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“Sometime 2010″ is when Vodafone Hutchison Australia has said it would commence selling Google’s new touchscreen handset, Nexus One. On the heels of an agreement between Vodafone Group and Google that was announced yesterday, the local arm, VHA, has confirmed it will be selling the device to Australians at some stage this year. “Our agreement with Google covers all Vodafone geographies,” VHA said in a statement.
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2010 Nexus One plans for Voda AU
Filed under: News : Laptops Samsung Electronics displayed a prototype of its new slim external DVD writer, the SE-S084D optical disk drive (ODD). Read more Source : Tech2.com India ( subscribe ) Explore : Disk Drives , Laptops , Mobile Computing
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CES 2010: Samsung Launches Slim External DVD Writer for Laptops, Netbooks (Tech2.com India)
Verizon’s MiFi was one of our favorite products of 2009: It takes a 3G wireless data signal and turns it into a Wi-Fi hot spot. Now Sprint has one-upped Verizon with the Overdrive, which takes a 4G signal and turns it into a Wi-Fi hot spot.
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Sprint Leapfrogs Verizon With Fast 4G Hot-Spot Device
It’s time to clean out some of our review copies here at Ripten, and rather then turning them into GameStop for a piddly amount, we’re going to give Ripten Twitter followers a chance to win them. Here’s the deal
LAS VEGAS — Dell is poised to flood the market with a whole range of tablets, from tiny iPhone-sized handsets to big media players. At CES this morning, Dell’s marketing boss Michael Tatelman gave us a teasing sneak peek
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Dell Names Secret ‘Slate’ After Non-Existent Apple Product
For the first time ever, Sony is expanding its line of consumer media with the addition of five new SD/SDHC memory cards for digital imaging products, and three new microSD/microSDHC memory cards for mobile phones. The new SD/SDHC and microSD/microSDHC memory cards, which – except for the microSD 2GB card – are all class-4-speed for high-definition recording, include unique benefits for consumers. Easy-to-use animated picture sharing software (x-Pict Story) is available via free download and allows consumers to create animated slide shows of their pictures set to the music of their choice.
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Hell Freezes Over – Sony Introduces SD/microSD Storage Cards
Hands-on with Samsung’s ‘Allshare’ and ‘Playtouch’ Samsung is keen to push its home-entertainment credentials, offering a range of laptops and all-in-one PCs designed to enhance your living room.
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CES: Samsung pushes media-sharing touchscreen PCs
Go ahead, scan the newspaper headlines and articles at this link and see if you can avoid smacking your forehead and laughing. I dare you
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Report on Reports Sees Too Many Reports and Other Zany Newspaper Articles
Today we’re looking at some great gadgets available at some great prices , which should be a great asset to anyone feeling the post-Holiday crunch. This time of year can be excellent for a smart shopper, as there are plenty of deals to go around
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Cool Items on a Budget: Printers, Hardware and More!
COk, this just looks cool. This is a prototype 14″ laptop from Samsung showing off a 40% transparent OLED screen. Yes, you can actually see a hand through behind the screen
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CES 2010: Samsung Shows Off Laptop with Transparent/Invisible OLED Screen (:: Articles :: Gizmos for Geeks)
Left 4 Dead came out in 2008, after being talked about for a long time by Valve and their fans alike. The game was released to great critical acclaim, because it was one of the most finely-crafted multi-player games of all time, and probably because it was the pinnacle of zombie-based games up to that point. Left 4 Dead 2 came out about a year later, after being talked about by Valve for that year, and ranted about by whiny gamers from about June until October, because it was “too soon”
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PC Review: Left 4 Dead 2
Today we made the big announcement at CES in Las Vegas that LoJack for Laptops is bringing the Intel® Anti-Theft Technology (Intel® AT) remote locking and messaging capabilities to consumers – the first computer theft recovery, data protection and IT asset management solution to do so! What this means: you will now have a combined solution for theft recovery, remote data delete and *NEW* remote lock down and message display capabilities!! Prior to an Intel AT enabled computer going missing, a LoJack for Laptops customer can set the frequency with which a computer must check in with Absolute monitoring servers before Intel AT automatically locks it.
Sony announced that it will open the “Sony 3D Technology Center,” located at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, to train and nurture a community of experts in the rapidly growing market of 3D entertainment. The announcement was made today at the Consumer Electronics Show by Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO and President of Sony Corporation.
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Sony 3D Technology Center Opens At Sony Pictures Studios
Obviously Steve Ballmer is not going to announce HP’s first offering in the “slate” category (it’s a tablet, folks, but if he feels the need to call it a slate, whatever) running the latest Linux distribution made for MIDs, netbooks, and, well, slates. Unfortunately, by simply shoehorning the Windows 7 interface (albeit a great
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Maybe the HP/Microsoft Slate needs Ubuntu or Moblin to be less of a yawn
We’ve posted two articles about the Google Phone Nexus One which is called a “superphone” because it is considered smarter than smartphones available in the market today. Nexus One Google Phone is another android handset that is the first mobile phone to utilize the 2.1 version of android software. So Google’s Nexus One Superphone’s software
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Nexus One Google Phone Commercial Video | Google Nexus One Superphone
Share In The Tragedy of One Laptop Per Child , Michael Gartenberg at Slashgear just called a million and a half computers in the hands of children, radically transforming education and social structures in dozens of countries, a tragedy. With another million on order. Well, that’s not what he said, because he is apparently unaware of these and many other facts
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What Tragedy of One Laptop Per Child?
Yesterday Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the recipients of $47 million in federal funding for pursuing green I.T. projects, particularly as they relate to data centers. The 17 winners will share in funds matched by the private sector, for a…
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Department of Energy Awards $47 Million for Green I.T. Projects
LAS VEGAS — Sony’s press conference at CES is just about to start — promising lots of 3-D, including a 3-D showing of Jimi Hendrix performing at Woodstock — but execs are already sharing details about one of the company’s new products — a Web and media playing device with a 7-inch touchscreen and a WiFi radio. Called the Dash, the device runs software from Chumby that displays widget versions of Web applications — from a library of more than 1,000 — as well as the software that Web connected Sony TVs use to display widgets. It’s a little hard to describe.
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CES: Sony’s home Web device unveiled — "not a tablet"
Palm beats iPhone shocker! Chrome beats Firefox! The winners of the PC Advisor Awards 2010 have been announced, with gongs going out to the likes of Acer, Adobe, Apple, Canon, Google, Microsoft, Symantec and Western Digital.
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PC Advisor Awards 2010 winners announced
PC Advisor Awards 2010: winners announced Medion has won the PC Advisor Awards 2010 – Readers Best PC Brand award, after being ranked highest by PCA readers based on a combination of customer service and hardware reliability.
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Medion wins PC Advisor’s Readers’ Best PC Brand award