Archive for: January 25, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
What would you do whether the US patent office gave you the go-ahead on a far-reaching, non-specific application filed for a “mobile entertainment and communication device”? whether your reply was that you would immediately draw up lawsuits against nearly every major electron…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
We thought the SmartQ T5 was a solid little player with decent codec support when we first spotted it back in August, but SmartQ’s gone and updated it to the T5-II Deluxe Edition, featuring a new video chip that supports TV-out, AV-in, and the RMVB codec, …

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I swear I didn't set out to do this on purpose, but today's WEOTD is a shill for one of my favorite songwriters, one Jonathan Coulton. It was a slow news day, so I used the Pat's quarterback as a jumping off point. I knew when I got from Tom Brady to Benoit Mandelbrot in four clicks that I was putting something special together, and I also knew that one of Coulton's best songs is "Mandelbrot Set." So I have to admit I didn't read the entire Mandelbrot entry while scanning the page for Coulton's name, and, sure enough, it was there. Wikipedia is awesome.

If you're shopping for some Coulton music to check out (and you should be), I highly recommend picking up "Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow." His song "A Laptop Like You" is also a geeky classic. Stream it for free using SkreemR.

Filed under: Transportation
It’s shots like these of the Tesla Roadster getting pwned passing those federal safety tests that manufacture huge government bureaucracy worth it, don’t you think? A full gallery by at AutoBlog. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Original post by Nilay Pate…

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Filed under: Home EntertainmentJudging from the fairly consistent stream of comments on our “MovieBeam is dead” post, there are fairly a few of you out there looking to hack your now-defunct MovieBeam hardware — which strikes us as a somewhat quixotic effort, but next again, so was the entire Movie…

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 Word rang out that NVIDIA is working to create a line of professional GPGPUs, or the general purpose graphics processing units, for the Apple Mac. Additionally, the graphic processing unit (GPU) manufacturer may already be in the early stages of development for the next generation of graphics …

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Apple

Filed under: CellphonesIt’s pretty clear HTC customers and Engadget readers both are none too impressed with the manufacturer’s decision to omit the drivers necessary to enable hardware video acceleration on a number of their Qualcomm MSM 7xxx-based devices. We heard a little bit from HTC on the top…

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Filed under: Desktops, Features
Back in October of final year, we all wondered just what affect Dell’s leaked XPS One would really have on the all-in-one PC, nay, computer market, and truth be told, we’re still waiting for something definitive. certain, the first press shots were emanating with all …

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British rock group The Charlatans are the latest to experiment with an online music giveaway.

The alternative rock band, known for such songs as “One to Another” and “Weirdo,” said on its Web site that fans will be allowed to download its latest album, You Cross My Path, free of charge starting …

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Web

This week we’ve seen two Net events that are more alike than dissimilar. On Wednesday, an Estonian court convicted a 20-year Russian for his part in final spring’s distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on that nation. On Thursday, word of mounting DDoS attacks on the Church of Scientology spr…

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Filed under: Gaming
Well that was fast — just a day after we’d heard that Best Buy was dropping the 80GB PS3 SKU, it’s gone from the retailer’s web site. We aren’t certain what that means for the broader US market — several other stores are still selling the 80GB model — but for now, it looks lik…

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Google Blogoscoped has dug up a Google Health login page (that has since disappeared), similar to the "here's what to expect" bullet points that greet visitors to the Gmail page. The site promises to "build online health records," "download medical records from doctors and pharmacies," "get personalized health guidance and relevant news," "find qualified doctors," and "share selected information with family or caregivers".

The site seems similar to the Microsoft HealthVault site that launched last year -- a site that I signed up, for, visited, and never went back to. While I've had some fairly serious health problems in the past couple of years, I trust my doctor more than some drop-down menus. And the concept of Google scraping my records and possibly making recommendations frankly scares me. Microsoft's HealthVault at least makes clear that securing your health records is important, and asks for a stronger password.

While I personally support the free flow of information, I just can't get behind the need to obsessively pore over my health records online. Yes, it took about a week to transfer physical records from one office to another, when my doctor moved to another facility and provider. Barring an emergency, however, I think this is a price I can pay to ensure that the chain of trust is being certified by HIPAA and the relevant medical associations.

Quite frankly, I'd bet that less than 10,000 people have signed up for HealthVault, and I think that less than 1,000 users isn't that far-fetched, either. Have you?

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