In the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray, HD DVD’s primary advantage from the very beginning had been cheaper prices on players. But Blu-ray has responded, lowering its prices and offering popular promotions, like Wal-Mart’s giveaway of 10 Blu-ray titles with the purchase of a
Sony PlayStation 3 this past holiday. But preferences over one format [...]
Google Checkout for Political Contributions
In our research paper, we suggested that Google and PayPal begin to offer online-campaign contribution systems. The two companies have already spent millions of dollars in establishing trusted brands–enough that millions of users entrust the firms with their credit card details and other personal information, both have Web site names that [...]
The subject line says “Obama sex video!!!” and the e-mail appears to come from “infonews@obama.com, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, says on his blog.
A malicious spam e-mail is spreading that claims to have a link to a sex video of Obama but is instead spyware that steals sensitive data from [...]
Wow! Rob Enderle FTW, right?! Unbelievable! A, uh, well, 50-50 shot but he nails it from outside the 3-point line!
Well, how old is he?
Sadly Rob can’t leave a good thing alone. Because in December of 2006 he changed his mind: Optical HD Battle May Be Over: HD DVD Wins (tip o’ the antlers to John [...]
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Rumor has it Aliph will soon be releasing an updated version of its uber-popular Jawbone Bluetooth headset, but you can grab the original for just $64 (plus shipping)–a pretty solid deal considering that stores like Best Buy sell it for $129.
Find more deals, coupon codes, and bargains on CNET’s Shopper.com.
Renowned for its fashionable design and [...]
The $1,149 Satellite A305-S6839 swaps the AMD processor for a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 CPU, 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 discrete graphics, and a 320GB hard drive. And the $1,299 Satellite A305-S6845 provides a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 CPU, 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 discrete graphics, and two 200GB [...]
The technology will eventually supplant LCD, Stringer believes, although at the moment he calls it “a perfect television companion.”
Mossberg gave Stringer a hard time about Sony PCs’ pre-loaded software, or “craplets.” Other vendors are removing the pre-loads, Mossberg said. “Are you willing to get rid of these craplets?”
In an interview with Stringer at [...]
In the demo video below, both the application and the selected video begin to play around a second after they’re launched. That’s a whole lot faster than the iPhone, especially the launch time, which should make clicking on YouTube links in e-mails and while browsing a less painful experience. While YouTube for Mobile is available [...]
Imagine us saying (in our best Jan Brady voice): “Intel, Intel, Intel!” The chipmaker managed to dominate laptop news this week thanks to the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, where the company heavily hyped all things small, especially its next-generation Classmate PC (see our exclusive full review) and mobile Internet devices running on the new [...]
“The single biggest impediment to MySQLs growth is their ability to give peace of mind to global companies that want to put MySQL into mission-critical deployments.”
Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL [For some reason in Orlando, Florida - was he swimming with dolphins?]:
1. Linux (by far the most popular platform among MySQL customers). 2. Windows (High [...]
