Word: laptops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after a massive voluntary recall of laptop batteries, Stringer turned opportunist, using the smoking cells as cover to clear out the vestiges of Sony's change-resistant culture. In Stringervision, the new Sony is led by software and linked horizontally across its vast product line. No more will the folks in the camera group not know what the TV-set guys are doing, he vows. He named a new boss of the consumer-electronics unit, Katsumi Ihara, to see to that. Software design is getting an overhaul too, so movies, MP3 players, TVs and cameras aren't strangers. The shining...
...while out of town. Determined to set a record for Slingbox setup, I pulled out the quick-start guide and rolled up my sleeves. I connected wires for video, networking and power in a particular order. Then I powered everything on and popped the software disc into a PC laptop. (Alas, Slingbox doesn't work for Macs at the moment.) The software found the Slingbox, tested its video, then found my network router and automatically configured it to stream video over the open Internet, not just on my home network. There?s a ?do it yourself? mode, but take...
...following evening, my wife and I were telling our friends about Tina Fey?s hilarious new NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, but found we couldn?t do it justice. I suddenly realized that I could simply stream the pilot episode, via laptop, from my cable box at home. We gathered around the dining room table, and I launched the SlingPlayer, which produced a virtual remote control identical to the one sitting on my coffee table back home. Within seconds we were watching a show I had originally recorded in high-def. It may not have looked as good-the already scaled...
...posts are stupid,” says Gus Rancatore, owner of Toscanini’s. “Sometimes you look at it and go ‘what the fuck?’” So if Facebook is starting to seem too impersonal, get off your laptop and head to Toscanini’s for some good old-fashioned face-to-board-to-face communication. Grab a latte while you’re at it, and post an offer to buy one for the hot blonde at the next table...
...spotted Bill looking chic in Cabot Science Library with this laptop bag—more staid than your average man purse—which he acquired a year ago to hold his Dell computer. He describes his bag as functional, but says he usually sports a backpack. “The bag makes me look serious,” says Little, “but I assure...