monitors
Our Source Has Seen The Apple HDTV, Here’s What It Looks Like
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We have a source who claims to have seen a prototype Apple high-definition television set in action, indicating that Apple is readying the long-awaited device for market. According to our source, who has asked to remain strictly anonymous, the Apple HDTV looks like Apple’s current lineup of LED-backlit Cinema...
ASUS shows off its first Thunderbolt monitor, along with 3D and multitouch displays (video)
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Take a stroll around ASUS' Computex booth, and you'll see a wall full of new displays -- and we're only half counting the one made for the PadFone. By our count, the company is getting ready to release three new monitors: one with multitouch, one that does passive 3D...
Cloudyn Monitors and Optimizes AWS Usage
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Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut costs....
Withings Baby Monitor makes its official, expensive US debut
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The Withings Baby Monitor has already been available in the UK for sometime now and recently made a splash over at the FCC. Now the iOS accessory is finally for sale here in the good ol' US-of-A, for the rather staggering price of $299. That's right, this sensor-packed web...
Acer brings five monitors to the US market, ranging in price from $139 to $329
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If that display up there looks familiar, it's because it's already won itself a fancy schmancy iF product design award. But as Prospero would say, 'tis new to thee -- at least if you live on this side of the Atlantic. Acer just announced it's bringing that very S23HL...
Retina MacBook Pro Can Run Three External Displays Simultaneously
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Other World Computing posted this picture on their blog showing a MacBook Pro with Retina Display hooked up to a pair of iMacs serving as Thunderbolt displays and a third monitor via HDMI. This setup powers four screens with a total of 15,680,000 pixels. The writer of the post,...
MacBook Pro with Retina display can drive four screens simultaneously
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The more demanding users among us could only think of one thing when Apple announced that the MacBook Pro with Retina display had two Thunderbolt ports in addition to its HDMI out: could it possibly run four displays at once? We didn't get to test it out for our...
Pastebin To Hire “Monitors” To Keep The Creeps Off Of Its Servers
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It’s hard being a hacker’s darling. Pastebin is a dox dumping site – as well as a useful tool for programmers and writers who want to share a piece of text or store it for later – and it is facing what could be a termed a problem of popularity....
Big Data Helps ID Who's "Stealing" That Song
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The same kind of digital fingerprinting that helps music lovers identify songs using apps like Shazam and Soundhound is also being used to help help artists, performers and rights holders identify who is using those songs - yet another way big data is changing the way we live and...
Have Arrington and Conway screwed up big time with their investment in Highlight?
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Tonight I’m getting message after message that friend after friend has joined Highlight (the photo above is of Paul Davison showing it off to some of its first users back in December on the day it launched into a closed beta). What is Highlight? Well, two weeks ago, in...
Best monitors under $200
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Thinking of low-balling it on your next monitor purchase? Sure you are and I'll show you the best monitors under $200....
T-Haler digital inhaler turns battling asthma into an instructional game
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From Wi-Fi-enabled scales to activity-tracking bracelets, we're seeing unique new ways that technology can make the mundane engaging and help our health and well-being in the process. The same idea is being applied in an instructional way with the T-Haler. Created by Cambridge Consultants, the T-Haler is a training...
Acer's five new monitors are thin on exciting features, low on price
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Acer announces five new thinly profiled LED-based monitors that, while low on price and easy on the eyes, aren't the most robust monitors out there. [Read more]...
High school students building 'Battlestar Galactica' Viper simulator
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A group of five students is working on an ambitious project for the 2012 Maker Faire: a full flight simulator designed after Battlestar Galactica's Mark VII Viper. The team is no stranger to Maker Faire projects, but this one is awfully ambitious, including full 360-degree movement on two axes,...
Ixia acquires cybersecurity firm BreakingPoint for $160m in cash
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NASDAQ-listed Ixia, which offers IP and wireless network testing and visibility solutions, has agreed to acquire security testing company BreakingPoint Systems for roughly $160 million in cash. BreakingPoint had raised at least $28 million in funding from firms like Austin Ventures and Genesis Inventions. In May 2012, Ixia picked up...
