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The Powerline AV+ comes in a kit that includes one three-port adapter and one single-port adapter with a estimated price tag of $180.
Belkin's Powerline AV+ offers three network ports instead of one.
This story has been updated. Other vendors, such as Netgear or Slingmedia also, offer multiple-port PowerLine adapters.
I remember Belkin was the first vendor [...]

Run on solar power, the flowers pull in an Internet signal via a 3G network, explained Washburn, and then convert it to Wi-Fi, which covers a radius of about 200 feet around each flower.

Poetic Kinetics’ Wi-Fi flowers

Brightly colored by day and lit up with LEDs at night, the flowers have been on tour around the [...]

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Kodachrome makes up less than 1 percent of Kodak’s total sales for still film, according to the company. Digital cameras are obviously the main culprit contributing to Kodachrome’s demise, but photographers are also using newer kinds of color film that are easier to process. Only one photofinishing lab in the world still [...]

Is flying through outer space from the comfort of your living room enough to make you cry?

It is for former Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble. A couple weeks back he said on his blog that a new Microsoft technology made him cry. He didn’t give many details, citing a confidentiality agreement, but he provided enough there [...]

What is the core value proposition of cloud computing today? What is it that your public cloud provider is providing? What does your private cloud environment allow you to provide your own IT customers? Why are end users in the know so excited about the new capabilities they gain from using various cloud offerings?
I’ll give [...]

‘Find the Lost Ring,’ a new alternate-reality game that seems to be tied to the Olympics in Beijing, went live Monday morning.
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As I predicted Sunday night, the Web site for a new alternate-reality game that seems to be tied to the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing went live Monday.

The game, known as Find the Lost [...]

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The Open Source Initiative just announced the results of its 2008 board elections. The good news? I’m out. (I wasn’t able to give the amount of time needed by the OSI–the OSI is a lot of work.)
The better news? Some fantastic new faces are in, namely Martin Michlmayr (Linux International, Debian, HP) and Harshad [...]

Sometimes, you get a press release that’s so accidentally, astonishingly funny that you can’t stop laughing long enough to make fun of it. This morning’s latte-through-the-nose nominee is the deadpan announcement “Kodak Names Chief Blogger: Company Extends its Revolutionary Approach to Product Innovation with Cutting-edge Approach to Social Media.”
According to the release, “Just over 10 [...]

The transition to digital TV is going smoothly for broadcasters, according to a government report issued earlier this week. But lawmakers are still worried that consumers may still be confused or unaware of the change.
In February 2009, TV broadcasters will vacate wireless spectrum used to broadcast analog TV signals. Instead, broadcasters will transmit digital TV [...]

When I put together a small comparison test of video services earlier this year, an overwhelming number of people got on me about not including Stage6, a side project of the people behind the popular DivX codec to showcase what their technology was capable of. Shortly thereafter, Stage6 shut its doors in a rather dramatic [...]