Top 9 Wireless Headphones

9. SSL SHP

The headphones Compatible With Monitors Featuring Infrared Audio Transmission The SHP-IR features an infrared transmitter as well as two pairs of wireless stereo headphones. The SHP-IR headphones are compatible with all SSL mobile

8. SONY MDR-IF240RK

The sony MDR-IF240RK system has 24-foot range and lasts up to 35 hours.it has simple battery recharging. it has high-powered ferrite magnets generate superb sound.

7. Sony DRBT50 Wireless Headphones

For music lovers whose priorities are sound quality, sound quality, sound quality you can always rely on Sony, and the DRBT50 set is a great choice. They are also very comfortable to wear and are rechargeable.

6. Hisonic SX905 Wireless Headphones

If one of the main uses you want our headset for is to make phone call from your cell phone then the SX905 set from Hisonics are a top choice. They include a good quality microphone to make sure than you can speak with clarity and without too much background noise.

5. Pioneer SE-DIR800C Wireless Headphones

The Pioneer SE-DIR800C Infrared Wireless Surround Sound Headphones simulate 5.1 channel speakers to create high quality surround-sound like what you’ll experience from a traditional home theater. The SE-DIR800C headphones offer super-soft earphone enclosures so the entire ear is cushioned for greater comfort.

4. Sennheiser RS 130 Wireless Headphones

The lightweight RS 130 lets you enjoy freedom of movement from any audio source The RS 130 wireless RF headphone system with switchable surround sound is an ideal choice for both hi-fi and TV use.

3. Sennheiser RS 140 Wireless HiFi Headphone

The RS 140 wireless headphone system features a switchable dynamic compression and balance control for optimum right/left volume adjustment. If necessary, a high output level can be adjusted to compensate for moderate hearing loss.

2. Sennheiser RS 160 Over-Ear Digital Wireless Headphone

Offering uncompressed digital wireless transmission and excellent stereo sound. New Kleer technology offers loseless RF wireless transmission

1. Sennheiser RS 180 Digital Wireless Headphone System

Offering unc RF transmissionompressed digital wireless transmission and excellent stereo sound.

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Samsung Releases The Advanced Touchscreen With The Samsung Caliber (SCH-R860)

Samsung Caliber

Samsung takes the cake with the advanced touchscreen which it has developed using the TouchWiz interface which is unique to Samsung. The touchscreen has several advanced features which includes certain Widgets which are specially designed so as to let users personalize them and adapt them according to their phone.

All the social networking websites like Facebook are accessible due to the phone’ s browser which is a full HTML enabled browser. There is mobile IM along with email facilities. The camera is a 3 mega pixel one and comes with a camcorder.

The Bluetooth comes with a stereo facility along with a speakerphone.  The Caliber has the MetroPCS applications too. Other than these features the phone has a video and music player which is built in to the phone. The memory is expandable up to 16 GB using an external microSD.

Now The 14 inch ASUS UL80Jt-A1 Laptop

The ASUS UL80Jt-A1 notebook features an attractive looking 14-inch design by means of switch able graphics and a new Intel Core i3 processor.  While the battery life is not as impressive as the UL80Vt model from previous year, more power and updated Nvidia Optimus graphics should be more than enough to keep most consumers happy.

First impressions of the UL80Jt-A1 are great, with the model featuring a brushed metal lid, matte plastic deck, plus an elegant on the whole appearance in an understated kind of way.  The build quality feels really solid on this computer, but it does come at a price of about 4.8 pounds.  At the same time as this is not overly heavy, it is surely not the lightest or thinnest 14-inch machine on the market.

Microsoft ‘Arc Touch Mouse’ appear then vanish

We’ve been hearing rumours concerning Microsoft’s new touch mouse intended for months and Microsoft haven’t said much so far apart from sending a few teaser tweets on Twitter.

On Wednesday though, sharp eyed surfers may have noticed that a German retailer had product shots of Microsoft’s Arc Touch mouse on its site merely to remove them a short while later.

Earlier than they disappeared although, a German tech site Windfuture.de managed to pull the pics and these are at the present being widely circulated on Tech sites around the web.

As of what we can gather the mouse resembles Microsoft’s original Arc mouse other than this latest offering has one key difference in that it can change its shape.

Even though Microsoft hasn’t officially announced the new mouse yet, the reports are so as to it’s a completely new concept in mouse design. It basically forms an arc when in use and lays flat on the mat when it’s not.

The Arc Touch Mouse features Microsoft’s Advanced Blue TrackTechnology allowing intended for maximum accuracy on all kinds of surfaces, still a carpet apparently.

 

Google fired engineer for privacy breach

oogle confirmed on Tuesday that it fired an employee earlier this year for violating its policies on accessing the accounts of its users.

Earlier in the day, Gawker reported that David Barksdale, an engineer in Google's Seattle offices, used his position as a key engineer evaluating the health of Google's services to break into the Gmail and Google Voice accounts of several children. After parents of the children complained to Google, Gawker said Barksdale--who was not accused of anything with sexual overtones--was dismissed, and Google confirmed that move late Tuesday.

