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Investing in a fast internal drive for your computer is money well-spent. (Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET) New year, new resolutions. If one of your resolutions is to get a better computer so you can be happier with your life, I’d suggest you double down on exercising, or better yet add eating healthy to the list, because chances are your computer is working just fine.
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Top small internal drives to usher in the new year in a big way
Don’t look now–actually, do–but the Raspberry Pi mini-puter was just hacked to run AirPlay. (Credit: Raspberry Pi) If you’ve been following the development of the Raspberry Pi , you know that it’s a $25 bare-bones PC that could go on sale as early as this month .
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Developer turns $35 Raspberry Pi PC into an Apple TV
Panasonic TC-P65ST30 Buying a new TV for your football-watching party? Sure something big is a must, but there are different features and specs to consider when buying a TV for the big game. Plasma or LCD
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5 TV-buying tips for watching the big game
SD cards now have a patent spat of their own. During CES, Toshiba and the SD Association made a couple of announcements that flew under my radar: a new specification dubbed Wireless LAN SD, aka iSDIO, (PDF) and a formal announcement by Toshiba about its FlashAir card , the first to support iSDIO
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Eye-Fi calls shenanigans on the SD Association
Steve Wozniak carries both an iPhone and an Android device around. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak created a comment explosion over his recent remarks about certain advantages he sees with Android phones
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Friday Poll: Concur with Woz’s Android comments?
Verizon is showering themselves with a bunch of devices today. Aside from LG Spectrum, Verizon is also offering the BlackBerry Curve 9370.
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Verizon Now Offering BlackBerry Curve 9370
Verizon is now offering LG Spectrum packed with 4G LTE connection. The Spectrum can be claimed as the successor of LG Revolution with an exceptionally great specs.
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LG Spectrum 4G LTE Available Via Verizon For $199
We heard some info on the HTC Edge back in November. Apparently, they’ll be some changes HTC is planning to make on the device.
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HTC Edge To Be Known As HTC Endeavor
These sweet digital 007 accessories let you carry a router around on your wrist. (Credit: Brookstone) Let’s face it.
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Cufflinks with Wi-Fi hot spot turn you into a digital 007
(Credit: Screenshot by Scott Stein/CNET) The official iTunes U app announced at today’s Apple educational event is a coming out of the closet for iTunes U, in a more profound way than Apple’s Newsstand was for magazines and newspapers. Launch iTunes U, and you’re even greeted with a similar wooden bookshelf, albeit in a darker shade
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Five things that could make Apple’s new iTunes U a winner
Hot off the heels of the One X and EVO 4G LTE spending some prolonged time at customs , now another member of HTC’s sensational family appears to be feeling the rigorous effects of the ITC.
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new “inexact” chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award at a recent ACM conference, builds on years of research in the field from the university, and is already moving far beyond the lab — some inexact hardware is being used in the “i-slate” educational tablet developed by the Rice-NTU Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics, 50,000 of which are expected to wind up in India’s Mahabubnagar school district over the next three years.
While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi’s diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster , the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above.
If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside.
Let’s face it, whether you’re down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need’em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC , that’s what
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy! Continue reading FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:00 EDT
Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications ? Well, dig in, because it’s Microsoft’s turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describes a computer-based program that would, essentially, analyze a primary device’s installed applications, cross-reference it with a different device and then either migrate that software batch or suggest similar apps to download on a secondary unit
Having spent a little time with it, we’re impressed with how much capability the engineers managed to pack into the Canon SX150 , at such an affordable price. As you’d expect given the bargain-basement ~$179 street, it’s not without its limitations, but considering what you get, it’s pretty amazing: A capable, well-built 14-megapixel digital camera with an optically stabilized 12x zoom lens and a good assortment of features
There’s been hints of it coming as early as February , but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that’s the telltale sign of a T-Mobile device, along with the T999 name itself (the T989 is the network’s Galaxy S II ). It also totes 850MHz and 1,900MHz WCDMA bands being used for HSPA+ data rather than just voice, a clue that the phone is ready for refarmed GSM spectrum
Sony must stay on top of Android updates for its tablets to remain relevant to consumers. (Credit: Sony) One must wonder why Sony cannot get out of the habit of playing a fragmented and behind-the-curve Android release schedule for its devices.
