Archive for: July 11, 2009
July 11, 2009
OK boys and girls we’ve got a line up of China phones for you for the end of the week special. I’ll probably be featuring a few Torque phones in the next few days so stay tuned. I wanted to show off this little thing — the Torque DTV100, an odd looking fella with the keypad and directional pad located right beside one another. Though it may raise questions of “handedness” and being politically correct, I don’t think anyone will complain. The DTV100’s special thing is that it comes with a dual standby, dual SIM feature allowing two SIM cards to be active at any given time. Add the fact that this baby can receive analog transmissions from local television stations, you’ve got a winner when it comes to idle time. Forget games, watch TV! This phone retails for about a little more than a hundred dollars (Philippine PHP 5,499.00 to be exact). [photo author's own] Post from: Cellphone9
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TORQUE DTV100: Dual SIM and Television!
The printing environment in offices, especially in large offices has taken a huge leap in the last few years. The changing scenarios have led to the replacement of photocopiers by digital copiers and the fax machines have successfully led the way for scanning and emails. All this has increased the need of print volumes and to some extent has also increased the demand for color prints. This rise in the printing needs has also increased the consumption of paper as well as ink cartridge in the office.
Today, when the cost of printers are incredibly low and the availability of printers of all the major brands are available at very reasonable prices, it is a fact that most of the buyers drain most of their savings towards the purchasing of replacement printer consumables including ink cartridges and toner cartridges. There is no doubt that the hidden costs of printing is the purchase of replacement supplies such as inkjet and toner supplies.
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Too busy watching Google chase Microsoft this week to keep up with the latest Crave news? Well, that’s what our weekly roundup is for. Woot! Here are just a few of the many stories we had our gadget-googly eyes on. Take that, paparazzi! (Credit: Adam Harvey) • Amazon dropped the Kindle 2’s price , …
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This week in a land called Crave…
Your computer will run better if you occasionally clean your Windows system registry. But first, let’s define exactly what the registry is…
In layman’s terms, the Windows Registry is a hideously complex ball of string, rubber bands, duct tape and bailing wire that’s supposed to keep track of Windows system settings, your hardware configuration, user preferences, file associations, system policies, and installed software. In slightly more technical terms, the registry is a database in which Windows keeps track of relationships between hardware, software and the operating system.
It was supposed to be an improvement on the collection of simple text-based INI files that stored Windows configuration settings, but too many pocket protectors got involved in the design and the result was an over-engineered, over-complicated mess that makes Windows much more fragile and harder for users to maintain. Since it is a single point of failure, problems with the Registry can make a Windows system slower, less reliable, unbootable, and in extreme cases can only be fixed by reinstalling the operating system.
That’s why you need to use a registry cleaner every once in a while.
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This week on the Digital City, topics include Google’s new Chrome OS, and what it means for Netbooks and Microsoft; some not-too-bright cell phone thieves; how Scott semi-scammed a new iPhone 3GS; … Originally posted at Digital City Podcast
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Digital City No. 40: Google’s Chrome OS vs. stealing cell phones vs. NYC subway map phone apps
We were away last Friday for the holiday weekend, so this week’s FCC listing will be extra long. Several exciting phones were approved, like the Nokia 5530 Xpress Music , the Nokia E52 , and the Casio G’zOne Rock . Because the Federal Communications Commission has to certify every phone sold …
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New phones appear on the FCC
DSLR video demystified and expressing your inner flower children. Listen now: Download today’s podcast Episode 54 … Originally posted at Indecent Exposure Podcast
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Friday marks the 153rd birthday of one of the greatest geeks and most amazing minds of all time: Nikola Tesla . This genius is almost certainly why you have electricity in your house. What’s more, most of the gear you own is powered by parts that use his ideas. We owe this man the modern age . …
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Happy birthday, Nikola Tesla!
We all know and love Twitter, but it’s not perfect. A few months ago, I used these pages to tell you what I liked about Twitter and what I didn’t. Since then, Twitter has undergone some major changes. It has enjoyed worldwide acclaim. It has a new design. And its community is bigger than ever. All those things are great. But I’m not as happy with it as I could be. Unfortunately, I’ve found some issues with Twitter and its community that need to be addressed. Five Twitter issues 1. The “more” has to go Say what you will about Twitter’s new design, but sifting through the stream is too difficult. In the previous design, I was able to click the “next” button to get to older tweets. From there, I could quickly change the URL in the address bar to get to the page I wanted. For example, if I wanted to refer back to a tweet that, by now, was on page three, all I needed to do was change the “page=1″ command to “page=3.” Once it loaded, I was on the right page. But in Twitter’s new design, it requires me to keep hitting “more” to see tweets. It’s a real annoyance. Quickly getting to the tweet I want to find takes too long. And although it makes the site more “Web 2.0,” I don’t like it. Bring back the “next” option, Twitter. No more more, please. (Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) 2. Down times are back For a while, Twitter was on its game. There were so few down times, it seemed the Fail Whale was finally in the past. But as of late, I’ve noticed many more down times on the service. Almost each day, it’s down for a minute or two at a ...
It appears some people haven’t figured this out yet, but the Internet is a dollar store, the kind you see tucked into the corners of shopping malls about to be demolished. In dollar stores, everything is a buck. So why not buy it? It’s just a buck! The Internet is not a Tiffany , the kind of store you see in the best locations in shopping malls that have not yet become dated monstrosities about to be demolished. In a Tiffany store you pay too much for a hunk of metal because the brand name behind the metal adds cache to the product. I’m writing this because today we hear from Bloomberg News that The New York Times is considering charging $5 a month for access to stories on its Web site. Is the fee reasonable? For the quality of the Times’ writing and reporting, you bet it is. But it’s still too much, and it’s bad business. The success of the iTunes store, and the iPhone app store, shows how easy it is to get people to pay a small amount for a downloadable product. It’s a lesson worth learning. And with the cost of distributing each incremental copy of a digital good being close to zero, there is no reason at all to overcharge for products. There are contrary views. One analysis shows that $0.99 iPhone apps are no more popular than more expensive apps. But especially for companies trying to convert customers who have to date paid nothing for the service (the New York Times content is free), the logic of charging as little as possible, as opposed to as much as possible, makes more sense. The old joke’s punch line, “Yeah, but we make it up in volume,” is no laughing matter on the Net. ...
 Mobile banking continues to have legs on cell phones. A new comScore report shows that mobile users are using both WAP browsers and native apps to access their bank accounts at a roughly even mix, according to MediaPost. Specifically, 44 percent of smartphone owners access bank accounts via their handset's Web browser, while 40.6 percent installed and used dedicated apps. On feature phones, 53.1 percent used a mobile browser, while 48.1 percent installed native apps. The report said that the only significant difference was with text messaging, which makes sense, since the lowest-end feature phones can't run browsers or native apps effectively. Only 25 percent of smartphone users bothered with SMS banking, whereas 41 percent of feature phone owners did. Either way, the trend is clear, and jives with an earlier report from ABI Research in January. "The relative parity among usage of browsers versus applications for access to mobile banking indicates the growing importance of ease of use for accessing accounts and conducting transactions," comScore said in a statement about today's findings.
    
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