"We dismissed David Barksdale for breaking Google's strict internal privacy policies. We carefully control the number of employees who have access to our systems, and we regularly upgrade our security controls--for example, we are significantly increasing the amount of time we spend auditing our logs to ensure those controls are effective. That said, a limited number of people will always need to access these systems, if we are to operate them properly--which is why we take any breach so seriously," Google's Bill Coughran, senior vice president of engineering, said in a statement.

The incident highlights how easy it can be for anyone with access to confidential information stored online to abuse it, regardless of any systems that are in place. The report did not suggest that Google knew of Barksdale's actions and failed to do anything about it, but it does raise questions regarding how effective Google's systems are in preventing a potentially rogue engineer from abusing their position.

A source familiar with the incident said this was not the first time a Google employee has been dismissed as the result of a privacy breach, though the previous incident didn't involve anyone under 18. It's not clear whether the increase in the amount of time auditing logs referenced in Coughran's statement was directly related to the Barksdale incident.

 Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the most prominent company on the Internet defends its search juggernaut while expanding into nearly anything it thinks possible. He has previously written about Apple, the traditional PC industry, and chip companies.

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Google News turns 8 amid news industry in flux

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Krishna Bharat, founder and engineering head of Google News, was stuck in New Orleans at a conference in the days after September 11, 2001, and like so many others desperately searching for news about the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Not only was it hard to find the most authoritative information online, it was hard to find information from differing points of view.

"(There was) a lot of time to think about current events and news and trying to get out of there," Bharat said in a recent interview with CNET. "I came back here and said, 'I know how to extract content from news sites, how can I make this process of understanding much more improved?'"

It was that frustration that led to the eventual creation of Google News on September 22, 2002. It aggregated online news content from around the world and quickly became popular and controversial, as some news publishers complained about what they perceived as an attempt to draw traffic away from their own Web sites and others pondered the ranking criteria.

The rancor of that debate has quieted, but Google News is facing new challenges. The nature of what we consider to be "news" is rapidly changing as a new generation of journalists and media companies born entirely of the Web flood it with written, spoken, and visual content both in traditional story form and through microblogging sites. Meanwhile, readers are demanding more control over the sources of their news, eroding that original goal of diversity.

Bharat is convinced that Google can engineer its way through these challenges. "The future of Google News is better personalization and better social input," he said, implying a future (some might argue it's already here) where the most relevant and authoritative content is that recommended by friends and tied to one's preferences.

Leading the way
In developing the first edition of Google News, Bharat built an algorithm by mid-October 2001 that organized news stories based on freshness and the number of news outlets that were covering a particular story. It turned out that most news companies were presenting their content in a similar way, so Bharat was able to use a lot of the work from his previous gig indexing retailers' sites for product search, which he said was a much more complicated problem.

Krishna Bharat, founder and engineering head of Google News

(Credit: Google)

The news process, however, had to be approached differently from regular Google search because of the nature of the content: at the time, fresh news stories posted minutes ago could take a long time to show up in regular search results since few if any sites were linking to those Web pages. Google's overall search algorithms now surface fresh content in regular search results very quickly. But in late 2001, Google started experimenting with a standalone news "onebox"--Google's term for a section of a search results page dedicated to one type of result--powered by Bharat's ranking science.

Google launched the aggregation page the following September. Google declined to share numbers regarding traffic growth for this story, but did say that the site is currently driving 1 billion page views to news publishers' Web sites per month and Google currently operates 72 separate editions of Google News in 30 different languages.

Bharat and his team made several tweaks over the years to add new features and make the shift from a static site published once every 10 minutes to a site that is updated almost instantaneously with the influx of news. The most recent change, a user-interface redesign, was controversial among die-hard Google News users but core to how Bharat and Google see the news business evolving.

"You're balancing the need to inform with the need to engage," Bharat said, which is actually a line that could have emerged from any veteran newspaper editor: in other words, ideally you'd like to serve some news vegetables along with dessert. But Google, raised in the church of data, thinks that the best way to provide that balance is by automatically tracking which stories are most popular among news editors by observing how many different organizations report on a topic, and blend a mix of which stories are being clicked on the most by readers.

"We can't sit there and editorially decide what's good and what's bad," Bharat said. "The only scalable solution is where we tap the intelligence of others."

Printing the news that fits
There are two trends in the evolution of the news business that will keep Bharat busy over the next eight years. One is the rise in "news spam," SEO-bait articles often written by low-paid freelancers that are designed mostly to surface within Google, rather than inform, educate, or entertain readers with coherent writing.

So-called "content mills" like Associated Content and Demand Media are churning out short news-related pieces of content by the thousands in hopes of driving traffic to their sites. Google appears to be of two minds about this issue: on one hand, Google loves free and openly-published content that it can index and surface within search (and therefore serve ads against) and feels that news quality can be a very subjective thing. However, it also wants to provide a quality product in Google News that will keep people coming back to the site, for much the same reason.

