Michael Santo
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Video: Sony KDL-55NX810 Review @ TechReviewSource.com Samsung PN58C7000 Review @ TechReviewSource.com Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte P67A-UD4 @ PureOverclock Funky Kit Review: Intel DP67BG Motherboard Extreme Series Edition Memory and Storage: TechwareLabs Review: Seagate Momentus 750GB 2.5 Hard Drive Kingwin DM-2356 Dockmaster II Review...
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Windows Phone 7 users are complaining over what they call "phantom data usage." The nascent smartphone platform is, according to some accounts, using as much as multiple megabytes per hour of cellular data, and that's even when connected to wi-fi. Indeed, you read that correctly; even when connected to wi-fi, Windows Phone 7 seems to be defaulting...
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Just a few days after a California law banning certain Internet impersonations (or e-personations) went into effect, Apple has complained to Twitter about the @ceoSteveJobs Twitter account. While that account has over 370,000 followers, its most famous Tweet came last year when the U.K.'s Daily Mail quoted a post that said Apple might have...
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The well-publicized alarm bug that affected iOS devices earlier has cost a young woman her waitressing position, according to an open letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs that was published on the Huffington Post. There are a few things missing from her story, however, such as how many times she had been late previously?...
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T-Mobile has announced a tablet, the LG G-Slate. The device will carry Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), HSPA+, but size, price, and timing weren't mentioned. Because of the vagueness around the tablet, more interesting to some are the videos of the G-Slate, which give us more views of Honeycomb, the first tablet-optimized version of Android. Honeycomb...
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Honeycomb, or Android 3.0, is to be the first tablet-optimized Android version, and not that much is known about it, although rumors of higher hardware requirements are rumbling. However, Google has gone and posted a teaser video on Honeycomb, pre-CES, so come one, come all, and take a look. The fact that they use the phrase "Built Entirely...
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There's not much here, but it's definitely worth a peek below. Angry Birds has been turned into an carnival game, in Guangzhou, China. You might remember those games where you throw balls at bottles or other things, in hopes of spending $50 to win something worth $5 for your sweetheart. Just as in the video game, the...
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We knew that HP didn't buy Palm just to sit on it, and we also knew the company was planning new devices for 2011. Thus, it's no surprise that HP has an event coming, on Feb. 9, at which attendees are supposed to "Think Big. Think Small. Think Beyond." It sounds, from the teaser, that HP will be unveiling a series of devices, from tablets...
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The hits just keep on coming for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Being named Time's Person of the Year is one thing, but securing $500 million in funds from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies, is definitely another. The New York Times reported the deal on Sunday. Goldman Sachs invested $450 million and Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian...
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Apple has been eying Exxon Mobil's market cap since the Cupertino, CA-based company passed Microsoft last year to become the world's most valuable tech stock and the world's second most valuable company. On Monday, the first day of trading in 2011, Apple passed $300 billion in value, but Exxon Mobil's lead is...
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Video: MSI Radeon HD 6850 Cyclone 1GB Power Edition Video Card @ Tweaktown MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II Review @ tbreak Motherboards and Chipsets: TechwareLabs Review: Jetway HA12-LF Motherboard ASUS P8P67Pro review @ OCWorkbench ASUS P8P67 EVO Sandy Bridge Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews Processors: Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge CPU @ Benchmark...
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A year ago, the Chinese government launched a campaign to shut down porn sites. Whether it's been a success or not is hard to say, but it's certainly taken down a huge number of porn sites. The government has shut down some 60,000 porn websites, the official state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday. At a news conference, the...
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Video: Inno3D Geforce GTX580 Overclock Review @ XtremeComputing Memory and Storage: 7" Sylvania SDVD8732 Widescreen Portable DVD Player w/Additional LCD Screen @ TestFreaks Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB Hard Drive Review @ Hardware Canucks Systems: Samsung SF510 Notebook @ PureOverclock Cases, Cooling & Misc.: Coolage X120TF Heatsink...
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Verizon is reportedly dropping the price on the Samsung Galaxy Tab by $100, to $499. Additionally, Verizon is going to throw in $60 worth of free movie rentals, either via the Blockbuster app or Media Hub. For those who might have purchased recently, according to the report, if you have your receipt and it's been within the last two weeks,...
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A woman may have her dog to thank for catching a burglar. It's not, however, because the dog himself caught the burglar, but instead because the iCam application she used on her iPhone to monitor her dog clued her into a burglary. The iCam app runs on both Android and iPhone. Claire, who did not want her last name released, downloaded the...
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Video: AMD Radeon HD 6950 & HD 6970 CrossFireX @ Techgage Funky Kit Review: Nanovision MIMO UM740 - 7" touchscreen USB monitor Less is More: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 768 MB Graphics Card Review @ XBitLabs Motherboards and Chipsets: Good and Inexpensive Mini-ITX LGA1156 Platform: ECS H55H-I Mainboard Review @ XBitLabs Gigabyte P67A-UD7 &...
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Blame it on older Windows clients. That's the verdict, forensically, from Skype's investigation into what caused the recent massive Skype outage. Skype is a P2P service, and relies on supernodes, which exist outside firewalls, for its directory service. The current Windows version of Skype is 5.0.0.156. However, a bug in 5.0.0.152 caused those...
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If you have been running out of cool ways to use your iPhone, check in with Ryan to see if he has any ideas for you. Ryan has turned an old mini-fridge from his days at college days into an iPhone-controlled beer-firing cannon. Among the features are that you can select from 4 types of beer, adjust the temperature, aim via the attached webcam....
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A sweet gaming system might include the ability to immerse yourself in a gaming world and fight, cast spells, whatever, by making the motions that you would need if you were actually part of the game. This Kinect hack doesn't go quite that far, but we can dream, can't we? Built by the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, FAAST, or the...
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It's unclear if the Samsung Nexus S will be a huge seller, but this particular version of it is definitely a huge device. It's a 42-inch version of the stock Android-powered "Google phone," with a multitouch screen, no less. The device passes all the processing to a real Samsung Nexus S. The giant Nexus S, in a San Carlos, CA Best Buy, has...
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Video: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 Super Over Clock @ Benchmark Reviews AMD Radeon HD 6950 Review @ Techspot Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 Mini-ITX Motherboard Review @ OCIA.net ASUS M4A88TD-M/USB3 AMD 880G mATX Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers.org Memory and Storage: OCZ Technology Vertex 2 3.5-inch 120GB Solid State Drive...
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Video: Diamond Radeon HD 6970 XOC 2GB Video Card @ Tweaktown Motherboards and Chipsets: Intel LGA 1156 Motherboard 6-Way Roundup @ Neoseeker ASUS Rampage III Formula Review @ OCC Funky Kit - Intel Sandy Bridge Review Kit Memory and Storage: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB Review @ t-break Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1866 Review - XSReviews...
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