Google Cloud Print Could Cut The Printer Cord Forever
A lot of things have changed in technology over the past decade. Broadband has replaced dial-up. 1GHz now seems slow. Netbooks are now a reality. Tablets are coming back. Change is everywhere, but some things have sadly remained the same. Printers are still stuck in the stone-age, and ink still costs far more than it reasonably should. Leave it to Google to take a hard look at a technology that hasn't really changed much and, well, change it.Google's latest attempt to innovate where others have simply overlooked
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TV Viewers Ditching Pay-TV Services, Heading Online Instead
Do you watch TV online? Even occasionally? All the time? If you're reading this now, there's a better than average chance that you have consumed at least one or two television shows in your lifetime online, and that number is growing fast. More and more people are looking to the Internet to get their entertainment fix, and the reasons are numerous. First, the Internet is more convenient. It's almost everywhere, whereas your 56" HDTV is understandably fixed in your living room. The second reason is cost: watching
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Sony Considering "Division Two" VAIO Notebook Lineup
Sony's VAIO line has been around for years now, and for years, it has remained constant; classy, styled well, and expensive. That's just the markings of a VAIO. They've been called the "Apple notebooks" of the PC world, and while they have added so many colors and finishes now that the same thing really isn't true any longer, it's still a very prominent laptop line.But it's not enough. Sony has recently admitted that they're considering a second segment of VAIO laptops, a "division two" as it will be called.
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Cablevision And Comcast Join TWC For Free Wi-Fi In NYC
There's nothing quite like free Wi-Fi, particularly when you least expect it, and it works quickly. It's sort of like stumbling upon a quarter, but typically it's far more valuable than even that. Last month, Time Warner Cable announced that they would soon be providing free Wi-Fi to New York City customers, and now it seems the offer is being expanded in the Big Apple.Cablevision and Comcast are joining the party, now offering high-speed Internet customers the ability to roam freely across the companies' respective
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Ford Eco-Route Navigation Option Saves Fuel On Roads Less Traveled
Navigation still has a long ways to go in vehicles to match the value provided by standalone units. These days, an in-car nav from the factory can cost thousands, while a basic Garmin or TomTom unit will go for $100 to $300. But Ford is making strides to bring the in-car factory experience up a notch, and while Sync has done a lot to move things in the right direction, there's still a big concern around mapping and gas mileage.Today, Ford has introduced their MyFord Touch Eco-Route feature, which is a new concept
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Ranking The "Mac Metropolis"
If you live in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, New York and D.C.: You have the greatest chance of being the proud owner or user of an iPod, iPhone or Mac computer in the entire continental United States.Bluefield/Beckley, W.Va.; Greenwood/Greenville, Miss.; Meridian, Miss.; Presque Island, Maine; Clarksburg/Weston, W.Va.? Not so much.Experian Simmons, the market research firm that's a subsidiary of the credit reporting group, today released a report that ranked the 206 Designated Market Areas in the Lower
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PhotoFast GM3000EX ExpressCard Brings USB 3.0 To Existing Notebooks
There's no question that USB 3.0 is a godsend for those transferring huge amounts of data on a regular basis, but what about individuals with machines that lack the protocol? Rather than buying a new machine (a notebook, in this case), PhotoFast are giving users a better and more affordable option: the new GM3000EX ExpressCard.For notebook owners who have yet to find a reason to utilize their ExpressCard slot, this is a solid option. Slip in the card, connect a USB 3.0 hard drive with the bundled USB 3.0 cable,
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Intel Showcases Sensor To Monitor And Analyze Home Energy Usage
Fujitsu just recently showcased a new power strip that gives users a visual indication of energy usage, and now it sounds like the company may not be along in the market. Intel, a company that is increasingly expanding their reach in the consumer electronics market place, recently described a similar device at their IDF expo in China. The pocket-sized sensor is designed to monitor energy usage across the home, with everything from televisions to cellphone chargers being eligible for audit. The current design
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Ford Eco-Route Navigation Option Saves Fuel On Roads Less Traveled
Navigation still has a long ways to go in vehicles to match the value provided by standalone units. These days, an in-car nav from the factory can cost thousands, while a basic Garmin or TomTom unit will go for $100 to $300. But Ford is making strides to bring the in-car factory experience up a notch, and while Sync has done a lot to move things in the right direction, there's still a big concern around mapping and gas mileage.
Today, Ford has introduced their MyFord Touch Eco-Route feature, which is a new concept that will be implemented in many of the company's 2011 vehicles. When entering an address into the NAV system, drivers will be given three main routing options: fastest by time, shortest distance and the new Eco-Route, which is said to direct you in the way that would route you around traffic and save the most gas. It may end up taking you longer (lower speed limits) but it should save you on fuel in the long run.
