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Latest News - January 2010
- Verizon Wireless Announces Prices For Palm Pixi Plus & Pre Plus
- Sony Ericsson Unveils Vivaz Phone With HD Video Recording Capabilities
- Windows 7 Selling Well After Launch, Bigger Market Share Than OS X
- Tetris Reaches, And Passes, 100 Million Paid Mobile Downloads
- AT&T Insiders Report iPhone Exclusivity Going Away On Wednesday
- Hulu Considering A Fee-Based Subscription Service?
- Nokia Announces Free Voice Navigation For Select Handsets
- Mozilla Delivers Firefox 3.6
- Hardware Roundup
- Kids Spend More Time Consuming Entertainment Media Than You Do Working
- Endless Ideas Launches BeBook Neo Wi-Fi E-Reader
- 123456 The Key To Password Hacking
- Amazon Announces Kindle Development Kit--Apps On The E-Reader Coming Soon
- TomTom's IQ Routes Prove Americans Aren't Speed Demons
- Haiti Earthquake Victim Uses DSLR And iPhone To Survive
- Corsair Issues 2333MHz Dominator GTX Memory
- The Origin of Speed: Origin's Genesis Desktop Reviewed
- SuperTalent To Use Sandforce SSD Processors
- AT&T Needs To Spend $5 Billion To Match Verizon's Network--Fat Chance
- GM's Pause And Play Radio: It's Like A DVR For Your Car Stereo
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All News for January 2010
Starting Monday, you'll be able to pick up the Palm Pre Plus as well as the Palm Pixi Plus from Verizon Wireless. The new Palm Pre Plus will cost $149 and the Palm Pixi Plus will run $99.99. Both prices are after a $100 mail-in rebate and with new two-year customer agreement. The prices are in-line with previous...
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Sony Ericsson is planning a U.S.-banded version of its first phone that is capable of capturing high-definition video. Although the company hasn't commented on U.S. distribution plans, one tri-band HSPA version of the phone will support the 850/1900MHz bands used in the U.S. This leaves some hope that the new Vivaz...
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Windows 7 has been on the market for over a full quarter now, so it's about time for a check on how the OS is doing. According to figures from Net Applications, the system looks to be doing quite well. So well, in fact, that the growth rate is making Vista's old launch growth rate look mighty bad in comparison. A peek...
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Tetris, which last year celebrated 25 years of falling bricks, has hit, and passed, 100 million downloads to various mobile devices. -Blue Planet Software, Inc., the company that manages the exclusive licensing rights to the game, and EA Mobile, a division of Electronic Arts Inc., announced the milestone at a press...
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It's sort of hard to believe that all the hype from CES is already over and done with. Larger companies spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to introduce and showcase new products at the show, and now all anyone wants to talk about in the tech world is Apple. Must be nice to be Steve Jobs (or an investor). The...
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What started out as a simple, innocent "plan to destroy the world" may actually, in fact, destroy the world. Hulu has always been something that's "too good to be true." Free programming on-demand, wherever you have an Internet connection? Even with pre-roll ads, it's still a solid deal for the consumer, but it may not always be that way....
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The personal navigation device market just got a bit more competitive. Following in Google's footsteps of offering free navigation to users of Motorola's DROID smartphone, Nokia recently announced its own plans to begin offering free map updates and navigation services to smartphone users. As Jukka Hosio, director of Nokia's services marketing,...
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Just over five months after the browser first entered public testing with an alpha release, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6. Although we had previously heard about delays for the latest version of this popular browser, the actual delay was much shorter than some had expected. So what will you get with Firefox 3.6? Well, for starters, Mozilla...
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Video: Sapphire HD 5850 1GB & Sapphire HD 5770 1GB Review @ Hardware Canucks NVIDIA GF100 Fermi Architecture and Performance Preview @ Legit Reviews Asus EAH5770/2DIS/1GD5 and PowerColor PCS HD5750 1GB GDDR5 Premium Edition.@ XbitLabsMotherboards and Chipsets: MSI P55-GD80 Motherboard for LGA1156 CPUs reviewed in Metku.net Intel DP55WG:...
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Though it likely doesn't come as a huge shock to anyone, the amount of time that 8- to 18-year-olds spend engrossed in entertainment media of some sort or another — TV, music, Internet, video games, movies and even (GASP!) print — has increased dramatically over the past five years.In fact, on average, the young'uns...
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The e-book market is hotter than ever. Amazon may have really started it, but since then Sony, Spring Design and a whole host of others have joined the party. Endless Ideas has also been a player for awhile now, but it has just recently started to gain traction. The BeBook One and BeBook Mini didn't have the feature set of some of the more...
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Security firm Imperva, by examining 32 million passwords that were posted to the Internet after a security breach at RockYou.com, has come up with a list of the most common passwords chosen by consumers. The results are not pretty, except for hackers, as the most popular password is 123456.
It was bad enough that RockYou saw fit to store
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We guess we should have seen this coming, but honestly, we didn't. The App Store craze has reached a point where just about everyone is jumping in; there's an app store of some kind available for pretty much every mobile platform out there, and now other handheld devices are hopping on the bandwagon while it's hot...
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It's amazing what technology can discover these days. Like how Americans really aren't the speed demons they are made out to be. Believe it or not, we aren't being sarcastic. TomTom has just published a report that utilized lots of Speed Profiles data in order to provide the first fully detailed view of which interstate highways are the fastest...
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If you've kept even a loose eye on the national news lately, you'd know that the people of Haiti are still struggling mightily. The huge earthquake that rocked the nation last week impacted millions, including a few Americans that were on the ground for various reasons. Dan Woolley was there to shoot a film on the impact of poverty on the...
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If you simply can't live with anything less than the best in your main system, Corsair has a new toy that it would like to see. The company's Dominator GTX RAM module is classified as the "world's fastest Intel XMP-certified memory," and it has passed Corsair's certification at the blistering speed of 2333MHz, surpassing Corsair’s 2000MHz...
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Last week, we brought you a preview of newcomer Origin PC's Genesis desktop and announced a system giveaway. Now it's time to investigate the system's actual performance as shipped. With a list price of $4999 as configured, this particular Genesis system is breathing some rarefied air indeed. Our expectations are similarly high; any company...
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Super Talent Announces Enterprise Class TeraDrive SSDs based on SandForce SSD Processor New SSDs Deliver Extreme IOPS and Outstanding Reliability San Jose, California - January 21, 2010 - Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced a new line of TeraDrive SSDs designed...
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You've all heard by now that AT&T's network isn't exactly the greatest. Many have no issues whatsoever, but in large, congested cities, the network has been known to get so crowded that 3G services simply don't work at all. For better or worse, Verizon Wireless has generally been viewed as a company with a...
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Just a few years back, car stereos were fairly lackluster from the factory. To get any sort of serious audio within the automobile, you had to turn to complicated aftermarket installs. At some point between then and now, automakers have seemingly figured out that consumers are demanding more right from the showroom...
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Thanks to an agreement between Boingo and ASUS, ASUS Eee PC netbooks will now be preloaded with Boingo software, making it easy for users to locate and access more than 125,000 Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide. In addition, ASUS customers will get a discount of 50% on Boingo’s most popular Wi-Fi access services. Initially, the Boingo software...
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Toshiba announced the new Tecra A11 and the new Qosmio X500 laptops for business users. The company also added to the Satellite Pro Series with the new Satellite Pro L450 and Satellite Pro L500 business laptops. The new Tecra A11 is thinner and lighter than its predecessor and features a 10-key numeric keypad. The A11 also offers the new 2010...
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