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One design, any screen: Introducing GigaOM's new look and feel
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You’ve no doubt had the experience of reading a site on your mobile phone and wondering why half the headline is chopped off, or the font size is so small you can’t read it. It just seems like the content doesn’t fit the site. Today, we launched phase one of...
Gift Guide: Lenovo Yoga 13
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When Lenovo first announced the Yoga in October nobody knew what to think. A laptop that folks over to turn into a big tablet? With Windows 8? Meh. However, after some extensive usage I’ve come away thinking that the Yoga might be the coolest Win8 laptop I’ve used and...
Would you sue for a $1m reward? | Poll
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After losing a laptop containing important files, the record producer and singer-songwriter Ryan Leslie offered a $1m reward. A German man returned it ... only to then sue for the reward when Leslie failed to pay up. The jury sided with him. Would you sue for a reward?...
Got an old iPod? Seven ways to offload your used electronics for cash
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The Internet was supposed to make selling your old gadgets easier, but in some ways, it has only become a bigger pain in the ass over time. Who really wants to put a laptop on eBay these days, or deal with the flakes who make up craigslist? Sometimes, the...
Meet the guy who cracked the case of the stolen iPhone IDs
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AltSec claimed they got them from a FBI agent's laptop. David Schuetz proved they lied. FORTUNE -- Last week, the AltSec hacker group claimed it found 1 million UDIDs -- the numbers by with Apple (AAPL) identifies iOS devices -- on an FBI agent's laptop. They used the purported discovery as...
7 Reasons Why You Should Be Excited For Microsoft's Surface Tablet (MSFT)
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Steve Ballmer announced Microsoft's first tablet, the Surface, this summer. It's expected to launch along with Windows 8, the next operating system for PCs, on October 26. Now the tech world is bubbling with all kinds of speculation and excitement at what the future might hold as Microsoft enters the...
Google's Chrome Remote Desktop Screen Sharing Service Comes Out Of Beta, Adds Real-Time Audio For Windows
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Google just announced that it is taking its Chrome Remote Desktop screen sharing service out of beta. As the name implies, the Chrome Remote Desktop app runs in Chrome and allows you to share your desktop with others or control theirs to see presentations or, as Google notes, become the...
Google's Chrome Remote Desktop Screen Sharing Service Comes Out Of Beta, Adds Real-Time Audio For Windows
N-trig release teases that Fujitsu's Stylistic Q702 will come with active pen support
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Stylus maven N-trig has revealed that Fujitsu's Stylistic Q702 laptop/tablet hybrid will be the first to shop with the company's new G4 DuoSense pen and multi-touch digitizer. As such, it'll be able to use a new active pen stylus that the company, perhaps unsurprisingly, promises will provide a "pen-on-paper...
NEC LaVie Y brings Lenovo's 360-degree IdeaPad Yoga hybrid tablet to Japan
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Don't think that Lenovo is keeping the IdeaPad Yoga's bendy secrets all to itself: its Japanese partner NEC is bringing a variant of the ARM-based Yoga 11 to the land of the rising sun as the LaVie Y. The 11.6-inch blend of laptop and tablet keeps the signature 360-degree...
Feature Friday: Concierge
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Eighty percent of all music listening happens in lean back mode where someone or something plays the music for you. That's a fact. I am not sure where I saw it, but I believe it to be true based on my own music listening experience. That's why I haven't found...
The iPad Is Three Years Old Today - Let's Now Stand In Awe Of How It Has Changed The World (AAPL)
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Three years ago today, on January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs stood on a stage in San Francisco. First he talked about how Apple invented the modern laptop in 1991 and revolutionized the smartphone with the iPhone in 2007. Then he asked: "Is there room for a third category of device in...
AntiSec claims to have snatched 12M Apple device IDs from FBI
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Hacking group posts 1 million of the identifiers to the Web after allegedly lifting the data from an agent's laptop. [Read more]...
Why You Shouldn't Ditch Your Laptop For An iPad ...Yet (AAPL)
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We love our iPad, but it's not about to replace our laptop anytime soon. Tablets are functional, portable, and maybe even sexy. But the following four things consistently hold our iPad back from becoming our main computing device. You can type much more quickly on your laptop. It's a weird...
Matias Quiet Pro review: a mechanical keyboard with less clickety-clack
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Keyboards aren't always high on the list of considerations for folks buying a new computer or looking to upgrade an old one. Some may be more likely to splurge on a high-end monitor, or cram in as much RAM as possible. For this writer, though, the keyboard is one...
