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I’m not sure if we’re ready to say that stand-alone portable navigation units (a la TomTom and Garmin) have jumped the shark, but with the proliferation of handheld devices and smartphones with integrated navigation comes the inevitable question of obsolescence. Not to be content with the development with its recent [...]

Well, it’s finally happened. LG has gone and announced the launch of its first smartphone powered by the Android OS. We can’t say that we’re all that surprised, as they had already let the proverbial cat out of said bag at the IFA show earlier this month in Berlin (it [...]

It’s pretty well known that wireless Internet speeds in North America are lagging greatly behind those of the rest of the modernized world. Blame it on government bureaucracy or unwillingness to spend the capital, whatever the case the public has been starving for faster speeds with little hope of relief. [...]

What? You didn’t hear about it either? In a move characteristically uncharacteristic of Dell, the computer giant decided to launch two new 24-in full-HD widescreen LCD displays into the US market and it seems to have taken place while most of us were sleeping. The two monitors, the UltraSharp U2410 [...]

I’ve been pretty happy with my compact flash cards, but there are apparently a contingent out there that’s been whining that their portable memory isn’t good enough. Who might this be, you ask? Try the professional photographers and videographers. These guys are always on the lookout for something that will [...]

Dare I? Can it be done? Should it be done? Two home theater projector posts in the same day by the same writer…I hope I don’t open some kind of interdimensional rift and suck through a horrible Earth-eating demon by taking such a risk. Oh, the hell with it. For [...]

There you are, standing lord over throngs of gyrating partygoers enveloped in thumping turbo beats and splashed in velvety lights. Your hands feverishly move between turntables with the grace of a surgeon as you skillfully combine track after track, effortlessly manipulating the volume and speed of each song to create [...]

We have covered quite a few home theater projectors in recent weeks and it certainly seems as if their marketers are going into overdrive to get the word out. The most recent projectors from Samsung were the high-end SP-A800 and SP-A900 full-HD models and the time has come for another. [...]

Who would argue that gaming is a good thing? Maybe all of the other people that you have to live with when you are up at two in the morning fragging it out in Gears of War. There is nothing guaranteed to drive deep roommate rifts like the pounding bass [...]

There is no doubt that the evolution of the laser-read high-definition recordable disc took a drastic leap forward with the development and eventual mass marketing of Sony’s Blu-ray technology. Who wouldn’t want something that provides pure picture perfection on your big-screen LCD (or LED, or plasma…) television and unsurpassed audio [...]