coating on the screen cuts down on reflections, making it easier to use in bright sunlight. Despite all the space devoted to the screen, the controls are still well laid out, and the scroll wheel makes flipping through different options easy.  The menus are...

from Adobe Flash to streaming H.264 media. Unlike most systems, webOS treats applications like cards in a deck, able to be handled one alongside the next, laid on top of each other, and so on. If you look at the picture of the webOS Launcher below, you can...

250 Xscale processor in the Pocket PC e740, you get high performance and low consumption. The Pocket PC e740 is boosted by the Intel PAX 250 processor speed of 400 MHz and 64 MB memory. Also equipped with the new ATI graphics card" etc. ATI then laid on some...

uses an Atheros-based mini-PCI radio for the 11a side, and Broadcom AirForce powered mini-PCI radio for 11b/g duties. Figure 1: WRT55AG laid out for viewing (click on the image for a full-sized view) Figure 1 shows that each of the radios gets only one of...

enough. The way the pixels are arranged is not the same as on their large format prototype. On small screens, the diodes are arranged in staggered rows like brickwork. On large screens, they are laid out like a chessboard. This is a lot cheaper to produce but...

its performance is as impressive as its size!. SanDisk's SD WiFi card is - if nothing else - a technical tour-de-force. I'm still impressed that a fully-featured 802.11b adapter is now about the size of two postage stamps laid end-to-end. What's not impressive,...

concerned parents: the PIN query. You can deselect this if you don't want it. Everything new that the PC server has to offer. The various titles under "New Media" Clearly laid out: the Movies submenu If you keep your PC well organized, you probably store...

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suppliers) would like you to believe that all streaming will be done via "throughput enhanced" 802.11g wireless networks. The three major chipmakers (Atheros, Broadcom, and GlobespanVirata) have now laid their pumped-up 11g plans on the table and both Broadcom...

So you need quite a lot of practice to be able to manage the system effectively. Having said this, a home theater amplifier is not much simpler, but at least the buttons and indicator lights are often better laid out. As a concrete example of what I am talking...