Michael Santo
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Antennagate is grinding to a halt, more or less, but is Glassgate about to begin? It could be: speaking of grinding, it appears that third-party cases, especially those that slide on, are capable of trapping particulate matter between themselves and the iPhone 4's glass back, which could lead to scratching or even shattering of the entire...
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Earlier, Verizon said their LTE rollout would reach the 30 NFL metropolitan areas by the end of 2010, though they did not get specific. On Thursday, at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Francisco, they got specific. Verizon has even raised the number from 30 to 38, CEO Lowell McAdam said. McAdam added that in January, Verizon...
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.ly domain extension holders are being warned of possible issues, via the registry body controlling that extension. It's such that even bit.ly, the extremely popular URL shortening service, might need to watch out. The .ly domain extension is controlled by NIC.ly, the domain registry and controlling body for the Libyan domain space. According...
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Location, location, location is the mantra for real estate. Donnie and Kathy Fulbright, from Maiden, NC, know that well. Apple just paid them $1.7M to move out of the house they lived in for 34 years. After the couple rejected two offers, Apple told them to put a price on the single-story house built on less than one...
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This is what happens when you get press coverage for a product that does something that Apple doesn't want in the App Store: you get booted. IS Drive is being kicked out of the App Store, the developer, Derek Kepner, has Tweeted, saying: Just got a call from Apple. They're taking IS Drive down. I'm seeing what I can...
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The age of the superpowered laptop has led to a surge in what's called "toasted skin syndrome." The condition, with the medical name "erythema ab igne," can be caused by prolonged exposure to heat or infrared radiation, and can be caused by overuse of heating pads ... and laptops. The result can be a mottled skin discoloration, and with...
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It's been about five months since Google TV was announced at Google I/O, and the company has been quiet since then. However, on Monday the hype machine spun up with more details, which pretty much points to a launch nearing (though we already were anticipating a fall launch). First, Google finally created a Google TV website which as you might...
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Video: ASUS GeForce GTX 480 Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews MSI Radeon HD 5770 PMD1G Review, Now With Crossfire! @ Rage3D.com Gigabyte 'SOC' Exclusive GTX480/470 @ Vortez.co.uk Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference @ ThinkComputers.org Processors: AMD Athlon X2 II 265 Processor/CPU @ TechwareLabs Memory and Storage: Crucial 128GB RealSSD...
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The nation's No. 6 wireless carrier, US Cellular, has announced something that we are pretty sure none of the Big 4 (T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T and Verizon) will ever implement: "The Belief Project." It's a program that encourages loyalty with rewards instead of fear (of early termination fees). The Belief Project...
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BitTorrent apps haven't made it into the App Store before, simply because Apple doesn't want anything even remotely connected to piracy in the store, despite the fact that BitTorrent has legitimate uses as well. According to TorrentFreak, one enterprising developer managed to sneak such an app in, by carefully omitting any mention of torrents....
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James Heselden, the late Segway company owner, died last weekend. It was ironic in two ways: he died after driving his ruggedized Segway off a cliff and into the River Wharfe, and he was about to be honored for donating 1,000 Segways to U.S. veterans. Jerry Kerr, president and co-founder of Disability Rights...
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There are so many different Android phones, and that's been one of the reasons for Android's success. Different form factors, different carriers, even in the U.S. So how do you find out about all them? Google has an app, er, sorry, a web site for that. In fact, the Google Phone Gallery also shows what you do with a...
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A study using an application called "TaintDroid: An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones," conducted by Intel Labs, Penn State Univesity, and Duke University found that a number of Android apps were sending user data, including location, back to advertisers. In fact, the study found, one-half, or...
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Video: PNY GeForce GTS 450 1GB XLR8 Review @ Hardware Canucks Sparkle Geforce GTX480 Video Card @ TechwareLabs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 SLI versus ATI Radeon HD 5770 CrossFire @ Legit Reviews NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 - The Super-Affordable Fermi @ Techgage.com Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS & Gigabyte X58 Motherboard Roundup @ Neoseeker Gigabyte...
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Some people love Gmail's conversation view, and some people hate it. Some just have gotten used to it. Now, however, if you don't like it, you can turn it off. In Gmail's conversation view, an email thread is linked together in one "cluster" in your inbox. It means, in effect, sorting by Subject to see a thread is no longer necessary. Still,...
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GameCrush, which has been in private beta testing since March of this year, has gone live. It's an obvious idea since most gamers are men: get them to pay to hook up online with attractive women and use their joysticks, er, play video games with them. To be clear, the PlayDates, as they are called, can be men or women. They can make as much...
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Free phones on Fridays? That's what Best Buy announced on Tuesday at its Holiday Preview event in New York. Free Phone Fridays will run every Friday in October, and starts Oct. 1st. It's not just about lame devices either: one of the devices in the first group: the Samsung Fascinate on the Verizon network. Each Free Phone Friday will include...
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Video: ECS GeForce GTX 460 1GB Black Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Gigabyte GTS 450 1Gb @ LanOC Reviews MSI N460GTX HAWK GeForce GTX 460 @ Benchmark Reviews Galaxy GeForce GTX 480 Super OC 1536MB Overclocked @ Tweaktown Motherboards and Chipsets: Foxconn A88GM MicroATX Motherboard Review @ Ninjalane Memory and Storage: MX-Tech's Armor...
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The British owner of the Segway company, who had purchased the company less than a year ago, in December 2009, from inventor Dean Kamen, has died in a freak accident, driving the vehicle off a cliff. Jimi Heselden was 62. Heselden was reportedly using the Segway to inspect the grounds of his property, when he plunged off a cliff and into the...
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As expected, RIM on Monday unveiled its tablet at the company's 2010 DevCon conference. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis channeled Apple CEO Steve Jobs with a sort of “one more thing” moment, saving the announcement for the end of his keynote address. Lazaridis described the PlayBook (not the rumored BlackPad) as “the first professional...
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A French court has convicted Google and CEO Eric Schmidt for defamation. The ruling came as a result of Google's Suggest function, which brought up terms such as "rapist" and "satanist" when people Googled the plaintiff's name. The man who filed the lawsuit had been previously convicted of “corruption of a minor.” However, the...
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Motherboards and Chipsets: ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 @ PureOverclock Memory and Storage: Hitachi LifeStudio Mobile Plus Review @ Benchmark Reviews Comparing VelociRaptor, SSD and RAM Drive @ OCAU A-DATA Nobility N005 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive @ Tweaktown Plextor PX-B120U External BD-ROM Drive @ TechwareLabs Systems: Cryo PC Helix Review - XSReviews...
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