Archive for: December 27, 2007

December 27, 2007

Uniden to unveil new MapTrax GPS with integrated radar detector at CES

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

Filed under: GPSUniden’s released a couple different low-key MapTrax GPS units, like the GPS-352 pictured here, but the company’s been cranking out popular radar detectors for years now — so it makes sense that we’ll be seeing updated MapTrax units at CES with built-in fuzzbusters. The new MapTrax …

Wal-Mart shuts down video downloads after a year in service

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

Filed under: Portable Video
Sounds like the video download game isn’t as easy as the biggies construct it out to be. Wal-Mart, whose download store has been open all of a year and a couple of weeks is already shutting down, apparently abandoning the effort after its tech partner HP discontinued what…

Inspiron 1525 hits Dell’s Australian site with pricing

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

Filed under: Laptops
The Inspiron 1525 was supposed to hit sometime in “mid-December,” and although that didn’t happen, it looks like it still managed to squeak into the oh-oh-seven — Dell’s Australian site just put up a bunch of pages detailing the new machine. The 15.4-inch machine doesn’t come p…

Polaroid unveils 7-inch XSJ-00750M digital photo frame

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays
Just as soon as Digital Foci introduced a trio of digital photo frames, along comes Polaroid with a 7-incher of its own. The XSJ-00750M rocks a 480 x 234 widescreen panel, 400:1 contrast ratio, 250 cd/m2 brightness, USB 2.0 connectivity and a multicard reader t…

Call center software can re-route angry callers

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

We’ve already seen shout center software that can determine the age and gender of callers, but a Japanese company called Digital Technologies says its developing software that will take actions based on the emotions of the person on the line. The input is used to rank society on a 1-10 scale of …

Shvoong Homework - It’s for kids!

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

Filed under: Internet, KidsIf you’ve been looking for a way to get your kids to hate you, we are proud to inform you that the wait is by. It’s called Shvoong Homework and it’s worse than detention. Calling itself “the world-wide notebook for all your school needs” it fails to actually address any of…

Google’s privacy faux pas with Reader

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007


In its attempts to add social elements to products, is Google pulling a Facebook?
Google Reader has allowed citizens to share items they are interested in with others since 2006 with hyperlinks, clips on blogs and storing them on a public page that you had to know the URL for to see.

final week,…

Digital Foci rolling out trio of new digital photo frames

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays
Some nine months after Digital Foci unveiled the IMT-062, the firm is gearing up for CES 2008 with a trio of newcomers (entire family shown). Up first is the revamped Image Moments 6 (IMT-063), which sports a 5.7-inch 640 x 480 LED-backlit panel, a two-tone pol…

Windows domestic Server eats files for lunch

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, Commercial, TroubleshootingWhen Microsoft first announced its Windows domestic Server product, it sounded rather appealing to many users. Rather than having to go through the trouble of setting up, say, a Debian server, it became possible to run a dominant server usi…

eComStation 2.0 RC4 Released

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

“Serenity Systems worldly is pleased to announce the availability of eComStation 2.0 RC4 for download. eComStation 2.0 will offer unparalleled performance with Bootable JFS and support for multi-core CPUs. that is the eighth public beta release of eComStation 2.0. that product is available for downl…

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Updated

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

“The Debian project is pleased to announce the moment update of its regular distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. that update mainly adds corrections for protection problems to the regular release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems. Please note that that update does not constitute a new v…

Derailing the Apple touchscreen UMPC fantasy

Filed under: Review - 27 Dec 2007

Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
So, whether you’ve been paying any attention to tech news by the past few days, you have probably seen an Apple UMPC rumor floating around. The cats behind these latest whisperings seem to be super-duper whizzes with Photoshop and possess pretty active imaginations. A…

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