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Today in the mail I got a review unit of the HP Travel Companion 310. The 310 is a multi-purpose device designed to facilitate a number of roles for the traveler. It offers GPS Navigation, a Media Player, a Contact repository, Games, Bluetooth capabilities, and more. Here are my impressions from spending...
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I recently got to spend a few weeks playing around with the Sprint Touch. This is yet another great phone from HTC. There has been quite a bit of attention being paid to touch screen phones this year, mostly due to... well, that other phone. But HTC and Sprint really have something going with this new...
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Sprint has released their first foray into the Windows Mobile 6 world, the Mogul. It is the successor to the PPC-6700. Fortunately, it comes without the clunky external antenna that the 6700 had, although, other than that, the form factor is very similar. In fact, anyone who's held an AT&T 8525...
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The last couple of weeks I have been carrying around a Lenovo T61 notebook, the latest in the Lenovo T series. This notebook is a significant departure from the T60 that I had previously been carrying. Specs It has a clear bright LCD screen that is a 14.1" widescreen with a 1440x900 resolution and...
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The Wing is the first phone from T-Mobile to ship with Windows Mobile 6. It is made by HTC, and is the successor to the MDA, with the same processor and memory under the hood, but with upgraded software, more buttons, and a better camera. The first thing you notice when you pull it out of the box, though...
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Today Microsoft released the 2.0 version of the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment (WVHA) tool . This tool is the second generation of Microsoft's secure agent-less inventory and assessment tool with rich reporting capabilities designed to evaluate your organizations readiness for deploying Windows Vista...
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We were given a review unit of the Buffalo Wireless-N Nfiniti Gigabit Router and Access point to evaluate as part of a Certified for Windows Vista program. I have taken a little while to get the review out due to my move, so I apologize for that. Note: This is an eval unit and will be shipped back, just...
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Or, at least that's what Adobe is hoping that their newest piece of software, Adobe Digital Editions will be. Here's what it looks like: It has a very user-friendly and familiar interface, it works very much like the latest incarnation of the Adobe Reader. The "Bookshelves" are analogous to playlists...
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Unfortunately I'm not near as fortunate as Aubrey, and had to buy a 'specially marked box' of extortion, I mean Crackdown to get into the Halo 3 beta. I waited until the evening to try and get on, hoping that the mass frantic downloads and mass server load would have diminished by then, but alas, there...
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Since I wasn't really working today, and I had my code to download the Halo 3 beta, I figured I could spend a few hours trying it out. The download was just under 1G, and I had no problems downloading it. If you are trying to get it through Crackdown, you may be experiencing some issues. From Bungie...
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A little background - I have been involved in every RTC (real time communications) beta since it's first inception at Microsoft. That includes the beta for the original Live Communications Server 2003, 2005, 2005 SP1, and now 2007. I was a huge fan of every one one of these builds, but, every one of...
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Vista MC Rating - (Sure, why not? Let's say 5 stars is my maximum, the 'this rocks' rating.) You might recall during the beta period I wrote a review about Windows Vista Media Center, and the drastic changes, mostly in the UI that I noticed. Although the changes were somewhat drastic and took a little...
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The WSUS Product Team just released RC1 on Microsoft Connect . Current Beta 2 participants should already have access. If you are new to the program, head on over to the main WSUS page for instructions on how to join. Here's a quick overview of what's new since Beta 2. Note: Don't forget to check out...
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While at CES last week, I stopped by a booth where I was introduced to a device called The Tornado , made by a company called DataDriveThru . The people running the booth assured me that this device would be the easiest way I had ever seen to transfer files between two PCs that aren't already networked...
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Last week, I was having some difficulty with IE7 correctly displaying a site I was trying to go to. I decided I'd try Firefox and see if the page displayed any better. In between making that decision and actually installing Firefox, I somehow ran across a really cool site called Portable Apps . What...