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		<title>Google Play Music All Access Review: It&#8217;s Not a Spotify Competitor After All</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get this out of the way: Google Play Music All Access is a terrible name, rolling off the tongue like a mouthful of marbles. I&#8217;m not sure what Google was thinking here, adopting such a clunky moniker for a fledgling streaming music service whose media-decreed rivals go by punchier handles like Pandora, Spotify, Rdio and Grooveshark. Why not something simpler like Google Music, leaving &#8220;All Access&#8221; to describe one of the subscription tiers? Even the name Google Play sounds catchier and more appropriate for something that dishes up tunes, but then Google already uses those two words (somewhat incongruously) to describe its entire digital distribution platform, from Android apps, devices and games to books, magazines and music. Google Play Music All Access it is then, and I&#8217;ll henceforth be referring to it as GPMAA for sanity&#8217;s sake (or, as I&#8217;ve been pronouncing it out loud, &#8220;gup-mah&#8221;). Google unveiled GPMAA yesterday at its annual I/O conference during an over three-hour developer-focused keynote, though of that time, the company only devoted a few minutes to touch on the service&#8217;s basic features. As suspected, GPMAA represents Google&#8217;s attempt to offer a subscription-based music service, streaming &#8220;millions&#8221; of songs &#8212; intermingled with up to 20,000 more, uploadable or song-matched from your personal library &#8212; for $10 a month ($8 a month if you sign up by the end of June). Chris Yerga, Google&#8217;s engineering director who steered this part of the keynote, explained that GPMAA would include common music streaming features like curated playlists, album recommendations and a build-your-own-radio-station feature. In other words, GPMAA isn&#8217;t a wildly new product so much as another limb stitched into an existing framework. Google hopped into the music game in late 2011 with Google Music (later, Google Play Music), the company&#8217;s answer to Apple&#8217;s iTunes music store, the twist being that you could also upload up to 20,000 of your own songs and stream all of that to multiple Android devices. The service never really took off, though, and no surprise: Given the choice between having to curate your own music library (where you’re<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162884&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Update Makes Pinterest Cleaner and Easier to Manage</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/review-update-makes-pinterest-cleaner-and-easier-to-manage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 11:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Bree Fowler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Don&#8217;t worry, Pinterest fans: Your sprawling virtual pegboards of wedding dresses, handmade jewelry, craft projects and food porn haven&#8217;t changed dramatically. They&#8217;re just easier to manage. The popular link- and photo-sharing website has rolled out an update, one offering people simpler navigation and new ways to arrange their boards to fit their needs. Although the haphazard spirit of Pinterest remains, the site is much less overwhelming. I wasn&#8217;t a Pinterest user before, so the redesign gave me a chance to take a good look at the site for the first time. Before that, I had refused to be sucked into yet another form of social media. I figured I didn&#8217;t have much use for it. In the months since I started testing out Pinterest&#8217;s new look, though, I&#8217;ve found the service helpful in organizing and sharing my continually expanding recipe collection. And it&#8217;s fun to check what other people around the world are looking at and to see which strangers choose to follow me or respond to what I&#8217;m sharing. Although it is not a replacement for Facebook or Twitter, and doesn&#8217;t pretend to be, it is a beautiful and vast world with more than 25 million users around the world. For those who have never used Pinterest, the free site lets people &#8220;pin&#8221; pictures from websites they want to share on online peg boards. You can choose to share the boards with just a few close friends or the entire Pinterest world. Others can comment on the boards and pins, &#8220;like&#8221; them or repin items on their own boards. The result is an eclectic mix of millions of boards spanning just about as many topics. Although it doesn&#8217;t offer as much of a chance to communicate and debate the way Facebook and Twitter do, Pinterest is an interesting and often beautiful supplement to those social media networks. Pinterest&#8217;s recent redesign is intended to cut down on clutter and make the site easier to manage, without drastically changing its look. The new look continues to evolve.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162450&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Is DLC for Folks Who Hate DLC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 10:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a general rule, once I&#8217;ve finished playing a video game, that&#8217;s it. No more. Don&#8217;t bother selling me new missions, extra multiplayer maps or additional guns. By the time I&#8217;ve sunk 15 or 20 hours into a game, I&#8217;m ready to move on. But then came Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, a $15 extension to last year&#8217;s fun-but-stupid first-person shooter. Downloadable content, or DLC* in gamer jargon, had suddenly piqued my interest. Blood Dragon isn&#8217;t a typical add-on. It&#8217;s a departure from the source material, trading hostile natives for cyber-soldiers, and island shanties for metal-clad