Google News turns 8 (images)

   

Bharat implied that Google is working on a way to refine the signals it uses to rank news stories in a way that filters out the most egregious examples of news spam without branding certain companies as offenders because of certain stories. "What we are very sensitive to is user experience, but we don't want to be anecdote driven, we want to be sensitive to statistically relevant feedback," he said.

There's also the challenge of living up to the original intent of Google News: providing news from different points of view. Bharat, a native of India, has been surprised at the lack of international news that most Americans receive and created the product in hopes of changing that. But the media world is an increasingly partisan place, which has led Google toward giving individuals a way to manage their own home page.

While Google feels it has to provide those controls in order to best serve its users, it's also working with the news industry on things like Fast Flip and Living Stories to present important and engaging content in a unique way in hopes of exposing those users to ideas and concepts they may not have found by limiting their sources of incoming news. It has also embarked on those projects in hopes of convincing members of the news industry that Google has come in peace, and not to destroy their businesses, as some have alleged.

Bharat, a self-described "news junkie" has tried with Google News to create "a mirror" of the news ecosystem, which means it by definition surfaces all the good and the bad that emerges from the daily news cycle. That reflection has changed dramatically over the past eight years and seems likely to change ever further as the news media shifts from the offline world to the online one.

Google's ability to harness that world will be tested by such a shift. Google search is driven by the company's desire to provide the right answer to a given query. Selecting the "right" news story is a far more difficult and potentially dangerous process.

 Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the most prominent company on the Internet defends its search juggernaut while expanding into nearly anything it thinks possible. He has previously written about Apple, the traditional PC industry, and chip companies. E-mail Tom.

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Why Yahoo plays well in Peoria

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--In the men's room outside the media briefing room here at Yahoo's headquarters, there's a dual sink with mismatched faucets: one modern hands-free sensor-activated model and a more traditional hand-operated one. It's a fitting metaphor for a company that, even when it moves in new directions, never quite manages to let go of the old.

Yahoo's Blake Irving continues to insist that Yahoo is a technology company as if there were something bad about being seen otherwise.

(Credit: Tom Krazit/CNET)

Yahoo is a massive media company, the biggest and arguably most successful content provider among media companies to have made a name exclusively on the Internet. It also has a rich history of technology innovation, developing one of the most-popular search engines during the rise of the Internet and delivering e-mail and instant messages to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
And yet it's one of the most insecure organizations in Silicon Valley, scarred by the chaos and blunders of the Terry Semel/Jerry Yang era. Yahoo practically begged the tech media yesterday to see it as a source of technology innovation (while blaming "misperceptions" of the company on, of course, the media) during a "vision" briefing that many in the room seemed to have heard three or four times in the past.
Granted, new Chief Product Officer Blake Irving wasn't around during those years, and could therefore declare with a straight face during the event that "this is an amazing technology company in the media business," which is perhaps the most succinct answer a company executive has delivered to an existential question about Yahoo in years.
But the fact that Irving and other Yahoo executives feel they have to repeat over and over again that Yahoo is a technology company just shows how desperate a large part of Yahoo is to be seen as part of the "new" technology industry, the one that brings you things like iPads and phone calls from within your e-mail and real-time communication.
Yahoo has brilliant engineers. It has talented business people. It has some excellent products. But it is in no way, shape, or form setting the agenda for the technology industry in the 21st century. And as every Yahoo employee with stock options knows, investors feel much the same way.
If Yahoo is a technology company, it is Middle America's technology company. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz often scoffs at the disdain for her company among the self-professed technology elite on both coasts of the U.S., saying that when she travels to other parts of the country and around the world, people know and love Yahoo and don't hesitate to tell her how much they enjoy using the company's products.
Those people, as nice and smart as they may be, are not the ones who set the technology agenda. A former executive once sighed when I asked him how Yahoo deals with that kind of inertia: it's not that Yahoo is unimaginative when it comes to technology innovation, but much of its product development is hamstrung by the need to make sure its huge audience feels comfortable on its pages.
This is absolutely not a bad thing in the abstract. Huge, stable audiences attract money, and many on the Internet would kill for Yahoo's advertiser-friendly user base. But companies that want to be considered true technology innovators cannot fear change. They must embrace it.
Apple doesn't worry what its users think if it realizes it needs to eliminate a widely used monitor port technology to make a sexier and more capable laptop, it just does it. Google doesn't worry what its users will think when it introduces something like instant search, it just gives them an easy way to turn it off. When you have the confidence to take those kinds of risks, you can make those kinds of breakthroughs.
Yahoo's tech product-development line certainly isn't stale: Greg Sterling of Search Engine Land, for one, thought quite highly of Yahoo's new Mail and search interfaces demonstrated following Irving's presentation. But should any of those advances prove popular with the public, they'll highlight one of Yahoo's core problem competing as a technology company: competitors can duplicate those advances rather quickly unless they are truly a cut above what anyone else is doing.

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