Alienware Area 51 m9750 Review

Available at launch in either black or white (more
color choices will follow), the 9.5 pound m9750 uses the same chassis
as the m9700, complete with ribbed lid and glowing silver alien head.
The 17.1 inch 1920 x 1200 pixel widescreen is one of the glossier ones
we've seen and is prone to reflection in bright environments. (But who
games with the lights on, right?)



Alienware offers a Blu-ray drive option to put the gorgeous screen (and
Nvidia Purevideo HD technology) to work. The display can handle full
1080p HD resolution, and high-def movies showed visual pop and
excellent detail in shadow areas. The screen's good viewing-angle
performance makes the m9750 ideal to share (again, just watch for
reflections from lights and windows). Sound quality from the 2.1 sound
system was better than what most laptops deliver, and volume was
adequate. However, we recommend adding a set of powered speakers for
maximizing your gaming or movie-watching pleasure. Alienware Area-51 m9750 Review by LAPTOP Magazine Linked by LT Hacker

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Review: Samsung R20

When it comes to notebooks, Samsung may be overshadowed by some of the
larger far east manufacturers but we've been impressed with almost all
the machines they've released of late. The Samsung R20 is another great
machine that manages to mix portability with a price that can't really
be ignored.



At £550 (inc. VAT), it offers fantastic value for money, as it
comes with the latest specification comprising an Intel Core 2 Duo
T2250, which runs at 1.73GHz.



This chip may not be the fastest in the range but it’s a
dual-core chip that packs plenty of power. It’s paired with
1024MB of memory, which really helps things tick over nicely. Overall,
we found that it handled everything we threw at it with a certain
degree of style. You can seriously multi-task on the notebook and not
see any significant slow down. Samsung R20 laptop Review - Pocket-lint.co.uk Linked by LT Hacker

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Fujitsu LifeBook S2210 Review

With nearly every laptop manufacturer having abandoned standard-aspect
displays for the roomier widescreen format, it's a bit of a shock to
see a square-shaped screen these days. And yet here comes the Fujitsu
LifeBook S2210's boxy 13.3-inch display, which joins a few ThinkPads in
making a final stand for this dying breed. While that's not enough to
dismiss the S2210 outright, its fine array of components and features
don't compensate for the short battery life.



Weighing in at four pounds, the S2210 is light enough to carry all day,
and it feels like it can last a long time. Measuring 11.5 x 9.4 x 1.3
inches, it runs slightly narrower than most contemporary widescreen
thin-and-lights. When the lid is open, however, the system is nearly
two inches taller than its widescreen rivals, which will make it more
difficult to use on an airplane tray table.



The S2210's keyboard is mediocre; the keys are full-sized but felt
somewhat cramped and not as firm as we'd like. The touchpad is of
adequate size, however, and the biometric fingerprint sensor between
the mouse buttons doubles as a vertical scroll button for quickly
navigating through documents and Web pages. Fujitsu LifeBook S2210 Review by LAPTOP Magazine Linked by LT Hacker

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Review: HP Compaq nx7300

The HP NX series laptops all have very similar designs. The lid is a
dark gray with the staple HP logo in the middle, the rest of the laptop
is black. I personally like the look; it’s simple,
modern-looking, and professional. Black never goes out of style, just
ask Steve Jobs. The lid is built solidly, there is no looseness when
you open or close the lid. I can press hard on it with no ripples on
the screen.



I chose the 1280 x 800 Brightview display (glossy). Don’t buy
this laptop and expect too much from the screen, because you might be
disappointed. But if you have realistic expectations about what a
budget laptop can get you, you’ll be satisfied. Viewing angles
are satisfactory but colors warp when you’re viewing off angle by
just a bit. HP Compaq nx7300 Review Linked by LT Hacker

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TiVo, Amazon to sell movies straight to TV sets

ZDNet Tags:








• Video,
• Entertainment,
• Amazon.com
• Tivo

TiVo on Tuesday said many of its customers can now order
pay-per-view movies and television shows from Amazon.com's download
service directly from their TV, without a personal computer.

TiVo upgraded the "Amazon Unbox on TiVo" service to allow customers
with high-speed Internet connections to select one of about 10,000
movies, shows or other video, using the TiVo remote control.

The programs, priced on average at about $4 for a movie rental and
about $2 for a television show, will be viewable after it downloads to
the TiVo set-top box.

Amazon and TiVo first announced the service in February, and at that time required users to select the video on a PC.

For TiVo, Unbox adds another feature that differentiates its
video-recording technology from generic digital video recorders offered
by cable and satellite providers.

The service comes as media and technology companies seek new ways to court viewers who split their time between viewing traditional media, surfing the Internet and playing video games.

By going directly to the TV, Amazon's TiVo partnership takes downloads a step further than online video stores like those of Wal-Mart Stores and Apple, which are geared toward PCs or portable devices. 
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Xbox Live adds Disney movies to its download menu

ZDNet Tags:
• Game consoles,
• Microsoft

LOS ANGELES--Microsoft announced the addition of Walt Disney films to the Xbox 360's download service, Xbox Live, on Tuesday night at the opening news conference for the E3 Media and Business Summit.

Disney joins the ranks of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate among studios contributing high-definition titles to the fast-growing platform. Among the 35 titles that will be made available beginning Tuesday are Bridge to Terabithia, The Queen and Deja Vu.

