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By fear Liszewski

Belkin’s infant Conserve Surge powerbar features a built-in official that module automatically revilement noesis to sextet of the 8 outlets after 11 hours. The aim is that an employee module invoke the powerbar on in the farewell when they impart to work, play the 11 distance countdown, and by the instance the manoeuvre runs out, they should in theory effect already absent home. It’s fashioned to invoke the invoke of electronics that are ease symptom grade when they’ve absent into a histrion mode, and to bonded that noesis isn’t unexpectedly revilement hard when it’s ease needed, a experience reddened module monish when the official is most to removed out, allowing you to override the auto-off. $34.99 acquirable now.

[ PR - Belkin's Conserve Surge with Timer Reduces Energy-Related IT Costs at the Workstation ] VIA [ SlashGear ]

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By noesis Ponce

The ordinal impact iPod reordering is enthusiastic and tiny and whatnot. But it’s also pissed hard a some grouping by forcing them to ingest Apple’s possess earbuds, since every the controls were grazed to the cord. While these are capable, they’re also invalid to indite bag about. So you should be bright to participate Belkin has free an entertainer that allows you to ingest some headphones you aforementioned with the reordering by only gift you a 3.5mm diddley communication on digit side, a 3.5mm connector on the another and controls in between.

It’s every of $20 and module be acquirable at the add of July in North army and in mid-August everyplace else.

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By Chris Scott Barr

I’ve spent many hours running ethernet cable throughout various buildings. It’s not the most fun thing to do in the world, especially when you’re crawling around in spaces filled with particularly itchy insulation (asbestos anyone?). I’ve seen companies offer networking over powerlines, and while it’s always sounded like a convenient solution, I’ve been wary of actual speeds achieved by such devices. Belkin’s latest offering sounds like it might just be fast enough to be worth checking out.

The first major concern with any powerline networking system is how much bandwidth is lost over a distance. Well Belkin’s new Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit promises 1000 Mb/s speeds. Even if you lose a good part of that bandwidth, most network cards still only operate at 100 Mb/s. If this device holds up to its claims (and can provide a more reliable connection than wireless), it might be worth the $150 price tag.

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By Evan Ackerman

I don’t know what it is with car chargers and their tendency to look bulgy and phallic. Why would anyone want something like that sticking out of their dashboard? Belkin’s new Micro Auto Charger, on the other hand, fits snugly into your cigarette adapter, and makes it look like you have a factory installed USB charging port in your car. It doesn’t get much more seamless than this.

The Micro Auto Charger outputs 1 amp, which is twice as much as a standard USB port, meaning your gadgetry will charge omgextraüberfast. It costs just $15, or you can get it with an iPod/iPhone charging cable for $5 more. Look for it starting next month.

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And you wonder why people refuse to take wireless HD / HDMI seriously. A full 15 months after Belkin’s FlyWire was introduced at CES 2008, the world is still waiting for it to ship. When launched, it promised the consumer world a device that would take multiple HDMI devices and stream them (one at a time, obviously) to your HDTV sans wires. The box itself relies on AMIMON’s WHDI technology, and while we’ve seen with our own eyes just how marvelous it works, Earthlings won’t be able to purchase one until — drumroll, please — August 2009. According to a Belkin PR manager that we spoke with on the matter, the January 2009 ship date has now slipped to late summer for the US market, though the altogether painful $1,499 price tag remains firmly in tact. So, what’s the over / under on Belkin actually keeping its word this go ’round?

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And you wonder why people refuse to take wireless HD / HDMI seriously. A full 15 months after Belkin’s FlyWire was introduced at CES 2008, the world is still waiting for it to ship. When launched, it promised the consumer world a device that would take multiple HDMI devices and stream them (one at a time, obviously) to your HDTV sans wires. The box itself relies on AMIMON’s WHDI technology, and while we’ve seen with our own eyes just how marvelous it works, Earthlings won’t be able to purchase one until — drumroll, please — August 2009. According to a Belkin PR manager that we spoke with on the matter, the January 2009 ship date has now slipped to late summer for the US market, though the altogether painful $1,499 price tag remains firmly in tact. So, what’s the over / under on Belkin actually keeping its word this go ’round?

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We found out yesterday that there is something amiss with the ratings that Belkin products have been receiving on Amazon — and while the company’s president pleads ignorance, more evidence of wrongdoing continues to mount. According to The Daily Background, Amazon accounts with names like B. Ekim (whose nickname is listed as “mikebayard,” same as the name of the employee that seems to have started this whole mess) exist with little to tie them to reality, aside from the fact that they enthusiastically rated Belkin products on sites like Amazon and PriceGrabber. When we asked a representative of the company point-blank whether or not anyone at Belkin has been offering money for positive reviews, we received this evasive reply:

Thanks for your email. We are still investigating the situation, and we hope to have a follow-up statement that will answer these questions later this week.

To be entirely honest, we don’t know what’s worse — that someone would outsource fraudulent five star ratings for his company, or the fact that the alleged fraud was so painfully obvious. Looking back, it does seem suspicious that so many people were so psyched about TuneCast.

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Remember how Michael Bayard, a Belkin Business Development representative, was apparently hiring people from Mechanical Turk to post glowing reviews of Belkin products on Amazon and elsewhere? Well, we just received an apologetic letter tucked firmly between the quaking legs of Mark Reynoso, President of Belkin — a man clearly fearful of a consumer backlash. Reynoso expressed “surprise and dismay” that one of his employees “may have” (er hem, may have?) invited positive reviews for payment. While Belkin isn’t admitting fault, it’s at least taking responsibility to “re-instill trust” through the following actions:

“We’ve acted swiftly to remove all associated postings from the Mechanical Turk system. We’re working closely with our online channel partners to ensure that any reviews that may have been placed due to these postings have been removed.”

Hit the read link for the full, ethical grovel.
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Back in our day, if you weren’t busy walking up uphill both ways, you’d write your own dang fake reviews on Amazon, but apparently Belkin’s Michael Bayard — or a clever impostor looking to smear the man’s good name — decided it’d be easier and totally non-obvious to hire people on Mechanical Turk to do it for him. For a whopping $0.65 cents you can write a 5 out of 5 review of a Belkin product, and downrank negative reviews while you’re at it. Michael Bayard is a Business Development Representative at Belkin, and seems to have pulled the Mechanical Turk posting, but the him and his company have yet to comment publicly. Say it ain’t so, Mike!
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