AT&T Introduces Four New Quick Messaging Cellphones
Messaging and mobile data could not possibly be hotter right now, and AT&T knows it. The company has just debuted four new messaging phones for their Spring lineup, perfect for those who just came back from Spring Break with a "lost, stolen, missing or otherwise broken" cellphone. We know there are quite a few of you in that camp too, so don't play coy.In an effort to get mobile data out to more people, AT&T is bringing smartphone-like experiences to a wider range of powerful yet affordable devices designed
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Unreal Engine 3 Gains NVIDIA 3D Vision Support: The Future Is Depth
3D just might be taking over the world, but that's perfectly okay in NVIDIA's eyes. The company has been on the forefront of 3D technology within gaming ever since their 3D Vision kit hit the market, and it's widely viewed as the best 3D solution out there for gamers looking for additional depth in their gameplay.At the GDC Expo in California, NVIDIA and Epic Games simultaneously announced that 3D Vision support would be coded into Unreal Engine 3, a breakthrough new engine that may very well set the bar for
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ESPN Mobile TV Comes To Sprint: Enough To Sway People To Switch?
With March Madness kicking off in a matter of days, there's really no better time for this announcement to come. ESPN has managed to get themselves onto a variety of platforms: radio, television, Internet, mobile, etc. One thing that Sprint has going for them that all of the other U.S. carriers don't is a little deal with the nation's biggest sports broadcasting company, and for sports freaks, this may be all that's needed to sway them from AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile.Starting this week, Sprint TV users will
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FCC Wants Broadband Providers to Put the Pedal to the Metal
We imagine the suits over at the FCC must be big fans of the movie Top Gun, because a major new Internet policy that's about to be unveiled proves someone in Washington feels the need for speed. We're talking about a policy that would task ISPs with putting100Mbps speeds in place at 100 million American homes within the next decade.That's just one of several goals outlined in the National Broadband Plan, though it's the one that's drawing the most ire from a handful of ISPs who oppose "extreme forms of regulation"
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Dell's 6-Core Infused Alienware Area-51 Gaming PC Monster Invades HH Labs
This weekend the weather has been acting up here in the Northeast. We've had some torrential rains causing localized flooding and the wind has been fierce, giving us the feeling that Mother Earth has decided to kick up her wrath a bit, forcing us all to seek shelter indoors. Or, perhaps, the change in atmosphere has nothing to do with dear ol' Mother Earth and more to do with what landed on the HotHardware.com loading dock last week. Perhaps the atmospheric disturbance we're dealing with is
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Barnes & Noble To Offer eReader For iPad
Barnes & Noble plans to offer a version of its eReader software designed for the iPad. The eReader will enable users to access more than one million eBooks, magazines, and newspapers in the Barnes & Noble eBookstore as well as content in a user's own Barnes & Noble digital library. Even though the iPad will compete against Barnes & Noble's own device, the Nook, the bookseller is sticking with its commitment to provide the eReader software for as many screens as possible. Barnes & Noble's
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Game Developers Conference 2010 Highlights
Just this past week, the Game Developers Conference was held in downtown San Francisco, CA. If you're unfamiliar with GDC, it is the "world's largest professionals-only game industry event." In other words, everyday gaming enthusiast can't just walk in off the street to take a look around. GDC is held every spring and is basically a forum for learning and networking for the creators of computer, console, handheld, mobile, and online games. Hundreds of companies
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Dell's 6-Core Infused Alienware Area-51 Gaming PC Monster Invades HH Labs
This weekend the weather has been acting up here in the Northeast. We've had some torrential rains causing localized flooding and the wind has been fierce, giving us the feeling that Mother Earth has decided to kick up her wrath a bit, forcing us all to seek shelter indoors. Or, perhaps, the change in atmosphere has nothing to do with dear ol' Mother Earth and more to do with what landed on the HotHardware.com loading dock last week. Perhaps the atmospheric disturbance we're dealing with is a result something extra-terrestrial that has invaded the test area now at HH. See, this little company by the name of Intel, they have a new chip. It has six processor cores in it and it's pretty fast actually. So, this guy Michael... last name begins with a "D"... oh, yeah, Dell, that's it.Well, see ol' Mike decided he'd build himself a gaming PC with this new chip and he asked a few of the good folks at his Alienware division, that he acquired not long ago, to build it for him. And those Alienware folk... Well, let's just say they have a knack for bringing it...
