SanDisk continues its assault on iPod by producing low-cost alternatives to the world's best-selling MP3 players. Just because the newest line of SanDisk Sansa players are relatively inexpensive doesn't mean that they're cheap – actually, they're far from it. I think that SanDisk has managed to do a good job of balancing the thin line between price and quality, and the SanDisk Sansa Fuze is a perfect example.
Apple has been in the news a lot lately. Their iPod and iTunes departments have stirred up quite a few rumors. Things could get interesting here soon for Apple. This article will speculate on what's ahead and what Apple may have planned for the future.
This is the second and final segment of the “Troubleshooting Laptop Hardware Problems” do it yourself mini-guide. Before moving on, we wholeheartedly recommend reading the first part of this series. Throughout this article, we are going to cover strategies on how to diagnose and fix system instabilities. Discuss (1)
In this article, I’ll be looking at the new Lycosa keyboard from gaming hardware giant Razer. This is a keyboard aimed specifically at the gaming community, and at around $79.99, it slots in on the cheaper side of the high-end keyboards (other more expensive keyboards are typically multimedia, rather than purely gaming keyboards). Discuss (1)
After two years of collaboration, Hewlett-Packard and DreamWorks animation debuted the new DreamColor Technology at the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) on April 14, 2008. The Las Vegas unveiling prompted press releases and plenty of technical color talk. Two years in the making, DreamColor is now available to one and all. Was it worth the wait?
Every industry has its own big show each year, and the Photo Marketing Association's (PMA) annual show is the photography world's big event. It's much like how the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is to electronics. PMA is a platform for digital camera manufacturers, photo software developers, and other photography peripheral-makers (printers, new technology, other gadgets) to announce their new stuff to the world.
Laptops and notebook computers often require much more attention when the user decides to troubleshoot specific hardware problems. Because of this, very few people actually manage to get to the stage of disassembling the laptop to search for potential sources of hardware failures. This two-part guide covers some of the most common issues that your laptop might suffer from along with tips on how to diagnose and fix them. Discuss (1)
Today we take a look at what is supposed to be one of the best coolers for overclocking, the Scythe Ninja Plus Rev B. There are great coolers, good coolers, and not so good coolers. It’s very hard to distinguish the great coolers from the good coolers from the pictures alone, hence this review. I will test this cooler to help you decide which cooler is right for you before you order one.
The recent introduction of the Magellan Maestro 4250 navigational device is the unveiling of just one of the eight new models in this line being released by Magellan for 2008. The Maestro 4250 just happens to be the top-of-the-line model, so big things are expected out of this one – and for the most part, it lives up to these expectations. Discuss (1)
The Internet has taken over our lives in a multitude of ways. Just as the days of newspapers, fancy magazines or books in the form invented by Gutenberg are over, so are the days of the traditional TVs. Bill Gates told business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos (2006) that in five years TV will be an old technology, and watching videos on the Internet will become the norm.
TomTom has just released their newest top-of-the-line flagship GPS device called the GO 920T. This feature-filled navigation device should prove to be a strong force in the high-end GPS market. It has just about every feature that you would expect to find in a high-end navigational unit, but it also boasts a feature that isn't available in any comparable unit (as of the date of this writing) - voice recognition address input control. Discuss (1)
If you have been in the tech news loop for the past year or two, you probably haven’t heard much good news from the AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) headquarters. In this article, we will take a look back at what has happened and see where things might be headed in the near future. Will AMD end up going bankrupt or could they topple Intel? Read on to see where AMD is going. Discuss (1)
NEW! Application development for the OLPC laptop The XO laptop (of the One-Laptop-Per-Child initiative) is an inexpensive laptop project intended to help educate children around the world. The XO laptop includes many innovations, such as a novel, inexpensive, and durable hardware design and the use of GNU/Linux as the underlying operating system. The XO also includes an application environment written in Python with a human interface called Sugar, accessible to everyone (including kids). Explore the Sugar APIs and learn how to develop and debug a graphical activity in Sugar using Python.
