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Is the Best Buy-Toshiba Laptop All That?

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Apparently, during CES 2010, Toshiba and Best Buy spent on booth space to promote it’s consumer-friendly Satellite E205 laptop, oozing a “designed by consumers for consumers” vibe.

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Amazon ups Kindle book payouts to fend off Apple

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Amazon today took a preemptive move against Apple's rumored tablet by giving some publishers of Kindle e-books a larger cut of their sales. The deal lets authors jump their take to 70 percent of a book's price and charges 15 cents per megabyte for the costs of delivering over 3G.

Twitter users wake up to the “Fail Whale”

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Section: Web, Web 2.0 / Social Networking Twitter users hoping to get their fix over breakfast discovered the site was down-and as of 7:15am Eastern. Anyone trying to access the site gets what many users dub “the Fail Whale” a page announcing “Twitter is over capacity.

Amazon to Offer 70 Percent Royalty Option for Kindle

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Amazon.com has unveiled a program that will give authors and publishers a larger share of revenue from each Kindle e-book they sell beginning on June 30, 2010.The 70-percent royalty option offers 70 percent of list price, net of electronic delivery costs.

MSI debuts USB 3.0-ready motherboard and 3D display laptop

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To cater to the rush of USB 3.0 gadgetry, MSI has entered with P55-GD85, a USB 3.0-ready motherboard. Besides the unique superspeed USB 3.0 protocols, the motherboard supports 32nm LGA1156-based Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors.

Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 now shipping at Best Buy

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You might recall that the Toshiba Satellite E205 was unveiled at CES this month as a Best Buy exclusive machine and we talked about it a bit at the time. When we first heard about the notebook, it was pegged at a price of $999.

SpongeBob’s Boating Bash

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THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) today announced plans to deliver its first demolition derby style party game, SpongeBob’s Boating Bash, in spring 2010.

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Rad Blaster, a Tiny, Tinny Boom-Box for the Suburban Gangsta

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The Rad Blaster is the “First MP3 player slash boom-box slash recording device that’s a fashion item as much as it is a function item” It also has “speakers, so you can walk around town and share your tunes” and a microphone so you can “spit your rhymes.”…

iPad trademarks tip another Apple Tablet name possibility

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What’s in a name? If you’re the upcoming, much-anticipated Apple Tablet then your name is just another of the hotly-argued possibilities in the run up to the company’s event next Wednesday.

A New All-In-One Desktop PC From NEC

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NEC is gearing up to launch their latest all-in-one desktop PC ‘ValueStar W’ for the Japanese market.

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Why in the name of all that is wonderful would you want a slate with a 5″ screen?

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Dell debuted some sort of slate product at CES. At first I was intrigued, and then someone told me the size. Five inch screen. Five inches, people. That’s one and a half inches more than an iPhone.

Sound Blaster World Of Warcraft Wireless Headset

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The Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless Headset is designed to give you a super realistic and dynamic sound field sans wires. These headphones adopt THX TruStudio PC sound technologies that can create an amazing depth of sound with virtual speakers all around you.

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DIY: Portable laser light show

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So here’s another little DIY project. This one involves making your own little laser light show. Now obviously it’s not going to make shapes in time with Dark Side of the Moon, but it still looks really cool. I might even have to do this one myself, if I knew how to solder.

Video: Robo-maid makes breakfast, extremely slowly

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I will say this: it’s always going to be impressive to me when robots make my breakfast. But after seeing those ramen-bots doing it at high speed and fighting with knives, and after watching those robo-arms pitch fastballs to each other, I just feel like breakfast should be made a little...

Video: Robo-maid makes breakfast, extremely slowly

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I will say this: it’s always going to be impressive to me when robots make my breakfast. But after seeing those ramen-bots doing it at high speed and fighting with knives, and after watching those robo-arms pitch fastballs to each other, I just feel like breakfast should be made a little…

A fifth of Wintek branch workers on strike, may hamper Apple and Nokia production [Video

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Wintek happens to be the screen supplier for Apple, Nokia, and other major companies. At a rather inopportune moment, roughly 2,000 out of 10,000, a fifth of workers at the Taiwanese company’s East China branch have been going on strike over a rumored cancellation of bonuses as well as the usage...

BarMax offers bar prep on the iPhone for $1000

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Filed under: Software, iTunes, DeveloperNews is going around about yet another expensive app bucking the trend on the App Store, but here’s the twist: this one actually has a good reason for such a high price.

Toyota Sees Robotic Nurses In Your Lonely Final Years

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Before Toyota made cars, it made robots. It’s making them again, and wants to use them in a most unusual place. When it was founded in 1926, Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (as it was then known) manufactured automatic fabric looms that could detect problems and shut down automatically.

The Phosphor watch – now in black!

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So we told you about the Phosphor watch back in May, and many people asked themselves, “but can I get it in black?” Admit it, you did. I could hear you. Really.

Gene Munster: 2010 is the “Year of the Mac,” sales up significantly

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Filed under: Apple Financial, iMac, Macbook Pro, MacBookWhen Gene Munster talks, people listen. The Piper Jaffray analyst delivered one of his missives this morning stating that his analysis of Mac retail sales in the U.S., based on numbers tracked by NPD Group, are up about 26% year-over-year for...

Will the Apple Tablet Be Called iPad?

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Bloggers can’t stop banging the rumor drum with an Apple press event scheduled for next week, presumably devoted to its anticipated tablet device.

How quaint, a review of Sony’s very first CD player

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This is great. Original reviews of classic gadgets and computers are fun because you can marvel at the things that were new and mysterious then, but beyond commonplace now. In this review of Sony’s CDP-101, it is noted that there are many buttons, but no knobs.

HP Plans Line of (Relatively) Affordable 3-D Printers

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Printers equipped for 3-D are poised to go mainstream, now that Hewlett-Packard plans to start selling them. The company’s inkjet and laser printers are staples in offices and homes.

Verizon partly backtracks on $350 ETF hike

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Verizon has quietly but consciously moved away from its early termination fee hike with a change to the list of phones that fit under its advanced devices list.

Hacked Big Mouth Billy Bass

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Next time you are picking out a Christmas gift for someone why not get something that is hackable and improve on the original design. With a ton of electronics stuffed inside this Big Mouth Billy Bass it now makes for the ideal gift!