compounds. Like Far Cry 3, the game is set on an island, but now it&#8217;s covered in neon pinks and blues, with red and green laser lights beaming up into a stormy sky. You start the game, and synthesizers start blaring. Ubisoft Blood Dragon is a throwback the testosterone-driven films of the &#8217;80s and early &#8217;90s, before we demanded deep thoughts out of our action movies. The protagonist, Sergeant Rex Power Colt, is a gravel-voiced cyborg with a metallic arm and glowing red eye. Tired cliches, cringeworthy double entendres and references to decades-old pop culture saturate every line of dialog. Basically, it&#8217;s like modern video games, except Blood Dragon is aware of its silliness. The game itself is presented as an artifact from the VHS era that imagines &#8220;the future&#8221; as a neon-soaked 2007. (At the start, Ubisoft&#8217;s logo warbles out of tune as it spins onto the screen, and a &#8220;tracking&#8221; bar appears during load times to adjust the picture.) Even the characters are tuned into the nostalgia; the game&#8217;s villain is bent on reverting humanity to a more savage state, which seems like a gussied up way of saying he wants his &#8217;80s movies back. Mechanically, Blood Dragon doesn&#8217;t stray far from the source material. The game is still largely about raiding enemy compounds, venturing on side missions and wasting time on the island looking for trinkets and hunting (cyber) wildlife. As with Far Cry 3, you can still use stealth to take down<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162380&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marshall Monitor Headphones Review: Exemplary Audio from Tiny Cans</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/30/marshall-monitor-headphones-review-exemplary-audio-from-tiny-cans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s possible &#8212; heck, even probable &#8212; that you&#8217;ve heard of Britain-based sonic powerhouse Marshall before. After all, the company&#8217;s guitar amps are practically iconic in music-dom. Take its &#8220;Bluesbreaker,&#8221; which you probably haven&#8217;t heard of by name, but you&#8217;ve almost surely heard it &#8212; well, if you&#8217;re familiar with Eric Clapton&#8217;s little 1966 album with the Bluesbreakers, anyway. And don&#8217;t forget the &#8220;Marshall stack,&#8221; the holy-holy for concert rock gods who like to raise up literal walls of overpowering sound composed of Marshall amplifiers. But headphones? That&#8217;s newer territory for the company. Marshall&#8217;s initial stabs at consumer-grade headphones emerged in 2010, the so-called &#8220;Major&#8221; (on-ear) and &#8220;Minor&#8221; (in-ear), neither of which I&#8217;ve had a chance to test, but were well-reviewed just glancing around the interwebs. The company&#8217;s new premium-priced Marshall Monitor headphones drew my attention because I&#8217;m more interested in enthusiast-caliber headphones, and at $200, these things definitely qualify as premium-priced in Marshall&#8217;s modest if expanding lineup. Tiny Cans Out of the Marshall Monitor&#8217;s distinctive cube-like box, you&#8217;ll pull a rough canvas carrying pouch with drawstrings (bearing Marshall&#8217;s logo), a detachable cord (with integrated microphone) that&#8217;s partially coiled like a vintage guitar cable and the collapsible headphones themselves, the cans tucked neatly beneath the headband cushion. From headband to ear cushion bottom, these things are small &#8212; much smaller than you&#8217;d expect a $200 pair of headphones with &#8220;monitor&#8221; in the product name to be. Marshall That&#8217;s part of Marshall&#8217;s marketing pitch: a pair of headphones that &#8220;deliver superior noise isolation without the bulk.&#8221; To accomplish this, the company employs a custom 40mm driver, 42-ohm impedance, 99dB SPL sensitivity, 10Hz-20kHz response and something Marshall&#8217;s dubbed F.T.F, or &#8220;felt treble filter&#8221; &#8212; basically tiny felt pieces tucked into the cans you can remove at leisure if you want a crisper sound in the 1k-20k range. Marshall describes the F.T.F.-in sound as &#8220;warmer, laid back&#8221; versus &#8220;brighter and clearer&#8221; when removed, which as usual depends on the sort of audio you&#8217;re listening to. The ear cushions are secured magnetically, so removing them is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161365&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Razer Edge Tablet Is a Rocky Shortcut to the Future of Gaming</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/razer-edge-review-a-rocky-shortcut-to-the-future-of-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For any gamer who’s been kicked out of the living room so the rest of the family can watch TV, the Razer Edge wants to be your dream device. The Edge is a Windows 8 tablet that runs the latest PC games. It offers attachable game controls, and can also slide into an HDMI dock for playing on a television or desktop monitor. For $1,350 with all the accessories, the Razer Edge is a home video game system, portable console and gaming PC all in rolled into one. It’s also a glimpse into the inevitable future of “core” gaming, when we’re no longer tethered to a bulky set-top box or PC tower, and we’re able to traipse freely from one screen to the next. But while other firms are experimenting with fancy wireless trickery and cloud-based streaming, Razer tried to deliver the future through brute force, and there are unintended consequences. Jared Newman / TIME.com Inside, the Edge packs a dedicated NVidia graphics card, a powerful Intel Core i5 processor and 64 GB of storage, at a base price of $1,000 without accessories. (A “Pro” model includes a faster i7 processor, Bluetooth 4.0 and double the storage for $300 more, or quadruple the