Category: New Gizmos
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Will The Clouds Go Down the Amazon?
You have to admire the spunk of Jeff Bezos (CEO, Amazon.com). Today, after the release of Amazon’s tablet, ‘Fire‘, he fired the opening salvo towards the heavily-fortified Apple castle with this quotable quote: ” There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers…
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The Great HP TouchPad Fire Sale
On the 3rd week of August 2011, HP announced the news that they were exiting from the very competitive mobile business. Apple and the Android-folks led by Google were making it too difficult for HP to breathe in the mobile arena. It had only been more than a year since HP acquired the PDA-smartphone-mobile device pioneer from Palm. On the following day, they decided to liquidate all their mobile devices inventory. And…
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Palm Pre (via Sprint) as a Personal Router – – The Easy Way
The typical scenario: OK, you have a Palm Pre with an unlimited data plan from Sprint. Yes, you make calls and can navigate the web but it’s really the small screen that turns you off when using cell phones for web browsing. Apple‘s iPad is a bit pricey (of course, you want the 64GB with WiFi and 3GS version) at $909 (tax…
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Palm WebOS 1.4 Worked Wonders
A big leap – from webOS 1.3.5.1 to webOS 1.4 indeed. Had Palm bundled out this version initially when they launced the Palm Pre last June 2009, it could have probably taken some bite off Apple’s iPhone -or, even Blackberry’s – stranglehold on the smartphone market! webOS 1.4 was the “real webOS” Palm was suppose to showcase their…
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A New Year…A New Web Server: Mac Pro Dual Quad
I greeted 2010 by upgrading my web server hosting this site and blogs. Apple‘s PowerMac had been my favorite platform since 2004. I had been hosting the site on my very own web server since I got hold of an Apple PowerMac G4 (466 Mhz) and broadband access. Then, in early 2006, I upgraded to…