http://www.ecoustics.com/latest/links Latest links, updated every five minutes http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/8301-1001_3-10323029-92.html?part=ecoustics-cnet Xen Cloud Platform will form part of a wider initiative aimed at federating the private enterprise cloud and public cloud services, such as those offered by Amazon and Rackspac Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:49:23 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/hemag/reviews/21193 More than ever before, TVs are design statements. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:27:47 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/pcw/reviews/167485 Track Registry changes and restore the Registry to its previous state. Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:58:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/pcw/reviews/168805 When it comes to celebrity news and profiles of regular people doing extraordinary things, People remains a newsstand favorite. But People isn't resting on its... Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:10:16 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/ah/reviews/furniture/e5822-tv-cab For those wishing to integrate a home theater system into their family or living room and are mindful of blending it into their room décor, the Majestic Angle e5822 from StandOut Designs may be the product for you. Its construction and quality of materials are light years beyond much of the run of the mill junk you find at department stores. The Angle comes fully assembled and gives you the option of placing itself under your wall mounted display or placing your display on top of it. It was actually designed to accommodate real A/V gear and not the pretend cardboard box cuts outs that are often shown on the display floor. Considering the thoughtfulness of design that went into making this product a truly dedicated A/V furniture rack and the fact that it?s not only affordable but made in the USA, means it gets my highest recommendation! Wed, 27 May 2009 18:38:25 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/pcw/reviews/164035 Keep track of your schedule and calendar with this easy-to-use freebie. Wed, 20 May 2009 23:27:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/guide/236 Shopping for a new printer? Here, we explore a dozen of today's best bets for the home-based user, taking into account key considerations such as price (you'll find nothing here over $300), reliability, manufacturer track record, user opinion, editorial preference and more. But don't let this roundup be your only guide – also be sure to check the Digital Trends reviews department (and the Internet in general, for that matter) for full-blown case studies to get a good feel for what's really going on with your favorite models before you buy.Standalone Laser Printers...Read | Permalink | Linking Blogs Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:00:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/ah/reviews/furniture/racks-stands/sanus-cfa56 The Sanus System CFA56 is quite a substantial piece of furniture. You definitely will feel like you got your $850 out of it. It is heavy, has built in "convection-style" cooling, easy access to your gear from the removable back panel, and bottom exit of wires. It is easily put together by a single person though it is not the easiest piece of furniture you'll ever assemble. The aesthetics are very good with a fairly high quality vinyl wrap over some quality pieces of MDF. Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:30:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/pcw/news/161646 In an attempt to simplify the tracking of identity theft and identity fraud for law enforcement, ANSI is working to clearly define these terms. Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:42:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/pcw/howto/161436 Can't stand waiting until the summer to get all the latest iPhone 3.0 improvements? We've tracked down 13 features that you can get right now using both third-party and Apple-sanctioned applications! Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:40:00 -0400 http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/8301-11128_3-10160234-54.html?part=ecoustics-cnet Google introduces PowerMeter software for tracking home energy use, part of smart-grid plan to make energy data available on the Web for free in real time in standard formats. Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:13:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/guide/210 Radio certainly has come a long way since the days of the dial. Aside from fancier presets, and the presence of pushbuttons, free music is no longer constricted to the car or a tiny transistor set. Don’t worry about huddling around a boombox or even the computer. Thanks to advances in technology, there are now plenty of ways to listen to radio, without having to sample the snaps, crackles and pops that are a trademark of the medium.HD RadioDespite what many people think, the HD in HD Radio does not stand for “high definition.” However, like its TV counterpart, this is a digital format, with the HD meaning “hybrid digital.” That means that HD Radio stations br...Read | Permalink | Linking Blogs Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:00:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/19156 At Apple's final Macworld Expo in January, the company announced all music for sale via iTunes would be offered in DRM-free, 256 Kbps AAC format, with the company anticipating the store's entire 10 million song catalog would be available DRM-free by the end of the first quarter of 2009. (Users can now update their DRM-laden tracks a la carte if they like). One upshot of Apple taking iTunes DRM-free is that Norway has decided to drop its long-standing complaints against Apple that the iTunes storeRead | Permalink | Linking Blogs Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:20:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/19032 How much carbon are you responsible for pumping into the atmosphere on a given day? You could rely on broad statistics from any number of environmental groups, you could fail to care altogether, or you could actually get yourself a close estimate with Clear Standards’ new Carbon Tracker app for the iPhone, released on Thursday.Using the phone’s built-in GPS capability, Carbon Tracker logs your movements throughout the day, automatically generating a list of trips. Assigning a vehicle type to them allows the software to calculate a carbon footprint automaRead | Permalink | Linking Blogs Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:45:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/ah/reviews/furniture/racks-stands/sanus-nfa245-nfv249-nfav230 Sanus Systems displayed three new models in its AV Foundations Natural series. These included the NFV249 three-shelf AV lowboy, the four-shelf AV stand and the NFA245 five-shelf audio stand. All units incorporate three new Sanus colors and thick, smoked tempered glass shelves. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/18841 Vizio has brought in three new products to its line, one of which is bound to make ears perk up – a Blu-ray player retailing for under $200.First out of the blocks is the new Sound bar and Wireless Subwoofer, which uses four 3” high efficiency mid/bass drivers and dual 3/4" high performance aluminum dome neodymium tweeter, and comes equipped with a hybrid tabletop stand and wall mount bracket providing consumers the ultimate installation flexibility.But most people will be looking at Vizio's VBR100 Blu-ray Player, which retails for $199.99. It boasts a 108MHz/11-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC), delivering 1080p vRead | Permalink | Linking Blogs Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/ah/reviews/furniture/racks-stands/bello-fp-4858-stand-wall-mount Bell?O showed off several new AV furniture products at CES this year. I've found them to make a nice range of inexpensive to premium furniture to cover a wide range of tastes. The FP-4858 Triple Play A/V Flat-Panel Stand is a beautiful corner-oriented AV stand that provides three options for use with a flat panel TV. You can display the TV on the top shelf of the stand itself; on the swivel pole mounting system above the stand; or on the wall itself with the stand below it as a shelf table. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:10:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/look/263 Every now and then, somebody wants to revolutionize the mouse – from the now-standard scroll wheel that designer Eric Michelman introduced in 1995, to the air mouse that Logitech rolled out just a year ago. Some changes stick, some don’t, but no one ever stops trying.The Australian company Cyber Sport took its own crack at reinventing the interface with the Orbita, which turns the entire puck-shaped body of the mouse into a giant scroll wheel. Instead of just dragging it around on the desk like an ordinary mouse, flicking the ball-bearing-mounted top shell sends it spinning in place, performing the same task the scroll whe...Read | Permalink | Linking Blogs Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:00:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/18366 If you think your home wireless network is all locked down just because you’ve added WPA encryption, it may be time to lock the doors, dig out those old Ethernet cables, and start wiring up the house. This week, a team of researchers will unveil a method for bypassing the popular WPA-TKIP encryption standard, along with a tool for doing it.The duo from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany will unleash their crack at this week’s PacSec security conference in Tokyo. The team has already detailed the exploit though, in a paper entitled Practical attacks againsRead | Permalink | Linking Blogs Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:55:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/pcw/news/153233 Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has released an 11-hour election video outlining where he stands on tech issues in hopes of attracting the tech-savvy vote. Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:14:00 -0500 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/17940 Buffalo Technologies has unveiled its MiniStation Shinobi portable hard drive, which the company says not only packs the performance of a pro-level hard drive, but will also make on-the-go computing users rejoice because, at just 5mm thick, it's also the world's thinnest external hard drive. The MiniStation Shinobi features Buffalo's TurboUSB technology to make transfer rates up to 20 percent faster than standard drives, and the unit includes backup and synchronization software to mobile users can easy keep track of their data."Innovative, easy-to-use prRead | Permalink | Linking Blogs Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:00:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/17902 Though notebook owners have been able to wirelessly video chat on Skype for years now, the lack of standalone video phones usually made teleconferencing with anyone who wasn’t tech-savvy more trouble than it was worth. Asus took one step in cracking open the exclusive world of video chat to everyone on Thursday by announcing the AiGuru SV1, a standalone video phone that eases the woes of connecting.The SV1 connects to Skype via an internal Wi-Fi connection and uses an intuitive icon-based interface to supposedly make video calling intuitive and simple enough for anyoneRead | Permalink | Linking Blogs Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:55:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/17339 Esquire magazine, a long-time staple publication devoted to…well, OK, we don't know what, but it seems to involve glamor photos of female celebrities, pop culture, and alcohol—is making new play to capture eyeballs on magazine racks across America: 100,000 copies of the publication's September 2008 issue will be distributed to newsstands with a flashing, battery-powered cover featuring E-Ink technology, the same stuff used to drive the Amazon Kindle and other devices. The cover will (somewhat belatedly) proclaim "The 21st Century Begins Now"…at least into the batteries run out after a few months.Esquire editor in chie Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/16436 It seems as if everywhere you look on games shelves, there’s something to do with The Sims. It’s been incredibly successful – but just how successful has been revealed by game maker EA, who revealed that the game has sold 100 million units. That’s not as much as all the Mario games put together (that totals over 200 million), but still a very respectable figure. Then again, The Sims are available in 22 different languages and 60 countries, giving plenty of people the chance to buy. It’s also on huge online community that racks up over four million unique visitors each month – massive by any standards. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:00:00 -0400 http://www.ecoustics.com/dt/news/16245 Microsoft's contested Open Office XML (OOXML) document format has received fast-track approval by the International Standards Organization (ISO), with 75 percent of eligible participants voting to fast-track the standard, and only 14 percent voting against it. ISO will now proceed to publish OOXML as an international standard alongside the competing Open Document Format (ODF).In theory, standardized documents format should offer a wide range of file interoperability between competing applications: someone could create a document in say, OpenOffice or Apple's Pages, for instance, s Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:30:00 -0400