storage for $450.) The Razer Edge Pro review unit I’ve been testing handled games like Far Cry 3 and Dishonored with more smoothness and fidelity than an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Not that you could actually play those games on a touch screen. Instead, you can tack on Razer’s $250 Gamepad, which clips onto the tablet like a pair of wings, each with their own thumbsticks, buttons and triggers. Or, you can just plug a wired gamepad or mouse/keyboard combo into the Edge’s full-sized USB port. The result is a product that doesn’t look or feel futuristic. The Razer Edge is thicker than many thin-and-light laptops and heavier than a first-generation iPad. It has two large vents on the top edge that spew hot air during prolonged gaming sessions, and the bezel around the screen is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161125&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘The New Digital Age’: Promise and Peril Ahead for the Global Internet</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/04/26/the-new-digital-age-promise-and-peril-ahead-for-the-global-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise of the Internet has been one of the most transformative developments in human history, at least comparable in impact to the advent of the printing press and the telegraph. via ‘The New Digital Age’: Promise and Peril Ahead for the Global Internet &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161132&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review Roundup: BlackBerry Q10 Puts the Keyboard Front and Center</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/24/review-roundup-blackberry-q10-puts-the-keyboard-front-and-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you hadn&#8217;t heard, BlackBerry has been attempting to claw its way back into the smartphone race. The all-touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 hit the market not too long ago (see our review here), but it&#8217;s the BlackBerry Q10 that true diehards have been holding out for. Due out in the U.S. in late May, the Q10 sports an honest-to-goodness hardware keyboard reminiscent of the keyboards that turned mild-mannered BlackBerry owners into downright fanatics in the first place. Here&#8217;s a representative sampling of some of the various Q10 reviews that have been trickling out. Not to be a spoiler, but the basic consensus seems to be that people who love, love, love BlackBerry keyboards won&#8217;t be disappointed with the Q10; everyone else might be a tougher sell, though. Joanna Stern at ABC News: It is a fully modern BlackBerry – and not just by BlackBerry standards. It&#8217;s fast, has a mobile browser that beats many of the others and an outstanding physical keyboard. No, its battery life and camera are not as strong as the competition, but its bigger issue lies with the fact that it runs a brand new operating system. While the software offers something entirely different than others, overall it and its app store lack the robustness of Google, Apple and even Microsoft&#8217;s offerings. Many who have been waiting for a new Blackberry with a keyboard and a real browser will find the Q10 to be the phone they have been waiting on for so long. As for me, I&#8217;d replace my Bold with the Q10 in a heartbeat, but ultimately it&#8217;s not enough to become the only phone I carry. Peter Svensson at the Associated Press: [T]he Q10 is likely to be attractive to the BlackBerry faithful. It deserves to lure some people over from Androids and iPhones as well. The keyboard makes the Q10 a good complement to a tablet. Use the bigger screen for entertainment, surfing and gaming, and the BlackBerry for messaging. When I reviewed the Z10 model in January, I found I couldn&#8217;t<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160967&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung Galaxy S 4 Review: Gimme One Smartphone, with Everything</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/24/samsung-galaxy-s4-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it became clear that Google&#8217;s Android operating system would be the iPhone&#8217;s primary rival, hardware makers quickly began cranking out a vast profusion of Android models. And for a while, it looked like the future of the phone market would be the iPhone vs. &#8230; well, everybody. Recently, though, the market has boiled down to the iPhone vs. Samsung — or, more precisely, the iPhone vs. the Galaxy S. True, other manufacturers produce some very well-done Android phones, like HTC&#8217;s elegant One. But Samsung is Android&#8217;s 800-lb. gorilla, and the Galaxy S line is its most direct answer to Apple&#8217;s phone. Which makes the Galaxy S 4 the smartphone you&#8217;re most likely to buy if you&#8217;re not buying an iPhone. Like previous Galaxy phones, the S 4 will be one of the most widely available smartphones on the planet: it arrives on AT&#38;T on Saturday, on Sprint and T-Mobile next week and on Verizon in May. The price varies from carrier to carrier and reseller to reseller, but in general, the 16GB model will set you back $150 to $250 with a two-year service commitment. (Or, with T-Mobile, a contract-free agreement to pay off the rest of the price of the phone over two years.) I reviewed the T-Mobile version of the Galaxy S 4 — compatible with both that company&#8217;s nationwide HSPA+ network and its nascent LTE one — using a phone provided by Samsung. If you&#8217;ve been following the evolution of the Galaxy S line since the original model debuted in March 2010, you can guess what Samsung&#8217;s done to differentiate the S 4 from its predecessors. If Apple is a master of minimalism, Samsung believes just as deeply in maximalism: bigger screens, better specs, more features and apps. Bottom line: the Galaxy S 4 is