This Handy Vibrator Is a Great Place to Store Your Pitch Decks
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(Photo: Crave) USB drives, it seems, are never around when you need them. Not only that, they’re frequently boring looking, amounting to barely more than little pieces of plastic and metal painted monochrome colors. It’s time to disrupt USB drives, don’t you think? Michael Topolovac, cofounder of Crave, certainly does, and...
New 3G Chromebook is $80 more than Wi-Fi model
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Google surprised many this week with introduction of a cheaper new Chromebook that runs on a chip usually meant for smartphones and tablets. The ChromeOS laptop is lighter and thinner than its predecessor, not to mention $200 less with a base price of $249. My hands on video review showed...
Windows 8: The complete new PC launch list
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Every major new laptop, desktop, tablet, hybrid, and convertible launching with Windows 8 or RT. [Read more]...
Hackers leak 1M iOS device IDs supposedly taken from FBI agent's laptop
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Hackers from AntiSec on Tuesday claims to have leaked 1,000,001 iPhone and iPad identifiers the group allegedly obtained from a hacked FBI laptop holding over 12 million such Apple device IDs and corresponding personal information....
Lenovo updates laptops for Windows 8
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At IFA, Lenovo outlined more of its Windows 8 laptop plans. [Read more]...
Bag Week: The Nomadic WT-18 Toto Bag And WL-25 Wise-Walker Backpack
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I’m starting Bag Week off with two bags from one of my favorite manufacturers, Nomadic. This Japanese seller of quality bags makes their rucksacks out of rip-stop fabric and offers a certain stark, compact design that is as far from your typical JanSport as a kimono is from an Ed...
Visualized: a tour of Ben Heck's lab (video)
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We've been following Ben Heck since the days of the Atari 800 laptop, so we jumped at the chance to take a look at the modder extraordinaire's shop in Madison, WI. As expected, the place is jam-packed with industrial tools, 3D printers and half-finished pinball machines. Check out where...
Leaked Apple device IDs likely stolen from digital publishing company, not FBI
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App development company Blue Toad has come forward as the likely source of Apple unique device IDs (UDIDs) leaked by hackers last week. In an interview with NBC News, Blue Toad's CEO Paul DeHart says that the company checked the million UDIDs that AntiSec posted against its own database,...
Who should I follow on Twitter? Microsoft edition
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2012 has been pretty busy for Microsoft. We've seen the new, very different, Windows 8, not to mention a new version of its mobile OS and no end of hardware permutations from PC and laptop makers. With that in mind, this time on WSIFOT, we've assembled a together who...
Want an original modern horror film? Don't #Holdyourbreath
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The world's first hashtag movie is undone by a loosely defined hashtag policy. #fundamentalflaw #killmenowReading this on mobile? Click here to viewYou'd be forgiven for not wanting to watch Hold Your Breath from its poster alone. Not because it looks like a hopelessly generic horror film. Not because the poster...
We try Nvidia's GeForce Experience, a tool to automatically optimize PC game settings
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In April, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told us that the days of painstakingly tweaking PC game settings to get a decent gaming experience could soon be over. With GeForce Experience, he said, the company would use supercomputers to figure out the optimal settings for each game and each hardware...
MacBook Air sees $200 discount at Best Buy through Saturday
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Retailer Best Buy launched a Winter Doorbuster Days sale earlier today. Highlighting the sale is an offer of $200 off on select MacBook Air models. Both the 11-inch and 13-inch models are included with the sale, with pricing ranging from $800 to $1300 depending on configuration and screen size. The...
MacBook Pro with Retina display gets full configuration options, even at base specification
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One of the early complaints with the Retina MacBook Pro was that it had an unusual limitation on how it could be configured in Apple's built-to-order store. That's changing today, however: the Apple Store is now offering expanded configuration options for the base specification machine. Previously, the $2,199 base...
SOL Republic's Tracks HD headphones - funky, great sound...and indestructible?
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a bit of a love-hate relationship going on with headphones. I love them insofar as I need them. I have three pairs, as it happens – one rather chunky set of over-ear headphones for home, which cost me around £30 ($50), I...
Answer Line: How do I get POP email in Windows 8?
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Richard Howell replaced an old computer with a Windows 8 laptop. His mail provider only supports the POP email protocol, which Windows 8's email program doesn't support. What's he to do? [Email your tech questions to answer@pcworld.com or post them on the PCW Answer Line forum.] The Internet uses...
Toshiba refreshes the Qosmio X875 gaming laptop with a 1TB hybrid drive
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For the most part, the 2013 Toshiba Qosmio X875 gaming laptop is just like the 2012 version. The company just announced an updated version, but the only main difference is that it will now be offered with a 1TB 7,200RPM hybrid hard drive, which uses 8GB of flash memory...
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