Worth Your While: Hands On Product Reviews from RealTechNews. Monitors, Hard Drives, Gadgets and More

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Logitech diNovo Cordless Desktop
 

Western Digital 120GB FireWire/USB 2.0 Combo Hard
Drive
 

Samsung SyncMaster 243T
 

Princeton Princeton Senergy 714 17" LCD Monitor
 
 

Sennheiser PC150 Stereo Headset
 

Canon Powershot S500
 

Logitech Z-680 speakers

Bugmenot.com

ShareBy Vic DaSilva
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Bugmenot.com is a service that helps you bypass registration for websites like the nytimes.com. A lot of individuals are not crazy about the idea of personally identifying themselves in order to simply read the news. I know what many of you are thinking, just sign up and make up the info. [...]

Beyond Digital Living

ShareBy Vic DaSilva
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

There are two things I can not go without: coffee and the internet. So, it is only fitting to have these two great entities merge together to form the Beyond Smart Coffee Maker. Java on demand. It works like most coffee makers with a built in ‘Grind and Brew’ feature plus [...]

Music Industry Sues 784 P2P Users

ShareBy Vic DaSilva
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Well, you knew this was going to happen sooner or later. The RIAA filed a new series of complaints against P2P distributors Kazaa, Grokster and LimeWire. 784 users are targeted for violation of copyright. The announcement comes two days after the US Supreme Court ruled P2P networks may be held liable [...]

CPU Decoder Ring Helps Decipher the Latest CPUs

ShareBy David Johnston
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
CPU speeds have gotten a lot more complicated than they used to be. In addition to just clock speed, there’s also cache size, and the speed of the FSB that are frequently varied–even within the same brand name of CPU. To help consumers (or so they say) with their confusion over [...]

Yahoo Mail is Getting a Face Lift

ShareBy Vic DaSilva
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Yahoo is planning to feature e-mail caching, message preview and drag-and-drop filing. Beta testing of the new service will start in a couple of weeks for a select few and should be available to the rest of the public in a couple of months.
From CNet:
“Yahoo e-mail users will be able to [...]

Google Launches Google Earth

ShareBy Vic DaSilva
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Google launches Google Earth(aka. Keyhole 3) today as a free download dropping the subscription fee (you can upgrade to a “plus” version for $20/year) . This description is taken from the Google Earth site:

Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in.
Search for schools, parks, [...]

AMD Files an Antitrust Complaint Against Intel

ShareBy David Johnston
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Today, AMD filed an antitrust complaint against Intel for Intel’s monopolistic and anticompetitive practices. In AMD’s official complaint they cite many instances of Intel using its larger size and resources to push AMD out of the market. Examples include Dell (of course), IBM, Sony, Toshiba, HP, NEC, Fujitsu, EMachines, [...]