E-reader sales soaring but Apple captures the buzz
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Sales of electronic book readers are booming, companies are jostling for a share of the fledgling market and Amazon's going global with the Kindle.
There's no perfect way to back up your hard drive
Oct 07, 2009 |
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If there's one thing to keep in mind about computers, it's this: Hard drives fail. I relearned that lesson recently when one of my laptop's external hard drives stopped working and then my 4-year-old iPod died.
Review: Wireless charging lets you cut the cords
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It's a pain to keep track of the chargers that go with cell phones, media players and other small electronics. It's even more annoying to stuff multiple power cords and adapters in your bag when you ...
Gadgets: Kodak Zi8 takes great video for under $200
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 07, 2009 |
2.5 / 5 (2) |
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Kodak's Zi8 video camera is outstanding, but to me what makes it great compared to similar models from other manufacturers is the unlimited amount of storage.
Report: Dell to make Android phone for AT&T
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Oct 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A newspaper report says Dell Inc. is working on a "smart" phone for AT&T that runs Google Inc.'s Android phone operating system.
Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 07, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (28) |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is showing off prototypes incorporating its super-thin, flexible OLED technology at the CREATEC JAPAN 2009 IT and electronics trade show in Makuhari Messe (Chiba) in Japan.
Amazon cuts Kindle price, adds global version
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is cutting the price of its Kindle electronic-book reader yet again and launching an international version, in hopes of spurring more sales and keeping it ahead of a growing field ...
Microsoft unveils line of Windows phones
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer on Tuesday unveiled his company's line of Windows smartphones in an offensive against Apple's iPhone and Google's Android system.
Toshiba Unveils the CELL REGZA 55X1, First LCD TV Integrating the Cell Broadband Engine
Oct 05, 2009 |
1.5 / 5 (2) |
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Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the future of home entertainment, the CELL REGZA 55X1.
Devices locate kids, parents find peace of mind
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- With a computer or cell phone and an electronic tracking device, you can locate a missing pet, follow the path of a stolen car, find a skier buried in an avalanche and rescue a hiker lost in the woods.
Probing Question: Where are all the cool robots?
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the better part of a century, they’ve promised us robots. From Elektro, the 7-foot metal man of the 1939 World’s Fair, to Rosie the robot maid on "The Jetsons" to the android lieutenant ...
NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation CUDA GPU Architecture -- Codenamed 'Fermi'
Oct 01, 2009 |
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NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi". An entirely new ground-up design, the "Fermi" architecture is the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing ...
Polaroid PoGo brings instant printing to the digital age
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Polaroid, founded in 1937 by American physicist Edwin H. Land, invented instant photographic printing. Its first instant film camera went on sale in November 1948, but in February 2008 the ...
Gadgets: 'Drop-and-go' Duracell pad makes charging some gadgets easier
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 30, 2009 |
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People who regularly visit my house often want to see what's the latest and greatest new cool electronic item on the market today.
Predictive simulation successes on Dawn supercomputer
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The 500-teraFLOPS Advanced Simulation and Computing program's Sequoia Initial Delivery System (Dawn), an IBM machine of the same lineage as BlueGene/L, has immediately proved itself useful ...
