Does the Netbook Have a Life?

The continued growth in cloud adoption may radically change netbook adoption rates. "As more organizations explore a virtualized desktop and cloud-based productivity options, the netbook could be an interesting conduit to a world featuring 'Everything as a Service' -- providing traditional I/O to enable productivity tasks, but at a lower-cost, more portable profile," explained Deloitte analyst William Briggs. Trends have always come and gone, but when it comes to all-things-tech, the speed of change is faster than an Internet minute. It isn't that tech users are all that fickle; it's that the environment around them is constantly changing. Take...

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LG iPhone Looks Fat and Dull

Leaked photos of an LG Android smartphone supposedly called the "B" reveal what could be the slimmest smartphone yet -- even skinnier than the iPhone 4. The screen also appears to be extremely bright. "Everybody's searching for ways, however big or small, to one-up the iPhone, which is supposed to be the slimmest device," Laura DiDio, principal at ITIC, told LinuxInsider. Hot on the heels of its announcement of the Optimus 2X smartphone this week, LG is reported to be working on yet another Android mobile phone. The new, ulta-thin phone will be known as the "B," according to Phandroid. LG itself has been somewhat coy regarding the smartphone....

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UK Plan to Filter Porn

UK Communications Minister Ed Vaizey plans to ask for ISPs' help in keeping pornographic content on the Internet out of reach of minors. However, his plans, which could involve requiring users to opt in if they want access to the Web's adult side, have been questioned on technical grounds. Critics see a wide array of shortcomings, from defining pornography to imperfect automatic tools for weeding it out. The British government has joined China, Iran and Australia in seeking to actively restrict access to certain portions of the Internet. Communications officials have revealed plans to ask Internet service providers in the UK to restrict access...

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Microsoft launches a new online multiplayer game

Microsoft has kicked off an open beta of a new multiplayer game called Neosaurs, which it is attempting to propogate virally via Twitter and Facebook.The open beta commenced on December 9, according to the Web site for the game. “Neosaurs is a new massively multiplayer RPG (MMORPG) adventure that you can play, right here in your browser for free! No downloads, no wait times. Click ‘Play Now’ to jump in the game and start playing right away with your existing Facebook or Windows Live account,” according to the Web page.I asked Microsoft about Neosaurs and received the following statement from a spokesperson: “Neosaurs is a new game under development...

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Dell precision workstation

Usually tucked under the desk in a tiny cubicle, the humble workstation gets no love when it comes to industrial design. But the last bastion of the beige box may be getting a rather nice face lift, courtesy of Dell, if some images found on the Internet and supplied to Engadget are the real deal. As the above image shows, Dell has designed a workstation that looks like it borrowed some touches from sister company Alienware’s gaming PCs — a healthy dollop of red accents and some streamlined styling. It may not qualify as looking full-out “sexy,” but for a corporate machine, it’s about as close as it gets. The image are apparently updates to Dell’s...

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Google and its Chrome OS users

Google isn’t telling me any secrets about its plans for Chrome OS. Indeed, I’m not even one of the 60,000 or so people that Google has given a Cr-48 Chromebook prototype to play with. Even so, unlike my good friend Mary Jo Foley, I think I know exactly who Google has in mind for its Chrome OS Linux desktop system. I see Google as targeting two different, very different, audiences with Chrome OS. The first group are office workers. The other is those hundreds of millions, perhaps a billion plus, users who really don’t know the first thing about to use a computer safely even as they use them every day. In this set-up, a company would pay Google...

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Hacks and the Linux-Free PS3

It's not clear why Linux fans would even want to run it on a PS3, "when a console is NOTHING but 'DRM... in a box'" says Slashdot blogger hairyfeet. "Even when [Sony] allowed Linux you didn't get access to the full machine -- no GPU access -- which left it an underpowered POWER based PC." "Never get between a geek and a processor" would be an excellent maxim for tech companies to live by, but it's one that gets ignored again and again. Take Sony's (NYSE: SNE) latest misguided move. Not only is it what inspired Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack to utter those sage words, but it's also what has now prompted George Hotz -- author...

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PO'ed PS3 User Sues Sony for Nixing Linux

When the PlayStation 3 originally went to market more than three years ago, users had the option of installing an alternate OS, like Linux, if they so chose. Lately, however, Sony decided to dump that feature on grounds that it enabled piracy. Now Anthony Ventura, a user from California, has launched a proposed class-action suit against Sony alleging deceptive business practices. Less than a month after Sony (NYSE: SNE) dropped Linux support from its PlayStation 3  gaming console, a disgruntled customer has filed a lawsuit, charging that the move was a deceptive business practice. He's seeking class-action status. Sony Computer Entertainment...

