The Most Wonderfully Unrealistic Gear from CES 2013 From Gizmodo At CES every year, we cover hundreds of products. They’re usually only barely differentiated from previous models. But sometimes, companies trot out devices and technology that could bring something new and wonderful to the market—it’s just too bad the odds of this vaporware ever being...
CES 2013 Preview of Next Week’s Show
We’re just a few days away before the Consumer Electronics Show rolls around yet again. For the unfamiliar, this is the technology industry’s biggest event. (It’s also the largest trade show in the U.S.) Each year, we get to wager (it’s Vegas, after all) on what tech’s biggest tale will be. In 2009, it was Palm’s entry into the...
2013 – The Tech Year of Reckoning? 5 areas to keep in focus
2013 will be a year of harsh change for the tech industry. We’ve just experienced five years of rapid, messy and disruptive innovation, and smartphones and tablets aren’t the future any longer — they’re the present. Powerful mobile devices connected to broadband-speed cell networks are now an everyday reality, and it’s going to...
LED LCD vs. plasma vs. LCD
Debating on what HDTV technology to buy? Debate no longer. OK, not too much longer. For me, personally, I have always liked the Plasma TV better – for me, the deeper blacks and image consistency win over everything else. For you though, there may be other thing that could sway you to choose another technology. In this television technology trifecta,...
Should you buy an iPad mini, a Kindle Fire HD, or a Nexus?
Credit to and written by David Gewirtz for DIY-IT You might think the big decision is about which has the best hardware, but you’d be wrong. In fact, the big decisions are all about price and ecosystem. David Gewirtz has the details inside. The tablet market is moving at warp speed. Back in July, I wrote How to decide: should you buy the Nexus 7 or the...
Hark! Who goes there? Are your computers secure at the most basic level?
Hark! Who goes there? Are your computers secure at the most basic level? With 6.5 million passwords stolen from LinkedIn and another 1.5 million passwords stolen shortly after from E-Harmony, possibly by the same hacker, password security is at the front of the minds of all computer users. Since users of thoseservices had to change passwords, it would be a...
CES 2011 – TV Review – HD, LED/LCD, Plasma and 3D
HD, LED/LCD, Plasma and 3D TV’s displays at CES 2011 were ‘ful’ – that is plentifuland beautiful! Some manufacturers chose to shield TV’s from large angle views and ambient light, so you could only see the ‘best case scenario’, and some others tried to show how their TV’s had ‘less flaws’ than others, others left their TV’s wide open in...
CES 2011 Reviews and Best Of!
CES 2011 is now over and we had a lot of fun and learned a lot! This series will be dedicated to the new, the updated and the best business technologies being presented at the show. Yes, we will give you the skinny on the new flat panel TV’s and what’s to come, and more! Look for updates throughout this month. Become a FREE MEMBER now so you...
Windows 7 – What you should know – some changes
Continued from previous post: 1 – Changes between Vista and Windows 7 – For the most part, the same Vista engine is still running the operating system, but there are some new features and enhanced performance overall. Most believe that Windows 7 is really nothing more than major service pack and a features plus pack. If you don’t believe me...