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Todd sounds out Stephen White from Gracenote, which provides technology services to the music and video industries. You might not have heard of Gracenote, but if you've used iTunes, you've used a Gracenote service called MusicID which autocompletes the track listings when you rip a CD. Starting out from the original CDDB (Compact Disc DataBase), Gracenote now has relationships many key
Todd listens to Mary Semcken, VP of Marketing for Able Planet, which has an innovative technology for reducing the decibel level of headphones without reducing the richness of the sound. Amazingly, Able Planet has won a CES Innovation Award every year from 2006 through 2010. Mary shows off three new headsets, the first in military-style colours so that you can
Looking back, the conversion of GPS from a military weapon to a ubiquitous consumer gadget is one of the defining technologies of the last twenty years and Magellan has been at the forefront of GPS technology since 1986, so it knows a thing or two about getting from A to B. Andy McCaskey gets some pointers on the direction of
Steve Stanzione of D-Link shows off a couple of their latest products to Andy McCaskey, including the Boxee Box. First up is the Whole Home Router 1000, an 11n wireless router with an interesting design - it's a black cylinder. The design isn't just a pretty face, it encapsulates six aerials that create a steerable array that can focus the
Solid-State Drives (SSDs) haven't ousted spinning hard drives from the average PC, but they have made significant inroads in the netbook market where the performance of the SSD compensates for the weaker performance of the CPU. Andy McCaskey talks to Larry O'Connor, founder and CEO of Other World Computing (OWC) on how OWC got started, what makes OWC special and
Andy McCaskey invites Ian Collins of Clickfree into the booth to talk about ClickFree's automatic backup solution. I think all of us know that we're supposed to backup our hard drives and memory cards, but how many of us actually do it? Not many going by the number of times friends have phoned me up to see if I can
Andy McCaskey investigates Debbie Shuey from Cernium Corp and the Archerfish Solo, an intelligent video surveillance system. Most video surveillance systems can detect motion, but they do it indiscriminately. Trees blowing in the wind are as likely to trigger an alert as a burglar scaling a fence. This is where Archerfish Solo is different, in that it can identify the