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2005 December

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Nokia Copies Apple’s Cue and Drops In on CompUSA

If you’ve ever wandered into a CompUSA before and noticed its healthy selection of Apple products, that’s because it’s ran by Apple itself. The guy in the white shirt with an Apple logo on it is not a CompUSA employee but rather an Apple employee. So prior to the Apple Store days, that’s […]

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Falling Prices…and RFID Tags at Wal-Mart

RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, is a new technology that is becoming increasingly popular in the commerce sector. Basically, RFID can store just about any information you want onto the tag and then a reader can read that information. BP and Exxon were the first to use this technology in where you could […]

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THE Best Speaker System for Your iPod

With all this talk about how cruddy the sound quality is of most files that end up on your iPod, Hammacher Schlemmer has come to rescue with a speaker system that will blow away the Bose system. Why? Because it uses only the finest in audiophile quality such as tubes to recreate the […]

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Photo Contacts Pro Updated to 4.0

It’s nearly a new year and a new update for the best custom photo/ring tone per contact for the PocketPC has been update. Photo Contacts Pro 4.0 has just been released and there are a slew of new features to be found. Now you can assign a ring tone to those nasty Unknown […]

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XM Pops on Some 5.1 Surround Sound

Howard comes to Sirius in just a week or so but hold out a little longer you XM listeners and you’ll soon be able to get your classical and free-form music in pure digital 5.1 surround sound. Yes, that means you’ll need to get new equipment in order to enjoy that wall of sound […]

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New USB Drive Speeds Up Transfers By Reading and Writing Simultaneously

I love my 1GB SanDisk Micro-Cruizer but can’t stand how long it takes to delete files and then copy over some new ones. It takes a loooong time and it causes me to do updates not as often as I should. What’s a geek to do? Spill out $410 and get the […]

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Run a Full Database Driven Web Site from a USB Stick

If you’re in the mood to run a rogue site and don’t want to be traced easily, then take your web site with you…in your pocket. That’s right, you now can run a fully functional website running Apache web server with PHP, mySQL, Typo and ImageMagik all on a USB drive. Everything is […]

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Wear Your MP3 Player as Jewelry

Some MP3 players, or Digital Audio Players (DAP), are getting mighty small. Small enough to throw around your neck and wear it as if it were jewelry. That’s the thought and idea of the latest Pebble player. It fits easily in the palm of your hand even though it still has a […]

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Sony Stomps Apple’s NAND Order

Sony isn’t taking Apple’s memory deal with Samsung too lightly and has just inked a $1.8 billion deal with Samsung to grab a fifth of all memory Samsung makes for Sony’s PSP. Sony expects to sale 20 million PSP’s next year and will need lots of memory for those units. Sony can not […]

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iPod 2nd Greatest Gadget of All Time

Give it a year or two and the iPod will beat out the Sony Walkman TPS-L2 released in 1979 as the greatest gadget of the last 50 years. PC World’s Top 50 Gadgets of the Last 50 Years is a trip down memory lane for me as I can remember nearly all of them. […]

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iTunes Music Store Sees Christmas Sky Rocket Increase

Looks like legal downloads took a 50% increase in downloads over the Christmas weekend according to Hitwise. With an increase of 15% in holiday downloads from last year, Apple and other services such as Napster, enjoyed some ho ho jolliness as well. With the iPod as the number one item on Christmas lists […]

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Turn Your iPod into a Universal Remote

So you’ve got an iPod. You’ve got a few TV’s, too. You wished this digital hub Jobs keeps ranting about would include using your iPod on the TV, huh? Dude, don’t wait for Steve, get Griffin to help you out. Yes, Griffin as in the company that makes Total Remote. […]

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Score iPod shuffle 1GB Now…for $99

Hey, Apple DOES have iPod shuffles in the 1GB size! It’s not brand new, but it is at least tested for functionality before Apple sends it to you. And at $50 off the regular price, you can’t really go wrong, can you? If you’re looking for other iPod’s at discounted prices, those […]

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Get An iPod Video For $274 Shipped

Hey, didn’t get that iPod video for Christmas? Got some cheap-o player with a Nike swoosh on it instead? Dude, don’t worry, the end of Christmas is all about returning your crap you didn’t want (sans receipt of course) and getting what you do want with the money you get back!
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Sony Updates Network Walkman to Support WMA

Tis the season to be jolly and Sony I guess realizes after some excess egg nog with a bit of sushi (hey, it’s a Japanese company,) that its ATRAC thing just ain’t going to catch on. Soooo, Sony has released firmware update 2.01 for the NW-A1000/1200/3000 digital audio players. This update allows user […]

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Treo 700w Release Date Jan. 5th

Rumors have been buzzing for the past week that CES would be the release platform for Verizon and Palm for the new Treo 700w and now there is more information– with pricing — that says this indeed is the case. The feature list is to include 128MB Flash/60MB RAM, EV-DO and 1xRTT, 240×240 color […]

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Movie Theaters To Ask FCC For Permission To Block Cell Phones

Now that nearly every moviegoer has a cell phone, things can be a bit disturbing with various people on their phone during a movie. While most understand that this is rude, others pull a 2 Pac and thug-for-life it as they chat away to their brotha on their Nokia N90. Joy. Homie […]

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South Korean Gov’t to Indite via SMS

Those South Korean’s. They just love mobile phones and pretty much all of the country owns at least one. With three-quarters of the nation possessing a mobile phone, prosecutors will be trashing the old paper notification system and opting for using the modern, and quicker, Small Message System of the phones their “clients” […]

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Best Mobile Articles of 2005

MobHappy has put together a list of some of the best articles of 2005 posted on our favorite little thing, all things mobile. The list isn’t your average one of things mobile but also how mobile things effected lives of all sorts of people including, “an Amazonian tribe who can’t count past two.” […]

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New Shuffle and Nano for Macworld

Wonder why those 1GB shuffles are all out until January? Interesting timing, no? I’d say you can expect some new shuffles from Macworld as well a bump up in storage, too. There’ll probably be a 2GB shuffle along with the 1GB. I’d be surprised if the 512MB sticks around. As […]