Alienware Area-51 ALX Gaming System - The Aliens are looking
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Hot-Swap Drive Cage - Wall of Storage, Motorized, Illuminated Vent System - Low Rider Option Available
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2xRadeon HD 5970 In CrossFire X, Water-Cooled Gulftown - All Badass (click for full res)
Though the interior shot above is well lit by a few strategically positioned LEDs, we can tell you that the system was actually not plugged in to a power source when we held our little impromptu photo-shoot. In fact, the machine comes equipped with some sort of battery back-up that we're still looking into. So, when you open the side panel, even if the system is powered down and unplugged, you're still able to admire its build quality with a little mood lighting to warm you up like Barry White. Of course those dual Radeon HD 5970s (yes, that 4 GPUs folks) will keep the home fires toasty as well.
Fear not though, if you're the type that likes to keep cool under pressure. The new Alienware Area-51 ALX has a self-contained water cooler to keep its Core i7-980 X chilled out nicely. Also, the vent louvers at the top of the machine automatically flex open, to let a little cool breeze in, if things get too hot in this love shack of technological wonder.
Stay tuned because we plan to break a hard sweat with the new Intel Gulftown-infused Dell Alienware Area-51 ALX. Benchmarking ought to take just a few minutes... literally.
Fear not though, if you're the type that likes to keep cool under pressure. The new Alienware Area-51 ALX has a self-contained water cooler to keep its Core i7-980 X chilled out nicely. Also, the vent louvers at the top of the machine automatically flex open, to let a little cool breeze in, if things get too hot in this love shack of technological wonder.
Stay tuned because we plan to break a hard sweat with the new Intel Gulftown-infused Dell Alienware Area-51 ALX. Benchmarking ought to take just a few minutes... literally.
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Barnes & Noble To Offer eReader For iPad
Barnes & Noble plans to offer a version of its eReader software designed for the iPad. The eReader will enable users to access more than one million eBooks, magazines, and newspapers in the Barnes & Noble eBookstore as well as content in a user's own Barnes & Noble digital library.Even though the iPad will compete against Barnes & Noble's own device, the Nook, the bookseller is sticking with its commitment to provide the eReader software for as many screens as possible. Barnes & Noble's free eReader software is currently available for most computing and mobile devices such as the PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod touch, and BlackBerry.
With Apple entering the e-reader space, some book publishers have decided now is the perfect time to challenge the existing paradigm, particularly when it comes to price. For example, Macmillan recently pushed to raise the prices of its ebooks to $12.99-$14.99 from the previous price of $9.99. Although Amazon.com temporarily pulled the publisher's titles from its online store in response to the price increase, the company eventually gave in and said price changes could be the way of the future.
"We will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books," a representative for Amazon.com wrote in a Jan. 31 statement. "Amazon customers will at that point decide for themselves whether they believe it's reasonable to pay $14.99 for a bestselling book."
Apple is reportedly in talks with a number of book publishers and studios for content; it's possible booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble will have to match the terms of Apple's agreements in order to prevent the iPad from making too big of a dent in the e-reader market.
The eReader for iPad software is scheduled to be released around the time of the iPad's availability.
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Unreal Engine 3 Gains NVIDIA 3D Vision Support: The Future Is Depth
3D just might be taking over the world, but that's perfectly okay in NVIDIA's eyes. The company has been on the forefront of 3D technology within gaming ever since their 3D Vision kit hit the market, and it's widely viewed as the best 3D solution out there for gamers looking for additional depth in their gameplay.
At the GDC Expo in California, NVIDIA and Epic Games simultaneously announced that 3D Vision support would be coded into Unreal Engine 3, a breakthrough new engine that may very well set the bar for how well GPUs fare in the coming months. This means that every single game based around the Unreal Engine 3 (of which there will be many, we're sure) will be able to have a 3D mode compatible with NVIDIA's 3D Vision solution, and there's already a free Unreal Developer Kit out there for those who want to get in on the action early.
Gears of War and Gears of War 2, Shadow Complex, BioShock 2, Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, Borderlands and Batman: Arkham Asylum are just a few killer titles that utilize Unreal Engine 3, so it's understood that even more amazing titles will be on the horizon. There's no question that movie makers and game makers will be pushing 3D hard in the coming months and years, and if the future is anything as good as the titles we've already seen, we might just have to get over our fear of being seen in the den with 3D glasses on.