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Switching from PC to Mac and back

We live in a cross-platform world. Windows-powered PCs still dominate in the workplace, but Macs have captured substantial market share and even greater mind share among the affluent and well connected. As I explained two weeks ago, I’m running a PC and a Mac side by side as part of a long-term commitment to developing more expertise in Apple’s platform and, along the way, helping my readers bridge the Mac-PC gap more smoothly. So far, it’s been a mostly delightful, if occasionally challenging experience. Although I’ve owned a Mac for several years, I’ve probably used this one more in the past two weeks than I have in the past six months combined....

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Could Wikileaks cause World War III

It’s a simple, one syllable word. If you think about it, trust is all that stands between us and terrible circumstance, whether that’s the breakup of a family or total, nuclear Armageddon. Trust is vitally important to the operations of nations and governments, as well. Not everyone, for example, is entrusted with America’s nuclear codes. Not everyone is entrusted with the command of virtually independent nuclear ballistic missile submarines. And not everyone is entrusted with secret government documents. For many things, trust has to be selective. It’s not a good idea, as an example, to put controlling nuclear weapons on the honor system. My...

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Leveraging Linux for Supercomputing

Thus, aggregation provides an affordable, virtual x86 platform with large, shared memory. Server virtualization for aggregation replaces the functionality of custom and proprietary chipsets with software and utilizes only a tiny fraction of a system's CPUs and RAM to provide chipset-level services without sacrificing system performance. High-performance computing (HPC) applications such as numerical simulation -- whether for forecasting, mechanical and structure simulation, or computational chemistry -- require a large number of CPUs  for processing. To meet these needs, customers must buy a large-scale system that enables parallel processing...

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The Inevitability of the Apple SIM Card

There has been an assortment of news concerning iOS updates, jailbreaks and carrier hacks recently. To make sense of it all, you have to put yourself in the other people's shoes. Personally, sandals are preferred, so allow me to flop around. Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) new iPhone 5, expected out June of 2011, won't have one piece of gear that's common in other phones: a subscriber identity module (SIM) card. This was big news for several phone carriers, particularly in the UK and Europe, who worried that SIM cards would give users more versatility and provide a medium for SIM-based applications and features. There is a long list of digital equipment that utilizes this technology already. If it integrates SIM card technology into the iPhone 5, Apple would be limiting the power of the carriers, essentially...

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HID Proximity Card Technology

HID Proximity Card Technology Smart cards or HID access cards are plastic ID cards just like the size of your driver's license or credit card. The thickness of an HID access card may vary depending on whether it has an embedded integrated circuit like a microchip, magnetic stripe or bar code. There is stored data within that makes it more than a typical company ID. Although it is used for identification purposes, HID cards can be used for access control and even for time-keeping functions. An HID proximity card works together with a card reader, control panel and your computer system. By swiping the card through the reader, a code is extracted...

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Samsung C3050 – Flip Handset At Reasonable Prices

Samsung has released its Samsung C3050 in the market that is available in all online mobile stores with many exiting deal.Samsung is a biggest name in the mobile World that has given many handsets to the market. You will find a wide variety of budget and expensive handsets in its mobile phone series. This mobile is popular for giving trendy looks to its handsets and this time again Samsung has manufactured another attractive slide handset. Samsung has released this handset with the name of Samsung C3050. This handset has all required features that must be in a good budget handset. This slim handset has 97 x 47.3 x 14.9 mm dimensions that can...

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How To Program Your Direct TV Remote

Contemporary remote controls have become quite complex. In the old days, it used to be that a remote control was a simple electronic device- one power button, a volume up and down button, channel selections and perhaps a mute control. Remote controls today have become more universal, programming the user's television, satellite receiver, VCR, DVD player, stereo and any other part of the user's home entertainment system. The problem arises when the viewer is not able to understand the options on the remote control and it becomes useless. DirecTv's remote control can be simply understood if these directions are followed. DirecTV incorporates specific...

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The New Nikon D700

The Nikon D700 is the newest addition to the Nikon D series digital cameras. The primary distinction between the D700 and its earlier D series digital cousins is the size of the sensor. The D700 is really a true 35mm format with a digital sensor that's a 23.9mm by 36mm. Nikon has designated the new format as FX as opposed to DX for its earlier digital SLR cameras. Whenever you take into consideration all of the features obtainable plus the truth that the D700 will use nearly any Nikon lens produced since 1974, the D700 offers considerable bang for the serious amateur or working professional's buck. If your stable of Nikon lens contains both FX...

