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Another day brings another subsidized netbook to the U.S. This time it’s LG with their X120 , which has seen sights around the rest of the world for a while now. The X120 is your basic Intel Atom powered netbook with a 160 GB hard drive, 1 GB of RAM and Microsoft Windows XP. LG expects ...
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Palm Pre owners have been waiting patiently for the homebrew community to open up video recording, since Palm hasn’t seen fit to enable it yet. The time has come with the release of Precorder into alpha testing. Precorder is still bare bones but can record video at 30 fps in MPEG-4, ...
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Palm Pre
jkontherun.com - 10 hours ago
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Here are some of today’s phone conversations I
enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with
some brief thoughts: T-Mobile discounts phones on Friday (T-Mobile) — Take your pick from the Motorola CLIQ, BlackBerry Bold 9700 with Wi-Fi ...
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The Party Line — Phone Buzz of the Day
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jkontherun.com - 10 hours ago
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Gizmodo has a nice write up explaining how
to backup your data from the major smartphone platforms
that’s well worth the read. Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry and webOS are all covered, so there’s something for ...
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How to Backup Any Smartphone — Gizmodo
Black Friday is just around the corner and it seems everyone is looking for the best deals on gadgety goodness. The folks at HTC just let us know that they are running a promotion that puts $100 in the pockets of qualifying customers buying a new HTC Tilt 2, HTC Touch Pro2, HTC Imagio, or HTC ...
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It’s always a bad idea to compute without protection, but methods vary according to personal preferences. I’m a padded gear bag kind of guy myself, but you’re just carrying a netbook, that can be overkill. So how does one protect a naked netbook? These Hard Candy cases might ...
Hardware
jkontherun.com - 18 hours ago
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Welcome to our newest Monday feature — Android
Ecosystem! My own little experiment in running Android on
an Intel Core Solo UMPC is about to take another step forward. The Android-x86 team has a new stable build that I’m downloading this very ...
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Android Ecosystem — This Week in Android
jkontherun.com - 3 hours ago
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Easily the coolest feature of Android 2.0 on
the Verizon Droid is Google Maps Navigation. The turn-by-turn
navigation system was my favorite thing on the Droid, and it was a shame that the Droid was the only phone that could use it — that is, ...
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Google Maps Navigation Comes to Android 1.6
Reader Murray Chapman has been doing some international traveling lately and noticed an odd problem using Gmail on his trips. Murray found that he would not be able to access his Gmail, and once he lost access he couldn’t get it back.
Not to be outdone by a little problem like this, ...
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Gmail
I had not heard of this phenomenon before, but it is being reported that Firefox is causing systems to run harder than other web browsers. This is allegedly due to web pages that have a lot of Flash-based content which makes the CPU run harder and longer. It seems the system heat goes up and ...
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Safari
jkontherun.com - 22 hours ago
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Android is the hot phone platform, with market
share growing at a rapid pace, and handsets with
the OS being touted across the web. I have been impressed with how far Android has come in a relatively short time, and how well it has penetrated the ...
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Windows Mobile vs. Android: WinMo Is Better Than You Think
With Apple once again blocking the ability to synchronize iTunes music with Palm’s Pre and Pixi, it’s time for some of you to consider other options. I’m still happy with DoubleTwist or simple drag-and-drop methods to move music, but I noted a mention of MediaMonkey on ...
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Android
Our readers in Europe will be happy to hear this news — TechRadar reports that Spotify’s music streaming service is now supported on Symbian handsets from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung. The mobile client joins Apple’s iPhone / iPod Touch as well as Google Android devices ...
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It’s fairly difficult to find a sale on Apple notebooks on desktops. Apple rarely discounts their computing line and online resellers usually require a rebate if and when they offer a worthwhile discount. But last year, I took advantage of a preemptive Black Friday sale at Best Buy ...
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I have stated on more than one occasion that the Novatel MiFi is a candidate for gadget of the year. A pocket Wi-Fi router that uses a 3G connection to get up to 5 devices online no matter the location (given 3G coverage) is incredibly useful. A similar device by Huawei is now available in ...
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Our platform focus continues this fine Sunday with the e-Book Echo, our take on the week in the digital publishing world. The Barnes & Noble Nook is not due to be shipping for a few days yet, but it seems they have already run out of the initial production run . It is being reported that ...
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Kindle
Amazon
The week marches on and today being Saturday means it is time to recap the recent happenings in the world of Windows Mobile. The Windows Marketplace for Mobile only launched for phones running WM 6.5 a week ago, but this week it hit all phones running WM 6.x. Those with phones running WM 6.0 or ...
Online
Opera
Windows Mobile
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jkontherun.com - 3 days ago
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Although I promised myself I wasn’t going to
spend time running Google’s Chrome OS right now, I
got the bug. Thanks to gdgt who put an image together , I’ve spent about 15 minutes tinkering with it in VirtualBox. Chrome OS is ...
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First Look at Google Chrome OS — Extensions, ...
What the hackintosh community brings, Apple taketh away. And the hackintoshers then put it back. With the 10.6.2 Mac OS X update, Apple removed support for Intel Atom CPUs, so all of those netbooks running Snow Leopard lost their spots. A modified kernel brings back support, says MacWorld , ...
