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Dell 20 in E207WFP Wide Flat Panel Monitor » for $209 at Dell.com
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Dell Dimension E521 AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+, 2GB RAM, 500GB, 16x DVD+/-RW Drive, 19" E197FP LCD (Flat Panel), 1yr At-Home Warranty, Windows Home Premium » for $799 at Dell.com
| Basic daily tasks, Intense multimedia applications, Enhanced video editing, Digital photography, Web content creation
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Dell Dimension C521, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3600+, 512MB, 80GB, 16X DVD-ROM Drive, 17" LCD (Flat Panel), 1yr Warranty, Windows XP Home » for $399 at Dell.com
| Basic daily tasks, Intense multimedia applications, Enhanced video editing, Digital photography, Web content creation
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Compaq Presario c502us, Celeron M 440, 1.86GHz, 15.4" WXGA, 512MB, 80GB, DVD / CD-RW Combo Drive, 802.11b/g, Windows Vista Home Basic » for $449.99 at CompUSA.com
| For those seeking reliable mobile performance technology that will enable high-speed wireless internet connections for surfing, e-mail and more, the Compaq Presario c500 series Notebook PC provides proven mobile technologies and easy-to-use digital entertainment features. Optimized for mobile performance, its 6.6-pound design is powered by Intel® mobile processors and supports high-speed WiFi 802.11b/g WLAN options.
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Dell Inspiron E1505 Pentium® dual-core T2060, 1.6GHz, 15.4" WXGA TrueLife, 1GB RAM, 120GB, 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability, 802.11b/g, 1yr Warranty, Windows Vista Premium » for $699 at Dell.com
| New from Dell featuring an Intel® CoreTM Duo processor and high-end graphics options for an optimal mobile entertainment experience.
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Dell Inspiron E1405 Pentium® dual-core T2060, 1.60GHz, 14.1" WXGA, 1GB RAM, 160GB, 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability, 802.11b/g, Windows Vista Home Premium, 1yr Warranty » for $749 at Dell.com
| Its 14.1-inch widescreen display is packed into a compact design, so you can comfortably use your notebook on planes, trains or anywhere space is at a premium.
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HP dv2000t, Intel Core Duo T2250 1.73 GHz, 14.1" WXGA, 2GB RAM, 120GB, 8X DVD+/-R/RW w/Double Layer Support, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, HP Imprint Finish with Integrated Microphone + Webcam, Windows Vista Home Premium » for $809.99 at HPShopping.com
| They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but you're likely to fall in love with the HP Pavilion dv2000t at first sight, before discovering its inner beauty. The infinitely cool HP Imprint finish on this 14.1" notebook makes a statement, and Intel's Centrino technology makes it as powerful as it is pretty. At 5.3 lb. and 1" thick, the dv2000t is destined to become one of your take-everywhere essentials.
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HP dv6000t, Intel Core Duo T2250 1.73 GHz, 15.4" WXGA, 2GB RAM, 120GB, 8X DVD+/-R/RW w/Double Layer Support, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, HP Imprint Finish with Integrated Microphone + Webcam, Windows Vista Home Premium » for $819.99 at HPShopping.com
| This versatile system can be configured to fit meets most users' computing and mobile entertainment needs. Featuring the exclusive HP Imprint finish (optional), it's equally stylish in your home office or an Internet café.
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04/13/07 01:00 CST
HP Pavilion dv9000z, AMD Turion(TM) 64 Mobile MK-36, 2.0 GHz, 17.0" WXGA, 2GB RAM, 120GB, LightScribe DVD+/-RW w/Double Layer, 802.11b/g, HP Imprint Finish/Microphone/Webcam, Windows Vista Home Premium » for $899.99 at HPShopping.com
| More is better! Get twice the fun with the HP Pavilion dv9000z Entertainment Notebook PC when you select dual core processors from AMD and dual hard drives. This 17" notebook is a multimedia powerhouse; it has a full-size keyboard that includes a numeric keypad, which is great for high-volume data entry as well as gaming.
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04/13/07 01:00 CST
HP tx1000z tablet PC, AMD Turion(TM) 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-52, 1.6GHz, 12.1" WXGA BrightView w/Integrated Touch-screen, 2GB RAM, 120GB,LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD+/-RW w/Double Layer, 5-in-1 Card reader, 802.11b/g, HP Imprint Finish + Fingerprint Reader + Webcam » for $1234.99 at HPShopping.com
| ultraportable, lightweight (just 3.95 lb.), and powerful new HP Pavilion tx1000z Notebook PC features a high-definition, 12.1" BrightView display that opens for standard use or conveniently twists for viewing files and movies in cramped spaces. The optional touchscreen converts your notebook into a tablet PC. Cloaked in HP's elegant Imprint finish, it's also packed with other optional features, including a fingerprint reader.