Facts about NVIDIA® 3D Vision and Unreal Engine 3:
- Epic Games and NVIDIA have worked together to integrate“out of the box†support for NVIDIA® 3D Vision technology into UnrealEngine 3.
- Unreal Engine 3 is the engine that powers some of the most successful games in the marketplace including: Gearsof War and Gears of War 2, Shadow Complex, BioShock 2, Mass Effect andMass Effect 2, Borderlands and Batman: Arkham Asylum.
- Theupdated version of Unreal Engine 3 and UDK will be available in thenear future for all licensees allowing games developed with thatrevision (or later) to deliver “out of the box†support for 3D vision.
- 3DVision is the world’s leading consumer 3D solution and supports PCgaming, photographs, videos, Blu-ray 3D, and 3D Web browsing.
- 3DVision consists of wireless, active-shutter glasses and wireless USBemitter and can work with compatible 120Hz desktop LCDs, 3D TVs andprojectors. A NVIDIA GeForce® 8800 GTX or higher GPU is also required.
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ESPN Mobile TV Comes To Sprint: Enough To Sway People To Switch?
With March Madness kicking off in a matter of days, there's really no better time for this announcement to come. ESPN has managed to get themselves onto a variety of platforms: radio, television, Internet, mobile, etc. One thing that Sprint has going for them that all of the other U.S. carriers don't is a little deal with the nation's biggest sports broadcasting company, and for sports freaks, this may be all that's needed to sway them from AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile.Starting this week, Sprint TV users will be able to watch ESPN Mobile TV, and if you subscribe to an "Everything Plan," Sprint TV access is already included for no extra charge. According to the company, ESPN Mobile TV coverage during March and April will feature more than 100 live events and over 250 hours of coverage for Sprint customers with this new agreement, and it instantly puts Sprint ahead of the competition when it comes to delivering sports content on the go.
We can't help but hope that this deal comes to other cell operators as well, but we get the feeling that Sprint shelled out for exclusive rights, at least for awhile. Is this enough to get you to think about switching at the end of your current contract, or is that ESPN app good enough for you?
Programming and live events through April include:
- 23 Live Men’s NCAA Basketball Games (including Conference Championship games)
- 19 Live Women’s NCAA Basketball Championship Games
- 9 NBA Playoff Games
- 15 Regular Season NBA Games
- 30 Live NBA Fastbreak Shows
- 10 Regular Season MLB Games
- 50 Live Baseball Tonight Studio Shows
- 3 College Football Spring games
- 3 Live Friday Night Fights
- 3 Live NCAA Hockey Championship Games
- 5 Live MLS Matches
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Relational Database
Not quite appropriate for the nature of these forums, but then - how many of my posts are?
I work as tech support for a press agency in the UK, and on the side i deal with the service implementation side, and help document all of our services, clients, and who gets what.
Currently, our sales guys sell a product, or products to a client - they then e-mail the details to service implementation, who create all of the relevant feeds/documentation - then collate all the info into a small word document, which i then upload onto one of our internal resource websites, so the rest of techsupport have a record of the details neccasary to support a client.
I don't really like this idea, as I don't always recieve updated word docs when clients/services change - so our data slowly slips out of date. An example is, the other day - a business manager asked us how many clients take a certain product - and we didn't know, when really - we should.
What I was thinking, is to create a pretty simple relational database - using say MS Access.
One table can contain all of our clients, and the other table can contain all of our services, the table would be linked by the service in which clients take.
Ie.
Client1 take service 1, 2 and 3
Client2 takes service 1
Client3 takes service 3
Client1 takes all of our services (not 3, more like 15 - but for the sake of the example, say we only do 3)
Client2 only takes one service, as does client 3, however client 3 takes a different one.
How could I do this, tidily and proffesionally.
Table 1:
ClientID
Client Name
Contact Email
FTP/Http Address(s)
FTP/Http login details
Service(s)ID??
Table 2:
ServiceID
Service Name
Host
Home Directory
If i wanted to link the tables via service IDs, i don't know how to do it - as each client takes a different number of services. Can I have comma seperated ID's in one column?
As you can tell, this isn't my forte - im used to fixing PCs and replacing printer toners - but is an oppertunity to get me some kudos if i can pull it off.
Any Ideas?
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The 3D era is coming
Nvidia GF 3D Vision Kit bundle includes:
1. 3D Vision Glasses
2. Samsung 2233RA 22" 120Hz LCD Monitor
Just found this 3D Vision Kit is on sale and it's very cheap.
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