Friday, December 09, 2005
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Should You Outsource VoIP Or Manage It In-House?
CommWeb | Should You Outsource VoIP Or Manage It In-House?: Going to VoIP is a given. But how can you decide whether to do it yourself or go with a provider? The pros tell you how to make the best decision.
Monday, May 30, 2005
Steering Wheel Checks Alcohol Consumption - Yahoo! News
Steering Wheel Checks Alcohol Consumption - Yahoo! News: "If the car doesn't start, you are too drunk to drive. That is the premise behind a $600 sensor that can be installed in a steering wheel or in gloves and will test a driver's skin to determine alcohol consumption. "
Monday, March 28, 2005
eHomeUpgrade | Sony PSP Browser Hack Explained
eHomeUpgrade | Sony PSP Browser Hack Explained: "Sony PSP Browser Hack Explained"
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Monday, March 21, 2005
Sunday, March 06, 2005
HOW-TO: Use your Gmail account as a personal file server
HOW-TO: Use your Gmail account as a personal file server - Engadget - www.engadget.com
This is a fairly simple and useful trick to score yourself a gigabyte’s worth of free online file storage. If you already have a Gmail account, you can use it as a central file server that is accessible from anywhere you can access Gmail. If you don’t have a Gmail account… read on. We’re going to install a shell extension that will allow you to mount your Gmail account as a virtual drive on your desktop, so you can perform basic file manipulation operations without having to go through the web-based interface. Drag and drop, batch copy, create folders and delete files as you normally would in Windows Explorer, and be able to access your virtual drive from virtually anywhere.
This is a fairly simple and useful trick to score yourself a gigabyte’s worth of free online file storage. If you already have a Gmail account, you can use it as a central file server that is accessible from anywhere you can access Gmail. If you don’t have a Gmail account… read on. We’re going to install a shell extension that will allow you to mount your Gmail account as a virtual drive on your desktop, so you can perform basic file manipulation operations without having to go through the web-based interface. Drag and drop, batch copy, create folders and delete files as you normally would in Windows Explorer, and be able to access your virtual drive from virtually anywhere.
Monday, February 14, 2005
Motorola unveils new ultra-thin RAZR models
U.S.-based Motorola unveiled a range of new handsets on Monday that will be built around its popular RAZR model, and showed a long-awaited music phone with Apple's iTunes music player software.
Thursday, February 10, 2005
PlayStation 3 Cell chip aims high | Tech News on ZDNet
PlayStation 3 Cell chip aims high | Tech News on ZDNet
"Engineers from Sony, IBM and Toshiba are set to provide fresh details on the Cell processor that will power the next version of Sony's PlayStation video game machine, but at least one analyst already has a pretty clear idea of what's coming. "
"Engineers from Sony, IBM and Toshiba are set to provide fresh details on the Cell processor that will power the next version of Sony's PlayStation video game machine, but at least one analyst already has a pretty clear idea of what's coming. "
Monday, February 07, 2005
Pentax Optio SV
Pentax Optio SV
Pentax has pretty much reinvented itself over the past few years. There’s no doubt that the company has invested a huge amount of time and resource into the design of its latest camera range, and you’d be hard pushed to find compact digital cameras that look more appealing than the latest Optios. I suspect that it’s no coincidence that the Optio SV in my hand reminds me of the Canon Digital Ixus 500 that I reviewed last year, and if you place the two cameras next to each other, you’ll see that they sport almost identical dimensions.
Saturday, February 05, 2005
PlayStation Portable delayedin Europe
Notice how Europe gets shafted on regular basis when it comes to new video game consoles? Apart from occasionally geting a minor platform like the Gizmondo first, the continent is consistently a lower priority for giants like Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft than the US and Japan markets (which makes sense on a business level—these are the two biggest markets for video games). The Nintendo DS still isn’t slated to debut in Europe until March 11th (and honestly, doesn’t it seem like the DS has already been out here for ages?), but the latest bad news is that the PlayStation Portable, which Sony had been promising would be released before the end of March just like here in the States, now won’t come out there until sometime in the second quarter of this year because of “chip shortages”. Sony spokesperson Kenichi Fukunaga conceded in an interview that the company simply doesn’t have the manufacturing capacity to make enough PlayStation Portables for all three markets.
