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If you are a monthly TiVo subscriber, it appears that TiVo is desperate enough to keep you as a subscriber that they will lower your monthly bill by 50% if you threaten to leave due to wanting to switch to your cable providers DVR service. This will effectively drop your bill from $12 per month right down to $6. Not bad, although I am not really feeling the AOL-ish way of doing things on TiVo’s part.
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Apple Choosing Intel Over IBM Tomorrow
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, PC / Laptop,
Word has been getting around like wildfire that Apple will formally announce tomorrow that they are dumping IBM as their processor manufacturer in favor of Intel. It’s an interesting move which seems to point to Apple’s frustration with the length of time it is taking IBM to get the latest PowerPC into laptops. Intel has been very successful in high-performance, low power consumption mobile computing. The Apple World Wide Developers Conference begins tomorrow, and we will keep you updated.
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f-tech Solar 7 Bluetooth GPS Receiver Reviewed
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Handhelds, Product Reviews, Wireless / WiFi,
DigitalReviews got their hands on the f-tech Solar 7 Bluetooth GPS Receiver and put it through the paces. A quick look at the premise behind this GPS device makes it immediately appealing. It has integrated Bluetooth, and is also solar-powered. This is as wireless as it gets. It doesn’t look overly impressive judging from the review, but give it a look yourself if you can put up with the bad grammar.
Read More | Digital Reviews
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Future Eye Candy and Game Play Goodies of the PS3, Xbox 360 and Revolution
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Video Games,
This week I had a discussion about the impending PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution where I emphasized over and over again “We play the games not the specs sheet”. Having gotten that mantra out of the way there are some fascinating possibilities that this massive shift in computing and graphical power would bring to the video game world. Jacob from 8bitjoystick.com takes a look at the upcoming shift in the home console gaming experience in his column this week.
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LA Thief Hijacks $2.6 Million iPod Shipment
Posted by Kristin Wenzel Categories: Misc. Tech, Portable Audio / Video,
According the the LAPD, an cunning identity thief - in an oh-so-stylin’ hawaiian shirt, as shown in the security photo on the right - used a fake ID to gain access to a shipment of 12,000 Apple iPods worth 2.6 million dollars. The thief walked into a freight forwarding facility and apparently drove off with the cargo unhindered.
Read More | Los Angeles Police Department Online
It sounds like something out of a after school special cartoon, or something. Wizzard Software acquired MediavoxRX Technologies, and with the company, their “Rex” talking pill bottle. Users can either record their own information, or, using text-to-speech technology, the pharmacist can type in the label information and it will be read to the customer. The theory is that this will help prevent accidental overdoses or misuse by customers who are visually impaired, elderly, or have trouble reading.
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AOpen Releases MiniPC to Compete with Apple Mac mini
Posted by Kristin Wenzel Categories: PC / Laptop,
AOpen’s “Mini PC” was revealed at Computex Taipei 2005, presumably to compete with Apple’s wildly popular Mac mini. It should be popular among PC users unwilling to switch from the Windows/Intel platform but desiring the convenience of a “miniaturized” computer – sporting the computing power of an average desktop PC, along with built in Bluetooth and 802.11 a/b/g support. It is also smaller by a few centimeters than the Mac mini. With S-Video and DVI connectors, it can be used as a digital entertainment center hub, but curiously, it apparently lacks a VGA connector, possibly alienating a lot of users with older monitors.
However, the components needed are expensive and beating the $499 base price of the Mac mini may be difficult, and analysts aren’t expecting the AOpen “clone” to be much competition for the popular Mac mini.
Read More | AOpen Taiwan Press Release
Future Eye Candy and Game Play Goodies of the PS3, Xbox 360 and Revolution
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360,
This week I had a discussion about the impending PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution where I emphasized over and over again “We play the games not the specs sheet”. Having gotten that mantra out of the way there are some fascinating possibilities that this massive shift in computing and graphical power would bring to the video game world.
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All businesses need to advertiser in some fashion sooner or later. Trying to gauge how well a particular product/service will do with any of these forms of advertising can be like predicting winning lottery numbers and trying non-mainstream forms of advertising can be a risky proposition.
How then can you hope to know what will work best before spending your money? MarketingExperiments.com aims to help you do just that by proving a place where other companies publish the details of their ad campaigns and their results. The site covers virtually every form of advertising you can think of and some you probably haven’t. The marketing experiments range from three to eighteen months and include budgets ranging from $4500 to $100,000+. The companies participating include some of the largest online names such as eBay and the Bargain Network. Details of the experiments called “Web Clinics” are available as Windows Media and Real Player audio downloads along with written notes showing budgets, timelines and other specifics of the campaigns.
All that and the site and newsletter are completely free.
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One thing that I thoroughly enjoy about being an Internet entrepreneur is that fact that as long as I have an Internet connection and my laptop, I can consider myself to be “at work”. For example, I am currently in New York City on vacation (I live in Seattle) posting this from a Starbuck’s in Times Square which offers the T-Mobile Hotspot service. This allows me to take a break from sightseeing, grab a Tazo Chai, and check my email all at the same time. No need to worry about getting back to the office! Anyone else out there take advantage of the unique situation us Internet business owners get to enjoy?