NEW! Application Development Tools for the Mainframe Developer You probably have thousands of lines of COBOL code loaded with business intelligence and being used to run your business, along with an army of developers maintaining these applications. Learn how to prepare your applications and developers so you can keep that competitive edge and move to a service-oriented architecture with the IBM Rational Enterprise Modernization solutions. Replay is available for 9 months.
NEW! Best Practices: The Integrated Project and Portfolio Management Platform. Hear how IBM Rational Project and Portfolio Management integrated solutions help teams put the right tools and processes in place to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of project teams and ensure that the business vision is being executed correctly. Learn how to automate and integrate requirements prioritization, top-down project planning, communications and controls, and methodology deployment to keep your scope, costs, and schedules under control. Tackle with an end-to-end approach the management of scope and scope changes, usage of methodology to control and empower project teams, and optimization of resources to align activity costs with the overall project plan.
NEW! Driving Business Success with Rational Process Library Join this webcast, to learn how the Rational Process Library can help with compliance issues, drive process improvement, and assist in service-oriented architecture (SOA) or Agile development. We will take a peek into the Rational Process Library with content around software and systems engineering (including RUP), operations and systems management, program and portfolio management, and asset and SOA governance.
NEW! IBM – Taking Web 2.0 to Work David Barnes, Lead Evangelist for IBM Emerging Internet Technologies will discuss aspects of Web 2.0 that bring value to corporations, academia, and government. He'll also discuss IBM's vision around Web 2.0, including the importance of remixability and consumability. The discussion will culminate with examples of various IBM Software Group solutions you can use to get ahead of the Web 2.0 adoption curve.
NEW! Achieving True Agility -- How process can change the behavior of your tools Achieving true agility is a never-ending effort. We will showcase how you can become agile incrementally, a few practices at the time.Which practices should any agile team strive to adopt? What additional practices should you consider based on your needs to scale? Adopting practices are however made much easier with the right tool support. What about if your tools adapt to your practices? We will take a look at how the Jazz technology can be leveraged to make your process change the behavior of your tools.
IBM – Taking Web 2.0 to Work You'll get answers to many questions and more from David Barnes, Lead Evangelist for IBM Emerging Internet Technologies. David will discuss aspects of Web 2.0 that bring value to corporations, academia, and government. He'll also discuss IBM's vision around Web 2.0, including the importance of remixability and consumability. The discussion will culminate with examples of various IBM Software Group solutions you can use to get ahead of the Web 2.0 adoption curve.
NEW! Addressing software-as-a-service challenges using Tivoli security and WebSphere solutions Building a software-as-a-service solution requires addressing a few key technical challenges. In this webcast, we'll focus on the role of IBM Tivoli Directory Server and WebSphere Portlet Factory in creating a Software as a Service solution. We will demonstrate how to use Tivoli Directory Server to prevent the user population of one tenant from accessing the virtual portal and portlet components of another tenant. We will also use the dynamic profile capability of WebSphere Portlet Factory to create multiple highly customized applications from one code base.
Check out the new Jazz space on developerWorks You've heard the buzz about Jazz... want to know more about it from a developer's perspective? Check out the Jazz space on developerWorks. This space is an up-to-date resource for developers, including technical information about Jazz and products built on Jazz, like Rational Team Concert Express. The Jazz space includes content from a wide variety of sources, including links, feeds, and comments from experts.
Build Forge Express demo: Enabling software delivery excellence for small and midsized businesses This demonstration gives you an overview of IBM® Rational® Build Forge Express Edition, a global offering that provides a framework to automate and execute software processes. Rational Build Forge provides a software assembly line that can support all of your tools, technologies, and platforms so you can achieve a repeatable, reliable, and traceable build and release process.
Be the first to hear about i5/OS V6R1! Hold your calendar on January 30, 2008 for this free webcast on the new i5/OS. Rational's Enterprise Modernization products will be discussed at this webcast as they help to drive the application development environment for this new System i OS. And learn how i5/OS will take you to the next step of efficient, resilient business processing. You will hear about the new i5/OS capabilities as it will be the most significant i5/OS release in years. If you cannot join the webcast on 1/30/08 you can still use this link to listen to the replay.
