http://www.gobestarticles.com Your One-Stop Source for News & Articles & Free Web Resources Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:12:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I GOT the lecture as a 10-year-old, from the father of one of my friends. “This is the future,” he said, waving his arms enthusiastically toward the squat box resting on a shelf in his living room. He had never before spoken to me with such fervor about anything, even ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/after-winning-the-format-war-blu-ray%e2%80%99s-future-looks-bright.html Most speakers are built into large square boxes. This poses a problem for home theater buffs without much space to spare. JBL’s Control Now speakers are quarter-round, which means that four of them can fit together to make one round speaker. The $250 indoor speakers come in black, and the $270 ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/in-a-sleek-package-a-home-theater-system-to-rock-your-world-2.html Sometimes true surround sound is overkill. While chair-bouncing sound pumping out of a phalanx of speakers in the living room intensifies movie viewing in the living room, it’s often easier just to set up a smaller home theater system — like the Sony DAV-F200 — and call it a day. The ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/in-a-sleek-package-a-home-theater-system-to-rock-your-world.html One of the problems with digital video recorders like TiVo is that they eventually run out of room to record. And if you change out the internal hard drive to upgrade, you lose your library of programming. Western Digital is offering what it thinks is a better solution. The company sells ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/think-of-it-as-adding-an-extra-room-onto-your-tivo.html   We already know that mobile carriers are subsidizing some, if not all, the cost of the iPhone 3G. According to Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner, however, AT&T is subsidizing the iPhone to the tune of $325 each. That chunk of change should make up for the revenue sharing that was eliminated ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/analyst-att-subsidizing-325-of-every-iphone.html Over the past week parts of the blogosphere have been buzzing over the discovery of a 1.5-meter Ethernet cable that is being sold for the insane price of $499. The manufacturer is Denon, and the target customer is the "audio enthusiast." Apparently "audio enthusiast" is Denonese for "sucker." The original listing for ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/500-for-5-feet-of-ethernet-cable.html It can't be easy for a federal judge to admit that he was wrong when giving jury instructions in a high-profile case, but the judge in the Jammie Thomas file-swapping case has stepped up and cast serious doubt on his own actions. Following other court rulings around the country, Judge ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/nine-copyright-professors-tell-judge-to-rethink-riaa-case.html Tokyo, Japan — Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government-sponsored whaling programme. The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, are being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence. The box of the ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/outrage-greenpeace-whale-meat-scandal-whistleblowers-arrest.html West Lafayette (IN) – Researchers from Purdue University claim they are getting closer to develop a much more efficient cooling system that the traditional heatsink-fan design used in many computers today. Suresh Garimella and Eckhard Groll say they can miniaturize traditional refrigerator designs to become small enough to fit in ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/building-a-refrigerator-for-your-laptop.html There are numerous claims that rechargeable batteries are the way to go, but are they that much better than our everyday alkaline batteries? And are they truly worth all that extra money? It's a guarantee that batteries will die. After providing power to everything from cameras, to remote controls and your ... http://www.gobestarticles.com/2008/06/20/are-rechargeable-batteries-that-great.html