" MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) A “sobering experience” was how a television reporter who was freed late Tuesday night by her Abu Sayyaf captors described her nine-day ordeal as she thanked friends and...
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"THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WILL probe complaints that Comcast Corp. interferes with traffic to file-sharing sites as well as allegations that wireless companies prevent some groups from sending text messages to consumers, Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday. "Sure,...
According to WaPo, CES is smaller than in the past:"Well, it's the last day of CES 2008 and the show is still going strong. But the taxi lines heading to the airport are growing pretty quickly.
Last night I had a...
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This product takes open source thinking to an new and very interesting level. "Described as "the Lego of gadgets" by Webware's Rafe Needleman, the Bug Labs platform starts with a minicomputer, the Bug Base,...
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This actually looks pretty cool:"LAS VEGAS (AP) — A memory card that wirelessly sends pictures from a digital camera to a computer — letting you skip the tedium of plugging the camera in to upload images — got bragging rights Wednesday at the International Consumer...
Robert at Infoworld is absolutely right about CES. There wasn't anything that was truly exciting and new. There was incremental improvement in fidelity, size, speed and usability in many new devices but...
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To go with your Ralph Lauren grills:"Like LG's Prada model, the Armani phone is all about design, and in this case it's decidedly minimalist. A large (2.6-inch), 262,000-color touch screen dominates the entire front...
It's weird how many of my pushing-30 friends have Wiis all of a sudden--even the least likely of gamers. I'd get one myself but I have Zelda addiction issues."The tech Emmys were announced this morning, and among the...
Rolly may not win any prizes for bettering humanity, but it's, well, weird, at least."LAS VEGAS--The most curious gadget I have seen so far at CES is a small, spinning cylinder at Sony's booth called the Rolly. It's...
Intel is making bold predictions at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, claiming more powerful chips will revolutionize personal devices within just a few years.They're saying the internet may soon be "proactive,...
Tonight's speech in Vegas will be one of the last high profile speeches Bill Gates will give as he winds down his tenure as the head of Microsoft. Gates has been a fixture at CES for a while now."When Bill...
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If you loved to attend Bill Gates CES 2008 keynote at CES
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I'll check this out when I'm at CES this week. Sounds like a useful device in our line of business:"The Samsung SGH-i450 is a truly innovative music phone that offers a dual slider design and touch wheel music...
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