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Mobile Phone

Palm Treo 750v: A First Look

Palm users expecting a major advance from the Treo 750v are going to be disappointed, at least on the basis of our first look. However, it does represent several firsts for Palm in Europe. The physical specifications of the Treo 750v are almost exactly the same as those of the Treo 700w, which has been […]

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battery

Toshiba Recalls 830,000 Sony Notebook Batteries

Toshiba said Tuesday it would replace about 340,000 laptop computer batteries made by Sony, the latest in a string of Sony battery woes. The batteries, used in Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops manufactured between March and May this year, could fail on the road because of problems with storing and transmitting power, Toshiba spokesman Keisuke […]

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iTunes

Apple’s Artwork Olive Branch is a Treasure Trove of Data

This just hit me. Allowing customers to download album artwork for their whole library, regardless of where the music came from, is brilliant, instant market research by Apple. Apple’s been careful this time to tell the user that iTunes will have to send data to get the album art back, and to say that no […]

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Gadget

Gadget Charging Station in Airports

While traveling this weekend to Austin City Limits festival in Austin, Texas this weekend (more about that on my personal blog later, promise) I stumbled across this cool gadget charging station in the George Bush Intercontinental/Houston Airport (IAH) airport. The Charge Carte kiosk is brought to you by the same people who extort US$3 out […]

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iTunes

Float that window…

I’ve seen several rants about iTunes 7 floating around the web, but no one ever seems to ever talk about an essential feature that’s continually been missing from the iTunes application.