[Engadget]
Sprint cancels Samsung i550 Palmphone
We’d already given up on this oft-delayed cellphone a loooooong time ago, but SprintPCSInfo says that Sprint has finally decided that they’re never going to carry the SPH-i550, Samsung’s Palm-powered clamshell with an OLED external display, 32MB of RAM, an SDIO expansion card slot, and a built-in one megapixel digital camera. The reason? Sprint wanted to focus its resources on selling another Palm-powered smartphone—the Treo 650.
[Engadget]
Friday, February 04, 2005
Sony to Release PlayStation Portable
Yahoo! News - Sony to Release PlayStation Portable
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) (news - web sites). said Thursday it will release the PlayStation Portable in North America on March 24 and have 1 million units ready for sale in the first week.
The PSP machine, a challenger to Nintendo (news - web sites) Co.'s long-standing grip on the handheld video gaming market, will be sold as a "value pack" for $250 in the United States and for $300 Canadian dollars. It will include numerous accessories and — for the first million sold — a copy of the "Spider-Man 2" movie on the new Universal Media Disc format that Sony designed for the PSP.
I want one.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
HP says it develops technology to replace transistor - Feb. 1, 2005
HP says it develops technology to replace transistor - Feb. 1, 2005
"Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that its researchers have proven that a technology they invented could eventually replace the transistor, a fundamental building block of computers. "
"Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday that its researchers have proven that a technology they invented could eventually replace the transistor, a fundamental building block of computers. "
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Web Edition - NewsGator Online
"iTunes and Pepsi are teaming up again to give away free iTunes downloads, as well as free iPod mini. Chances are good, too, with 1 in 3 a winner (hopefully we can still do the tip up trick). Even better, the codes will appear across a great portion of the Pepsi line, including Mountain Dew and Sierra Mist. I made out pretty well last year when all my friends gave me their codes (too bad I can't play any of those songs anymore since I broke them with Hymn!)"
[Gizmodo]
Fun Google hack with Google Images - The Digital Photography Weblog - digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com
Fun Google hack with Google Images - The Digital Photography Weblog - digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com
Fun Google hack with Google Images
Posted Sep 30, 2004, 2:43 PM ET by Amit Malhotra
Phillip Torrone continues to amaze us with his photo hacking skills. If you have not already checked out engadget .... here is his latest..
Here’s a fun thing to play around with, if you’re bored at 3am. Most Sony digital cameras start saving photos with the following name “DSC00001.JPG” and a lot of people take these photos and upload them to the web, where the all-knowing, all-seeing Google later catalogs all of them. So by clicking this link you can see the first photo taken by someone with their new camera, this is what it looks like when thousands of Sony cameras lose their photo-virginity.
Update: Bonus fun, IMG_0001.JPG is the equivalent for Canon cameras. So, that will work too. Here’s CASIO, Pentax and Nikon. And one of our readers points out “Using DSC as a search string in P2P programs also works great for turning up things on peoples hard drives they they didnt know they were sharing”.
Where it gets even more interesting is, if you turn off moderate search setting (NSFW) and enter the most generic terms , common names and of course, any potential file name even IMG_0034.JPG.
Fun Google hack with Google Images
Posted Sep 30, 2004, 2:43 PM ET by Amit Malhotra
Phillip Torrone continues to amaze us with his photo hacking skills. If you have not already checked out engadget .... here is his latest..
Here’s a fun thing to play around with, if you’re bored at 3am. Most Sony digital cameras start saving photos with the following name “DSC00001.JPG” and a lot of people take these photos and upload them to the web, where the all-knowing, all-seeing Google later catalogs all of them. So by clicking this link you can see the first photo taken by someone with their new camera, this is what it looks like when thousands of Sony cameras lose their photo-virginity.
Update: Bonus fun, IMG_0001.JPG is the equivalent for Canon cameras. So, that will work too. Here’s CASIO, Pentax and Nikon. And one of our readers points out “Using DSC as a search string in P2P programs also works great for turning up things on peoples hard drives they they didnt know they were sharing”.
Where it gets even more interesting is, if you turn off moderate search setting (NSFW) and enter the most generic terms , common names and of course, any potential file name even IMG_0034.JPG.
