Jason Hiner

Among the bold claims being made at Interop Las Vegas 2008, perhaps the boldest was Nortel’s assertion that its network gear consumes 50% less power than Cisco’s. Take a look at Nortel’s aggressive Interop campaign in the Expo Hall and in the promotional materials for the conference.

At Interop Las Vegas 2008, Xirrus tried to convince IT pros that it was time to ditch their switches and replace them with the Xirrus 802.11n wireless arrays. These photos show the signage they used at Interop.

The Google homepage flipped its color palette to black on March 29 to show its support for Earth Hour. See how Google went black in order to be green, and photos of some of Google’s other green initiatives, including electric cars and solar panels at its headquarters.

Get a look at CES 2008 in Las Vegas through the eyes of TechRepublic Executive Editor Jason Hiner.

Star Wars lovers can feel like real Jedi knights with the Force FX Lightsaber from Master Replicas. See the unboxing of the product and get a look at it in action.

Unboxing and testing of Hasbro R2-D2

This is a gallery of the 10 most important business technology products of 2007 from TechRepublic’s Tech Sanity Check.

Images and screenshots from Microsoft’s October 16, 2007 launch of its unified communications suite.

See the Expo Floor and the latest mobile Internet gear from WiMAX World 2007.

The Intel Developer Forum is always one of the best ways to see what’s coming next in computing in a year or two. It’s also a great look into the current mindset of the IT industry in order to spot new priorities and top concerns.

Take a look at the iPhone lines in Louisville (where TechRepublic gots its iPhone), New York City, and San Francisco.

Before cracking open the iPhone, TechRepublic took 67 photos of the process of unboxing and doing the initial setup for the iPhone. Here is our soup-to-nuts look at the entire process.