essentially last year&#8217;s Galaxy S III, only more so. In a happy paradox, the S 4 is both larger and smaller than its predecessor. What&#8217;s bigger is the display — a bright, vivid, HD-capable 5-in. (12.7 cm) Super AMOLED screen that adds<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160876&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: HTC One Is the Current King of the Android Hill</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/19/review-htc-one-is-the-current-king-of-the-android-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get something out of the way right off the bat: the HTC One is a damn fine Android phone. It&#8217;s the finest I&#8217;ve ever used, and I&#8217;ve used a fair number of Android phones in this line of work. Being an Android phone is tough, though, due in large part to the sheer number of Android phones that are on the market and the speed at which they become available. Case in point: HTC&#8217;s own Droid DNA is and was a damn fine Android phone that came out less than six months ago; aside from the DNA having a slightly larger screen and being available on Verizon, the HTC One has basically taken the wind out of the Droid DNA&#8217;s sails. That&#8217;s what HTC&#8217;s biggest challenge might be with the One: there&#8217;s always another Android phone looming right around the corner that may be able to knock the current champ off its pedestal. In the One&#8217;s case, that phone might be the Samsung Galaxy S4, which is due out in a couple of weeks. For now, however, the HTC One is absolutely the Android phone to beat, and arguably the smartphone to beat regardless of platform. Of all the One&#8217;s features, five stick out as notable: its design, screen, speed, camera and battery. These are five major things that aren&#8217;t superfluous or gimmicky. These are important, useful features, and HTC nailed them. The One is an exercise in thoughtful, beautiful design. It&#8217;s wrapped in aluminum, not plastic; it&#8217;s big but not too big; substantial but not heavy. A lot of care went into crafting this phone. The 4.7-in. (12 cm) screen packs a full HD (1920 by 1080) resolution and pushes out rich colors. It&#8217;s truly gorgeous, whether you&#8217;re reading text, looking at photos or watching video. And the 1.7-GHz quad-core processor coupled with 2 gigabytes of RAM ensures every swipe, tap and scroll is as smooth as the next. When it comes to the camera, HTC opted out of the megapixel race, instead referring to the One&#8217;s camera as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160559&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter #Music Helps You Mostly Rediscover What You Already Knew</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/18/twitter-music-helps-you-mostly-rediscover-what-you-already-knew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bring up Twitter #music&#8217;s default main page, whether in a browser or the slick, currently iOS-exclusive app, and you&#8217;re immediately confronted by beautifully stylized, edge-to-edge stacks of squarish, super-sized Twitter profile art &#8212; in the default &#8220;Popular&#8221; view&#8217;s case, colorful pics of the most Twitter-visible artists and songs. There&#8217;s @taylorswift13 with &#8220;22,&#8221; @robinthicke with &#8220;Blurred Lines,&#8221; @MumfordAndSons with &#8220;I Will Wait for You,&#8221; and of course @psy_oppa in the number one spot with his &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221; followup, &#8220;Gentleman.&#8221; If your musical interests tend toward trends, in other words, this is precisely the app you&#8217;ve been looking for. And what a lovely app it turns out to be from a design standpoint, easily (and ironically) outclassing Twitter&#8217;s own native iOS client and web interface. The iOS version, in particular soars, letting you quickly swipe left or right between its four primary views, alternatively tapping a drop-down menu &#8212; the website&#8217;s sole navigation mechanic &#8212; if you&#8217;d rather shortcut-hop around. Take &#8220;Popular,&#8221; the default screen, which drops the top 140 (get it?) most popular artists and songs &#8220;trending on Twitter&#8221; into a 3 x 5 scrollable grid. Click on an artist&#8217;s square and you zoom on it, iTunes-style, where you can then listen to an iTunes preview clip, fire off a tweet about it, drill for Twitter-related information (like &#8220;Artists Following&#8221;), or opt to follow an artist outright. Slide over to &#8220;Emerging&#8221; and you can fiddle with the service&#8217;s more intriguing music view &#8212; another 140 artists, though chances are you&#8217;ll recognize fewer of them off the block. Twitter defines this view as &#8220;Hidden talent found in the Tweets,&#8221; whatever that means. I won&#8217;t guess what sort of algorithmic voodoo the company&#8217;s working here, but this list seems to turn up primarily the sort of groups &#8212; nothing against them, mind you &#8212; that you&#8217;ll find gracing a site like Pitchfork, i.e. hip-to-be-Indie stuff: Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Fitz &#38; the Tantrums, Ladyhawke and so forth. What you won&#8217;t find is genuinely off the beaten path wonders like @gretchenparlato, or @SteveReich, or @GreyboyAllstars, or [insert<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160545&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Home Review: Slick, Fun and, for Now, Superficial</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/09/facebook-home-review-slick-fun-and-for-now-superficial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you attended Facebook’s &#8220;our new Home on Android&#8221; event last Thursday — or watched the live stream — you could be forgiven if you came away confused about just how