Monday, January 17, 2005
SAMSUNG Introduces World’s First “3-dimensional Movement Recognition” Phone
SAMSUNG Introduces World’s First “3-dimensional Movement Recognition” Phone
Samsung Electronics unveiled the world's first “3D movement recognition” mobile phone (model: SCH-S310). ‘Accelerometer' is built in to accurately calculate and ascertain movement in three dimensional space and then carry out commands according to those calculations.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Saturday, January 08, 2005
Sony DSC-T33
Sony has confirmed that the DSC-T33 (which besides being on the slender side and the latter successor to T-1 and T-3 versions, also has a 3x optical zoom lens and a 2.5-inch LCD screen) will actually go on sale here in March with a retail price of around $450.
The T-1 is a very poor performing camera.
Thursday, January 06, 2005
New Version of Wi-Fi
WSJ.com - Personal Technology
MIMO -- which stands for Multiple Input, Multiple Output -- is likely to be the basis for the next major flavor of Wi-Fi, now under development, which goes by the technical name 802.11n. It's intended to replace the most common flavors used in homes today, which engineers call 802.11b and 802.11g. But MIMO is so good that makers are rushing it into the market even before the new standard is complete.
CNN.com - Microsoft offers free security program - Jan 6, 2005
CNN.com - Microsoft offers free security program - Jan 6, 2005
Microsoft Corp., whose popular Windows software is a frequent target for Internet viruses, is offering a free security program to remove the most dangerous infections from computers.
Microsoft Corp., whose popular Windows software is a frequent target for Internet viruses, is offering a free security program to remove the most dangerous infections from computers.
Barely legal? Strip poker hits Cingular phones | CNET News.com
Barely legal? Strip poker hits Cingular phones | CNET News.com
A tepid version of strip poker for cell phones is set to debut in the United States, and while there's no nudity--on the screen, at least--the game's distributor is preparing for complaints that it stretches the boundaries of good taste."
A tepid version of strip poker for cell phones is set to debut in the United States, and while there's no nudity--on the screen, at least--the game's distributor is preparing for complaints that it stretches the boundaries of good taste."
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
'Alchemy' Au1200
Product Brief
AMD has announced a new chip called the 'Alchemy' Au1200, designed to power portable video devices of all sizes. The hot heat about the Alchemy is two-fold: first, it can resize almost any major format video into different resolutions on the fly (upscale and downscale, it seems), meaning that devices that use the chipset won't have to have video transcoded to its native resolution before copying it over; also, the chip will power portable video players that will be compatible with the just launched TiVoToGo service that will allow you to copy recorded content from Series2 TiVos to portable devices, such as the newly announced GoVideo and FIC's video players. (Thanks, Dimitri!)
Alchemy Product Page [AMD]
AMD has announced a new chip called the 'Alchemy' Au1200, designed to power portable video devices of all sizes. The hot heat about the Alchemy is two-fold: first, it can resize almost any major format video into different resolutions on the fly (upscale and downscale, it seems), meaning that devices that use the chipset won't have to have video transcoded to its native resolution before copying it over; also, the chip will power portable video players that will be compatible with the just launched TiVoToGo service that will allow you to copy recorded content from Series2 TiVos to portable devices, such as the newly announced GoVideo and FIC's video players. (Thanks, Dimitri!)
Alchemy Product Page [AMD]
Techdirt:Vonage Goes VoWiFi -- How Big Is The Market?
Techdirt:Vonage Goes VoWiFi -- How Big Is The Market?
Vonage is about to pick up quite a bit of press coverage for their unveiling of "plans" to offer a WiFi phone that will work with their service. It wasn't a secret that they were working on such a plan, and it sounds like this isn't so much a launch as it is a confirmation that they plan to launch it at some point (giving them an extra chance at getting some publicity).
Vonage is about to pick up quite a bit of press coverage for their unveiling of "plans" to offer a WiFi phone that will work with their service. It wasn't a secret that they were working on such a plan, and it sounds like this isn't so much a launch as it is a confirmation that they plan to launch it at some point (giving them an extra chance at getting some publicity).
Yahoo! News - Motorola to Build Cell Phones Into Ski Jackets
Yahoo! News - Motorola to Build Cell Phones Into Ski Jackets
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT - news) said it will unveil plans this week for a line of outerwear that uses interactive cell phone and portable music technology in snowboarding jackets, in a bid to win over twentysomethings.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT - news) said it will unveil plans this week for a line of outerwear that uses interactive cell phone and portable music technology in snowboarding jackets, in a bid to win over twentysomethings.
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