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04/13/07 01:00 CST
Casio EX-Z60 Exilim 6 Megapixel Digital Camera
3x Optical Zoom / 2.5" LCD Screen / Still and Movie modes / 8MB Memory and Slot for SD Card / PictBridge / USB / BLACK ... more info
J&R Item # CAS EX-Z60BK
Mfr. Part # EXZ60BKDBB
3x Optical Zoom / 2.5" LCD Screen / Still and Movie modes / 8MB Memory and Slot for SD Card / PictBridge / USB / BLACK
The simple to use EX-Z60 offers 6.0 Megapixel images and a 3x Optical Zoom packed into a slim body enhanced by rounded edges. The camera features a large, easy-to-see 2.5” LCD Monitor as well as the Anti Shake DSP, which along with the Auto Macro and Quick Shutter functions considerably reduces the incidence of blurred images due to moving subjects or shaky hands, ensuring that beautiful images can be created and enjoyed by anyone. The EX-Z60 comes with many other convenient and User-friendly features, including Easy Mode, a simplified camera menu that helps make taking pictures (still and movie) easier and more fun. The Best Shot button enables convenient, one-touch access to 33 shooting preset modes offering a wide range of camera settings for taking hassle-free photos every time. And not just still photos, you can also shoot movies. Bundled Accessories: Rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery, Lithium-ion battery charger, AC power cord, USB cable, AV cable, Strap, CD-ROM 6.0 megapixel high Resolution CCD and 3x Optical zoom Lens / 4x Digital Resolution / Still images can have up to 2816 x 2112 resolution / Movies with Sound up to 640x480 VGA resolution Large easy-to-see 2.5 inch TFT LCD display The Exilim Engine features the Anti Shake DSP, which reduces blurring Unit Dimensions: 3.75" (W) x 2.39" (H) x .78" (D) (excluding projections; .64" at thinnest point) / Unit Weight: Approx. 4.16 oz (excluding battery and accessories) Once powered on, the camera is ready to take pictures in approximately 1.4 seconds Built-in multimode electronic-flash Rapid Flash enables three consecutive, high speed flash photos in only one second / Soft Flash prevents over Exposure when taking shots in Macro Records movies at up to 640 x 480 (30 fps) with sound (integrated Mono MIC and speaker) Uses proprietary Casio lithium-ion rechargeable battery (included); 180 shots per charge Input/Output Terminals USB / AV connector // USB: USB 2.0 (Full-Speed) Self-timer: 10 seconds, 2 seconds, Triple Self-timer Focus Modes: Auto Focus, Macro mode, Pan Focus, Infinity mode, manual focus Exposure Control - Light metering: Multi-pattern, center-weighted, spot by CCD / Exposure: Program AE Accepts Optional SD or MMC Memory cards (we advise buying an optional 256MB or higher for practical use of EX-Z60
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Product Specifications
| Megapixels | | 6.0 |
| Lens | | Zoom Lens |
| Storage Media Type | | SD Secure Digital or MMC Multimedia Card |
| Body Type | | Compact |
| Optical Zoom | | 3x |
| Digital Zoom | | 4x |
| LCD Viewer | | 2.5 Inch |
| Still Picture Capture | | Yes |
| Video Movie Capture | | VGA - Up to 640x480 |
| Electronic Flash | | Built-in |
| Sound | | Yes |
| Self Timer | | Yes |
| Anti Shake Mode | | Yes |
| Built-in Memory | | 8MB |
| Compatible with Windows PC | | Yes |
| Compatible with Macintosh | | Yes |
| PictBridge | | Yes |
| Manufacturer's Warranty - Hardware | | 1 Year |
Consumer Alert: Massive Virus Outbreak
A huge virus surge of a new Storm Worm variant is flooding e-mail inboxes and evading many antivirus programs. In my tests of 31 programs, only four reported a virus.
Postini, an e-mail security company, says that over the last 24 hours it has seen about 55 million virus e-mails, about 60 times the daily average. The first e-mails had romance-themed subjects: "A kiss so gentle," or "I dream of you," for instance. The latest batch attempts to fool readers--with subjects like "Worm Alert!" or "Virus Alert!"--into thinking they are already infected and need to apply a supplied patch--an attached virus.
Here is the image, with embedded text, from the actual virus-laden e-mail PC World received.We received one such virus e-mail here at PC World, titled "Worm Alert!" The e-mail included a text message embedded in an image, which makes it easier to evade antispam tools. The attachment was a password-protected archive named 'patch-7594.zip,' with the password contained in the image's text.
