Michael Santo
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Dell's Adamo laptop, which hasn't matched the MacBook Air in terms of popularity or sales, has just seen its price dropped from $999, a Christmas present for ultra-thin laptop lovers who also love Dell. The $999 version had a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo chip and 2GB of memory. The $899 model carries a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of memory....
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 2GB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.org Hanns-G HZ281HPB WideScreen LCD Monitor Review @ Benchmark Reviews Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte X58-USB3 Review @ Neoseeker Memory and Storage: Zalman S Series 128GB SSD Review @ OCC OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800/ 1600MHz Reaper Edition Ultra Low Voltage CL7 4GB...
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And people wonder why making money in the stock market is a crap shoot. A hedge fund will open in February that uses "Twitter sentiment" to predict the stock market. The British hedge fund is named Derwent Absolute Return. Its founders say they have an algorithm that can analyze sentiments on Twitter. Here's how its described: The Derwent...
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People are using the Kinect Xbox 360 add-on in ways that transcend the idea of a video console accessory. It was this type of development that was hoped for when a bounty was put out for open source Kinect drivers, and look what the latest possibility is: using Kinect to help people learn American Sign Language. >Researchers at Georgia...
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The iPad 2 will get some ergonomic tweaks, according to a report in a Japanese tech blog, MacOtakara. The report cites an anonymous Chinese source, which could mean a worker at one of Foxconn's plants. The report states that the screen size of the iPad 2 will remain the same, which is logical since Steve Jobs famously...
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As you wait in the checkout line just before Christmas, your observation is correct. That other line is moving faster than yours. That's what Bill Hammack (the Engineer Guy), from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois - Urbana "proves" in this YouTube video. The video was released just in...
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Another carrier billing option has come to Android. Until Wednesday, among U.S. carriers, only T-Mobile allowed carrier billing for the Android Market, but that is no longer the case. Google announced on their Android developer blog that AT&T carrier billing is rolling out the the Android Market. Rolling out is the key phrase: you may...
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NavFree has launched an iOS navigation app, which isn't in and of itself unusual. However, the app is free, and includes 1.6GB of offline data, which is unusual, particularly for gratis. NavFree USA (Europe is coming; U.K. and Ireland are already in the App Store) will also provide crowdsourced monthly map updates...
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Motorola showed off the evolution of tablets in a YouTube video just released. The company went all the way for Egyptian stone tablets and forward to its upcoming tablet, which will be unveiled at CES in January. The history lesson takes us through several museum displays. The first one shows a huge slab inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphics,...
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Swype comes pre-installed on a number of devices, but there are many that were in existence before that started, and ... it doesn't come installed on the stock Android Nexus S (although Pulse and NoLock do, surprisingly). However, it appears the beta is open again. Grab it while you can. Swype allows you to "swipe your finger" from key to...
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Video: AMD Radeon HD 6950 & HD 6970 2GB @ Techgage Nvidia GeForce GTX 570: Modern Remake of an Existing Fairy-Tale @ XbitLabs Funky Kit Review: Zotac Geforce GTX 570 AMP! (1280Mb GDDR5) Processors: iXBT Labs Review: Intel Core i5 Processor Series Memory and Storage: OCZ RevoDrive X2 240GB PCI-Express SSD Review @ Techspot Corsair Vengeance...
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Microsoft's Office Genuine Advantage program (OGA), is no more. Reportedly, Microsoft has quietly retired the program, which formerly was used to validate an Office installation before add=ins or templates could be downloaded, without fanfare. In fact, Ed Bott discovered that Microsoft mentioned the shutdown in a KB...
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Google has served up noticed for malware-infested sites for years, but they've gone one better with their latest feature. The company has altered its search results notifications with a “This site may be compromised” link to help in safer searching. According to Google's blog post, the company uses "a variety of automated tools...
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The Samsung Nexus S is no longer the only device to sport Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It remains the only device to carry the latest Android officially, but the Samsung Galaxy S now has an unofficial build, thanks to the hard work of xda-developers. Some functions like voice (oops), wi-fi, camera and GPS aren't working. Thus, unless you want...
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Video: Inno3D Geforce GTX460 OC Review @ XtremeComputing XFX HD 6970 Graphics Card Review @ Tweaknews Zotac GeForce GTX 580 Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com AMD Radeon HD 6970 2GB Video Card in Crossfire @ Tweaktown Inno3D GeForce GTX 460 OC 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com Processors: Intel Core I7 950 3.06GHz Quad Core Processor...
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There are plenty of applications and websites that can translate text to other languages, but if you're looking at a sign or something, you'll have to type it into a translation app. What if, instead, you could take a snapshot and have an app translate the text in the image? That's the idea behind Word Lens, and it seems to work. The caveat...
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In the wake of the layoffs that hit the company earlier in the week, Yahoo! is cutting a number or products. Among them are the social bookmarking service del.icio.us, MyBlogLog, AltaVista, and Yahoo! Bookmarks. In fact, the slide above has been confirmed to have come directly from an employee meeting Webcast. It was...
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U.S. Cellular is No. 6 among the U.S. carriers, but it's received accolades of late. And, they just announced a promotion that's hard to pass up: all their phones will be free from Dec. 17 through Christmas Eve. That's right, every phone, including their five Android phones are free. Their Android phones are: Samsung Acclaim HTC Desire Samsung...
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Those communities hoping to "win" Google Fiber service, which Google announced earlier this year and which is being tested at Stanford University, will have to wait longer for a decision. Although when Google first announced the service, it said it would decide on which communities would receive the experimental service by the end of 2010,...
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Video: Zotac GeForce GTX 580 1536MB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.org Processors iXBT Labs Review: Intel Core i7-800 Processor Series Memory and Storage: Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate3.0 @ HardwareBistro ioSafe SoloPRO 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Review @ OCIA.net Akasa Baymaster AK-ICR-10 @ techPowerUp Western Digital VelociRaptor...
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Your Gmail contacts are a lot more important due to the connection between them and your Android device (assuming you have one). Thus, it might be nice if you can UNDO some sort of screw-up you might have done, and that's a feature Google has just announced. The feature allows you to revert your contacts up to 30 days in the past. There are...
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On Monday, YouTube announced YouTube Trends, which is similar in format to Google Trends. Naturally, it makes sense, since Google is YouTube's parent company. The idea is for YouTube Trends to spotlight some of the 35 hours of video now uploaded to YouTube every minute, which makes it difficult to discover new content. The company described...
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