Matrox unveils Thunderbolt dock for latest ultrabooks, Mac portables
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Video hardware maker Matrox announced on Monday that it plans to ship a Thunderbolt docking station geared towards ultraportable users in September. Dubbed the DS1, it will allow Thunderbolt-equipped notebook users to connect monitors, storage, networking gear, and other devices to a single Thunderbolt port. The Matrox DS1 provides...
Where Thunderbolt is smart -- right now
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Tired of waiting as videos and photos to crawl from hard drives to computers to monitors? Thunderbolt gets the job done much faster. [Read more]...
Microsoft reveals more multi-monitor improvements in Windows 8 Release Preview
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If you're a multitasking extraordinaire who depends on Windows as your primary computing platform of choice, there's a good chance you utilize more than one monitor to get your work done -- unfortunately, the seventh iteration of Microsoft's OS didn't offer as much support in this arena as most...
New MacBooks can manage many, many monitors
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The 2012 MacBook Air is dwarfed by the two external Thunderbolt Displays it can drive. Gabor Cselle via 9to5Mac Users of multi-monitor setups are in for a treat: according to a report by 9to5Mac and legwork by Gabor Cselle and OWC, the 2012 MacBook Air can support two external displays...
Boeing's new business jet is fit for a king
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The aviation giant unveils a new private jet--a modified 737-700--that is geared for luxurious long-haul flights. Think multiple HD monitors and very big beds. Plus a shower! [Read more]...
Android trojan steals keystrokes using phone movements
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Computer scientists have devised an attack that logs phone numbers, Social Security IDs, and personal identification numbers entered into smartphones by monitoring the devices' integrated motion sensors. TapLogger, as their proof-of-concept application for phones running Google's Android operating system is called, masquerades as a benign game that challenges the...
Samsung SyncMaster S23A750D review: The dark mirror of monitors
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Thanks to its extremely reflective screen, the S23A750D doesn't make for the best sunny Saturday afternoon movie-watching experience. When the sun goes down however, it's time to break out your blu-ray copies of "The Dark Knight", "Dark City" or any movie for that matter, dark or otherwise. The experience of...
Interested in the solar eclipse on May 20th? Check out this Google Map from NASA
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You only have one shot to catch the solar eclipse on May 20th, or you’ll have to wait until next year. Thanks to technology, and some help from NASA, you can now get the heads up on the exact path of the upcoming Instagram-worthy event. The organization has posted a...
How to Stop Teens from Texting at "All The Wrong Times"
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When I was a teenager, I passed notes in class. My best friend and I drew intricate comics of our teachers, folded them up and brushed each others' hands as we shared from desk to desk. I also doodled in class, and as a result my entire yellow folder was...
Google rolls out Trusted Stores verification program for online retailers
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Along with talking up 3D images and other new features for Maps, Google is pushing its new Trusted Stores program this week. The service, which has been in testing for the last nine months, monitors online retailers and awards those with good shipping and service records a "trusted" badge....
ViewSonic outs 27-inch VX2703mh-LED monitor with 1080p, SRS Premium Sound
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Some would say monitors aren't anywhere nearly as exciting as something like, say, a shiny new Galaxy S III or Google's novel slate, the popularly priced Nexus 7 -- but, you know, sometimes you just need to get some actual work done. And for those of you who are...
Q&A: KIRO-TV’s Jenni Hogan will blend broadcast, social media in special tonight
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KIRO-TV's Jenni Hogan will host a mixed media special tonight. (KIRO photo) Jenni Hogan mixes the worlds of broadcast media and online media every weekday morning, interacting with viewers on Twitter, in real time, as she delivers the traffic reports on KIRO-TV in Seattle. Tonight she will be taking it...
Dell's new monitors are small (ish) and cheap
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Dell announces new monitors for its P and E budget lines. [Read more]...
Review: AOC 1080P 22-inch DisplayLink USB-powered portable monitor
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AOC E2251FWU 22″ USB display USB DisplayLink monitors are a relatively new breed of peripheral for Macs and PCs. The technology creates a virtual display on your Mac/PC, compresses it, and send it over USB 2.0 to a monitor which then uncompresses it. You would think this would cause a lag...
Nvidia 3D Vision 2 review: Great performance, slim availability
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The Nvidia 3D Vision 2 solution is a combination of redesigned, more comfortable glasses and Lightboost technology. It's just unfortunate that so few Lightboost monitors exist. [Read more]...
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