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No color Amazon Kindle in the near future

Posted by on Wednesday, 26 May, 2010
No color Amazon Kindle in the near future

Despite the Apple iPad’s overwhelming sales figures in the first few months of its life, Amazon isn’t quaking in its boots and will not introduce a color Kindle to the market in the immediate future to counter the iPad’s threat to its ebook business. While Amazon has not totally ruled out a color Kindle sometime down the road, it isn’t happening anytime soon. According to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, adding color to the Kindle’s “electronic ink” display is a difficult technical challenge, as whatever Amazon has in the labs are not yet ready for prime-time production. What do you use your iPad primarily for – as an ebook reader? Do you think both devices overlap one another in this department?


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Riello UPS products

Posted by on Wednesday, 4 November, 2009

A good reputation is only of any use if the company holding that reputation can back it up. Riello UPS has long endured a strong reputation for being one of the best manufacturers of UPS products within the industry, and almost certainly the very best in the United Kingdom. Here we’ll examine how they’ve earned that reputation and whether or not they live up to it, likewise.

One of the leading companies in the uninterruptible power supplies industry, Riello UPS has developed a strong reputation for making superior, reliable products.

Whether you are producing computer accessories or bicycle tire pumps, reliability is key. Simply put, you will not be able to earn respect in any industry unless your products are reliable. That said, in the computer power backup industry, reliability is more important than everything else. The only reason anybody purchases an uniterruptible power supply in the first place is for its reliability.

For example, if you opt to purchase some knockoff brand of UPS from a fly-by-night retailer’s website, you have saved a little bit of money right now, but in the long run, or even in the immediate future, when the product fails to deliver on the company’s promise and you have lost hours of work and are forced to replace your computer’s hard drive, how much money have you really saved?

Offering uninterruptible power supplies in the range of 350VA to 6MVA, every one of their products can be bought with a warranty, though there is slim chance that you’ll ever need it. Riello UPS products, when installed and maintained properly, do tend to be amongst the most reliable UPS systems on the market right now.

Riello may not be the only UPS company worth buying products from, but they are one of the best, and everything they practice in manufacturing products is something that should be practiced by any company you plan on supporting. Namely: emphasis on reliability, and the offer of warranties. Basically, Riello UPS systems are guaranteed to work as intended.
Again, you will most likely never need a warranty for a Riello brand UPS product, but the fact that retailers who offer Riello tend to always offer a warranty along with it goes to show the faith that they put into Riello brand products. Obviously, a company that produces shintzy, easily broken products would have to file for bankruptcy in a heartbeat if they were to offer any sort of money-back guarantee on their products. Riello can afford to make such offers, simply because they know their products will work exactly as intended.

In the majority of industries, there is a very clear line drawn between the top grade brands and the low quality ones. It is simply a matter of professional ethics, giving your customers exactly what they need and expect, and delivering on your promises.


The 404 435: Where we use our NPR voices

Posted by on Wednesday, 30 September, 2009

If you’re thinking about buying a portable gaming system this holiday season, you should definitely listen to this show before making a decision. After a few weeks of teasing you guys about the new PSP Go, we’ve got all the details from the man who wrote the CNET review himself and now must defend himself from Sony snipers perched across the office. That’s right, Jeff Bakalar breaks down all the reasons why the PSP 3000 is still the best Sony portable gaming device. The Go, on the other hand, didn’t fare so well in Jeff’s eyes. It costs more than the 3000, has a smaller screen, and an awkwardly placed analog stick, and worst of all: you can’t play UMD games or use old PSP accessories! On top of all of that, the games take so long to download that you can probably watch a full length movie while you wait. Save your money and buy the best mobile video game console on the market today…the Apple iPhone.

Speaking of products that sound good on paper but don’t actually work in real life, a guy in New York discovered something particularly disturbing about his iPhone: the average iPhone drops 30 percent of all calls. After taking his iPhone into an Apple Genius Bar for multiple dropped calls, the Genius informed him that it was indeed dropping 22 percent of outbound calls, which is actually excellent compared with the 30 percent average in New York. Listen in to hear us groan and moan about AT&T service and why Sprint or Verizon might be in my immediate future.

Finally, we want to give a huge thank you to Debbie from Toronto for sending us the image you see at the top of this blog entry. Deb, a long time listener and special guest of The 404 made a custom hockey jersey and goalie mask for her husband to wear during his Sunday game! Now, Wilson and I are the first to admit our zero interest in hockey, but even we can appreciate the time and effort that must have gone into the cutting and application of the logo onto the uniform. Debbie, you rock, and if there’s anything we can do (short of flying up to Canada to thank you personally) to repay your kindness, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Everyone else should be carefully taking notes from Deb and sprinting to the nearest phone to leave us a voice-mail. You know the number right? 1-866-404-CNET: GET ON IT!




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EATR Sniper Bot Refuels By Consuming Human Bodies

Posted by on Wednesday, 15 July, 2009

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By Chris Scott Barr

There are some debates that all geeks seem to have with their friends. Star Wars vs Star Trek, Pirates vs Ninjas, Windows vs Mac, etc. One that tends to come up in my circle is which will try to take over the world first, zombies or robots. Well here’s a little bit of info that’ll give you an edge when voting on the side of robots.

Apparently a group of people have developed a sniper robot that refuels using biomass. Yes Virginia, the damn thing gets its juice from consuming human bodies. I’m sure that it’s programmed to only go after dead bodies, but a quick bullet to your backside would be enough to prevent its imminent shutdown. The AI is programmed to plan out its actions for the immediate future through the next 24 hours. With a name like EATR, what could possibly go wrong?

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