Outwitting Antivirus
At 2:30 p.m. I uploaded the attachment to Virustotal.com, which uses many different antivirus programs to scan uploads. Of 31 programs, only 4--ClamAV, eSafe, Kaspersky, and Symantec--reported a virus.
Here are the results of the virus scan PC World ran, showing how few antivirus programs picked up the problem.According to Postini, double-clicking the attachment unleashes a succession of modern malware attack methods. First, a rootkit will attempt to hide the malware from both human and antivirus scans. Then the worm will attempt to disable antivirus programs. Next, the worm connects to a custom peer-to-peer network used by the worm's creators to issue commands. Those commands might be to download additional malware, send spam, or transmit personal data stolen from the victim computer.
Finally, to spread itself further, the worm searches for e-mail addresses on the victim machine and sends itself to any discovered addresses. The worm is self-mutating, according to Postini, changing e-mail subject lines, attachment file names, and malware characteristics in order to evade antivirus and antispam programs.
Cloudmark, another e-mail security company, says it sees similar outbreak numbers. Today's flood is ten times as large as one this past Sunday, which also involved the virulent Storm Worm.
A Growing Storm
First seen in January, the Storm Worm was originally named for subject lines such as "230 dead as storm batters europe." It created its own virtual storm with 42,000 different variants over a 12-day period, according to security company Commtouch. The huge number of variations was meant to confound traditional signature-based antivirus protection, which must know about each variant to protect against it.
To stay safe from today's ongoing worm surge, exercise extreme caution with any unexpected e-mail attachments, even if they seem to come from someone you know. Also, be sure your antivirus software is up-to-date. Though most antivirus programs are currently missing at least some of the variants, the companies will update their signatures as the attack progresses.
Apple puts new operating system on hold for iPhone
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Apple Inc. said on Thursday it is delaying the release of its new Leopard operating system in order to get its much-ballyhooed iPhone to market in June as promised.
Macintosh computers in trademark theatrical style at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco in June. Software engineers and quality assurance teams were shifted from working on Leopard to crafting and testing the iPhone, according to the Cupertino, California-based company.
"iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price," Apple said in a statement.
"Life often presents tradeoffs and, in this case, we're sure we've made the right one."
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs in January unveiled the iPhone, a new mobile phone that can also be used as a digital music player and camera.
Apple said its heralded Leopard operating system will be finished by June but will still be in the testing phase. Leopard should ship in October, according to Apple.
"If they were going to slip a project, it was better they slip Leopard rather than iPhone," said analyst Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research.
"It is not likely to be a big issue at all. It does tend to be a little embarrassing for them, but that is in the intrinsic nature of trying to deliver a complex operating system and the iPhone simultaneously."
Macintosh computers represent less than five percent of the global market and owners tend toward cultish loyalty that makes it likely they will tolerate a delay in the release of Leopard despite any disappointment, analysts said.
The iPhone system is built on the Leopard, or Mac OS X, operating system so it is natural for the projects to be interdependent at Apple, according to Gartenberg.
"Any time you do a complex operating system release and you give a target date you are bound to run the risk of missing it," Gartenberg said. "These kinds of things are inevitable and, knowing Apple's track record, it wouldn't surprise me if they shipped Leopard before October."
Comcast to buy Fandango movie tickets site
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. cable operator Comcast Corp. said on Wednesday it will buy movie tickets site Fandango as part of a new online business that will offer viewers a single pipeline for video entertainment.
Financial terms of the deal were not furnished.
The new entertainment site, called Fancast.com, will debut in the summer and let consumers search and watch online video. Unlike Comcast.net, its broadband Internet portal for subscribers, Fancast will be available to all U.S. viewers.
Down the line, Fancast will not only help consumers find what to watch online and on TV, but also serve as a conduit to purchase or record it as well, Comcast executives said.
"Fancast is born of our belief that our consumers generally know there's a lot of content out there but don't know where to find it," Amy Banse, president of Comcast Interactive Media, told Reuters. She described the new Business as a super-charged electronic program guide.
Fancast is Comcast's answer to the surge in Internet media via the likes of Google Inc.'s video sharing site YouTube and Apple Inc.'s download service iTunes.
Traditional media companies are attempting to court a new generation of viewers who split their leisure time watching television with surfing the Internet and playing video games.
Y Combinator’s WriteWith Launches - Collaborative Blogging
We 
mentioned WriteWith in a roundup post last month on new Y Combinator startups. They’ve created a group writing platform that falls somewhere between a blogging platform, a wiki, and an online Word clone. The best part of it is that it works with the existing Wordpress and Typepad blogging software. Current blogging software is rather kludgy when it comes to working with other writers on posts. To collaborate on a document in Wordpress, you have to share a draft link with a friend and also create an account for that person. And even then, you only have one version of the document, causing old versions to be lost by new revisions. WriteWith may eventually change that for blogs and any other online publishing platform.
