Amy Vernon
Amy Vernon
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Though it may not come as a surprise to many readers of Hot Hardware, the denizens of Gen Y, otherwise known as Millennials, are not the be-all and end-all when it comes to the 'Net.A report released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project (you can download the PDF, charts and all, here) showed that, for example, no one banks,...
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When Amazon announced today that it would hold a press conference Feb. 9 at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan, the rumors started flying fast and furious, and the consensus seems to be:Kindle 2 is to be released soon.A quick trip over to Amazon.com also shows that the Kindle just happens to be "sold out." How convenient that it isn't...
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Months of "the sky is falling!" news stories have all led up to this: the Senate today voted unanimously to postpone the transition from analog to digital television from Feb. 17 to June 12.Apparently, according to the Nielsen Co., more than 6.5 million households in the U.S. that rely on analog television - the old-fashioned kind that comes...
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President Barack Obama may want to bring broadband service to every community in the nation, but it the Pew Internet & American Life Project released survey results this week that indicate that may not be enough to get some to use it.Some might say, "Well, so what? If people want it, they want it. If they don't, they don't. No one has...
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If you have a Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail - heck, ANY e-mail service for any period of time, then you know your address gets out there in the world of spammers and if you're unlucky, you start receiving more spam than real e-mail in no time. So any effort on the part of e-mail providers to crack down on spam is always welcome. Yahoo!'s "anti-spam...
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Those who desperately need to watch tomorrow's inauguration on their iPhone are in luck. Just in the nick of time, Apple's App Store approved the Ustream iPhone Viewing Application. It's only available in WiFi "to ensure the highest quality broadcast on the iPhone." That may change in the future, the company says.Of course, it's not...
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Yahoo! is taking its cue from ... well, from everyone, and adding a whole new social aspect to its site.Sure, there already was e-mail and IM and a customizable home page, but now you can display your activity on/from many of your other social sites to your Yahoo profile.There are a slew of options - photos from Picasa, SmugMug, Webshots and...
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Another big name is about to enter the webmail market and would be the third-largest provider the day it launches, TechCrunch reported today, citing unnamed sources.All the reason it would be so big upon launch is because all MySpace users would be assigned an e-mail address of [username]@myspace.com. The social networking site has about 125...
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The idea behind Kodu, which will be released on the Xbox Live Community Games channel this spring, is to let people program and play their own games.Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, said development of Kodu was created to help children learn how to program, but evolved into a way they could create their...
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On the heels of the phishing attacks on Twitter and Digg, where all that immediately seemed to be at risk were logon credentials to the social sites, comes a potentially much more insidious problem.Security vendor Trusteer has found a JavaScript bug in all major browsers makes it easier for crooks to steal your login information while you're...
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The news was all over the blogosphere this weekend: Doing two web searches on Google creates enough carbon dioxide to boil a kettle.It was based on an article in the Times of London (and so now the kettle of tea comparison make sense), which reported on a Harvard researcher's study of the environmental impact of computing.The energy used to...
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Debuting this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas will be Motorola's latest mobile devices, including a phone that offsets its own carbon footprint, the company announced today.The plastic to make the MOTO W233 Renew is derived from recycled water bottles. That also makes it "100 percent recyclable," according to Motorola. The company...
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Hewlett-Packard's ready to release its latest MediaSmart servers, and, for a change, they don't hate the Mac.The EX485/EX487 are designed for home or home office use, in large part to enable you -- or your friends and family -- to access any media (music, photos, videos, etc.) via the Internet. You can network all your media files from all...
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Digital photo frames are a hot gift item these days, but anyone buying a Samsung SPF-85H 8-inch digital photo frame through Amazon.com this year may have given their loved ones a little something extra: A computer virus.Amazon reached out to its purchasers with a note just before the holiday.Here's a snippet of their warning to customers:...
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OK, you couldn't pay me enough to go shopping on Christmas Eve, though my husband loves to see all the hapless fools who waited until it was almost too late. But a new SatNav device developed in Spain might just intrigue me enough to give it a shot next year. Javier Bajo of the University of Salamanca tested it out in that city's Tormes mall...
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We've all done it — had two tabs or screens open, wishing we could have two screens on our laptop so we didn't have to keep switching back and forth between windows. Enter Lenovo Group Ltd. The company's next ThinkPad laptop is more of a "desktop replacement" than ever. ThinkPad W700ds (a follow-on to the standard W700 model we evaluated...
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