January 10 2005
by Will Sturgeon
The number of employees returning from Christmas with new mobile devices has given IT managers across the UK a New Year headache they could have done without.
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‘Look at my new gadget’: phrase plagues IT managersRead More »
By John Greenwald
Suppose you could watch every TV show you ever wanted to. Every sitcom, drama, news program, special, cooking show, adult movie, regular movie, children’s show, sports event. If you could indulge your taste in everything TV, would you still have enough time to eat, sleep, go to work, take care of the kids, do the housework, see family and friends and go to the bathroom? This question is not science fiction. Because of a new electronic gizmo that sits atop your TV, the digital video recorder, a.k.a. DVR, we are halfway to watching all the TV we want, 24/7. The DVR in its various versions offers couch potatoes much greater choice and convenience than its predecessor, the VCR.
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By Leo Lewis
THEY have fought over DVDs, digital cameras, MP3 players and flat-screen televisions. Now Japan’s gadget makers have chosen a new battleground for 2005: the electronic book. Technology companies and science-fiction writers have been predicting the death of paper for decades, and they have always been wrong. Until now, people have happily stuck to books despite the digital age because books still represent the cheapest and easiest-to-read medium for words.
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The DiskGO!â„¢ USB Watch Drive – Steel Dress Style by EDGEâ„¢ is the perfect data storage and transfer solution for the business traveler on the GO!. Like the original DiskGO!â„¢ USB Watch Drive, it is a USB Flash Drive and fully functional wristwatch offered in a dressier stainless steel design.
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The DiskGO!â„¢ USB Watch Drive by EDGEâ„¢ is easy to use, hard to lose and more convenient than a typical USB Flash Drive. Simply put, this product is Super-Cool!
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By: Adam Balkin
The Nokia Medallion II can be a medallion or a watch, depending on how you choose to wear it. It tells time or shows off pictures, depending on how you choose to use it, and is an example of something for the techie who has everything. “If you have a Nokia camera phone and you wonder, ‘What do I do with all those images on my Nokia camera phone?’ you can beam them to this little device and then wear it as a necklace or as a watch,â€? says Janice Chen of CNET dot com. “You can put eight pictures on it, and it’s kind of like a locket, a little electronic locket.â€?
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Source: PC Magazine
Two products took the top honors in PC Magazine’s Last Gadget Standing contest. In this contest, audiences at the Consumer Electronics Show and visitors to pcmag.com narrowed a field of 32 products and services chosen by PC Magazine editors to 10 finalists. These finalists then competed at the Las Vegas Convention Center by giving four minute long demonstrations to a live audience, who then voted at the show , to name one finalist “The Last Gadget Standing”.
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PARIS (AFP) – New technology has played a major role in aiding the search and rescue of victims of the Asian tsunami disaster as well as raising funds for aid organisations.
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BY STEPHEN WILLIAMS
STAFF CORRESPONDENT
January 7, 2005
LAS VEGAS – Schizophrenia, in its most benign form, historically lies at the heart of the consumer electronics industry. You want big? Check out the 102-inch plasma TV from Samsung. You want small? Here’s a micro-sized disc drive from Lexar, a bit bigger than a thumbnail.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. –(Business Wire)– Jan. 3, 2005 — Roku SoundBridge and Roku PhotoBridge HD1000 Product Lines Will Be Shown at CES Innovations Showcase, Microsoft’s and Analog Devices’ Booths.
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