Background
Two of the founders originally got the idea for the system when writing at their college newspapers, the Stanford Daily and Binghamton’s Pipedream. They wanted to find a better way to move articles from thought to the printed word, while handling revisions made by as many as 6 people along the way. Their first product was a newsroom, complete with administrative features for managing an articles lifecycle. That product has been used by 15 college newspapers across the US and Canada, including Stanford and the University of Alberta, which runs a national newswire. Licenses for other enterprise content management applications for newspapers, like Managing Editor
The WriteWith team then stepped back, re-evaluated the publishing business and started designing for pixels over print. The new version is more flexible than their newsroom product and tailored specifically for managing collaboratively edited text online. And when I say text, it really is just for text. WriteWith’s text editor is taken straight out of the Dojo ajax library and doesn’t display complex WYSIWYG layout information. However, WriteWith’s focus is on editing, not the editor.
Collaboration
There’s a growing need for collaborative editing platforms as blogging becomes a more established business and the ranks of their writers grow. WriteWith may be the solution that fills that need.
Payday for Red Swoosh: $15 million from Akamai
Akamai has acquired Red Swoosh for $15 million in a stock for stock transaction. We covered Red Swoosh last year when they launched a free, ad supported version of its file serving technology. Red Swoosh uses bittorent-like technology to quickly transfer files using peer to peer technology. Some companies are starting to use bittorent directly for file sharing, however, which questions the need for something like Red Swoosh. See this post on the BBC’s useage of Zudeo and bittorent to deliver files to users. Pando, another startup, also overlaps a bit with Red Swoosh.
This brings to a close the long and dramatic Red Swoosh saga. The company was founded back in 2001, but went through some troubled years during the crash. They recapitalized the company in 2005 and raised an additional $1.7 million from Mark Cuban.
Interesting fact about the company: Red Swoosh was in the process of changing offices in 2006 and took the opportunity to “offshore itself” temporarily - they moved the six person company to Krabi, Thailand for a month while they built a new product.VisiblePath Is A Lot Like LinkedIn, Except It’s Useful
One of the better features of LinkedIn is the relationship map that shows your friends, and their friends, and their friends, and so on. It is a useful tool when you need to talk to someone you don’t know directly, or get information about them - just find a path through mutual friends. But we all know what sucks about LinkedIn. Contacts are sorted in only a single list, and there is no way to signal that one person is a closer contact than another person. Also, there is significant social pressure to simply accept anyone that asks into your network. My LinkedIn contact list is littered with people that I don’t know and that I accepted as contacts simply to avoid turning them, whoever they are, into enemies.
Silicon Valley-based VisiblePath
VisiblePath obtains the information on who you interact with via a 6 MB Outlook plugin. Each connection is graded on a percentage scale that strengthens from frequent communication and atrophies over time unless you are emailing or meeting with the person regularly. The company is also creating ways to track interactions beyond Outlook, through phone calls and instant messages.
VisiblePath is engaging and insanely useful. It’s far superior to LinkedIn in measuring personal relationships, and it’s actually quite interesting to see just how close some of the people in your life actually are to you.
Here’s a look at how it works.
Setting Up Your Network
To “separate the wheat from the chaff” as CEO Antony Brydon stresses, Visible Path requires a certain level of interaction to establish a link in your network. People can’t establish connections to you in their network by simply emailing you or adding your email to their address book. You have to exchange emails, carry out meetings, or provide a deep level of contact information on their vCard to show a real relationship. Relationships wax and wane over time based on the length your relationship with a contact as well as the volume and momentum of emails exchanged and meetings organized.
The people you interact with on a regular bases are your first degree contacts. Their contacts are also added to your network, linked by the chain of other contacts that connect you together. The strength of your connection to these people varies by the number of people along the chain and the strength of each chain. Your connection strength with contacts varies based on interaction, but can be bumped up to 100% by formally connecting to them. Taking the strength of your connections into account makes it possible to have a stronger connection with someone 4 people removed than 2 people removed from you if the connections between those 4 people are strong enough. That’s something LinkedIn doesn’t do.
Pinging Your Network
If you find an interesting contact, you can request an introduction, or more information on that person from the people along the chain. Information requests must be approved as they are passed down the chain. Each member of the chain can add their own input about the contact, but the last person has the final say on sending the information back to you or not. Introductions are handled in a similar way, requiring each person in the chain to approve the request before your message reaches the final connection.
The company is backed by a total of $22.7 million in series A and B financing from Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures, and Integral Capital. Esther Dyson is also an investor.
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