significant Facebook thought its news was. On one hand, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kept stressing that, despite long-standing rumors, the company wasn&#8217;t announcing a &#8220;Facebook phone&#8221; after all. Nor had it created a Facebook phone operating system. Its new product, Facebook Home, was just a replacement for Android&#8217;s standard home screen; one that was shipping on just one new phone — HTC&#8217;s First — and which could be installed on a few different existing phone models from Samsung and HTC. But Zuckerberg also said Facebook Home was a paradigm shift: a piece of software that makes the phones running it people-centric rather than app-centric. And he called it the best version of Facebook yet — not just for phones, but for any sort of device. So which is it? Is Facebook Home a simple and straightforward piece of software, or a landmark? Well, conceptually, it&#8217;s indeed a big deal: allowing one social network to insert itself, front and center, into your smartphone experience could change everything about how you interact with your phone. But the thing is, there just isn&#8217;t that much Facebook Home to interact with. There are pretty pictures from your news feed, updates from your friends and an exceptionally clever messaging feature called Chat Heads — and not a whole lot else. To riff on what Gertrude Stein said about her hometown of Oakland, Calif., there&#8217;s not much there there. Not yet, anyhow. But Zuckerberg said Facebook plans to release monthly updates to Home, which means that it could get much meatier in a hurry. And even though the software isn&#8217;t fancy, it represents Facebook&#8217;s first full-blown attempt to reimagine itself for a more mobile world. (The standard Facebook smartphone apps are pretty much just conventional Facebook, crammed onto a smaller display.) As such, it&#8217;s the company&#8217;s first rough draft of its own future. I tried Facebook<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159820&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BioShock Infinite Review: Elevated Action</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/09/bioshock-infinite-review-elevated-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always knew that reviewing BioShock Infinite would be a challenge. Normally, I&#8217;d follow the usual formula, talking about the game&#8217;s high points and low points, and slapping a score on the bottom. But BioShock Infinite isn&#8217;t formulaic. Here&#8217;s a game that in two weeks has already prompted more smart commentary than most games will ever see. It has a reputation for being that kind of game&#8211;the one you approach intellectually, despite its grisly facade of smashed skulls, burnt bodies and cartoonish gore. The same was true with the original BioShock, and with the spiritually-related System Shock series before that. BioShock Infinite wants you to have your mindless fun, but it also wants you to ponder. Let&#8217;s back up. On the surface, BioShock Infinite is about shooting enemies in the face, clubbing them over the head, lighting them on fire, electrocuting them, drowning them in tidal waves and&#8211;in the most fiendish case&#8211;sending murderous flocks of crows to peck at their flesh. Like the original BioShock, combat is a combination of weird genetic superpowers and plain old firearms. Over and over, the game hurls a handful of sharp-shooting enemies at you, and forces you to quickly come up with a strategy. For me, that meant employing the same strategy from start to finish: Find some cover, use the ghostly Possession skill to turn an enemy over to my side, pick off a few enemies amid the resulting commotion, repeat.  Almost every skill upgrade and weapon enhancement I made was in service of this winning battle plan, with the exception of improving my fire bombs and charge attacks for the occasional boss battle. And this was on the hardest difficulty setting. Take-Two Interactive As far as RPG-tinged shooters go, BioShock Infinite is just okay. The level of gore is perhaps a bit excessive, as some critics have argued. But the violence isn&#8217;t the substance of the game. It exists, in a Tarantino-like way, to put butts in seats. It also sets the rhythm, with each violent crescendo making you eager for Infinite&#8217;s quieter moments of storytelling. BioShock Infinite<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159800&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 3 Best Smartphones for Prepaid Plans</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/the-3-best-smartphones-for-prepaid-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Suzanne Kantra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gone are the days when the only way to get your hands on a high-end smartphone was to sign a multi-year agreement with a major carrier. Today, you can get top Android phones as well as the iPhone 5, not to mention the new BlackBerry Z10, all without a contract on prepaid plans. Prepaid plans provide the same access to carriers&#8217; voice and data networks, but without the contract (or steep penalties if you leave before your two years are up). You&#8217;ll pay up front for the phone, but end up saving, if you stick with a phone for two years. Prepaid used to be viewed as the option for those with poor credit, but that&#8217;s not the case anymore. Last year, Cricket was the first prepaid carrier to get the iPhone 5. Now you can also get the iPhone 5 from Straight Talk (offered by Walmart) and Solavei, which is a relative newcomer that uses T-Mobile&#8217;s 4G network. That&#8217;s much like Boost and Virgin Mobile use Sprint&#8217;s network. Perhaps even more indicative of the way things are going is the fact that prepaid-carrier Cricket was announced as a carrier at the launch of one