It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Lenovo 11.6-inch X-Series notebook: $349.99 at Woot.com
It’s the size of a netbook, but packs a little more oomph thanks to the AMD Neo processor. There’s also a built-in 3G connection for grabbing some mobile broadband while on the go. Throw in Windows 7 Home Premium and a travel
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The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show has officially come to a close. With an estimated 140,000+ attendees and over 3 million square feet of exhibition space, it’s a tech show that’s nearly impossible to adequately cover in the four days that it’s open. That being said, here’s a look at some of the overarching themes from CES and what we …
Happy Monday! Here are some of today’s top tech links so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
Jam-packed CES draws more than 140,000 visitors to Vegas
Link: VentureBeat
T’was the busiest Consumer Electronics Show in recent memory, with VentureBeat reporting preliminary figures of over
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On Saturday, the World Weekly News announced Facebook would shutter its site on March 15, never to appear online again. And the Internet fell for it.
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World Weekly, the longtime satirical tabloid probably best known for its “Bat Boy” series, claimed that running …
The latest round of Verizon iPhone rumors comes yet again from the Wall Street Journal, a publication that hasn’t been short on Verizon iPhone rumors in the past. The fact that Verizon’s actually holding a press event tomorrow in New York is pretty helpful, though, so we may very well mark January 11th, 2011 as the day the Verizon iPhone …
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show has officially drawn to a close. The biggest tech show around, CES covers over 3 million square feet of floor space and draws over 100,000 industry insiders to Las Vegas in early January every year to set the tone for what we can expect to see from the world of technology in the not-too-distant future. …
Ask anyone who covered last year’s Consumer Electronics Show what its overarching theme was and most will tell you that 3D TV stole the spotlight.
A year later, and consumers have been slow to adopt 3D TV. There was plenty of 3D technology on display at this year’s show, ranging from TVs to computers to handheld devices, but most
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Best Buy is offering a $50 gift card if you trade in two old games. The only problem is most games are pretty new, so unless you’re one of those people who play through games super fast or got two copies of the same game for the holidays and can’t return one you might not have a qualifying game. Here’s the list, which includes Call of …
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Despite the fact that Sony has yet to announce any plans for a PlayStation Phone, images of the device leaked this morning on the Chinese web site IT68. Since then, the web has been abuzz with photos and videos of the phone, which touts the ability to switch seamlessly from its touchscreen phone function to game-playing mode with the …
A recent blog post by the Lorain, Ohio Morning Journal’s editor Tom Skotch, in which he appealed to local writers to contribute to the newspaper’s blog for free, has brought up the controversial debate of “hiring” citizen journalists. While many comments from professionals claimed it devalued the work of journalists when a publication …
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook is getting ready to go public and increase their shareholders above 500 members in 2012. Details were revealed in a 100-page document sent to a select group of potential investors.The company is currently under a SEC investigation that is looking into claims that the company has gone …
