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Desktop and notebook PC maker Lenovo and Napster announced an agreement on Friday that will have Napster provide buyers of Lenovo PCs with a free 14-day trial to Napster’s Napster To Go digital music service. The offer is valid for most of the models Lenovo sells in North America, and will give the customers access to more than 6 million songs and audio tracks in the Napster MP3 store introduced earlier this year.
As subscribers, the buyers will also be able to access Napster To Go’s ad-free radio stations and playlists put together by music industry professionals. They can also transfer the songs they select onto compatible MP3 players and music phones without paying an extra download charge.
Outside of this deal, Napster charges about $10 per month for its subscription service, and is offering a free 7-day trial.
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ZoneAlarm is the granddaddy of all personal firewalls. It was on the market before most of us ever heard the phrase “personal firewall.” ZoneAlarm’s security suite was showing its age, however, with a dated user interface. Thanks to a comprehensive makeover, the main display in ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009 (also known as ZoneAlarm Internet Security 8.0) has an entirely new look. Once you get past that façade, though, things are much the same as in version 7.0. In some areas, ZoneAlarm actually seems to be losing ground by not advancing fast enough. Even so, it’s still among the best security suites. It costs $69.95 for three licenses or $49.95 for one, but for a limited time you can get the three-license version for the one-license price.
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During the CEDIA 2008, Hitachi showcased several new ultra-thin Plasma HDTVs that we introduced a few months ago.
There’s 4 different sizes: 32-Inch, 37-inch, 42-Inch and 47-Inch. All of these Full HD PDP are now available.
Hitachi also unveiled a 50-Inch TVs, but unfortunately we don’t have further information. What we can say is this entire lineup is thin of 38mm.
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Today T-Mobile USA announced that the Sony Ericsson TM506 is now available for purchase for US$79.99 after a $50 rebate when purchased with a 2 year service agreement. The TM506 is the first Sony Ericsson cellphone to be offered by T-Mobile USA in quite some time, and is also the first ever HSDPA 3G phone that T-Mobile has offered.
T-Mobile is currently in the process of rolling out its 3G network. New York was the first city to see the benefits of the high-speed access, back in May, and Las Vegas users got the green light early last month. The company intends to add at least 20 additional markets to the 3G network before the end of the year.
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The RSVP2 also incorporates ISF Day/Night Modes.
A feature unique to the RSVP2 is a “Color Gamut” menu with options for Wide, RS1, or RS2. This enables the operator to easily shift the output color space of the processor to match the SMPTE-C broadcast and telecine mastering standards most commonly used in production today. Color space is remapped inside the processor with a 3×3 “Look Up Table” (LUT) through a series of complex algorithms utilizing 14-bit processing to ensure accurate color reproduction on either the DLA-RS1X or DLA-RS2U without additional contouring in the image.
Key Features:
- HDMI 1.3 Inputs (4) that process up to 1080p-24/25/50/60
- THX Certification
- ISF Preset Color Gamut Control Day/Night Modes
- Two Programmable 12V triggers
- Upgradeable to SD/HD-SDI Input
- Analog HD Transcoding and Processing
- Flexible Input and Output Aspect Ratio Controls
- Display profiles for multiple display, framerate, and image shift configurations (10)
- 10-bit, 300 MHz Instrumentation Quality DACs (2x Oversampling for 1080p)
- Full-frame Timebase Correction
- High performance, multi-standard video decoder (10-bit: 480i/576i; 12-bit: 480p/576p/720p/1080i)
- High-quality super-adaptive comb filter with 2D Y/C separation Suggested list price* for this model: $3,695.00 at jvc.com
CalliGrapher is an award winning natural handwriting recognition software that supports all handwriting styles - cursive, PRINT or MIXed. In addition to handwriting recognition, CalliGrapher offers PenCommander (an easy-to-use PC navigation tool), ink color selection and customizable ink width, and a “Quick Correct” window for fast correction as the user writes.
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CalliGrapher analyzes pen strokes written in any application window or on the designated Write Pad area, converts the pen strokes into text and sends the recognized text to a target application. Employing advanced fuzzy logic and neural net techniques; CalliGrapher recognizes arbitrary alphanumeric strings as well as words from its integrated dictionary.
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It maybe the best interest for most of us to trial run Google Chrome first release test platform before putting it on a mission critical system. Carsten Knobloch from Germany has a created a solution just for this purpose - to fire up the browser directly from a USB stick. You simply unzip the package and start Chroming. The portable Google browser weighs at a mere 11MB, and additionally isolates web history, cookies and cache on the /profile/ folder on the stick. Knobloch’s Chrome reportedly has been tested on XP SP3 and Vista SP1.
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The service isn’t free though like the offering for the iPhone. The Boingo service will cost $7.95 per month with no per-minute or charges per megabyte of data sent or received. The service will be available in Europe as well.
“An increasing number of smartphones with Wi-Fi capability are now available in the market, giving consumers the option to access their favorite phone applications over a fast and inexpensive connection,” said Jonathan Mendelson, general manager of Boingo Mobile. “Sony Ericsson customers can now experience the broadband speed and great online experience provided by Boingo Mobile Wi-Fi.”