- DigitalLife 2006 Wrap-up
- Digital Trends Features - October 18, 2006
- This past weekend, the DigitalLife convention was held in NYC. It features tons of companies who are on the forefront of today’s leading technologies. Some of the heavy hitters present include Sony with their PS3 game console and Microsoft show...
- Google, YouTube, and Apple
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - October 11, 2006
- With everyone focused on the incredibly expensive acquisition of YouTube by Google, attention once again drifted away from the Apple connection to Google and what may be the big long term plan jointly being executed by both companies. So let’s ...
- Why Wii's a Winner
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - October 10, 2006
- Crucify me if you must.Call me a cynic, a creep… even a washed-up shell of a hardcore gamer.But no matter what you say or threaten do to the most obscure of my poor internal organs (dude, lay off the duodenum), the fact still remains. More tha...
- 10 Reasons You Tube Can Survive and Prosper
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - October 5, 2006
- With what seems like an overwhelming amount of coverage from those that don’t think YouTube has a chance to make it, we thought it would be good to remind folks that people didn’t think Yahoo, Amazon, Google or Netscape would make it eith...
- WIRED NextFest 2006
- Digital Trends Features - October 4, 2006
- A ballroom dancer, a spaceship, and a robot bartender. What do these three things all have in common? They’re on display currently at Wired Magazine's NextFest event. What is NextFest you ask? It’s a showcase of emerging technology t...
- Sharpcast: Data Sharing Made Simple
- Digital Trends Features - October 2, 2006
- Imagine as a consumer the ability to synchronize your photos and contact data across multiple digital platforms in near real-time by making a change on one location and seeing it appear moments later across the others. This is the general idea behind...
- HP + Voodoo: The Back Story
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - September 29, 2006
- Whenever there is a merger like this, many of us get interested in the back story. I was able to speak to executives from both firms and an interesting story emerged on why they want to do this.For HP: Margin, Leadership, Advocacy, and ImageThe perfo...
- Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2006
- Digital Trends Features - September 26, 2006
- New excitement, new sensations, a new generation… Officially, that was theme of this year's Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2006, held Friday, September 22 through Sunday, September 24 at the city's massive Makuhari Messe convention center.Oddly enough ...
- Dolby and DTS Are Fruitful and Multiply
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - September 20, 2006
- A few months ago we talked about Dolby and DTS surround formats. There certainly are a lot of them. Soon there will be more—and that’s our subject for today. Why, why, why? ...
- The Rock Talks Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run
- Digital Trends Features - September 19, 2006
- Can you smell what Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is cooking? Hint: It reeks of teen angst, stale testosterone, and, of course, freshly-minted greenbacks. Having already climbed to the top of the pop culture world as a former WWE champion a...
- Assessing the Apple Launch
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - September 15, 2006
- One of the difficulties of looking at Apple products critically is how hot emotions run. Apple has a very loyal group of followers who defend all the company does, and Apple does such a great job of promoting its offerings it is sometimes hard ...
- Windows Vista: Game On
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - August 31, 2006
- Ladies and gentlemen, take note: I have seen the future, and it looks pretty damn sharp on a 23-inch monitor and Windows Vista. That's right… An official build of Windows Vista, due for release in January (of 2043, if you believe online h...
- Being Smart with Laptop Batteries
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - August 30, 2006
- Over the last several weeks we have been dealing with the largest recall in history that the laptop segment has ever had. This one is particularly important because the result of a battery failure, which could come at an increasing rate, is a very ho...
- Mapping the Roads, One Off-Ramp at a Time
- Digital Trends Features - August 14, 2006
- Have you ever wondered where the data for your favorite map-based GPS unit comes from? Who really does all of that work to make sure the road you are driving down doesn’t plunge you off a cliff? Meet Mark Vermeys, a geographic field analyst for...
- Guide to Instant Messenger Clients
- Digital Trends Guides - July 31, 2006
- Communication is important to most people. Since the late 1990s, Instant Messaging (IM) has become an increasingly popular way to stay in touch with friends and loved ones. Though history traces IM’s origins back to Internet Relay Chat (IRC), i...