of the most highly anticipated phones of the year, the Samsung Galaxy S 4. Samsung Samsung Galaxy S III Even after the unveiling of the flagship 5-inch Samsung Galaxy S 4, the 4.8-inch Galaxy S III is an impressive phone. It has Samsung&#8217;s bright, poppy Super AMOLED display, a fast 1.5GHZ dual core processor that easily handles games and apps, an excellent 8MP camera and access to the fastest 4G networks. Plus, there&#8217;s NFC for tapping to pair the phone with accessories and eye tracking, which prevents the screen from timing out while reading books or web pages. It&#8217;s available on Cricket ($379.99), Solavei ($575) and T-Mobile ($599.99). Apple iPhone 5 The iPhone 5 is a shoo-in for our best prepaid smartphone list. It&#8217;s got the best app store behind it and a huge ecosystem of compatible accessories and cases. Plus, it has a beautiful<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159378&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Chromebook Pixel: A Very Nice Machine for a Very Small Market</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/27/chromebook-pixel-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google unveiled its new Chromebook Pixel at a San Francisco press event last week, it played up one feature above all others: the Chrome OS laptop&#8217;s 12.85&#8243; screen, which, at 2560-by-1700 pixels with 239 pixels per inch, is one of the most outstandingly crisp displays ever to be put on a computing device. It&#8217;s also a touchscreen, the first ever on a Chromebook. But when chatter about the Pixel commenced on blogs and Twitter, the feature which attracted the most attention wasn&#8217;t the screen. It was the price &#8212; $1299 for the version with Wi-Fi and 32GB of flash storage, and $1449 for one with Wi-Fi, LTE broadband and 64GB of storage. That&#8217;s as much as a MacBook Air or a high-end Windows Ultrabook. For Chromebooks, it&#8217;s uncharted territory: you could buy six Acer C7 Chromebooks for the price of the Wi-Fi Pixel and have a hundred bucks left over. But hold on a moment. This Chromebook has an exceptional screen. It has a beautifully put-together aluminum case, still a rarity on any notebook without an Apple logo. It has a fine backlit keyboard and a great AC adapter. (It&#8217;s pretty much a black knockoff of Apple&#8217;s square power brick with the removable cord, but it&#8217;s much, much slicker than the cheesy adapters which come with even top-of-the-line Windows computers.) It may be the most impressive piece of industrial design that&#8217;s ever run a Google operating system. Google is also throwing in a terabyte of Google Drive online storage for three years, an $1800 value; if by chance you were thinking about paying for the service separately, buying a Chromebook Pixel is like getting a computer for free. The Pixel surely doesn&#8217;t cost a lot because Google is charging too much. It costs a lot because the company pulled out all the stops and made the best Chromebook it possibly could. Which means that the machine is a litmus test of sorts. Pretend, for a moment, that some kind soul has given you $1299 to spend on any portable<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157078&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Space 3 Review: Love Grows Cold</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/22/dead-space-3-review-love-grows-cold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You won’t find a better snapshot of big-budget video games right now than Dead Space 3. As sequels to sequels often do, Dead Space 3 delivers a most palatable sci-fi action dish, having smoothed away all the rough edges of its predecessors. It’s pretty to look at, delivers the requisite number of thrills, and stays mostly interesting from the first hour to the 20th. Yet Dead Space 3 is also a constant reminder of the gloomy business that surrounds this wonderful pastime. Dead Space 3 makes several subtle efforts to sell you in-game resources for real money, and carves out a gaping hole in its story for online cooperative play (which, incidentally, requires an “Online Pass” that costs $10 if you buy the game used). Even if you don&#8217;t think of these efforts as offensive money grabs, there’s no escaping the fact that they change the game&#8211;and not for the better. There was a time when the series&#8217; mantra, &#8220;shoot for the limbs,&#8221; held more meaning, back when Dead Space used to be about scarcity. When you looked in your inventory and saw only a clip-and-a-half of ammo and a tiny health pack, you experienced genuine terror at what the next darkened corridor might bring. That kind of scarcity can’t exist in Dead Space 3. Just imagine the backlash that publisher Electronic Arts would face if the game didn’t scatter a healthy supply of ammo and weapons throughout, but then asked players to buy those materials with real money. EA doesn&#8217;t need that stress, so instead Dead Space 3 goes the other way: By the midway point, you’re so overstuffed with weapons and ammo that you have to start selling off your surplus just to make room for more. Don&#8217;t worry about emptying your chamber on a single Necromorph; there’s plenty of ammo to go around. EA The spooky atmosphere that was once a hallmark of Dead Space is further diminished through the addition of cooperative multiplayer, regardless of whether you partake. EA wants you to believe you can have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157090&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OptiShot Golf Simulator Review: Play Indoors with Your Own Clubs All Winter Long</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/13/optishot-golf-simulator-review-play-indoors-with-your-real-clubs-all-winter-long/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It snowed in