Month: August 2005

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Podcast

PowerPage Podcast Episode 1

Episode 1 of the PowerPage Podcast features the Mighty Mouse, Sony VAIO notebook engineers being courted by Apple and features an interview with Paul Alfieri, Director of Communications & Public Affairs at Motorola Connected Home Solutions. In this episode we’ll take you on an audio tour of the latest gear from Motorola connected home products, including the Ojo Personal Video Phone, the Homesight monitoring, security and control system, DCT6412 dual tuner, high definition DVR and Motorola and Oakley’s RAZRwire Bluetooth sunglasses.

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Hardware iPod

TechRestore Maxes Out 4G iPod Battery at 1000mAh

TechRestore (a PowerPage sponsor) has begun offering a new overnight iPod battery upgrade service for 4th generation “click-wheel” iPods and all color screen iPod models. The service includes the replacement of the standard iPod battery with a TechRestore 1000mAh high capacity battery with over 50% more charging power than the original 4th generation iPod battery […]

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Opinion

The Laptop Bait and Switch

In a story for the Washington Post “It Takes a Discerning Eye to See Through Laptop Lingo” Rob Pegoraro explores the Dell and HP practice of shipping laptops “with batteries that will expire before you can finish watching a movie.” Read More…

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Hardware

Notebook Computers With Financial Aid

“Laptop or beer?” should never be a decision that a student has to make. According to a story in the Chicago Tribune many higher education institutions (i.e. Northern Michigan University, Indiana State, Wake Forest, and New Jersey’s Seton Hall) are now requiring laptops for incoming freshman. While not surprising, the interesting wrinkle in this story […]

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Archive

Judge Blocks Cobb County iBook Plan

According to the Associated Press Judge S. Lark Ingram has blocked a laptop computer program in Cobb County because “school officials did not tell voters they what they wanted to do with a special sales tax approved by voters.” The original plan included US$76 million for technology and school officials estimated they would spend US$32 […]