Archive for: April 17, 2008

Filed under: Ask Engadget, GPSYeah, you definitely have our permission to be incredibly envious of someone who is actually going to be motoring about in both Europe and North America on a frequent basis, but in all seriousness, we’re betting Sneaker isn’t the only chap out there looking for the best…

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Experience the web Apple style with Safari the fastest easiest to use web browser in the world With its simple elegant interface Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer Safari 39 s clean sleek look lets you focus on the web instead of your browser The browser frame is a mere one pixel wide You see a scroll bar only when you need one You see no status bar by default a blue progress bar fills the address field as the page loads giving you more room to browse and view the web
And with commonly used tools like a Google search field built right into Safari you can get anywhere on the web faster
Tabbed browsing pop up blocker and more are all fully implemented and supported

The Catalyst trade software suite 8 4 contains the following
Radeon trade display driver 8 476
Multimedia Center trade 9 16 Windows XP only
HydraVision trade Windows XP only
HydraVision trade Basic Edition Windows XP only
Remote Wonder 3 04 Windows XP only
WDM Driver Install Bundle
Southbridge IXP Driver
Catalyst trade Control Center Version 8 4

The Catalyst trade software suite 8 4 contains the following
Radeon trade display driver 8 476
Multimedia Center trade 9 16 Windows XP only
HydraVision trade Windows XP only
HydraVision trade Basic Edition Windows XP only
Remote Wonder 3 04 Windows XP only
WDM Driver Install Bundle
Southbridge IXP Driver
Catalyst trade Control Center Version 8 4

Filed under: Digital Cameras, HDTV
Although Panasonic’s HDC-SD9 is mighty, mighty small, reviewers by at CNET felt that it fell short in a number of key areas. For starters, Panny included a few quirky design choices; for instance, removing the battery requires the LCD cover to be open, but doing so…

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Filed under: Displays, Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Hong Kong always gets the good stuff first. Witness the SunView PMP Projector… or more handily known as a PMPP. The little silver box is the first commercially available pico projector — created in by Sunlink worldly in collaboratio…

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Microsoft confirmed Thursday that it has acquired Seattle-based Farecast, a travel site that offers an engine predicting whether airfares for a given route are headed up or down.

“Farecast has been a partner of ours on MSN Travel and we look forward to working closely with the Farecast team to in…

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Web

Google is extracting quotations for politicians and celebrities from news sources and featuring them at the top of the Google News results page for convinced searches.

For instance, a search on “Barack Obama” brings up a quotation by the Democratic presidential hopeful, and clicking on his name un…

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Filed under: Networking
Sometimes, you want more than just wide-area broadband. Sometimes you want the downy softness that only “WiMAX” can bring. We’re not totally certain what that is, but we’re nearly positive it will not deliver speedy downloads and near-limitless connectivity.Paul: “Sprint’s br…

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Tales of economic woe are apparently not affecting Google, which posted better-than-expected fourth quarter results Thursday.

Exact stats: First-quarter net income rose to $1.31 billion, or $4.12 per diluted share, from $1 billion, or $3.18 per share, a year earlier.Gross revenue rose 42 percent to $5.19 billion, just ahead of Wall Street targets. By contrast, Google's revenue grew at a 63 percent rate in the same quarter a year ago. International revenue accounted for 51 percent of the total, surpassing U.S. revenue for the first time and powering the company's results.

This could help Google in its effort to thwart Microsoft's Yahoo! takeover efforts.

"This signals that the online advertising market is still healthy, which should help Yahoo get a better price for its company if it does decide to sell to Microsoft," Peter Dunay, chief investment strategist at broker-dealer Meridian Equity Partners, told Reuters.

It was the usual financial shop talk on the earnings call, thought CEO Eric Schmidt talked Apps and Sergey touched on the company's failed 700 MHz efforts.

Eric Schmidt, Google CEO

In regards to Google Apps, "we are beginning to have all the pieces now in place." The Salesforce deal "allows us to integrate for enterprise customers."

"By doing these partnerships and investing in new application models, we think people will spend more and more on time on the Internet and they'll be able to .... share documents, calendars [and more] in a way that has not been possible before."

CFO George Reyes and co-founder Sergey Brin also weighed in ...

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Sergey Brin, Google co-founder

700 MHz auction: "I know we did not come back with any spectrum wins ...

Novell’s Nat Friedman told InternetNews.com: “The basic concept here is that the standalone operating system is dead.” Friedman is Novell’s Chief Technology Officer. He added: “The days in which folks buy operating systems on their own and thereupon build a stack from there […] will look like home…

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For the first moment ever, that year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco offers a track designed for those developing applications and optimized web subject matter for iPhone. In fact, we’ve already listed 80 sessions and hands-on labs fundamental for iPhone development. Th…

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