Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
iPhone users will be interested in news about the class action lawsuit that claims Apple and AT&T Mobility's five-year exclusive voice and data service provider agreement for the iPhone is in violation of the anti-monopoly portions of anti-trust laws
The suit also charges Apple with breaking both Federal and California computer ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Recently I've decided that I was going to be changing the way I do the occasional website review. I decided that instead of settling with just writing about a site that I would also do a video review in which I could point out the positive and negative points ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
It's not much of a surprise I suppose that when it comes to tech type gifts, most people today would rather receive a new phone, a new computer, an xbox 360 or one of those Japanese things that people are raving about so much these days.
While stuff like this is ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I've always believed that the new "E-passports" weren't going to be all they were cracked up to be and now there's a good example of why the people who're so flapping excited about them need to reach for a fresh dose of progesterone and sit back and take a fresh ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Anybody with even a slight understanding of how a hard drive operates knows that there are some problems that go along with it. Because many of the parts require high precision alignment it's entirely too easy to mess that up. Just ask the guy who bought a new ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I don't know quite what the deal is but lately I've been seeing stories that are trying to push the idea that the mouse as a computer input device is going to die out. The latest I've seen of these stories is an over dramatic Bold type headline on ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I just saw an interesting article about some research GM is doing that is aimed at eventually having cars equipped with a HUD (Head Up Display).
The article goes out of it's way to emphasize the fact that this is intended to benefit older drivers but it's plainly obvious that such ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
With the oil companies doing their level best to put the economy belly up, lots of people are turning to more and more ways to conserve the cash. One option that many have overlooked until now involves getting some cash out of old hardware that they're not using anymore.
Lots ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
When it comes to bad ideas for the Internet, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) a non profit organization that handles IP address space allocation has approved a wide expansion of TLDs (Top Level Domains).
Up until a few years ago, the most common endings for domain name have ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
That GPS gadget in your car or phone seem handy to you? I imagine it does. What about the times when you just can't get any information from it? Well, it seems that some of the problems at least are due to intentional jamming rather than normal ...
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