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Audio/Video System Power Management - Choosing the Best Device

Overview The spectrum of power management devices today is quite broad. You can find everything from powerstrip-type suppressors that retail for under ten bucks to full-featured UPSs that cost several thousand dollars. Deciding which units are most appropriate for your home theater depends on several factors.

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Publisher	CinemaSource	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2002	Downloads	142
Format	White Papers
Topics	UPS

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Leading Consulting Engineers Discuss Power Factor, Real Power, and UPS Overload

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Publisher:
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Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage

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Publisher:
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Tags:
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Publisher:
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Tags:
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Browser wars: Dell and Google to buddy up?

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toolbar,
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Editor's Blog: The big picture

It's not for the faint-hearted, at hundreds of thousands of dollars or pounds per room, per location, but the ROI figures can stack up, if you happen to be an organisation where there are large amounts of business travel.

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cisco,
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IE 7 gives secure sites the green light

Phishing scams cost businesses millions of dollars and hurt consumer trust in the internet. In early January, the software giant made a change on its computer systems that allowed websites fitted with a new type of security certificate to display a...

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The game has ushered in a completely new type of commodity trading that can earn individuals thousands of dollars for offering high-level player characters and magic objects. As the lead designer of World of Warcraft (WoW), Pardo has helped...

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E-payments: Cheap as chips

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's 2002 publication The Future of Money, Selt would be issued in Singaporean dollars. Consumers are wary of currencies such as Linden dollars because they are unsure of their...

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