Archive for October, 2010 - Page 7

Incandescent Light Bulbs Are Being Phased Out [In Light Of Misinformation, Here Are A Few Things You Should Know About The Move To More Efficient Lighting Technologies Like CFL & LED]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

In 2007, then-President George W. Bush signed a law called the Energy Independence and Security Act. Among others, the law sets standards on energy-efficiency for lightbulbs, which will come into full effect in 2012. Essentially, the law requires lightbulbs to [...]

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T-Mobile Website Hints At Dell-branded Windows 7 Tablet With $600 Price Tag [T-Mobile Galaxy Tab Spec Sheet; Is It A Simple Mistake Or Hints Of A Windows 7 Tablet Coming To T-Mobile?]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

It looks like the Samsung Galaxy Tab is not going to be the only tablet style device to come available with T-Mobile. Well, that or someone had a case of serious confusion while writing up the spec listing for the [...]

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android 2.1 Eclair Update Coming on October 31 [Sony Ericsson Officially Announced the Xperia X10 Family Android 2.1 Eclair Update; It’s Going to be Halloween-ish]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

The other day we were looking at the new official Sony Ericsson 3-minute clip in which the main new Android 2.1 features coming to the Xperia X10 were demoed officially by Sony Ericsson. We had no idea that the manufacturer [...]

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Honda Insight To Get Better Fuel Efficiency With Longer Engine Stop Times [Honda Tweaks Hybrid Insight Engine's Stop-Start Time To Improve Fuel Efficiency & Increase MPG]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

Honda’s insight is one of the more popular hybrid cars in the market. While its main competitor is the Prius, they are in two distinctly different classes, at least in terms of size. The main advantage of the Insight is [...]

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Lord Of The Rings Online Europe Free To Play Relaunch Date Revealed [Lord Of The Rings Online Going Free To Play In Europe For Real This Time]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

We stand before a sea of choices. We could say something like about damn time. We could make fun of the contract and licensing issues again, but we don’t really like to repeat ourselves. Or we could see this for [...]

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Visilab Driverless Electric Van Completes Trek [Visilab's Driverless Electric Van Goes From Italy To China, Over Land, An 8000 Mile Trip]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

Somebody somewhere had better be popping some champagne right now, and frankly, I don’t care what time of day it is because this news is entirely too good to not celebrate. The Visilab project, an electric van that operated without [...]

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Sprint Overdrive Sales Helped Due In Part To The iPad [Sprint Is Not Selling The iPad, But Still Believe It Has Helped Sell Overdrive Hotspot Modems]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

The expansion of the Apple iPad in terms of new places to purchase has been interesting. Originally the tablet was available for purchase online with Apple and in Apple retail stores. And just recently we have begun to see that [...]

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Mozilla Firefox 4 Delayed Until 2011 [Mozilla Cites Development Problems In Delay Of Firefox 4 Browser]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

Mozilla announced yesterday that they will delay the launch of Firefox 4 until early 2011. While the new version of the popular web browser was originally slated to be shipped in September, the company has had problems stomping out bugs [...]

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Atrio Special Edition Earphones Emerge From Future Sonics [Future Sonics Atrio Special Edition Earphones Offer Big Sound And Bigger Price Tag]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

Folks, I’ve never really been one for earbuds. Oh, sure, I tolerate them on my MP3 player because they usually don’t have big enough jacks for a proper headset and even I admit I don’t mind walking with less weight [...]

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Microsoft Announces Record Revenue in First Quarter [Microsoft First Quarter Revenues Top $16 Billion, $5.41 Billion Profit]

By on Friday, 29. October 2010

Who said the economy is struggling? On the heels of Apple announcing that they posted record revenues in the third quarter of this year, Microsoft it had put up never before seen revenues for the first quarter of 2011 beating [...]

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