MyFord Touch launches this summer on the 2011 Ford Edge and will be available globally on the 2012 Ford Focus; also, it will be standard equipment on new Lincoln vehicles beginning with the 2011 Lincoln MKX. Going green really is hitting every industry, isn't it?
- New MyFord Touchâ„¢ driver connecttechnology provides an array of real-time feedback on fuel efficiencyperformance that helps coach drivers to optimize their miles per gallon
- MyFordTouch map-based navigation offers an Eco-Route option, which instantlycalculates the most fuel-efficient route for the driver. Â Ford testingshows Eco-Route can help achieve fuel economy gains of up to 15 percent
- MyFordTouch launches this summer on the 2011 Ford Edge and will be availableglobally on the 2012 Ford Focus. Â MyLincoln Touch will be standardequipment on new Lincoln vehicles beginning with the 2011 Lincoln MKX
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PhotoFast GM3000EX ExpressCard Brings USB 3.0 To Existing Notebooks
There's no question that USB 3.0 is a godsend for those transferring huge amounts of data on a regular basis, but what about individuals with machines that lack the protocol? Rather than buying a new machine (a notebook, in this case), PhotoFast are giving users a better and more affordable option: the new GM3000EX ExpressCard.For notebook owners who have yet to find a reason to utilize their ExpressCard slot, this is a solid option. Slip in the card, connect a USB 3.0 hard drive with the bundled USB 3.0 cable, and suddenly you've got USB 3.0 transfer rates on your existing laptop. No price or release is given, but it should hit the market soon.
Taipei, Taiwan. Apr. 12th 2010 – PhotoFast Global Inc. a pioneer in creative, high quality and extreme performance flash-based storage manufacturer, today revealed its new line up of USB 3.0 accessories. Relied the new standard and host controller introduced to the market, PhotoFast demand to bring even higher transfer rates to meet the bottleneck where every user has experienced before.
The new USB 3.0 standard is a potential opportunity for user to appreciate the full transfer rate from new external enclosure that doesn’t degrades magnetic HDD or SSD. Its new 4.8Gbps band width which is 10 times faster than USB2.0 will increase 3 – 4 times of your existing drives.
We are not the first manufacturer making USB 3.0 host because we wanted to do it right. Before the launch of GM3000EX, what’s available on the market is with a protrudent plastic which needs to be inserted and pull out on each travel. Well, we couldn’t stand it this way so we redesigned a hidden Type A female connector, which makes the whole thing much delightful.
The power supply come out of ExpressCard slot is very limited. The early developed standard allowing us to acquire around 300mA, that is enough for some small portable devices but not magnetic HDD. Instead of other similar products, we don’t offer just an extra cable for getting power from another USB port. We combine it into the same cable that allowing user to connect external USB 3.0 devices. As most USB 3.0 HDD enclosures selling now is with a Type B micro female connector. The split cable (Y Cable) included comes very handy in practical.
Features
- Getting 1 port of USB 3.0 from ExpressCard slot
- USB 3.0 transfer rate is way faster than USB 2.0
- Unique design where hides in the ExpressCard slot
- Split Cable (Y Cable) allows up to 800 mA power supply from the Laptop
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Intel Showcases Sensor To Monitor And Analyze Home Energy Usage
Fujitsu just recently showcased a new power strip that gives users a visual indication of energy usage, and now it sounds like the company may not be along in the market. Intel, a company that is increasingly expanding their reach in the consumer electronics market place, recently described a similar device at their IDF expo in China.The pocket-sized sensor is designed to monitor energy usage across the home, with everything from televisions to cellphone chargers being eligible for audit. The current design uses a small black box which plugs into a power outlet of its own, and then it monitors current usage and sends logs and reports to a PC via a wireless protocol.
The demonstration setup utilized a PC with an Atom processor and MeeGo; MeeGo sounds like a great OS for a task like this, which wouldn't require the complexities of Windows to handle. The sensor could reportedly discover which devices were being turned off and on, and then reports can be created to show at what hours a certain device is being used the most. The goal here is to give users a visual indication of exactly how much energy they're using, which in turn will hopefully coerce them to cut back.
Many people aren't really sure where their energy goes, but if you see a graph that points to specific items (a game console, heater, etc.), it becomes far easier to pinpoint and cut back on using certain things. Mary Murphy-Hoye, an Intel engineer, stated that users could "reduce energy consumption by 15% to 30%," and in the future, users may be able to download even more apps to analyze usage in various ways (maybe for businesses, perhaps). Intel has yet to say if or when this will become a commercial product available for sale, but we suspect we'll hear more shortly. The company is also looking at ways to store energy in the home, which is something that could of course easily be tied into this monitoring setup.
