp decline as a buying opportunity and loaded up on AAPL at fire sale prices. Although buying AAPL low paid off...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- There is no pony plan for health care
- There is no pony plan for health careUntil the greedy Pharmaceutical Companies are reeled in...There is no hope for fixing health care in the US.It MUST start with the banning of Pharmaceutical Advertising on TV. The billions paid for those ad's are paid by patients needing the meds IF...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Samsung Omnia
- Photo gallery:Samsung OmniaAlong with the RIM BlackBerry Bold and Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, the Samsung Omnia is one of the most requested and sought after smartphones of 2008. Why all the buzz? It's not so much the Omnia's touch screen that's drawing attention (after all, we've seen it in the...
- Product reviews 2008-09-30
- Pioneer Elite Kuro PRO-111FD
- Pioneer markets its Elite lineup of plasma TVs to appeal to the hard-core home theater enthusiast, and that means pricing these panels above and beyond just about anything else. The enthusiast who can afford one, however, can rest assured that the 50-inch PRO-111FD performs above and beyond anything else on...
- Product reviews 2008-09-30
- Ballmer says MSFT not immune to financial crisis
- Steve Ballmer was asked about the financial crisis and its effect on the IT industry last week and he didn't seem too concerned. But today, speaking at a press conference in Norway he appears to have changed his view. Reuters reported: Financial...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Canon Vixia HG20
- The Canon Vixia HG20 is an excellent HD camcorder that's reasonably easy to operate out of the box and looks good, too. It's almost identical to the company's Vixia HF11, but rather than recording mainly to internal flash memory, it records to a hard drive. As for performance, it's as...
- Product reviews 2008-09-29
- Wall Street slams tech on bailout bill's failure
- updated: Wall Street reacted sharply to news that Congress failed to pass a $700 billion bailout bill this morning, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a downward plunge more than 777 points. The tech-heavy Nasdaq, not immune to the financial ripple-effect that stems from the financial crisis, was down...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Samsung SyncMaster T240HD
- The 24-inch Samsung SyncMaster T240HD is a HDTV disguised as a $499 monitor. The OSD menu design is taken directly from the menus used in Samsung's HDTVs. It has tons of connection options--all of which face toward the back, not down as they do with most monitors--including two HDMI ports...
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- Mio Knight Rider GPS
- If you ever dreamed as a child or as an adult of owning a car like KITT of Knight Rider fame, you're dream is about to come true...sort of. Unless you're rolling in money, you can't have the actual Trans Am or David Hasselhoff, but you can have the next...
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- Motorola i365 - black (Nextel)
- If there ever was a Nextel phone, the Motorola i365 would be it. Big, burly, and bulky, the i365 looks as if it could withstand just about anything. Make no mistake: this is a serious phone for making voice and push-to-talk PTT calls. There's no camera or music player, and...
- Product reviews 2008-09-25
- Will a 6600 mAh battery convince you to buy an HTC Shift?
- Will a 6600 mAh battery convince you to buy an HTC Shift?I like my MSI Wind very much...Although it does have it's deficiencies. The availability of batteries is one but I think this should improve. The trackpad is practically unusable IMO. I bought a Logitech v450 mouse that I'm very...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
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