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Latest News - April 2011
- Amped Wireless AV3000 Brings Your A/V Components Online
- Acer Brings AS2040 and AMS 2000 Storage Systems To Enterprise
- Georgia Tech Creates 3D Scanner iPhone App
- ZOTAC Introduces GeForce GT 520 Graphics Card
- T-Mobile USA Intros $79.99 Unlimited Everything Plan
- IOGEAR Reveals USB-To-HD (DVI/HDMI) Adapter
- E-book Sales Top All Other Book Format Types in February
- Sony Ships Newest Connected Line Of BRAVIA HDTVs
- Portal 2 Detailed For PlayStation 3 Launch
- Cricket Makes Muve Music Available To Even More Customers
- Toys 'R' Us Begins Selling iPad 2s
- Promise Keeper Smartphone App Tattles When You Don't Exercise
- Best Buy Shrinking Store Space By 10% Over Next 3-5 Years
- Verizon Unveils 25 New FiOS TV Interactivity Features
- Skype for Android Vulnerability Exposes User Info
- LightSquared Gears Up For 4G Rollout, Wireless Competition
- Google Forces YouTube Piracy Violators To Attend "Copyright School"
- AVG Launches AVG Family Safety To Give Families Peace Of Mind
- MeeGo To Be Picked Up For Smartphone Use By LG?
- New Zealand Outlaws Illegal File Sharing Online
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All News for April 2011
Networking solutions are a dime-a-dozen these days, but Amped Wireless has a new solution that's actually far more useful and practical than most. The company's new A/V Net Connect is a home Wi-Fi network bridge for audio and video devices, enabling network connectivity for things like Blu-ray...
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Acer may be more of a household name due to their consumer lineups, but the company has a hand in the enterprise sector as well. This week, they're extending their U.S. service and storage offerings with the AS2040 and AMS 2000 storage...
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For just about anything you need to do on the mobile side, "there's an App for that." It's a saying that has been beaten to death, but it's sticking around because it's largely true. For just about anything, you can find something to do the trick in Apple's App Store. Georgia Tech has just...
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New GPU? Yes, please! NVIDIA's been on a roll here lately, pushing out one GPU after another in rapid succession. The company's latest is the GeForce GT 520, using one of NVIDIA's newest low/mid-range cores to provide a boost in power to those who aren't willing to pay for any of the hardcore...
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For the longest time, Sprint's "Simply Everything" plan was the cheapest overall "everything included" calling plan offered by one of the four major U.S. carriers. But now, T-Mobile USA is encroaching, and you have to wonder if this new plan will be folded or pushed over when the AT&T...
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USB really is universal. The port has been used for an untold number of things in the computing universe, and more recently, accessory makers have figure out how to transmit video signals through the same cable that's more commonly used to connect printers and scanners. IOGEAR is one of those...
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In late January, Amazon.com announced that for the first time, paperbacks were outsold by e-books at its site (hardbacks had been eclipsed six months before). On Thursday, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) made it official overall: e-books are now the most popular U.S. reading...
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There's been a good amount of time between the last real wave of new HDTV shipments, and while the next Super Bowl is a very long way out, Sony's new BRAVIA TV line won't wait. The company has just announced shipments of a redefined HDTV line, complete with an updated Netflix interface and an...
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Portal 2. By this point, you've probably heard just about enough of Valve's upcoming mystery / brain-twister, but if you aren't a hardcore PC gamer, you may be wondering if there's anything out there for you. Lucky for you, there is. Portal 2 for PlayStation 3 has just been detailed, with the...
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Cricket recently made Muve Music service available to new Cricket markets across the nation. With the new additions, Muve Music is now available to 85 percent of the company's customers. For $55 per month, Muve Music provides unlimited voice, text, Web, video, unlimited music downloads to the...
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ToyToys 'R Us, which has sold iPods for quite some time, is hopping onto the hot "magical" Apple tablet bandwagon. Toys 'R Us will begin selling the iPad 2 on Sunday, April 17, and it's no secret, either: Toys 'R Us has a shopping page up on the Web. The page lists those locations will that have availability on Sunday, but the quantity will...
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New Year's Resolutions. By the second week of the month, they're long forgotten. It's strange that people make these promises to themselves and never keep them, but Reebok has a better idea: implement technology into the fold in order to...
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Recently, it was reported that Wal-mart stores would begin carving the size of their electronics department due to shrinking sizes of gadgets, and now it feels like Best Buy is following suit. Now that Circuit City no longer exists (that's STILL hard to believe!), Best Buy has become the go-to...
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Verizon's FiOS TV is getting better, for those that have it. Of course, it remains to be seen if the company will ever expand their roadmap and blaze a FiOS trail to even more states, but if you're lucky enough to have access, you'll have 25 new upgrades coming your way. The company's calling...
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Skype posted a warning on Friday, indicating that their Android app has a security vulnerability. Malicious third-party apps can access locally stored Skype files. These files include cached profile information and instant messages. Android Police appears to be the first to discover the...
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LightSquared isn't a company that's a household name right now, but it should be. And it will be soon most likely. A new report suggests that the upstart communications company is poised to build out a nationwide 4G network, which would obviously compete with the networks out there already:...
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Here's a silly one to get you smiling on a Saturday. YouTube and parent company Google has been toughening up their copyright laws lately, and if you violate them, you'll now be required to attend "copyright school" and pass a test...
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AVG launched AVG Family Safety, a new application that is designed to help parents protect their children online. AVG Family Safety acts as a virtual guardian for children by letting parents create age-appropriate settings and profiles for...
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MeeGo started out with such promise. It was a combined effort between Nokia and Intel, and it looked like it would soon become the go-to operating system for tablets and MIDs in the years ahead. But then, something happened. Something called iOS and Android, two operating systems that found...
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Is peer-to-peer file sharing wrong? Is it illegal? Is it a crime to engage in it? If you're just casually reading that, you may say: "Of course!" But read it once again. We didn't specifically say which kind of file sharing; just file sharing in general. Different story! Thankfully, we're...
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A couple of other U.S. carriers have had this option for some time now, but Sprint remained outside of the "Android Carrier Billing" loop. Until this week! Based on a report over at Android Developers, Direct Carrier Billing is now in place for Sprint users, which allows people to bill their...
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This week on Two and a Half Geeks, Dave and Marco visit the worldwide headquarters of MainGear Computers for a really cool factory tour and a look at how the company builds its ultra cool SHIFT gaming and other desktop PCs...
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