Archive for: December 7, 2007

TV Guide has a new owner, and may have a new purpose. On Friday, Macrovision and Gemstar-TV Guide announced an agreement for the former to acquire the latter in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $2.8 billion.

The companies said that their combined entity will enable consumers “to pull up…

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Filed under: Handhelds
We’ve already had some indication that DataWind’s PocketSurfer2 handheld World Wide Web device would be hitting the US before too enlarged, and it now looks like that opportunity just got a whole lot increasingly inevitable, as the device has finally made its first appearance …

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Gadgets

Filed under: Cellphones
Man, that goofy Moto Q9 by Boy Genius Report is just the gift that keeps on giving — now we’ve got a five and a half minute video walkthrough of WinMo 6.1, showing off all the new features, including long-awaited threaded text messaging and new “Vista” theme, which looks pre…

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jv16 PowerTools 2007 is a complete Windows optimization and registry cleaning toolkit The program allows users to remove hidden traces of previously uninstalled software to clean the Windows registry for optimal performance and stability and to fix many registry based problems with a single mouse click The highly improved multilingual user interface allows the software to be used in all major languages while automatic backup and safety features make the program very safe to use

The new and improved jv16 PowerTools is an easy to use Windows optimization suite and registry cleaning toolkit containing 21 different tools which allow you to keep your computer running smoothly and error free

The Registry Cleaner of jv16 PowerTools is not just quot a registry cleaner quot but quot the registry cleaner quot The feature uses advanced stateful registry scanning technology which means it doesn 39 t scan the registry entry by entry but analyzes it as a whole

Ah, what to do with all those crappy, cut-rate gadgets flooding our inboxes like a tidal wave of cheap plastic and leaden circuit boards spawned from the hellish manufacturing facilities of anonymous, faceless low-grade abroad manufacturers? There are so many we could probably start an entire sp…

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Gadgets

Media Player Classic is an extremely light weight media player for Windows It looks just like Windows Media Player 6 4 but has many additional extra features MPC has for instance a built in DVD player with real time zoom support for AVI subtitles QuickTime and RealVideo support requires QT and or Real player built in MPEG2 SVCD DVD codec
It also supports SVCD CVD selectable subtitles and lots more The best part about Media Player Classic is the ability to modify the filters when playing your favorite video files

AOL Desktop (download it for Windows XP/Vista from CNET Download.com) is a new, free download that collects most of that brand’s services, such as Mail and AIM, into one location.

This is an interesting, old-school approach to organizing Web-based substance on the desktop, unlike so much new we…

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Web

Uh-oh, it looks like Verizon’s been too engaged ramping up speeds on its FiOS network to intellect a little thing called the GPL — the company has just been sued for using a GPL’d app called BusyBox in its FiOS routers but not providing the source cipher. BusyBox is a bundle of utilities used i…

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Gadgets, Networking

New research from IBM could bring the speed of fiber optic networks to computer processors, resulting in chips 100 times faster and 10 times increasingly efficient. IBM published the research on electro-optic modulators in the journal Optics Express on Thursday.

The research centers on the modulato…

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Even as municipal Wi-Fi has floundered nationwide, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer unveiled a plan to bring affordable broadband to the entire state. The plan would beef up the state’s economy, particularly in long-depressed upstate New York, the governor said.

“It is as critical to the next-centur…

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By an overwhelming margin — 409 to 2 — the U.S. House of Representatives passed new legislation on Thursday aimed at making the World Wide Web safer for children. The Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online (SAFE) Act was sponsored by Texas Democrat Nick Lampson, one of the founding members …

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Ever since we first got wind of that thing, we had a sneaking suspicion it just wouldn’t take off regardless of how intelligent it was. Sadly, reviewers by at Bit-Tech tended to agree, deeming the Novint Falcon the “coolest peripheral” it had ever touched, but totally unlikely to ever gain steam…

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Gadgets, Gaming, Peripherals