Tuesday 22 March 2011

My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Tablet

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March 22, 2011
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My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Tablet Where a lifer laptop owner grouses about the areas where his less sexy Lenovo ThinkPad X30 easily bests either Apple iPad.
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15 Surreal Bridges Melting On Google Earth Google's initiative to add elevation to Google Earth is having some weird and beautiful results. We take a look at 15 landscapes you can find online.
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Unlocked Dell Streak 5 Tablet for $99 with Laptop or Desktop Purchase This Dell deal allows you to pick up a Dell Streak 5 tablet for $99 with the purchase of a desktop or notebook.
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Death of Moore's Law Will Cause Economic Crisis Gordon Moore's famous law about the doubling of transistor density and power every two years will not only end it could bring economic disaster in its wake.
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ICANN Approves .XXX Domain for Adult Entertainment Industry Final approval hasn't been given yet, so this debate, which has been ongoing since 2004, may continue.
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PlayBook Coming April 19, Available for Preorder at Best Buy The PlayBook will be available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models priced at $500, $600 and $700, respectively.
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Android is Hot, and Getting Hotter Along with its meteoric rise in popularity, Google's platform is generating some legal heat involving copyright and licensing.
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Verizon Not Interested in Buying Sprint Verizon Wireless' CEO says his company isn't interested in Sprint and doesn't need them.
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AT&T Drags T-Mobile Into Pit of Dispair AT&T intends to swallow T-Mobile for $39 billion -- so much for decent call quality, customer service, and low-cost data plans
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Amazon's Appstore for Android is Live Amazon's Web-based Android Appstore is open for business offering some advantages over Google's Android Market.
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Gateway, Toshiba Laptops Take Aim at Netbooks The budget laptops offer faster processors and better graphics performance -- all for around $400.
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Common Cell Phone Power Supply Port Coming, Says CTIA Chief All U.S. cell phones will have a common USB interface by the start of 2012, CTIA Chairman Dan Hesse told a CTIA audience Tuesday.
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Firefox 4: Three Ways It Beats IE and Chrome Browsers The browser wars are back with a vengeance, which means your choices keep on coming: Firefox 4 hits this week. CIO.com's Bill Snyder breaks down several features...
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Alienware M11x R3 Gaming Laptop Specs Leaked, Report Claims Details about Dell's next update for its Alienware RD gaming notebook have reportedly leaked. The R3 will feature SSD storage, lighting fast fast memory, and Intel Sandy Bridge processors, according to reports.
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First Look: Nokia Astound Smartphone on T-Mobile One of the first announcements at the CTIA Wireless 2011 spring show is the Nokia Astound smartphone.
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Opera Releases Mini 6, Mobile 11 Here are some quick observations on the programs, which are available for a handful of smartphone and tablet platforms, including Android.
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Google Voice Coming to All Sprint Phones Sprint is integrating the Google Voice application into all of its phones, giving users a new way to make cheap international calls.
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Sprint CEO Says AT&T Takeover Would Stifle Innovation CEO Dan Hesse said the proposed takeover would put too much power in the hands of just two carriers -- AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
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Apple Still Silent on Exodus International App The app, which is meant as a guidance tool, a "cure," so homosexuals can "grow into heterosexuality," has been widely admonished by rights groups.
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Wi-Fi Group Plans to Simplify Hotspot Access The Wi-Fi Alliance plans to make getting onto a public hotspot as easy as connecting to a cellular network, a change that mobile operators are likely to welcome.
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