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Sony Drops a Former Best-Seller

February 17, 2003
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
It's no secret that the market's been flattening for CRT monitors. Now, we hear that Sony will stop making 17- and 19-inch CRTs on March 31, while increasing its production of LCD screens. Sony could no longer charge premiums in a market where margins have largely disappeared, so it's expanding its...

In the Air, Everywhere

February 03, 2003
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
The common view of wireless networks is that they keep your laptop or your PDA connected to the corporate network or the Internet even when you're in a conference room or at your local Starbucks. Office workers and mobile professionals love the convenience. But wireless networks are also...

Card cools PCs, workstations

December 02, 2002
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
CPUs for PCs and workstations are hot-and getting hotter. As Tomm Aldridge, director of enterprise architecture at Intel Labs, told an Internet newsletter, "We don't have to look very far into the future to see where just putting a heat sink on a processor and blowing air over it is not going to...

Time waits for no one

December 02, 2002
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
The world's most accurate digital watch." This watch is controlled by radio waves set according to the U.S. atomic clock in Boulder, CO. A tiny antenna receives the signal, ensuring that the watch is up to the minute at all times. That copy for a new Casio watch appears in the Skymall catalog, an...

Hot stuff for cooling down

November 18, 2002
Materials & Assembly
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
Here's a triplet of recent enclosure developments that may come in handy in keeping your cabinet of electronics from losing its cool. Seal's the deal. From polycarbonate-enclosure and precision plastic-component maker Fibox (Glen Burnie, MD) comes a basic enclosure vent, which features a molded-in-...

Computers

November 18, 2002
Automation & Motion Control
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
Academic suite The MicroStation (R) V8 Academic Suite of software is for students in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, and Latin America. The suite includes MicroStation V8, which features native use of DGN and DWG files as well as a design history feature. Also included in...

Save your energy

November 18, 2002
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
There are a lot of ways to reduce energy consumption in appliances, and appliance designers don't miss many of them. Whirlpool's front-loading Duet clothes washer, for example, uses 67% less electricity than conventional top-loading washers, primarily because it uses less water that has to be...

Computers

October 21, 2002
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
Physics software MSC. Interactive Physics, recently released internationally, features physics modeling and simulation education in one software package, including documentation and online tutorials in multiple languages. Physics software is designed for students, as well as science teachers and...

Innovative computer products

October 21, 2002
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
PC-like workstation If you like PCs, especially their price, but think you might need a workstation, Hewlett-Packard invites you to check out the HP x1100 workstation. While many of its applications are in the world of digital content creation (meaning video), which you may never use, it also...

Monitor is easy on the eyes

October 21, 2002
Consumer Electronics
DN Staff
When the NEC/Mitsubishi Multisync FP1375X first arrived in our office, the 22-inch (20-inch viewable) monitor seemed monstrous compared to my normal 17-inch monitor. After lifting the monitor out from its package, the first thing I noticed, aside from its 19.8- x 19.7- x 18.9-inch size, was its...

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