Boston this past weekend – a lot. We got more snow than we&#8217;ve seen in years, said the weather people. They were grinning as they said it. All of them. They&#8217;re sadistic. I was too busy playing the Plantation Course at Kapalua to notice or care how much it was snowing in Boston, though. I hit a few good drives and my approach shots were pretty stellar, but my long irons and my putter got the best of me: I shot a 97. I wasn&#8217;t actually in Hawaii but by the end of the round, I was sweating as if Maui&#8217;s silky-warm air had found its way into my every pore. I was in my living room swinging my own golf clubs, hitting a foam practice ball off a high-tech mat connected to my computer. Dancin&#8217; Dogg&#8217;s $400 OptiShot Infrared Golf Simulator is priced just high enough that you expect it to be more than a gimmicky motion controller, but low enough that it&#8217;s easy to make your peace with its shortcomings. The system is made of a 14-inch-long by 10-inch-wide platform of artificial turf containing a tee area flanked by a row of infrared sensors on either end. The platform connects to your PC with a 10-foot USB cable and measures your club head speed, face angle and swing path in real time. You can hit the included foam practice balls, real golf balls or nothing at all. All the compute-y stuff makes the platform about an inch and a quarter thick, so you&#8217;ll want to stand on something close to that thickness to compensate. Dancin&#8217; Dogg sells optional mats, but they&#8217;re almost comically expensive – I stood on a thick rug and positioned the platform next to it on the hardwood floor, which worked fine. In my testing, I found hitting the foam balls to be far more enjoyable than swinging at nothing, as the trajectory and pop of the foam balls helps your brain register whether you&#8217;ve hit a shot squarely or not. I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156531&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>App Review: Timbre Is the Classiest Way to Find Local Concerts</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/08/app-review-timbre-is-the-classiest-way-to-find-local-concerts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a concert in your vicinity these days ought to be simple, right? Just throw some words at a search engine, the name of your city, say, and a couple phrases like &#8220;local music&#8221; or &#8220;live events,&#8221; click around in your browser&#8217;s results, and bam, you&#8217;re on your way to see Springsteen and the E Streeters, They Might Be Giants or Benjamin Britten&#8217;s War Requiem as thunderously rendered by your local symphony orchestra. And yet web-trawling for local events is also kind of a mess: a mix of half-baked, ad-choked aggregators. If you&#8217;re new to your area, as I was when I moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan a few years ago, you have to poke around sites like Yelp or others until you&#8217;ve identified the go-to spots, some of whose acts only appear on the actual venue websites. Getting a handle on an average week&#8217;s music events can be a trick, especially if you&#8217;re near a big city (say Detroit) with a still-vibrant music scene (despite the city&#8217;s ongoing unpleasantries). Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have all this stuff in a single, dependable nexus? A comprehensive repository from which you could see everything, national touring acts to local ones, without fuss or muss? Mobile devices have been approaching this problem from different angles and with varying degrees of success for years. There used to be a popular app called Local Concerts, for instance, which got the job done but now seems to be missing in action. Today you&#8217;re liable to download something like Eventster, which tries to be all things to all people, cramming &#8220;nightlife, concerts, festivals, sports, theater,&#8221; and so forth into a basically functional, scrollable list with an alternative (if troublesomely crowded) map view. There&#8217;s also stuff like Thrillcall and Bandsintown Concerts, both of which offer somewhat improved interfaces, but only if you give them access to your Facebook profile &#8212; usually a deal-breaker for me, because who wants to open the gates to their private social network info before they&#8217;ve had a chance to test-drive the app? Yesterday I got an email from investment firm<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156356&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seagate Wireless Plus Review: A Terabyte for Your Tablet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/08/seagate-wireless-plus-review-a-terabyte-for-your-tablet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I own an iPad with 64GB of storage. Until the recent arrival of the 128GB iPad, mine was the largest-capacity model available &#8212; but it&#8217;s not enough. At the moment, I have less than 6GB of free space; when that dwindles away, I&#8217;m going to be in trouble. That makes me exactly the sort of person Seagate has in mind as a prospective customer for its $199.99 Wireless Plus, the hard-disk kingpin&#8217;s second-generation drive aimed at owners of iPads and other mobile devices. (Its predecessor, which debuted in 2011, was originally known as the Seagate GoFlex Satellite.) The Wireless Plus is a portable, battery-powered drive with a terabyte of storage (twice that of the Satellite) and built-in wi-fi, which lets it connect with gadgets which don&#8217;t have a USB port, such as the iPad, iPhone and most Android devices. In fact, it can connect to eight devices at a time and can stream HD video to three of them simultaneously. Seagate provided me with a unit for review. At first blush, the Wireless Plus looks like a slightly chunkier fraternal twin of Seagate&#8217;s