Posts Tagged ‘ZDNet

Right now, it’s safe to say that, for some unknown reason, the Internet-Explorer-based batch photo upload feature of Kodak’s online photo gallery is incompatible with Microsoft’s Windows Vista (uploading photos one at a time works fine). It’s a killer problem because of how much time can be saved by uploading pictures in batches. It’s also [...]

Earlier this week, I attended a panel discussion that was primarily hosted by AMD but included panelists from HP, EMC, and APC and was moderated by Uptime Institute’s chief analyst Bruce Taylor. The Uptime Institute earns its keep by playing host to the community of people and technologists with an interest in datacenter uptime, along [...]

Yesterday, I posted two blogs (here and here) regarding an AMD-hosted panel discussion that I attended in Cambridge, MA. Execs from AMD, EMC, HP, and APC were there to talk about short term measures that can yield savings in energy expenditures and green house gas emissions today, and then the ways in which they’re looking [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I paid a visit to Nike.com in search of some specific sunglass frames to replace Nike ones of mine that broke. The broken pair included some prescription lenses and I was hoping to find the same frames so that I didn’t have to bear the cost of getting new lenses [...]

Earlier this year, I headlined a post “If it consumes consumables (ie: ink, bulbs, etc), check their cost too before buying it.” That’s why, while at the Digital Life show in New York City last week, one of the question you’ll see me asking during my video interview of Toshiba’s projector product marketing manager Jane [...]

In the video above, Iomega reviews manager Todd Schulke gives me the elevator pitch for the network attached storage device which costs only $349. To get to 1 terabyte, the storcenter uses two 500GBMB drives which can be configured as JBOD (Just a bunch of drives), RAID 0, or RAID 1. Whereas the JBOD and [...]

After finally making it over to the Digital Life show at the Javits Center, the first booth I stopped at was Nokia's booth where I bumped into Joe Gallo who's a spokesperson for the company. In his hands was the latest model of Nokia's N95 smartphone. We captured it's predecessor on video just a few [...]

When you ask people what their top peeves are when it comes to their pcs, somewhere high on the list is how they sometimes lock up at the least opportune times. Regardless of their shipping status, all applications are fallible and, in many cases, we depend on the operating system to gracefully restore the system’s [...]

As you can see in the attached video taped at Digital Life in New York City, I can vouch for the fact that Toshiba’s Portégé R500 sub-notebook has a built-in optical drive for CD-roms and dvds. You hardly ever see this in a sub-notebook because they take up so much vertical space and as a [...]

Usually, when you go to an event like Digital Life (like I did last week in NYC), you get to see lots of gadgets and games. But browser software? Yes indeed. As I and my one-man multimedia crewman Matt Conner walked the show floor, we came across a small booth that was occupied by Opera, [...]