Slang for any hardware device. See gadget.
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- Apple seeks injunction to end Psystar Mac clones ... oh, and $2.1m
- Let's cheer the death of competition!!!Competition is good... as long as it doesn't hurt Apple. Cue the double standards...Apple, congrats for winning in the legal court. Maybe you can take that $2.1M (that you won't get) and add it to your PR budget to repair the damage you've done in...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Large Hadron Collider back in operation
- quick finally will get our planet killing black hole yess ntnt Wont work...the LHC will once aggain be broken by a peice of bread dropped by a random bird...It will be so untill we hit 21 12 2012 at which point the poles will inverse causing...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Ubercaster 1.6.3 (Mac)
- Ubercaster is the first complete podcast production suite for the Mac. The days of overloaded and bulky recording environments are over. Ubercaster makes it easy for you to produce your podcast show in four simple steps. Each step has its own layer which bundles various functions in an easy to...
- Software downloads 2009-11-16
- Do you really want to carry another device just for Twitter?
- A Twitter Device? Hmmm... it will probably be a hit for christmas and then die a painful sudden death!never really liked their stuffNever really liked their stuff - limited devices for prices that are still too high? No thanks.Frankly, I'm [b]much[/b] more interested in devices with Wi-Fi than with cell...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Panasonic DMR-EZ47VK
- Panasonic should be ashamedThe DMR-EZ47V has so many 'quirks' and Panasonic Customer Service is so awful that I would highly recommend NOT purchasing this unit or any closely related to it. There are lots of reviews out there so why trust me? I have a degree in Computers and am...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Wikipedia productized
- Don't think this will succeed...Don't think this will succeed... Why not use your phone to connect to Wikipedia and more and with current articles? This gizmo works dis-connected and that would be the only plus...RE: Wikipedia productizedIt's a really pointless product as people who would be interested in something like...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Gizmo5 4.0.0.269 (Mac)
- Formerly known as the Gizmo Project, Gizmo5 is a free Internet phone for your computer that makes calling as easy as Instant Messaging. Using best-of-breed audio codecs such as GIPS and employing media relays around the world to route calls through the most efficient path, Gizmo Project will give you...
- Software downloads 2009-09-24
- Gizmo5 4.0.5.395 (Windows)
- Formerly known as the Gizmo Project. Gizmo5 uses your Internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls to other computers. With the click of a mouse, you're connected to friends, family, and colleagues anywhere on earth. You can talk clearly, for as long as you want, for free. With inexpensive...
- Software downloads 2009-09-23
- Sanyo releasing new Xacti HD camcorder soon
- Sanyo's new quirky HD camcorder, the Xacti CG11 HD, will make its debut soon. The ergonomically-designed device records 720p video, can shoot JPEG images at 10MP with a 5x optical zoom and transfer footage to YouTube with Eye-Fi cards. The design (available in orange, white and pea green), is unique, but I'm not sure I...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Goodbye myTouch 3G and hello HTC Touch Pro2
- I got my TP2 on release dayI can understand why you got the mytouch, because everyone at tmobile hears "touch pro 2" and thinks, "oh you mean the mytouch?" ... that happened to me like 3 times.But I didn't want that big brother stuff... I was coming off of the...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- Skype: The situation now, and the road ahead
- Skype: The situation now, and the road aheadIncompetent Leadership Skype is led by a neophyte CEO that has no clue how to run a company, let alone a company with multiple operations.If John Donahoe had his head in the game at any level, he would have long ago realized that...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-04
- Dead Finger Tech: BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone and multi-monitor manager DisplayFusion Pro
- Our editor, the most delectable Mr. Grober, put forward a suggestion to while away the dreary month of August, a month so intrinsically boring that it rivals that of a newspaper dedicated to the growth patterns of soya bean, to write about a piece of personal technology, which would in...
- Blog posts 2009-08-01
- Dead-Finger Tech: I don't have any . . .
- My colleagues here on ZDNet have been writing lots of great stuff about which technology you'd have to pry from their dead fingers. I think that when my time comes you'll only find that my fingers are crossed -- you won't find any death grip on a...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- $299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!
- $299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!Great writeup, but... Much thanks, Jason, your usual great blogpost... but I really do not see the point of these readers... Like you, I have tons of books on pdf and chm(and thanks for the heads-up reminder on the IBM Redbooks, that had...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- Apple celebrates App Store birthday on 11 July, 56,000 apps in 1 year
- Apple celebrates App Store birthday on 11 July, 56,000 apps in 1 yearApple celebrates App Store birthday on 11 July, 56,000 apps in 1 year56,000 apps, and 49,000 of them are tip calculators or flash light apps :PA great game app for killing time is called "Flight Control". Keeping...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- Top 10 affordable gadgets for Father's Day [gift guide]
- That time of year is almost here. That's right: it's almost Father's Day, and the time to has come to show your appreciation for Dad. Why not get him a gizmo he'll really like? ("But haven't I been showing him...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- News to know: Apple WWDC, iPhone, Macs; Palm Pre; Google Apps; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Apple coverage: Ed Burnette: WWDC 2009 live Jason D. O'Grady: WWDC 09: the announcements (Updated 10x)...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Which new Apple gizmo do you like the most?
- Which new Apple gizmo do you like the most?$29 OS Upgrade - Will MS Match Apple?I read the posts on the Keynote and was fairly impressed with most of Apple's releases. What really caught me, though, was the $29 cost to move to Snow Leopard - or $49 for...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Which new Apple gizmo do you like the most?
- At today's WWDC keynote, Apple lifted the lid on a number of new products. Which interests you the most? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- VOIP reaches end of its proprietary era
- VOIP reaches end of its proprietary eraVoIP was never proprietary, Skype IS.VoIP is not and has not been proprietary since almost the beginning. It is Skype's implementation of VoIP that is proprietary. Both their signaling protocol and their Codecs.Most VoIP systems started out using H.323 standards and then migrated...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
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