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The Dell Mini 9 is the Texas-based firm’s first foray into the world of netbooks and it’s pretty solid.  Like any purchase decision though the ability of the company to deal with problems you encounter is an important part of the purchase decision, at least it… Read More »

Has Steve Jobs Chosen His Replacement?

Ever since his very secretive battle with Pancreatic Cancer in 2003-2004, Steve Jobs’ health is consistently under a microscope. Every time Jobs coughs on stage the news media goes crazy with rumors that he might be ill. Many believe the charismatic leader, who saved Apple from… Read More »

 
 

New this very day, Smule releases their latest audio based iPhone application, Sonic Vox. With Sonic Vox, simply slide your finger across your iPhone and slip through a range of voices from Darth Vader to Gollum. Perhaps it’s easiest to think of Sonic Vox as Read More »

Reader Lornie sent me a link to what looks like an advertising campaign for Windows Vista that leaves us both scratching our heads.  It’s a very professional web site but the message is, um, strange to say the least.  Don’t miss the proud guy who… Read More »

How many times have you seen on the web a mention of the great invention of the touch interface that Apple gave us with the iPhone?  I have seen it so many times that I almost ignore it now, and that’s not a good thing.  Touch… Read More »

At first blush this ad sent in by reader Camus appears to be one of those ads with an error that someone didn’t catch but that seems to be not the case.  This reseller in Spain (I believe that’s where they are) is offering a Read More »

Could the third time be a charm for MIU and their Hybrid Dual Portable Computer? The latest device iteration follows the two before it and neither of those truly panned out.… Read More »

Dell made a big splash late last year when it introduced the first Tablet PC with a capacitive digitizer like that used in the iPhone.  The 12-inch screen has both the capacitive and an active digitizer provided by N-Trig to give dual capability to the… Read More »

Windows 7 is Windows 7

Let’s take the focus off the big Apple event today and share some news about those other big guys, Microsoft.  On the Microsoft Vista Team Blog Mike Nash has spilled the big… Read More »

We weren’t the only ones taken in by the video of the iPhone booting into Windows Mobile so we don’t feel so bad.  We do want to let you know that as cool as it is the iPhone app for running Windows Mobile doesn’t exist. … Read More »

The news about NVidia just keeps getting worse and can be filed in the "stick a fork in them" category.  NVidia had to admit that some of their video chips were faulty and the impact on the company was so great that shareholders filed suit… Read More »

More Must Reads

In what must be related to an internal policy decision on behalf of Apple, yesterday saw the release of five separate applications (Compose, TouchType, Sideways, Lettera, and Wide Email) that allow you to compose emails in landscape mode. Each… Read More »

Sorry for the MC Hammer play, but I try to have fun to offset bad news. Here’s the deal: the HTC Touch HD you might be salivating over isn’t Coming to… Read More »

Funny thing about life — a public figure can never predict what might pop up from her past. Allow me to present accomplished flautist Sarah Palin, circa the early 1980s (that’s my guess, anyway, based on the hair). Is this the candidate’s saxophone-solo-on-Arsenio… Read More »

One of my biggest gripes with the iTunes App Store is the lack of free trials. There seems to be little in the way of Apple logistics… Read More »

Ruh-roh Shaggy. From the clues provided it looks like having ActiveSync installed on your Windows XP machine is a crime. Unless you like leaving your computer open to be exploited that is. Apparently, the addition of RNDIS or Remote Network Driver Interface Specification in AS 4.x… Read More »

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