Tag: EXPIRE-IMAGES2008-5-1

There's nothing like a good Vista / OS X showdown to get the fan-boys all riled up. Our pals at Engadget have pieced together a pretty comprehensive table comparing the features, strengths, and weaknesses of these two operating systems behemoths for PCs and Macs, respectively. (The latest Mac update to OS X, Leopard, launched late last week). We have our own opinions, which we'll detail here. ...

Xerox is getting ready to burst on to the search engine scene with FactSpotter. Of course by 'burst' I mean quietly slip the feature into an enterprise software package aimed at legal and regulatory professionals, with no plans for wider distribution. But that's ok, someone else will pick up on the innovative work here and make millions (or billions) off of it. Just like a little guy called Steve ...

Everyone was Google to simply launch another social network in the coming days. Google's own services (YouTube, Google Maps) have added a host of new social networking features over the last year. Then there are it's traditional social networking holdings: DodgeBall, a pre-Twitter text message based social network, and Okurt, a Facebook-esque site that never caught on here in the US. Just tying ...

Engadget has tracked down some supposed photos and specs of the upcoming Dell Inspiron Laptop refresh. The specs are impressive, but nothing surprising. Everything is moving to the new Santa Rosa update of the Centrino platform from Intel. The 1720 and 1721 are Intel and AMD powered 17 inch laptops respectively. Similarly the 1520 and 1521 are 15 inch machines, again the '1' at the end ...

Late last night Google unleashed the most important missing link from its online office suite, presentations. After picking up the San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia based startup Tonic in April, Google has finished converting its online presentation into presentations for Google Docs. With the newest edition to the online Google suite, they've finally closed off the app gap, finishing ...

If there is someone on your list with a lot of rooms, but most of his or her music on just one PC, consider looking into the Sonos $999 bundle. Sonos's audio system lets you stream music from your PC to up to 32 different rooms! The starter Sonos 130 bundle gives you everything you need in one package, the Zone Player 80 (ZP80), which plugs in to your stereo, home theater, etc. the Zone Player ...