Verizon's Samsung Omnia
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Verizon Wireless is giving its customers a bit of an early holiday gift by cutting the price on the Samsung Omnia, which debuted less than a week ago. Originally priced at $249.99, you can now get the touch-screen Windows Mobile …
A brushed-aluminum chassis distinguishes the 1002HA from the rest of the Eee PC crowd.
Unveiled last month, Asus’ latest addition to its ever-expanding Netbook line is the Eee PC 1002HA. It’s your standard 10-inch Netbook–Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, and Windows XP–but comes wrapped …
BMW has been among the leaders in high-tech car innovation, occasionally even jumping too far ahead of what its older customers preferred to use.
So it should be no surprise that the German carmaker wants to lure in potential customers with another cool high-tech tool.
The BMW Product Navigator, which
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Originally posted at Planetary Gear
Quang Tu Nguyen: the man who has changed the landscape of network and computer security in Vietnam.
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Editor’s note: CNET editor and Crave contributor Dong Ngo is spending the next month in his homeland of Vietnam, and plans to file occasional dispatches chronicling his impressions of how technology has permeated the culture there. Click here for more of Dong’s stories from abroad.
HANOI, Vietnam–If you use any Internet-connected computer in Vietnam–and there are lots of them; Internet cafes and Wi-Fi spots abound in any city–chances are you’ll find a little red plus sign at the bottom right corner of the screen. That’s the icon of the most popular antivirus software here. It’s called BKAV.
(A bit of background: if you’ve recently read reviews of Internet security products by our security editor Rob Vamosi, know that I am the one who designed the methodology involved in testing these applications. It’s therefore natural for me to be curious about how people in various parts of the world are protected against malicious software.)
In any case, BKAV is short for Bach Khoa AntiVirus, with “Bach Khoa” being the Vietnamese name for the Hanoi University of Technology. The software was originally developed as a hobby by Quang Tu Nguyen, a student-turned-lecturer at the school. It’s currently the flagship product of Bach Khoa Internetwork Security center (BKIS), of which Quang, now 33, is director.
Quang still lectures once in awhile, but he’s mostly known as the man who has changed the landscape of network and computer security in Vietnam. His creation, BKAV, is in many ways just about the best security software you can find.
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(Credit: Appliancist)The Superbowl will be here before you know it, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve been too busy to catch live every game leading up to it. DVRs, of course, let you record and replay programs you’ve missed, but if you don’t have …
Originally posted at Appliances and Kitchen Gadgets
On this week’s installment of the Digital City, it’s the Post-Black-Friday special, where we discuss the latest economic woes, our holiday wish lists, Black Friday vs. Cyber Monday, the new MTA text alert system, and Blockbuster’s lastest idea — a set-top streaming movie box.
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Originally posted at Digital City Podcast
Sometimes, a band will record in a warehouse so they can tell people they recorded in a warehouse. And sometimes, they’ll do it to sound like this. No strangers to the post-industrial motif–they’re from Jersey–Carlon drop a swoony stunner that makes full use of its cavernous space.
Originally posted at Crossfade
Need a quick stocking stuffer for the Mac addict on your holiday gift list? We just reviewed a pair of new mice from accessory maker Targus that are specifically being pitched for use with MacBooks, iMacs, and other Apple computers.
A healthy side industry has popped up for accessories that …
The Nikon D3X’s body is identical to the D3.
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Though almost everything you need to know about the new Nikon D3X leaked Friday, the 24.5-megapixel dSLR Nikon dubs its “extreme professional” model formally debuts today, November 30. What didn’t leak was the price: $7,…
We may think of Atom-powered Netbooks as the most basic of computers, good for Web surfing and e-mailing - but what would happen if someone stuffed a discrete graphics chip into one of these low-power, low-price systems?
It took Asus, the guys who pretty much created the Netbook market with …
Motorola has come out with a phone, the Cliq, targeted at a specific market and utilizing the power of Google’s Android platform. It is the first of a family of new Motorola phones, where the Cliq stands at the patronymic fore. As far as features go, Cliq is doing all right. The phone is complete [...]
For Microsoft Outlook users unfamiliar with Xobni, pay attention. The venture-backed company’s first piece of software, not even two years old, is a powerful advancement for e-mail organization, Outlook style. Wednesday, the new version of the tool is available, Xobni1.8 which provides additional power. In addition, the previously free plugin is offering an advanced version, [...]
Ever since June of last year there has been talks of Verizon and Alltel merging, but now it is official. Verizon wireless has now become the largest mobile carrier with over 83 million subscribers. Alltel will continue to run under the Alltel name until a complete merger of the two brands later this year. Now [...]
Pioneer has released a statement saying they have developed a Super Multi-Layered Disc that will play using current Blu-ray players. The disc consists of 16 layers that can hold 25GB of data each, which totals a 400GB Disc. They plan on having a read-only disc available by 2010, a rewritable by 2012, and a 1TB [...]
One of the biggest reasons most Windows users are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is Adblock Plus.
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