Dell Studio 14z Notebook Review

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What’s up I’m Brian Tong and welcome to the Applebyte, I’m out of town right now so we are going to sprinkle in a few new stories we have a special price give away that will be at the end of the show and most importantly will get to all of your emails. Microsoft is said to be rolling out anti-virus software that will compete with the life of Norton and Semantic. What’s more it will be free, we don’t know when this will be available to PC users the Microsoft spokesperson just said soon which usually doesn’t mean super fast in Microsoft language. Microsoft said that they would do this back in November but not much has happen yet so will just late longer. Speaking of Microsoft even they can’t afford to make software that nobody uses, yesterday they announced that they will start selling Microsoft money at the end of June. Support will be available through January 2011 but after that the program will stop pulling data from banks, credit card companies and other financial services. Money joints the recent like of Encarta and windows one care but have a moment to silence for the software that is falling. Virgin mobile USA launch the prepaid mobile internet system called broadband to go. It uses Sprints ABDO rave a network and monitors megabit usage on windows PC’s. It’s a prepaid card that you just add too when you need it. It will work with the Nova tell MC7 60 USB modem which you must buy for $150 but there is no credit check or contract required. This is a really interesting model and as far as I can tell the first of its kind here in the US I’m curious how you think it will be use. Writing about your thoughts loaded at cnet.com. If you used a mobile version of Gmail your life is got a little easier, the mobile male client may have auto complete and keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts don’t work on the iPhone for now they only work on android phones with physical keyboard or two of them. But they are the same shortcuts that you using the browser so you don’t have to relearn anything. Auto complete works on all mobile clients in the two fields it pulls out matching names from your contacts as soon as you type in just one letter. Unfortunately it only works for English version of Gmail for now. Speaking of Google how would you like to be the company’s official bike rider there is such a person. His or her job is to ride the bicycle around biking and hiking trails in order to capture 360 degree images for a Google maps street view. A few weeks ago we reported on a specially rig baggy that does this for smaller roads. Now Google has a bicycle to get even more detail, what’s next to camera eclipse road in to capture the inner workings of our buildings, what will be cool and kind of girls. If you don’t like using location trackers on your phone you are not going to like where a GPS shoes Quatum Satellite Technology is a new line of tiny shoes that will go on sale next month. They cost around $350 and they have GPS in the sole of the shoes. They are meant to track anyone you like to track like your elderly, uncle or your child. Children sizes won’t be available until later on this summer. Not only all the shoes more expensive than Air Jordan’s you have to be pay a monthly service fee of $20 if you do that you will be able to find anyone wearing the shoes if they press the button to activate location. Sounds like a big hysterical gimmick to me but I’m open to what I guess so I will be if they make this version. If you’re county down to get your new iPhoen 3GS here is some official Apple news, it goes on sale at ATM and all time zones on Friday June 19th in the US and seven other countries. I’m curious of people who wait in line for the same phone for the third year in a row. As usual CNET will be following iPhone sales as they happen but not me I’ll be on the plane coming back to New York from San Francisco, have fun with that one Mark and Wilson. Don’t forget tomorrow is the big digital transition day finally, 2.8 million Americans are not ready for the DTV transition though, you may think it’s all grannies that are unprepared but actually in Nelson study shows that 1.5% of people over 55 are unprepared and that’s down from 5.2% in December. So the elderly are doing there part and getting ready who are the slackers. It’s probably not you giving the fact that you are watching an online TV so you’re probably pretty tech savvy. Anyway the point is that it happens tomorrow so sit back relax and watch those 2.8 million people go totally bankers when there TV’s don’t’ work. Those are your headlines for today before I go I want to wish a happy birthday to Austin, Scott and Rebecca, I will see you next week incidentally will be film in loaded from San Francisco so look at for me there. Thank you for watching and I’m Natali Del Conte with CNET TV and you just been loaded. AT&T turns off its broadband TV service, we have photos of a Dell smart phone and Google losses a bit of market share to Bing. Its Monday August 17th I’m Natali Del Conte and it’s time to get loaded. It has not than good week for Boxee users, an update to the Apple TV yesterday breaks compatibility with there party add on like Boxee. It looks like Apple finally cut on to the media center software and decided they do not want you to watch cool online videos on your TV so if you want to keep your Boxee going don’t upgrade your Apple TV firmware. Netflix more or less confirm that it will begin offering the streaming only service. Rumors about they started circulating last week and the company CFO Barry McCartney discuss it on Wednesday, he said were like to do that and the foreseeable future which stands promising to me. It would mean that you can’t get a Netflix account without ever having to get a physical DVD in the mail you just subscribe to stream the movies in the Netflix blog instantly application. Microsoft is taking Tomtom to court for pattern infringement, the company releases the statement on Wednesday same they have filed an action against the GPS Company for infringing an intellectual property related to in car navigation technology and other computing functionality. The statement implied that they had tried to settle out of court but in agreement could not be reaching. There were no details about specifically which technology was infringe but I’m guessing it has to do with Microsoft sink. Alaska Airlines is joining the ranks of airlines that offer in flight Wi-Fi, this will be a satellite base service from a company called Row 44. It will be free for the first 60 days while being tasted in flight between settle and San Jose if the trial is successful it will be rolled out to the airlines entire flight but it won’t be free. If you get on one of this flight do a speed test and send us your results load it at cnet.com. On Tuesday Gmail was down for 2 ½ hours, users of the Google Apps premiers of service are being compensated the whole $2 and 5 cents for there time. According to the terms of service you should also get an extra three days of service but Google will extend that to 15 days out of there own generosity. In more Gmail news the company has added a new feature, this time you have the option of moving the inbox count before the word Gmail in the title bar of your browser. So if you have a bunch of tabs open you can easily see how many unread emails you have. A few weeks back we mentioned of the, I am reach application that was available for a modest $999 on iTunes, it was basically away for reach people to prove that they had money to burn and socially network with like minded posters. As you can imagine few people were amused and it was fold from iTunes apps stare pretty quickly. Now the app has weird its pretentious head in the android market but the developers have apparently learn there lesson, they lower the price to $200 what bargain. If your laptop installing you maybe able to set it to irritate the heck out of the teeth until they either destroy it or bring it back to you. A program by front door software called Retriever will flash a really annoying yellow message on your laptop screen every 30 seconds if the machine has been reported stolen. It will also say out loud stolen laptop over and over and over again this cannot be turn off unless you log in to the website and disconnect it yourself. The laptop itself will know it’s stolen because you have reported it on the website and when the machine is turn on it will look for near by Wi-Fi signals in order to push out the message the program cost $30. Well it certainly is a deterrent for thief is it really going to get someone to bring you your computer back what do you expect the laptop on your doorstep with the note it says, sorry I try to use it but it bug the crap so I’m getting it back not likely. Those are your headlines for today and that wraps up your week of getting loaded but before I go I want to wish you happy birthday to Marty, Sebastian, James and JC. I will see all of you next week or later today and tomorrow on Buzz out Loud. Thank you for watching I’m Natali Del Conte with CNET TV and you just been loaded.