Backup Plus, the company&#8217;s standard-issue USB drive. The skosh of extra space inside makes room for a battery; Seagate says the drive can power itself for up to ten hours on a charge. It comes with a plug-in USB 3.0 adapter, which you can leave off if you only plan to use the drive in wireless mode &#8212; or you can swap in an optional adapter such as a $100 one for Thunderbolt, the fast connector used by Macs and a smattering of Windows PCs. As with Seagate&#8217;s earlier wireless drive, this one packs its own wi-fi network. You connect to it from your device, and then the device can see the drive. Wait, if you need to use your wi-fi connection to hook up with the Wireless Plus, does that mean you can&#8217;t get online at the same time? Nope &#8212; a new feature lets you tell the drive to connect to another available wi-fi network, then<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155461&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Microsoft Surface Pro, the Surface That&#8217;s More PC than Tablet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/05/review-microsoft-surface-pro-the-surface-thats-more-pc-than-tablet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you reinvent the PC for the tablet era? Microsoft, not surprisingly, has been spending a lot of time mulling over that question in recent years. Its touch-centric new operating system, Windows 8, is largely devoted to answering it. And for the first time, the company decided to show us exactly what it thinks a modern PC-tablet hybrid should be by designing and selling its own Windows computer, Surface. Except it didn&#8217;t come up with one Surface — it built two of them. The first version, Surface Windows RT, shipped in October, simultaneously with Windows 8. Technically speaking, however, it isn&#8217;t a Windows 8 machine: it uses a power-efficient ARM processor and a special version of Windows called Windows RT that only runs new programs designed for the touch-friendly &#8220;modern&#8221; interface, not all the apps written for conventional PCs. Starting at $499, it&#8217;s the closest thing Microsoft has to a direct iPad competitor. And then there&#8217;s Surface Windows 8 Pro, which goes on sale at the Microsoft Store, Best Buy, microsoft.com and elsewhere on Feb. 9. (That&#8217;s Microsoft&#8217;s full official name for it; I hope the company won&#8217;t be irked if I refer to it as &#8220;Surface Pro,&#8221; like everyone else is already doing.) It has much in common with Surface RT: hold one Surface in each hand, and the only hint that they&#8217;re not the same device is the Pro version&#8217;s additional bulk — it&#8217;s 0.53 in. (1.3 cm) thick and weighs 2 lb. (0.9 kg), vs. Surface RT&#8217;s 0.37 in. (0.9 cm) and 1.5 lb. (0.7 kg). Both versions have an elegant vapor-magnesium case and kickstand that props it up for vertical use, and both work with the same whisper-thin Touch Cover, which includes a keyboard that&#8217;s nearly flat yet reasonably comfy. Both have 10.6-in. (27 cm) screens, though the Pro&#8217;s version, at 1920-by-1080 resolution, packs additional pixels. But Surface Pro, unlike Surface RT, is a real PC. As its name indicates, it comes with Windows 8 Pro, Microsoft&#8217;s top-of-the-line operating system. It sports a powerful Intel<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156199&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BlackBerry Z10 Review: A Modern BlackBerry Phone with Some Kinks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/05/blackberry-z10-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry smart phone, has made some spectacularly wrongheaded moves in the six years since Apple announced its first iPhone. It said the iPhone wasn&#8217;t a game changer and claimed that apps don&#8217;t matter. It&#8217;s grafted new features like touch input onto its aging operating system in ways that didn&#8217;t please anyone. It&#8217;s wasted time it didn&#8217;t really have to spare on a misbegotten tablet. But in April 2010, RIM did something deeply sensible: it acquired QNX, the maker of a highly regarded, industrial-strength operating system used for applications such as car electronics and medical devices. It then set out to build all-new BlackBerry phones built on top of QNX&#8217;s plumbing &#8212; a project so ambitious that it wasn&#8217;t the least bit startling that it took years and involved multiple delays. And now, at long last, that 2010 decision has a shot at paying off. Last week, RIM began its press event in New York City by announcing news that was simultaneously shocking and logical: it was changing its name to BlackBerry, bringing its corporate branding in line with its much more famous product. Then it unveiled the first two phones running BlackBerry 10, its new QNX-based platform. The BlackBerry Z10 is a full-touch model that goes on sale in some countries this month; it’ll show up in the U.S. on AT&#38;T, T-Mobile and Verizon in March. (Only Verizon has announced a price so far: $199 with a two-year contract.) The BlackBerry Q10, which sports the iconic BlackBerry physical QWERTY keyboard, will arrive later this year. I&#8217;ve spent the past few days with a Z10 review unit provided by BlackBerry. The phone isn&#8217;t the sort of reality-defying, epoch-shifting landmark BlackBerry would have needed to silence its critics and lure teeming masses of skeptical iPhone and Android fans. It needs more high-profile apps, additional features to set it apart from other smart phones and fewer gnarly bugs. But you know what? In multiple ways, it’s already better than I expected it to be. Behind the scenes, BlackBerry has<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156060&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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