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It's the day before Thanksgiving, and many of us are already en route to visit family and friends and eat way, way too much. We hope everyone enjoys a safe and happy holiday--and a restful one, because you'll need all the energy you can muster for shopping on Black Friday. Retailers are really ...
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We've been having kids test a whole lot of new tech toys this year. But the Mattel Barbie Doll'd Up Nails Digital Printer ($179.99 list, but you can find it for less) never made it out of our office! Though it's recommended for ages 8 to 12, this toy is too much fun for us grownups to let ...
Gaming
Mattel
TiVo is kicking off the holiday weekend with a little deal making.
On Tuesday, the company teamed up with Google to allow the search engine giant access to its data as part of Google's TV Ad program. Now, TiVo is also partnering with Virgin Media Inc. to develop Virgin's next-generation ...
Home Theater
TiVo
Apple on Tuesday asked a California district judge to permanently prevent Psystar from infringing on its copyrights.
"Unless Psystar is permanently enjoined, it will not stop its unlawful conduct - conduct that is causing irreparable harm to Apple's business, brand, and goodwill," Apple ...
Hardware
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Psystar
Mac
iPod
Laptops
AT&T; and battery issues aside, the compliant I here most often about the iPhone is the handset's lack of a physical keyboard. It's difficult for many users to master the phone's touchscreen typing, even with its built-in correction. 4iThumbs wants to help. The company has developed a ...
iPhone
iPhone
AT&T
Apple
UK supermarket giant Tesco has added yet another kind of Apple to its long line of available produce. Interested parties can now pick up the iPhone in the same place they buy their ground beef. The handset will be sold through Tesco Mobile in retail locations and online.
Prices, according to ...
iPhone
Apple
iPhone
Wikileak is celebrating the lead up to Thanksgiving in a decidedly odd manner--by releasing 500,000 intercepted pager messages from 9/11. The site, which has "solid track record for releasing authentic information," according to Wired's Threat Level blog , will be staggering the messages so ...
Other
Diabetes is a major cause of disability in the aging Chinese population, and many of them located in rural areas don't have immediate access to health care. A team of researchers in China have developed a smartphone technology that they believe could help diabetics .
Called the Chinese Aged ...
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For Cyber Monday, Intel is enlisting consumers to help drive down prices of three popular notebooks, via Facebook. The "Intel Fan Plan" page on Facebook urges consumers to sign up as "fans" of three thin-and-light notebooks: the Toshiba T135, the Acer Timeline 3810T , and the Asus UL50Ag. All ...
Hardware
Intel
Laptops
Toshiba
Acer
Up to this point, I had never let my two young children listen to music through headphones. Maybe it's because their hard-of-hearing daddy is paying for all the hundreds of hours he spent rocking out with his Walkman and, later, iPod, cranked to 11.
But the Disney Princess Headphones Jr. ...
Other
Amazon disclosed Tuesday that owners of its Kindle e-reader will receive a free firmware update that will increase the battery life by a whopping 85 percent and add PDF capabilities, all for free. Users won't have to download or manually update the Kindle, Amazon said; instead, it will be ...
Gadgets
Kindle
Amazon
Astro Boy captured the hearts and imagination of children in the 1950s when he was first introduced in a manga (Japanese comics) series, then a television show in Japan. Now a new generation of kids has been introduced to the boy-robot character via the animated Astro Boy the Movie and the ...
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Dell said Monday that it has begun shipping its Mini 3i phone to China Mobile, and released some of the specs of the new smartphone. While they're not too impressive, it's also possible that a possible U.S. release of the phone may be priced accordingly. Here are the specs: Display: 3.5" ...
Mobile
Bluetooth
At Pepcom's holiday press event last week, I made a point of visiting a favorite of ours , Shapeways. ,
which employs an intriguing technology (3D printing) to make a variety
of gift items, either user-designed or created by Shapeways or its
community. I took the opportunity to talk to Rian ...
Other
TiVo and Google said Tuesday that the two companies have teamed up to allow Google access to data collected as part of Google's TV Ad program. The data collected will only be used with Google's TV Ads, a specialized program, that as the name suggests supplies ads to TV platforms. To date, ...
Home Theater
TiVo
VUDU, the video streaming service, is giving users a new way to explore movie content with today's latest firmware upgrade: Wikipedia is now embedded into the service. Each movie page in the VUDU user interface will now have embedded links in the film descriptions. Clicking on a film's title, ...
Online
Wikipedia
It seems like only yesterday that Creative introduced the second generation of its Vado HD camcorder--okay, it was two months ago , but still... That update wasn't a huge step up from the previous version of the camcorder, which s nagged our Editors' Choice in its first iteration. There do seem ...
Other
Numbers like this almost make you feel bad for AT&T; and its congested 3G network. According to a recent report by mobile advertising group, AdMob, the iPhone now accounts for half of the world's mobile data traffic.
In terms marketshare, the Apple mobile OS is third behind Symbian and ...
Mobile
Android
Apple
iPhone
Symbian
Windows Mobile
AT&T
This one's a no-brainer: A portable DVD burner that weighs just over half a pound and costs just over $50. It's the LiteOn eTAU208, it reads and writes all manner of DVDs and CDs, and it even burns Lightscribe labels. It's meant for netbooks and laptops lacking optical drives. I found it useful ...
Gadgets
Laptops
DVD
Weight is the enemy of fuel economy on the highway and quick lap times on the track. Porsche has one solution in the form of a lithium-ion replacement starter (main) battery that weighs in at just 13 pounds vs. 35 pounds for the traditional lead acid battery. "Less weight naturally means ...
