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- News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP
- 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. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Oregon Scientific ATC5K Waterproof Action Camera
- Usually extreme sports helmet cameras are ruggedly simple affairs that have to forgo complications such as LCD viewfinders in favor of compact and durable designs. The Oregon Scientific ATC5K Action Camera avoids that compromise by squeezing a small full-color LCD screen onto its smallish body, while still preserving its waterproof...
- Product reviews 2009-08-07
- Olympus reveals E-450 entry-level dSLR camera for $699
- Olympus today announced its new entry-level digital single lens reflex camera, the successor to its E-420, what the company called the "world's smallest" digital SLR camera. The new, 10 megapixel E-450 comes in a small and portable design, and comes with three Art...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- News to know: Windows 7; Facebook and OpenID; Patch Tuesday preview
- 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 Ryan Naraine: MS Tuesday heads-up: Critical IE, Exchange flaws Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 chiefs: We messed up ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Sony Alpha DSLR-A900 (body only)
- Photo gallery:Sony Alpha DSLR-A900Sony makes a point of not calling this a "professional" camera, instead referring to it as the "flagship" model of its dSLR line. However, it's priced like a pro model, and its full-frame competitors--the Nikon D700 and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II--are widely, though not exclusively,...
- Product reviews 2009-01-20
- Dell supersizes its LED monitors
- Dell supersizes its LED monitorswidescreen: I don't get it...I do software development with my nose 12" (30cm in new money) from a 1600x1200 Dell Ultrasharp LCD. I could use some more pixels, and work more efficiently with even more stuff on screen, but wider and shallower isn't the way...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-15
- News to know: Storm; AMD, Intel; Tech economy reels
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm availability, pricing Larry Dignan: AMD unveils ‘Shanghai’; Aims to better compete with Intel AMD: Does the resurrection start...
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Yamaha Pocketrak 2G
- Photo gallery:Yamaha Pocketrak 2GThe Yamaha Pocketrak 2G is one of the smallest and lightest high-end portable audio recorders available today. There's nothing small about the Pocketrak 2G's $450 price, however, and its limited features and recording capacity will have demanding users heading toward Yamaha's bulkier competition.DesignThe Pocketrak 2G is marketed...
- Product reviews 2008-08-01
- Olympus announces E-420, the most compact DSLR to date
- Okay, so it's barely any smaller than its predecessor, the E-410, but Olympus needs a hook so the camera vendor is touting its latest DSLR as the "World's Smallest Digital SLR." At roughly 5.1 x 3.6 x 2.1 inches, the E-420 is smaller than most of its competition, and at...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- The Cult of Kindle
- The Cult of KindleThe first reviews are useless......be it a Kindle, a movie, or music.The favoring reviews the first few weeks for any product are always suspect. Usually employees, or for hire marketing folks who go online to pitch glowing reviews for a product they probably do not even own,...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- News to know: Google's malware issue; Dell; Facebook Beacon; Zoho
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell hopes to generate 'product lust' following mixed earnings bag. Joshua Greenbaum: Dell Buys the SaaS Platform Salesforce.com Wishes it Had. Ryan Naraine: FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders. Google SEO poisoning: The saga may continue. Google looking...
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- HP Photosmart D7460
- The HP Photosmart D7460 offers a lot of great features at a decent price. For $180, you get a network-ready printer (wireless too!) with a handy touch screen that makes navigating menus a breeze. While we liked using this model, its performance gives us pause. Although it was speedy with...
- Product reviews 2007-09-11
- Eclipse AVN2210p
- The Eclipse AVN2210p is a novel addition to the aftermarket in-car navigation scene. It is the first system we have seen that combines the functionality of an in-dash GPS navigation device and media player with that of a standalone portable navigation device. It does this by using a TomTom Duo...
- Product reviews 2007-05-31
- Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro
- It's no secret that Fujifilm models its dSLRs on Nikon bodies, but its latest model, called the Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro, may as well be a clone of the Nikon D200--from the outside at least. Inside, Fujifilm swaps out the Nikon guts for its own array of electronic imaging machinery....
- Product reviews 2007-05-18
- Dell 2707WFP 27-inch LCD monitor
- Everyone has their own idea of the perfect display size, determined by some mystical combination of applications used, available desk space, viewing distance, and resolution, tempered by a degree of techie feng shui and a hearty dose of budgetary reality. Remove my budget issues from the equation--it's much less than...
- Product reviews 2007-02-06
- News to know: IT exec sellouts; Bezos' spacecraft
- The daily reading list:Cisco to spend $830 million for e-mail security firm.Google reader adds metrics.Amazon answers Yahoo: Askville launches.Walt Mossberg says Office 2007 an improvement, but theres a learning curve. How IT execs sell out their organizations. Home Depot’s CEO switch could alter IT strategy. In focus: Apples month of...
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Epson PictureMate Snap
- The PictureMate Snap is the middle offering of Epson's three personal photo labs. For $200--$50 more than the entry-level PictureMate Pal--you get everything the Pal offers, plus an adjustable preview LCD, faster prints, and the ability to crop and make granular image adjustments. It also supports an optional battery pack,...
- Product reviews 2006-11-03
- HP Photosmart C7180 All-in-One - multifunction ( color )
- The Photosmart C7180 sits near the top of HP's consumer all-in-one photo printer line (only the 3310 all-in-one is more expensive). For $400, you get a machine that prints, scans, copies, and surprisingly, faxes. It's also network ready and wireless enabled, and it features a PictBridge port, a media card...
- Product reviews 2006-10-04
- Pentax Optio A10
- Pentax's Optio A10 boasts some impressive specs, including 8-megapixel resolution, sensor-shifting shake reduction, ISO 800 sensitivity, and a high-resolution 232,000-pixel 2.5-inch LCD. As you might expect, the camera produces decent images under a variety of conditions, but as in many pocket cameras, excessive noise makes the Optio A10 impractical for...
- Product reviews 2006-05-23
- Canon PowerShot SD430
- Editor's note: The Canon PowerShot SD430 is identical to the Canon PowerShot SD400, with the addition of Wi-Fi networking capabilities. Read the review of the PowerShot SD400 for a complete evaluation of the photographic capabilities of the camera.With Wi-Fi networking integrated into most new laptops sold today and industry-standard add-on...
- Product reviews 2006-01-27
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