"This is a big endorsement for us," Robbie Bach, president of the entertainment and devices division at Microsoft, said in an interview preceding the news conference. "With this partner, we have 28 TV and movie studios on Xbox Live."

Xbox still has some catching up to do in the Disney department compared with Apple's iTunes, which has a broader array of Disney films on tap as well as bigger titles, including Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. That might have something to do with tight ties between Apple and Disney's Pixar.

Bach reported robust numbers for Xbox Live, which recently surpassed 7 million members. He projected reaching 10 million by this time next year.

Contrary to expectations that Microsoft would lower the price of Xbox in response to a similar move made this week by Sony for its PlayStation 3 console, Bach did not announce such a move but didn't rule it out as an option.

"July is the worst month to do something like that," he said. "It's the slowest time in every market in the world. We'll decide what we'll do in the future when we get there."

Bach sought to bolster Xbox's image in the wake of a disclosure this week that Microsoft would spend more than $1 billion to repair technical problems experienced by some owners of the console as well as extend warranties.

He noted that 11.6 million Xbox 360 consoles have been sold, 5.6 million in the U.S. In addition, Bach said that Xbox owners buy more games per console than owners of Nintendo or Sony devices. "When you look at the dollars spent on the consoles, we're dramatically ahead of our individual competitors," he said. "That's important for the marketplace because more publishers will want to develop more games."

Bach also touted Xbox's competitive advantage for the 2007 holiday season, noting that Microsoft will have the only console that can service the probable three biggest sellers out at that time: Halo 3, Madden NFL 08 and Grand Theft Auto IV.

"We think we have the best lineup of games in history," Bach said.

While Xbox has established itself as a console of choice for hardcore gamers, Bach signaled that Microsoft will take several steps to make it more accessible to a broader audience, including a set of new casual games for Xbox Live Arcade and a deal with DVD game brand Scene It? that will bring a customized new controller to the console.

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Pay-for-blogging site raises questions

ZDNet Tags:








• Advertising,
• Web sites,
• Search,
• Blogs,
• Google

The controversy around a young Web site called Associated Content boils down to perspective.

Does
it exist to game Google search results and generate revenue through
Google's AdWords advertising service by displaying contextual ads next
to the copy? Or is it a new kind of media site, chock-full of original
articles written mostly by average folk about everything from
presidential pardons and karaoke to smoker's guilt and ventriloquism?

Add
to the mix at Associated Content two prominent board members--Tim
Armstrong, head of advertising for Google in North America, and venture
capitalist Eric Hippeau, a managing partner at SoftBank Capital, who
also happens to serve on Yahoo's board of directors--and you have a little company that's drawing outsized and quite possibly unwanted attention.

But while there are plenty of questions about this start-up, no one seems to be able to say it's actually doing anything wrong.

"This kind of service is not entirely clear-cut," said Danny Sullivan, editor of the Search Engine Land blog. "It's not a case that they are bad or should be banned, but they are embroiled in this kind of a debate."

Denver-based Associated Content
was formed in 2004 and received $5.4 million in funding from SoftBank.
It bills itself as a "user-driven information portal" and content
provider, licensing content to other online publishers. The articles
are "optimized for discovery and revenue generation," according to a
news release on the company Web site. In other words, they're designed
to be easy to find on Google through various search optimization techniques used by many publishers, not just people accused of gaming search results.

The
company asks bloggers to write on the subjects of their choosing and
accepts text, video and audio. Contributors can be paid based on the
quality of the article and keyword optimization.

In most
ways, Associated Content's methods seem fitting for any typical Web
site--do your best to get play on Google search results and make money
off its advertising. In fact, Associated Content is hardly the only
company churning out content to match with Google ads. The success of
Google's AdSense program, which matches ads with content on Web sites,
and the growth of blogging applications have led to the emergence of
pay-for-blogging companies that help match willing writers with sites
that want content.

What
separates legitimate content marketplaces from so-called "Made for
AdSense" companies that generate content purely for marketing purposes
is the intent of the company and the quality of the articles, said Rand
Fishkin, co-founder and chief executive of search marketing firm SEOmoz.

That
gets closer to the heart of the controversy. The dividing line between
people who don't have a problem with Associated Content and those who
do seems to come down to one of the most hard-to-define aspects of a
Web site: quality. And quality, as most people know, is terribly
difficult to define. As the 20th-century U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said in declining to venture too far into a definition of pornography: "I know it when I see it."

The
complaint is that much of the content coming out of some of these
pay-for-blogging sites is lousy because it's designed more for ranking
higher in search engines than to inform or educate readers. Associated
Content was taken to task for that in an article headlined "Bottom
Slurping for Google Juice," on the Clickz news site.

Search Engine Land's Sullivan followed up on his blog,
suggesting that Associated Content could be contributing to the
"pollution" of search engine results and "manipulating Google's
rankings" by using, for instance, repetitive hyperlinks from the same
word within an article to another page on the site.

"Some
people just want to make money off AdSense and they just need content,
so they'll effectively freelance stuff from authors. It gets into these
gray areas," Sullivan said in a recent interview. "The only issue with
Associated Content is they've got a Google executive on the board.
Because the company is in this gray area it becomes an issue for them.
What they are doing isn't wrong, but it is subject to debate."

"The
key issue here is you've got someone directly involved in Google's
revenue generation also involved in a company that is taking advantage
of ways to generate revenue from Google," said Andy Beal, founder of
Internet marketing consultancy and blog Marketing Pilgrim. "That's the conflict."

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