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HP iPAQ Unboxed

HP's Smartphone Released To Reviewers, 3.1-megapixel camera, touchscreen
By on Friday, 4. December 2009

Review versisons of HP’s upcoming iPAQ smartphone were sent to internet reviewers, and unboxing videos and hands-on opinions followed. The iPAQ is sort of an unusual mix of iPhone touchscreen and Blackberry QWERTY as it features a touchscreen but also a full plastic QWERTY keyboard.

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Best Buy to Offer 99 Cent Shipping on All Products

Special Shipping Promotion Available Through the Holidays
By on Tuesday, 1. December 2009

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have already passed by but that doesn’t mean we don’t have more deals to show you for the upcoming holidays. In fact just today Best Buy has issued a press release revealing its intentions for the upcoming period. Best Buy has announced that the holiday [...]

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Dell Precision M6500 Is The 'Most Powerful Mobile Workstation'

Dell Releases New Notebook Workstation, Packs Quad-Core Processor
By on Tuesday, 1. December 2009

With all the excitement surrounding smartphones, MIDs, tablets and netbooks, it’s good to see some buzz surrounding an honest-to-goodness dreadnaught of a notebook computer. Dell is claiming that their new Precision M6500 is ‘the most powerful mobile workstation ever’ and it might be, considering the thing is packing an Intel Core i7 [...]

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Phenom Dream Watch Phone Gets Official

Quad-band, Dual SIM, World Watch Phone Available for $395
By on Monday, 30. November 2009

This is neither the first nor the last watch phone we will see here on TFTS but it’s a brand new one launched by Phenom Communications. It’s also supposed to be a very hot one although it’s up to you to decide if it can top LG’s watch phone which [...]

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Call of Duty Passes Over $3 Billion in Sales

Modern Warfare 2 Nets $550 Million in First Five Days
By on Sunday, 29. November 2009

I don’t know about you but I am certainly amazed with what Activision managed to do with that Call of Duty franchise. The last game of the series, one which we’ve already seen here at TFTS earlier this month, Modern Warfare 2, has brought in over $550 million in the [...]

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Lockheed Martin's DisOPS PDA System For US Military

Lockheed Martin Developing PDA-Laptop System for US Soldiers
By on Friday, 27. November 2009

Lockheed Martin, the people that brought you such things as the F-16 Falcon and the Trident missile are now bringing the the US military a new device or more of an integrated system. From Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Lab comes the Distributed Operations (DisOPS) info tech system, which consists of laptops and PDAs being [...]

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FedEx Unveils Senseaware Drop-In Package Sensor

Senseaware Monitors Your FedEx Package & Sends Online Updates Your Way
By on Wednesday, 25. November 2009

Do you trust your delivery guy with your sensible packages? I know I always wonder if the stuff I send or I am about to receive will travel safely and I’d definitely try one of those drop-in sensors that FedEx has announced. The Senseaware is a cool gadget which will [...]

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BlackBerry Curve 8530 Now Available from Verizon

BlackBerry Curve 8530 to Cost $99.99 with a 2-YR Contract
By on Saturday, 21. November 2009

Exactly as expected, the BlackBerry Curve 8530 is now available from Verizon Wireless. The phone costs $99.99 after $100 online discount and with a new 2-year contract. In case you want to choose a 1-year agreement instead, you’ll end up paying $169.99 for the phone, after a similar $100 online [...]

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Apple Broadway Store to Open Doors on November 14

Upper West Side Apple Store Becomes Official
By on Saturday, 7. November 2009

In case you’re living in New York you must have certainly spotted the latest Apple Store. Located at the intersection of Broadway and 67th, the newest Apple Store has been under construction for a while now but we do have an official launch date for you.

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NVIDIA Brings New Weapons in the War Against Intel

NVIDIA Uses Cartoons to Enrage Intel; Will It Work?
By on Friday, 6. November 2009

There are some already famous rivalries between companies that inevitably lead to duels in court. We have AT&T vs Verizon, Apple vs Psystar and NVIDIA vs Intel. While the first lawsuits have recently been covered in the news, the NVIDIA vs Intel quarrel is not that fresh in our minds! [...]

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