This thing is crazy, and maybe in a good way. At Intel’s developers conference today, Dell showed off what appeared to be a netbook at first glance. Then the guy holding it apparently swiveled the 10-inch touchscreen around 180 degrees inside its own frame, closed the computer as one would do with a standard notebook, and …
Man, bad day to NOT be in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Apparently Google gave away some 600 Sony Bravia TVs to guests attending its Zeitgeist conference. Not only that, the attendees also got Google TV (presumably built right into the Sony) and six months of free Dish satellite service.
Oh and free Geek Squad installation, too. It’s not
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If you’ve been looking for a simple way to send HTML e-mail from your iPhone, MarkdownMail ($1.99) may be the answer. The application makes use of a simplified coding syntax developed by John Gruber known as Markdown, which it leverages to quickly create things like hyperlinks, bolded words, italicized words, bulleted lists, headings, …
Nokia’s got a few new handsets lined up for the end of the year. Perhaps most impressive of the bunch is the E7 (shown above), which vaguely resembles a buttoned-down, business-centric Sidekick.
The E7’s 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen slides up into an angled position to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard, yet remains relatively thin at just over
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Olympus has finally unveiled the long-awaited replacement to its E-3 DSLR camera, the E-5. It’s a 12-megapixel four thirds camera that’s due out in October with a starting price of around $1,700 for just the body.
The E-5 is compatible with both CompactFlash and SD cards, features 720p video recording at 30 frames per second, HDMI
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When you think about rugged cell phones, who’s the first celebrity that comes to mind? Yes, Oprah. Absolutely.
Motorola knows this and, as such, has apparently partnered with the queen of daytime television to promote the new Android-based Motorola Defy. I can’t bring myself to watch today’s show (human interest stories make me cry …
Internet-to-TV video service, Boxee, has been available as a free software download for a while now, but the company has been working with hardware partner D-Link on a dedicated hardware box for the better part of a year.
The Boxee platform in and of itself grabs stream-able video from all over the web—YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, CNN,
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Summer’s over, the kids are back in school, and you finally have a chance to slip back into some semblance of a routine. Here are some handpicked gadget deals to offer one last bit of distraction.
Garmin nuvi GPS with voice recognition: $99.99, today only (Amazon)
You yell at your GPS anyway, so you might as well have one that listens.
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This may be nothing or it may be the very future of portable computing as we know it! As with all rumors, it’s probably somewhere in between.
Apparently Acer is working on a 15-inch notebook that swaps out the hardware keyboard and trackpad for a second touchscreen. The design appears similar to Toshiba’s
YouTube has streamed live events in the past, but it looks like it’s getting ready to make scheduled live video streaming a more permanent fixture. Partnering with a handful of its content partners, YouTube will be testing out “a new live streaming platform” today and tomorrow, with possible expansion to more YouTube account holders in …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
10% ($0 to $8,375)
Sure, you make very little money.
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Smart. Lenovo has managed to stuff four USB ports into the brick of a notebook power adapter. And while notebook adapters with built-in USB charging ports exist already, this one actually turns three of its four ports into a USB hub while reserving the fourth for straightforward charging.
So if you’re looking to plug a bunch of
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