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The R4 SDHC card

Team R4 SDHC R4 SDHC card is the first memory card corner to accept greater than 2GB. It ds tt card can accept more high capacity (HC) memory cards, hence the name of R4 SDHC. It is now a standard set of memory cards high capacity to accept, but the R4 SDHC is the card has taken the lead. At the time, 8GB Micro-SDHC credit history cards experienced been just commencing to emerge inside the industry also to the quantity of customers that flooded in the direction of R4 to hold benefit of the produced it a specific contender to the quickest marketing DS card in the time, alongside the reliable R4v2 also to the DSTT card. The only obvious downside...

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Dreambox Receiver

Linux based DVB receivers are a rare phenomenon. The first of its kind is the Dreambox DM 500-S. This is the only customizable DVB receiver and is a user friendly option for the customer. There is also a feature by which it can be connected to an Ethernet modem R232. The receiver has now become quite famous across the country with many offers for the same. There is a decrease in the sales of the other DVB receivers with this advent. Here, we can have a short technical discussion about the Dreambox 500-S and some of its major features. With an astounding 250 Mega Hertz Power PC processor, the Dreambox 500-S supports a wide range of video text....

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Dreambox Wifi Adapter

The Dreambox WiFi Bridge is the perfect accessory for every dreambox owner. Make you dreambox instantly wireless with our unique product. It works also with many other recievers including Azbox, Ipbox, Starview, Humax, Vu+ Duo, etc. It work on any Satellite Receiver that has power of between DC5V-15V Power. Key Features:     * It Supports WEP (64 bit), WEP (128 bit), WPA, WPA2 security.     * Easy Setup – 5 Minute Setup     * Very small and compact (9cm x 5cm x 1.5cm).     * Full Support available.     * Works on all STB’s     * Works on Xbox 360 via USB...

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Multimedia's Dreambox Receiver

The Dreambox 500 is the smallest receiver that was made back in 2005-2006 but have now been discontinued due to the huge amount of Chinese dreambox clones available on the market. DM500 is also the most popular dreambox today. The Dreambox 500 runs on open source software found on various CVS site and compiling an image is fairly easy, the hard part is the programming of extra panels such as the blue button on Gemini Images. Fake dreamboxs are flooding the satellite tv market and you have to be careful when purchasing a dreambox online in the event it could be a fake! Make sure you check it it has the new hologram. The Second most popular dreambox...

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Channels Through Satellite TV on the Web

Have you just moved from the city to a country house with no satellite TV connection? Or maybe you're a university student stuck in a dorm or shared flat without a satellite dish and you're stuck with just 5 regular channels. If you're a sports fan in a home without your regular live update channels or a soap opera fanatic without reruns then life can become incredibly tedious, but you do have a choice. You could spend a few hundred dollars to buy your own satellite TV setup and pay the monthly fees on all of your favorite channels or you could simply pay a one off payment and download the latest entertainment package, satellite TV for PC software....

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Sharp flat-panel TVs

SEATTLE – If you're in the market for a new flat-panel TV, it's a good time to buy. TV prices usually drop from year to year, and the decline will be sharp this season thanks to a supply glut. Consumers have been holding out all year for better deals, leaving lots of unsold televisions on the shelves. Prices for high-definition LCD TVs will fall more than twice as fast as they have so far this year as manufacturers and retailers clear out inventory, analysts predict. New sets will also be cheaper because TV makers have been getting great deals on the most expensive parts, the glass LCD panels. However, DisplaySearch analyst Paul Gagnon expects...

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Phones Worth the Purchase

The invention of mobile phones is probably one of the best things that have ever happened to mankind. Today the world of communication has become a cake walk process only because of these phones. The latest mobile phones in UK  are now brought in so as to provide you with a larger variety of phones that are capable of performing any kind of functions you desire. The handsets come with great looks and spectacular features that make it worth the purchase. The mobile phone market is flooded with a number of brands and companies that thrive in order to provide great satisfaction to the customers. They manufacture phones that please the buyer so that more and more people are magnetized. This helps them fight tough competition. Some of the very well known brands are Motorola, Sony Ericsson,...

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iPhone App Development

I think it is now a fact that Apple's iPhone was the pioneer in making the mobile application development a huge success globally. iPhone developers have developed some incredible applications for the growing iPhone consumer base (more than 100,000 applications and still counting). There is now doubt that the iPhone sales have crossed 4 million and is one of the highest selling smart phones ever. With such a big user base already out there, you know it makes sense to build apps for this platform. Developers developing app for this platform will generally have a good sales figure because of the organized app store, iTunes, which has already sold...

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