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2009

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ACR Electronics – Digital Experience 2009

ACR Electronics caught our eye because we had a huge response to survival beacon products from last year. Imagine you are lost beyond hope and you are in need of a rescue. Pull out your ACR Electronic Survival Beacon and within 15 minutes authorities will know where you are worldwide.

Ecoupled – Digital Experience 2009

Ecoupled is working towards making Wireless Electrical Power a reality. The team at Fulton Innovation demonstrated a number of devices like a Pan that would heat on a conductive surface or a Blender that would blend without being plugged in. Sounds almost to good to be true.

HTC Fuze – Digitial Experience 2009

Jeffrey Powers from Geekazine.com was totally pumped to find the folks from HTC at Digital Experience. Jeff is a big fan of HTC phones and I must admit that I was taken by their line of phones as well.

GNC-CES-2009-Novatel MiFi

Imagine walking around with a WiFI bubble all around you? Imagine that you could have 2 or 3 devices on your person hooked up to that WiFi Bubble. Well it is soon to be possible with the release of the Novatel MiFi. This is going to be an amazing device and opens up all kinds of opportunities not only for new media folks but also companies that want to build applications to it.

GNC-CES-2009-Pacemaker

When I first saw this product from Pacemaker I assumed it was something I would buy for my kid. But as I saw how complex it was, in that you essentially do a DJ gig with this then I realized these folks had created something pretty cool. The price is not cheap either.

Griffin Aircurve – Digital Experience 2009

Griffin is pretty famous for their iTrip but the had some pretty cool and innovative products at CES this year. We caught up with them at Digital Experience.

GNC-CES-2009-Eclipse AVN4430

The Folks at Eclipse seem have that extra edge when it comes to automotive car entertainment systems. The standard car radio has left the show floor and we now have interactive media centers with built in GPS systems and a whole lot more. Check out the Video.

What’s Worse than Not finding a Job? Monster.com Hacked.

Apparently Monster.com has been hacked into and Millions of profiles have been compromised. While they didn't get items like credit cards, they do have enough information to send you convincing emails to try and scam you out of money. But the most disturbing news is that this is the second time this month the company's data was compromised. Heartland Payment

Traffic Shaping By Any Other Name is Still…Traffic Shaping

Cox Communications has announced that they are going to test a traffic shaping, er, Internet Congestion Reduction Tool, in Kansas and Arkansas over the next few months, with hopes of deploying their traffic shaping, er, Internet Congestion Reduction Tool to all users by the end of the year. It was discovered that Cox was using the same type of traffic

Got a Profile at Monster? Better Change Your Password

With so many people out of work and looking, using any online resource they have available, it is important to know that Monster.com has been hacked twice in the last six months. Users names, birthdates, contact information, and passwords amongst other information is now in the wrong hands. I have had a profile at Monster.com for many years, although I

What direction for the corporate desktop?

I have seen a number of mentions of a new thin client terminal by a company called Pano Logic. Their claim is to be the "future of desktop computing", to which they are focused more on the corporate than the home desktop. Thin client is essentially where corporate computing began, with all compute power centralised and users running from dumb

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