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The Porsche Design mPower Illuminator will shine a light on your financial situation

Do you have more money than sense? If you do, then the new mPower Emergency Illuminator will likely be your flashlight of choice. What does $289 get you — other than an LED flashlight that vaguely resembles the SS Enterprise? The mPower Emergency Illuminator™ is a personal illumination tool that offers Power On Command™. In [...]

Is Text to Speech Copyright Infringement or Accessibility?

(image courtesy audiobooks for everyone) Famously, the Kindle 2 debuted with Text to Speech enabled, only to see it yanked for many books after the publishing companies complained it violated audiobook copyrights. This debate is becoming an issue all over again because of devices like Intel’s Reader for the blind, which uses a scanner and [...]

What’s Coming To Vegas

YES! It is finally time for CES. Judie, Larry and Dan are going (Kevin, too!), and we’ll do out best to bring you (for the first time) team coverage of the biggest electronics show of them all. In preparation… It is time to pack! Dan: After months of planning and anticipating CES is finally here. [...]

Sygic Mobile Maps North America Gets an Update

Since its initial release, I’ve been suggesting that people watch the Mobile Maps products from Sygic. They had an interesting approach to navigation software and they seem very committed to making their products better. Now they’ve released Mobile Maps North America version 8.01 and refreshed the look and feel of parts of the app. Lets [...]

Motorola’s family gets bigger, ups the ante with the super slim “Shadow”

Photo courtesy of Engadget Motorola’s (MOT) handset division was all but extinct earlier this year. The release of the popular Droid and Cliq have put Motorola on a high road to recovery. Just days before CES, some new devices were outed in leaked photos. The rumored Motorola “Shadow” has a large 4.3″ (850X484) resolution screen [...]

iPod touch Sales Huge, iPhone Still Rules

Apparently during the holiday shopping season this year the big hit for Apple was the iPod touch. Huge numbers of the touchscreen iPod were sold and the device’s momentum doesn’t look to be slowing down any time soon. That is not a huge surprise in light of the fact that once you buy the iPod [...]

Consolidating Your eBook Libraries, Part I: Background Notes

It all started because I just have too many eBooks, and too many eBook readers on my iPhone. eReader. Stanza. Kindle. B&N eReader. Wattpad. Kobo. Eucalyptus. You get the picture. And they don’t share information between them. You can’t load your freeware Wattpad books on your eReader software, for example, without jumping through the hoops [...]

Geek Squad Founder feels remorse, regret

Ok all. Raise your hand if you have suffered at the hands of Geek Squad over at Best Buy. Wow, that many of you. Sorry. Now I know that Geek Squad can do a good job. Its just over 2009, their reputation for service caused them more harm that good. Stolen gear, spying on people [...]

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The Porsche Design mPower Illuminator will shine a light on your financial situation

Is Text to Speech Copyright Infringement or Accessibility?

What’s Coming To Vegas

Sygic Mobile Maps North America Gets an Update

Motorola’s family gets bigger, ups the ante with the super slim “Shadow”

iPod touch Sales Huge, iPhone Still Rules

Consolidating Your eBook Libraries, Part I: Background Notes

Geek Squad Founder feels remorse, regret

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