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Well, well, well…so we go from cell phones causing brain tumors, and frankly sending signals into your brain seems like it is a bad thing (it probably is in reality), scientists claim that cell phone use may actually help protect against Alzheimer’s disease.
The millions of people who spend hours every day on a cell [...]

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After being awarded the format victory earlier this year, it appears that blu-ray sales aren’t chugging along as one might expect. Sales were down 40% from January to February, and only increased by 2% in from February to March. This is for stand alone Blu-ray players and does not include the Playstation 3 version which [...]

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If you are one of those that looks for anything cheap like discount hotels in Vegas, a computer with out all the bells and whistles, etc. then you probably aren’t going to run out and buy an iPod just because of the name. I have the 60 GB iPod Video and have for a couple [...]

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I’ve been in such a hole this year as it relates to the newest great Christmas presents. I just give money to everyone who isn’t my parents, or gift cards. I’m lazy like everyone else I suppose when it comes to this. Based on my lack of following the news about what is popular or [...]

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Back in October, Apple put a limit of 2 on the maximum amount of iPhones one could purchase at any time. Recently it has been noticed that the limit has been raised back up to five.
So, either they’ve ramped up production, which would make sense following the European launches, or demand has waned. Finding [...]

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Apple has finally made something that hackers are interested in. With the popularity of the new iPhone it probably isn’t a surprise that a hacker has figured out a way to take advantage of the new toy. The iPhone is a multimedia and Internet-enabled 2.75G quad-band GSM mobile phone by Apple. The iPhone’s functions include [...]

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Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment and a company called Digital Cinema Implementation Partners is developing a way that theaters can quickly add a film to an extra screen if demand for such a movie occurs when it gets sold out on one screen. The process is trying to make it so theaters can deliver what [...]

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Gotta love the persistence to get the name and Cisco for taking it to Apple on this issue. Also have to love the future thinking Infogear company that trademarked the name back in 1996. Of course I assume that this is more of a luck thing than someone actually saying that they could probably make [...]

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This format war has been raging for a couple years now and it looks like Blu-Ray has thrown a bit of a monkey wrench into the fold with a Blu-Ray Disc recorder. The battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray doesn’t seem to have any end in sight and it figures to be that both formats [...]

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