In my last post I said some companies do better than others at scrubbing your confidential search logs as time passes. Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
But there’s a far better answer than looking for the search company that …
HTC recently unveiled two new Android handsets destined for the European and Asian markets this fall. The HTC Desire HD and the HTC Desire Z may be more familiar to those of us in the U.S. as the HTC Evo 4G and the T-Mobile G2, respectively—the one big difference being that the Desire HD won’t have 4G connectivity like the Evo does …
Think of Card 2.0 as a universal remote for all your other debit and credit cards. Developed by a company called Dynamics, Inc., it looks like any other credit card except for a few small buttons on the front of it.
Those buttons will correspond to existing debit and credit cards that you already have. Once you’re up at the register,
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Hello out there in Techland–my name is Harry McCracken, and I’m new in these parts. I blog about the Web, mobile gear, consumer electronics, and PCs and Macs at a site called Technologizer, which I started in 2008. And starting today, I’m writing a weekly TIME.com column–also named Technologizer–and contributing to Techland. It’s …
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, …
An update to Thumbplay’s iPhone app allows users to cache playlists and albums. Other new features and fixes include: an improved UI, retina display support, shuffle/repeat and integrated player controls.
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And the new camera announcements just keep rolling along.
The Canon PowerShot G12 is a mild update to the G11 and the SX30 IS is nothing more than a tweener with a superduper telephoto lens.
Not much is different about the G12 since it has the same sensor but now it records HD (720p) video and has a high sensitivity mode. Oh, and …
Following up on the NX10, Samsung has announced the NX100, a mirrorless 14.6-megapixel shooter with an i-Function lens. It looks a heck of a lot like the Olympus Pen series, doesn’t it?
According the Samsung, the NX100 shares many attributes with the NX10 from the APS-C sensor to the 3-inch AMOLED screen to the HD (720p) video …
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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