Nearly Half in U.S. Have Broadband at Home
With increasing use among minorities and the poor, nearly half of Americans have broadband Internet connections at home, according to an annual survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.The growth rate of adoption has slowed, though, reports Computerworld, and the United States fell to 15th in broadband penetration in the most recent rankings ....
Sprint Dumps Too-Needy Customers
Getting dumped hurts, true. But getting dumped by your cell phone company?Sprint sent out letters June 29 notifying what it called “a small minority” of needy customers that their service will be canceled by the end of July because they made too many calls to customer service, according to News.com.
Laser Could Speed up Hard Drives
Researchers in the Netherlands say they have found a way to potentially make magnetic hard drives 100 times faster.As reported in ScienceNow, the method uses ultra-rapid pulses of polarized light to heat areas on a hard disk and also uses the light to change polarity of the same areas, ZDNet reports.
Review: Giga-Byte Radeon X600 XT The Giga-Byte Radeon X600 XT 128MB PCI-E video card performed above and beyond expectations. Through a price analysis one can easily see that this card is indeed the "value performer" it promises to be. It's impossible to look around and find a better performing card for under $150 - and quite honestly, it performs well above that price point.
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Review: LeadTek WinFast PX6200 LeadTek has put together a decent little card here, but if you're looking for performance, you're just going to have to pay more.The Winfast PX6200 doesn't get good scores for "coolness" (it's not flashy), nor does it score high in performance (it's not a performance card). The card does score nicely in value and reliability. There's an obvious market for entry level PCI-E video cards, and this card fits the bill nicely.
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Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 146GB This 146GB 15,000RPM Ultra 320 SCSI drive is as fast and as reliable as it gets for hard drives. It boasts 30% more IOPS and more than 20% faster response times than 3.5-inch 10K drives, in addition to the industry's highest reliability, with 1,400,000 hour MTBF. If you're a PC professional looking for the fastest and most reliable hard drives on the market, the Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 146GB ST3146854LW has got to be at the top of your shopping list.
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HDTV - "The Wait is Nearly Over" Internet HDTV expert Greg Gibson writes up an article about the growing trends in the HDTV markets for the quality HD chipsets and new televisions hitting the marketing in 2005. Read why you should be buying a set soon.
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Review: Newpoint Power Blocker 2 If you're the person that spent $3,000 on your home theater and $10 on your surge protector, please slap yourself on the back of the head and immediately purchase the Newpoint Power Blocker 2 surge protector. The price is a fraction of what you spent on your electrical products and comes with the features that virtually guarantee that the products will never blow out.
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HDTV Q&A With our HDTV Expert NextGenElectronics' resident HDTV expert Greg Gibson answers your questions about HDTV and what you should do about this exciting emerging technology. In this April 05, 2005 edition, Mr. Gibson answers questions from our readers about buying refirbished sets and the dangers of LCD technology.
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Review: Motorola A630 Cell Phone For the student or professional who needs a cell phone that can literally do it all for a reasonable price the Motorola A630 may just be your ideal fit. The ease of using both the external and internal displays makes the phone all the more appealing. For the right price, packaged with some great features, you might have found your next cell phone.
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Review: OCZ ModStream PSU The OCZ Technology ModStream PSU is one of the better power supply units we've taken a look at here at NGE. It's a beautifully designed piece of equipment that comes highly recommended to bring up the looks of your case in addition to boasting the popular advanced cable management system.
With increasing use among minorities and the poor, nearly half of Americans have broadband Internet connections at home, according to an annual survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.The growth rate of adoption has slowed, though, reports Computerworld, and the United States fell to 15th in broadband penetration in the most recent rankings ....
Sprint Dumps Too-Needy Customers
Getting dumped hurts, true. But getting dumped by your cell phone company?Sprint sent out letters June 29 notifying what it called “a small minority” of needy customers that their service will be canceled by the end of July because they made too many calls to customer service, according to News.com.
Laser Could Speed up Hard Drives
Researchers in the Netherlands say they have found a way to potentially make magnetic hard drives 100 times faster.As reported in ScienceNow, the method uses ultra-rapid pulses of polarized light to heat areas on a hard disk and also uses the light to change polarity of the same areas, ZDNet reports.
Review: Giga-Byte Radeon X600 XT The Giga-Byte Radeon X600 XT 128MB PCI-E video card performed above and beyond expectations. Through a price analysis one can easily see that this card is indeed the "value performer" it promises to be. It's impossible to look around and find a better performing card for under $150 - and quite honestly, it performs well above that price point.·
Review: LeadTek WinFast PX6200 LeadTek has put together a decent little card here, but if you're looking for performance, you're just going to have to pay more.The Winfast PX6200 doesn't get good scores for "coolness" (it's not flashy), nor does it score high in performance (it's not a performance card). The card does score nicely in value and reliability. There's an obvious market for entry level PCI-E video cards, and this card fits the bill nicely.
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Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 146GB This 146GB 15,000RPM Ultra 320 SCSI drive is as fast and as reliable as it gets for hard drives. It boasts 30% more IOPS and more than 20% faster response times than 3.5-inch 10K drives, in addition to the industry's highest reliability, with 1,400,000 hour MTBF. If you're a PC professional looking for the fastest and most reliable hard drives on the market, the Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 146GB ST3146854LW has got to be at the top of your shopping list.
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HDTV - "The Wait is Nearly Over" Internet HDTV expert Greg Gibson writes up an article about the growing trends in the HDTV markets for the quality HD chipsets and new televisions hitting the marketing in 2005. Read why you should be buying a set soon.·
Review: Newpoint Power Blocker 2 If you're the person that spent $3,000 on your home theater and $10 on your surge protector, please slap yourself on the back of the head and immediately purchase the Newpoint Power Blocker 2 surge protector. The price is a fraction of what you spent on your electrical products and comes with the features that virtually guarantee that the products will never blow out.
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HDTV Q&A With our HDTV Expert NextGenElectronics' resident HDTV expert Greg Gibson answers your questions about HDTV and what you should do about this exciting emerging technology. In this April 05, 2005 edition, Mr. Gibson answers questions from our readers about buying refirbished sets and the dangers of LCD technology.
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Review: Motorola A630 Cell Phone For the student or professional who needs a cell phone that can literally do it all for a reasonable price the Motorola A630 may just be your ideal fit. The ease of using both the external and internal displays makes the phone all the more appealing. For the right price, packaged with some great features, you might have found your next cell phone.
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Review: OCZ ModStream PSU The OCZ Technology ModStream PSU is one of the better power supply units we've taken a look at here at NGE. It's a beautifully designed piece of equipment that comes highly recommended to bring up the looks of your case in addition to boasting the popular advanced cable management system.
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