Wall Street Beat: Tech shares tread water in wake of mixed earnings
Tech stocks were flat Friday afternoon after earnings announcements from IT vendors this week and a government economic report offered glimpses of good news, but not enough to dispel the pall that hangs over the technology market. Apple, Facebook, SAP and other major vendors reported mixed third-quarter earnings this week. They followed a string of disappointing earnings announcements from other IT heavyweights this season including...
Visualized: Inside Moog’s Sound Lab
By Billy Steele posted Oct 26th 2012 2:56PM As touring acts grow weary from their travels across the US of A, Moog has a spot for them to get re-energized. Inside the synth maker’s North Carolina headquarters sits a room that’s decked out with the company’s analog tech and effects (including a Model 15 synthesizer) — waiting for musicians who are on the road to stop by for a visit. It’s here in the Sound...
Controlling Your Home with the Touch of an iPad
When you step off the elevator into the 8,000-square foot Savant Experience Center, it feels less like a showroom and more like a swanky Manhattan abode. “We wanted to develop a space where technology blended in with the environment,” says Robert Madonna, chief executive of Savant Systems, a Hyannis, Mass.-based home automation company. ”We built a high-end New York City ‘apartment’ and…everything is automated.” The Savant Experience...
Microsoft offering free Media Center upgrade to Windows 8 Pro users until January 31st 2013
By Mark Hearn posted Oct 26th 2012 3:27PM Home theater PC enthusiasts weren’t too thrilled when Microsoft announced that it was stripping Media Center and its codecs for DVD playback and broadcast TV from Windows 8 in favor of a paid add-on. The folks from Redmond are offering a temporary reprieve, in an effort to reward early adopters. Windows 8 Media Center Pack is for free to customers who purchase Windows 8 Pro… at...
Windows 8 raises the bar for PC security
Windows 8 is officially here. Microsoft held an event in New York yesterday to launch the new OS, and spent a lot of time talking about cool features and introducing a plethora of hardware options available with Windows 8. One thing Microsoft didnt talk about much, though, is securityand the new features in Windows 8 that will keep your PC and data safe. As with every previous iteration of the Windows operating system, Windows 8 is...
