January 28th, 2007

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Vista-powered desktops, notebooks now on Dell site

  What you are seeing up there is a grab of Dell letting you know they are now selling Vista-enabled PCs and notebooks. Final preparations are being made to formally activate the order process. Went up just a couple of hours ago, with the best info available this link. I stayed up on Saturday night to bring you [...]

Written by Russell Shaw on January 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Connected Home - are we there yet?

The connected home is coming. Every year we hear about new technology on the verge of changing how we toast bread, watch television, or listen to music by the pool. The connected home promises to synchronize our digital lifestyle, connecting the broadband connected digital hubs of our home life into any piece of home electronics with a computer chip and networking gear.

This month's Consumer Electronics Show and Macworld conferences introduced the world (yet again) to new hardware and software that will redefine our digital home. Or will it? What do we want from our home media center? Should our toaster, coffee maker, and alarm clock be network aware, coordinating our morning routines? What are the current services and devices with the most promise, taking advantage of assets on the local network as well as in the cloud?

In this week's PodSession Om and I cut through the marketing hype and extended promises of the connected home, presenting our current realities and the most promising future services. This week's PodSession, Connected Home, is 20 minutes in length, a 10 MB download.

Written by Om Malik and Niall Kennedy on January 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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Me to my Sprint EV-DO: You’re fired

When I first signed up for my Sprint EV-DO some eight months ago, I couldn't wait to use it. In my second month of service, there I was, blogging on the train from Portland to Seattle. But you know something? I haven't needed EV-DO's flavor of broadband wireless since then. Neither have I been tempted by [...]

Written by Russell Shaw on January 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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Video: Star Wars light saber Skype Phone and R2D2 Skype Video Cam

Shiny Media's Susi Weaser shows Star Wars toys that double as as a USB Skype phone (the light saber even has a keypad in the handle) and a webcam (R2D2 robot). You use the light saber to control the robot's rolling around. Could be hot for next fall's holiday gift season. Reminds me of Spyke.

Ike Roelfsema thinks they're blogworthy too.

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