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Acer n20w review
Reviews Notably, the built-in expansion slot supports neither of the common media types (CompactFlash and SD): instead it accepts Sony's proprietary Memory Stick. It's possible to charge the n20w without using the docking cradle, but the connector between...
[January 20, 2003, 9:08]
Sony CMD-MZ5 review
Reviews Since MS is a proprietary competitor to the open MMC and SD standards, you can currently use it only with Sony devices. If the rest of the MZ5 was ground-breaking, like the Siemens SL45, then you could forgive its proprietary memory expansion system.
[July 24, 2001, 0:00]
Asus S1N review
Reviews As mentioned above, the optical drive -- in our review sample, a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo unit -- is housed in an external module, connected via a proprietary port on the left-hand side of the system. There's also a second proprietary connector at the...
[July 29, 2003, 7:59]
Defrag Manager 3.0 review
Reviews This agent then utilises a proprietary defragmentation algorithm that automatically completes the defrag process before removing itself from each system. In addition, the proprietary SmartPhase engine now supports parallel defragmentation of...
[September 30, 2004, 11:20]
Dell Latitude C400 review
Reviews The modular bay connects to the system unit via a short cable and a proprietary port on the left-hand side of the main system, which weighs 1.7kg -- the full travel weight with the external module and the AC adapter is 2.7kg.
[January 27, 2002, 23:00]
Sun Solaris 10 review
Reviews To begin with, it’s important to understand that you’re still dealing with a proprietary OS here. Despite all this, however, Solaris 10 has to be viewed as a proprietary product best implemented on Sun hardware, be it UltraSPARC or one of the AMD...
[April 21, 2005, 9:25]
PaceBlade PaceBook review
Reviews However, one of the two USB ports is proprietary, designed to take a camera due later in the year (there's an adapter for standard devices); the external VGA connector has its own proprietary cable too.
[April 2, 2002, 0:00]
Samsung SGH-i640V review
Reviews The Samsung SGH-i640V comes with an AC adapter, a USB sync cable, a headset that shares the same proprietary connector as the mains power adapter, a software CD, two batteries and a battery charger. The battery charger accommodates either cell and...
[April 1, 2008, 13:57]
How to avoid obsolete storage hell review
Reviews These proprietary formats work acceptably for day-to-day backup, but they are absolute death for archival storage -- or for transferring files for that matter, since very few computers have compatible drives installed (for a brief period the Zip...
[April 13, 2005, 8:55]
Panasonic Toughbook CF-R1 review
Reviews Ports are also thin on the ground, with just two USB connectors and a proprietary VGA output for linking to external peripherals. While we were looking for the memory socket (there is one, free, under a plate in the base), we discovered that...
[March 4, 2003, 9:19]
Samsung SGH-i300 review
Reviews You get two docking cables, one for use with the cradle and one that connects directly to the handset’s proprietary port. The SGH-i300's headset connector is proprietary, and you get both a stereo headset and a connector with a 3.5mm jack at the...
[February 8, 2006, 12:15]
Email security appliances review
Reviews Antivirus engine proprietary SurfControl proprietary And whereas add-on applications may adversely affect mail server performance, an independent appliance has no such impact. Indeed, by filtering out viruses and spam before they get to the server...
[November 12, 2004, 16:25]
Palm Treo 750v review
Reviews It 's also irritating that Palm uses proprietary mains power and sync cable connectors. The product box also includes a mains power cable with international adapters, a proprietary-to-USB sync cable, a stereo headset, a screen protector, a software...
[October 3, 2006, 10:00]
Mozilla 1.0 review
Reviews IE comes with its own proprietary instant messenger (IM), and Netscape ships with a full version of AIM. Although most of the popular IMs connect to their own proprietary chat systems (ICQ uses the ICQ protocol, for example), Mozilla's chat client...
[April 29, 2002, 15:55]
Lotus Symphony 1.2 review
Reviews However, it's not open source — it's a proprietary fork of the OpenOffice.org code. Like OpenOffice.org, Lotus Symphony is free. Available in Linux OS X and Windows versions, Lotus Symphony can be downloaded from IBM's web site with a free log-in ID.
[February 9, 2009, 10:32]
Compellent Storage Center 4.0 review
Reviews Storage Center is a complete SAN solution that's based on industry-standard hardware — in contrast to the proprietary technology employed by some other SAN vendors. The Compellent hardware To this end, the Compellent storage controller is...
[August 28, 2008, 13:39]
Vodafone launches BlackBerry smartphone review
Reviews Research In Motion (RIM) is well known for its business-orientated BlackBerry devices, which deliver 'push' email and (in some models) voice capabilities via a proprietary platform. Now the company is moving to a more smartphone-like form factor...
[September 16, 2004, 9:50]
RIM BlackBerry review
Reviews The device itself runs a proprietary Java-based operating system. The BlackBerry integrates with corporate email systems like Microsoft's Exchange, and requires additional server software to sit behind the company firewall, sending emails securely...
[January 29, 2002, 23:00]
The Wealth of Networks review
Reviews What if community efforts, which Benkler calls 'social production', and proprietary information are going to have to compete forever? Many people assume that all this voluntary cooperation is just a phase we're going through on our way back to...
[April 24, 2007, 15:10]
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VFK review
Reviews Crusoe processors use two proprietary technologies to achieve their combination of performance and low power drain: Code Morphing software translates blocks of x86 instructions into the Crusoe's native instruction set when it first encounters them...
[July 31, 2001, 0:00]
