Matt Gibstein Writes Livescribe Echo Smartpen Review for the NY Times

Matt Gibstein Writes Livescribe Echo Smartpen Review for the NY Times

Hi loyal readers,
Before I introduce my latest review, I’d like to apologize for the lack of posts this month. We do have a ton of great tech waiting in our review queue, so be sure to hang tight… I sware, the reviews are comin’!  With that being said, the review below is a particularly special one.

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Sena UltraSlim Leather Case for iPhone 4: Review

Sena UltraSlim Leather Case for iPhone 4: Review

INTRODUCTION
As someone whose used an iPhone since day one, it’s safe to say I’ve been through my fair share of cases. And, I’ll be honest: a lot of my experiences haven’t been pretty. I’ve endured everything from the breaking of a rubber slip-on case after a week of use to waiting weeks for a mesely [...]

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HP G62: (Video) Review

HP G62: (Video) Review

We’re doing something a little different for this review– video footage only. That’s right, we’re not going to bore you with words!

Be sure to check out the HD YouTube footage of the HP G62 notebook after the break for our complete hands-on review.

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WaterField Designs iPad Ultimate SleeveCase: Review

WaterField Designs iPad Ultimate SleeveCase: Review

INTRODUCTION
Over the past few months, I’ve really grown to love my iPad.
Lately, I’ve been taken a lot of trips and the device has been clutch; I’m actually starting to travel exclusively with the iPad rather than having two schlep two devices: the iPad and one of my laptops (partly because the iPad is TSA-friendly and I [...]

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Apple Unveils New Apple TV for $99

Apple Unveils New Apple TV for $99

Today, at the company’s fall press event, Apple unveiled it’s second-generation Apple TV, which will “fit in the palm of your hand”. As the majority of tech pundits predicted, the gadget will rely entirely on video streaming which should save users space. This means that the new streaming system will effectively eliminate local content storage– [...]

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Xbox in the News: Live, New Controllers, and a closer look at Kinect!

Xbox in the News: Live, New Controllers, and a closer look at Kinect!

I think it’s safe to say that we have quite a few Xbox 360 fans in our audience. And, I’ll be honest: I’m right there with you– I love my console. So, when I came across a number of Xbox-related stories, I felt obliged to spread the news. Fair warning: some of it’s good and, regrettably, some [...]

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Digg Digs Itself Into a Deep, Dark Hole

Digg Digs Itself Into a Deep, Dark Hole

Over the past week, popular social news site Digg.com has experienced a pretty substantial decrease in site traffic after a rather catastrophic launch of a new site design. The new auto-submission feature, which essentially automatically content from popular news and media sites, gives big name sites a huge advantage over smaller, less-popular ones . And, [...]

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Apple to livestream tomorrow’s fall event– we’ll be covering it too!

Apple to livestream tomorrow’s fall event– we’ll be covering it too!

As many of you know, Apple’s holding it’s annual fall press event tomorrow, beginning at 10 AM PT (1 PM ET). The event invitation, which has been floating around the web, implies that it will be a “music-centered” .

While I can’t say for sure, my guess is that we’ll probably see a new iPod touch with an [...]

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Free phone calls with Gmail!

Free phone calls with Gmail!

Thanks to the folks over at Google, you and I can officially make calls from our computers to mobile phones (and landlines too)… for free!
Three days ago, Google launched its newest service via Gmail’s webclient. It allows you to make and receive calls to and from the US and Canada. To make calls, you use [...]

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Net Neutrality Recap

Earlier this month, on August 9th, Verizon and Google held a joint press conference o discuss net neutrality, an issue that’s becoming more and more pressing. In a nutshell, net neutrality deals with the openness and availability of the internet– in a “perfect world” there shouldn’t be internet discrimination; access should be equal for all users. [...]

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Garmin, GPS Giant, recalls 1.25 million navi. units; potential fire hazard is the culprit

Garmin, GPS Giant, recalls 1.25 million navi. units; potential fire hazard is the culprit

Each and every day, I thank god for personal navigation systems… because without ‘em, I wouldn’t be able to get off my own stinkin’ street.

Over the past several years, we’ve seen GPS systems mature into more portable (read: lovable) — and, generally speaking, they’ve sold very well, practically flying off the shelves like “hot-cakes.”
Today however, [...]

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Dell Streak Launch Details Announced: I yawn.

Dell Streak Launch Details Announced: I yawn.

After a short launch delay in the US of A, it appears that the Dell Streak is finally ready to make its stateside debut starting August 13th. Read on past the break for more info.

As you read above, you’ll be able to get your very own Streak in just a few short days. Of course, [...]

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Meet the HP Zeen

Meet the HP Zeen

Meet the HP eStation Zeen. It’s a tablet. But not the fabled Windows 7 tablet– that’s a whole nother story.
No, according to early FCC filings, this tablet is supposedly running everybody’s favorite, Google Android–interestingly, not webOS (more on that in a sec).
The Zeen’s “hook” is that can plug into a printer and act as the printer’s controller [...]

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New iPhone, iPad, and iPod Models May Be Hitting Shelves Sooner Than You Think

New iPhone, iPad, and iPod Models May Be Hitting Shelves Sooner Than You Think

That’s right, new iPad models, iPhone 4s without the antenna issue, and a whole new line of iPods could be coming soon to an Apple Store near you. While it’s only a rumor, you can expect to see new Apple products in stores “as early as this month” according to iLounge‘s “highly reliable source”.
Seeing [...]

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Blackberry (OS) 6 Is Born; Will Only Play Nice with Four BlackBerry Models

Blackberry (OS) 6 Is Born; Will Only Play Nice with Four BlackBerry Models

Yesterday, at Research In Motions’s official Press Event, we were introduced to the company’s latest mobile operating system, appropriately named BlackBerry OS 6.

Now, from the looks of things, BlackBerry 6 offers a much cleaner, simpler user-interface with some welcomed new features like Universal Search and a WebKit browser.

Other cool additions include enhanced multimedia tools (like WiFi media [...]

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