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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Richard Blakeley is either the very calculated or just plain dumb. During CES he videotaped himself turning off LCD TV’s during certain companies presentations. He did this to Motorola, Intel, and Creative. Gizmodo made some pretty serious enemies from this stunt. On the other hand, from the last time I checked Gizmodo’s video post it [...]
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Okay I have to preface this by saying that CES is the largest show I know of with over 35 football fields worth of gadgets. Now to find the funniest product I had to search high and wide until I ran across the Crocs O-Dial.
First of all I am not that big of a Crocs [...]
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
While at CES I got to play with Lenovo’s new consumer focused IdeaPad laptops. The new laptops are gorgeous compared to the drab Thinkpads I own. This may be a new start for Lenovo to spice up their business black lines with some sleek curves. Check out the pics below or you can look at [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
I ran into an interesting service by LoJack from their booth at CES. It turns out that LoJack has branched out to helping find you lost laptop. Personally I know I am always carrying my laptop arround and have had mine stolen quite a few times. I am curious to see if this LoJack for [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
A friend of mine sent me a few pictures of strange and exotic USB drives/Thumb drives/Flash drives or whatever you want to call them… Just thought I’d share them with you. Availability ? Sorry, I would not have a clue but have been told that some of the ‘Really Bling’ ones are around the $28000 [...]
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Just thought I would share something from the show floor. I actually found this quite interesting and wish we had the budget for it . Cnet setup a stage and seating to perform live reviews of some products. I actually took this picture while the presenter was trying to describe the voice features of the new Garmin GPS [...]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I can hear you all now…HaHaHa… If you have read my past articles you would know that one thing I do (That I probably shouldn’t!), is read and write emails on my Curve whilst driving…Well a couple of days after Christmas, I found out why we should listen to the [...]
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Greg and his better half Val have taken some great holiday themed BlackBerry shots.
Enjoy your holiday weekend!
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Dear Readers,
I think I might have a problem. It all started about 12 months ago when, in a fit of frustration and rage, I threw my O2 Atom against a brick wall as I was subjected to yet another reset of the windows based device. With my tail between my legs I went down [...]
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
If you don’t know what ZipCar is then you can read more about it here. In short it is a car sharing rental company for large cities. Personally I just signed up because I do not have a car since I live in Manhattan. It is a great service to rent a car by the [...]
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