Category: Hardware
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Adding smarts to your bank cards
Here’s a product where the ‘2.0’ moniker could be very apt indeed – bank cards, those rectangular pieces of plastic you get from your bank or credit card company that are essential requirements today for completing purchases online and offline.…
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The Dell Streak: more than a smartphone
"Is it a phone? Is it a tablet? An iPad killer? Or what?" These are the questions that stood out to me in much of the online commentary about the Dell Streak, the new mobile device launched by Dell a…
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Hard to ignore the iPhone 4 design flaw
The influential US consumer advocacy magazine Consumer Reports released a report about the new iPhone 4 yesterday with the bottom-line conclusion: “We can’t recommend the iPhone 4.” The magazine, which has more than 7 million subscribers and an annual testing…
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Getting Creative with sound
A name synonymous with personal computers and sound is Creative Technology, the Singapore-based company founded in 1981 that helped kick-start the era of digital multimedia with its Sound Blaster sound cards. More recently, Creative has become well known for its…
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Finally, a mobile phone to upgrade to
I love the iPhone. Everyone I know who has one loves theirs, too. I differ from most people I know, though, in that I rarely use it as a phone: for me, it’s an app platform exclusively, not a phone…