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Cablevision And Comcast Join TWC For Free Wi-Fi In NYC
There's nothing quite like free Wi-Fi, particularly when you least expect it, and it works quickly. It's sort of like stumbling upon a quarter, but typically it's far more valuable than even that. Last month, Time Warner Cable announced that they would soon be providing free Wi-Fi to New York City customers, and now it seems the offer is being expanded in the Big Apple.Cablevision and Comcast are joining the party, now offering high-speed Internet customers the ability to roam freely across the companies' respective Wi-Fi networks at no additional charge. That's a pretty big deal for NYC consumers, who generally stay within the city day-to-day. It suddenly makes devices like the iPad entirely more usable on the go with Wi-Fi (nearly) everywhere, and the companies have stated that reception is available in Manhattan's Madison Square Park, areas of the Jersey Shore and in the Hamptons.
We can't explain how much we wish this would come to other areas. This is the ultimate Wi-Fi dream, and while we heard that many cities would be implementing city-wide Wi-Fi a few years back, few actually went through with it. Now that NYC has set the bar high, we're hoping other cities follow suit soon.
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Sony Considering "Division Two" VAIO Notebook Lineup
Sony's VAIO line has been around for years now, and for years, it has remained constant; classy, styled well, and expensive. That's just the markings of a VAIO. They've been called the "Apple notebooks" of the PC world, and while they have added so many colors and finishes now that the same thing really isn't true any longer, it's still a very prominent laptop line.But it's not enough. Sony has recently admitted that they're considering a second segment of VAIO laptops, a "division two" as it will be called. The deputy president of Sony VAIO’s Business Group announced a two-tier strategy for the company’s laptop division, with "division one" being the cutting-edge VAIOs we know today and "division two" being new VAIOs that will actually be manufactured by Sony partners.
Despite the split, Sony refuses to call the second VAIO line anything else (i.e. Dell Studio vs. Inspiron or Latitude). Instead, it seems like "division two" will have older specifications, and in turn, hopefully lower prices. The Sony logo will remain, and all of Sony's quality checks will still be in place. In fact Sony will still be approving or rejecting all third-party designs. Here's the exact quote on the technology shift: "The quality criteria itself is no different between division number one and division number two. We will include new technology [such as the latest processors] in division number one first, and then we can learn and we can get the know-how, then we can transfer [the technology] to the products coming from division two."
Apparently Sony hopes that having another tier of VAIOs will get them out to more people; there's a sales target of ten million for 2010, rising from 6.8 million last year. He stated that Sony needs "a certain market share," and if they don't get it, it's "tough to survive." Sony has also stated that they have no interest in buying a rival to increase share.
It's still hard to say how this will work. If it's labeled Sony, and it looks like a Sony, how will end users know that it's a "division two" VAIO? Maybe that's exactly the point, and hopefully the lower-than-average price tags will be the main giveaway.
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Ranking The "Mac Metropolis"
If you live in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, New York and D.C.: You have the greatest chance of being the proud owner or user of an iPod, iPhone or Mac computer in the entire continental United States.Bluefield/Beckley, W.Va.; Greenwood/Greenville, Miss.; Meridian, Miss.; Presque Island, Maine; Clarksburg/Weston, W.Va.? Not so much.
Experian Simmons, the market research firm that's a subsidiary of the credit reporting group, today released a report that ranked the 206 Designated Market Areas in the Lower 48 states according to the ubiquity of Apple's core products.
Not shockingly, San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose came out on top. Considering Apple is based in the area, in Cupertino, the company should probably dominate. But the level of ownership is intense, nonetheless. Nearly a third of all adults in the region owns or uses one of Apple's big three, about 1.7 million people. They are 49 percent more likely than the national average to use the products.
In the Boston area (which extends to Manchester, N.H.), residents are 45 percent more likely than the national average to use or own one of the three; San Diego, 42 percent; New York, 41 percent (4.9 million!!!) more likely; and Washington, D.C., (to Hagerstown, Md.), 39 percent.
Rounding out the top 10 are Chicago, Denver, Monterey/Salinas (Calif.), Santa Barbara/Santa Marina/San Luis Obispo (Calif.), Las Vegas and Hartford/New Haven, Conn. That adds up to 11, because Santa Barbara, Vegas and Hartford are virtually tied and in each, residents are 29 percent more likely than the national average to own or use an iPod, iPhone or Mac.
It's probably not shocking to see that major metropolitan areas are on the top of the list and relatively rural regions are down at the bottom. The access to the products is greater in the urban areas, though one might argue that with the ubiquity of the Internet, it's easy to buy any products no matter where you live. But in those DMAs at the bottom of the list, residents were less than 50 percent as likely as the national average to own or use any of the products.
So, do you live in a "Mac Metropolis"?
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Post pics of the craziest machinese
Post some pics of the craziest builds you have ever seen ... like...
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Who has a P55M-UD4?
I have been reading reviews that it might not be compatible with my ripjaws I ordered?
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820231277
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