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Voicemail is dead

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Farhad Manjoo at Slate makes a good point: voicemail, the clunky old process of “pressing 1 to play, 9 to delete,” is dead. Transcription services like Google Voice and Spinvox have made the process of getting messages from your phone in audio format obsolete. And good riddance.

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New Laptop Chip Wipes Data Upon Theft

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Losing a laptop is expensive, but as we all know, sometimes the data on it is virtually priceless. And if it happens to fall into the hands of a competitor or an info-vendor open to the highest bid, you’re screwed.

BKLYN DESIGNS on a Saturday afternoon…

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Just got back from DUMBO and had a good time walking around the exhibition. Some highlights in the next few days, but for now, check out some of what the thing looked like. If you'd like more info, visit bklyndesigns.net.

Boeing told to stop developing high-tech Airborne Laser, Multiple Kill Vehicle

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Yup, we come to CrunchGear for the latest in Department of Defense news. Looks like the DoD (that’s fancy inside-the-beltway talk) is telling Boeing to stop researching its Airborne Laser and Multiple Kill Vehicle.

Carol Brady educates about the DTV switch

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Remember the DTV switch? Yeah, it got pushed back a few months but the new deadline of June 12, 2009 is quickly approaching. Have no fear Carol Brady is here! The perpetually positive mother on The Brady Bunch has some handy tips for aging baby boomers about the transition.

Warning: Your SSD will slow down like a 3.5-inch floppy

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Did you know that solid state drives could suffer from fragmentation and slowdowns? SSDs are basically huge chunks of ultrafast flash memory designed for massive data storage. There are no moving parts but as you read and write to the disks, the quality and speed degrades over time.

PSP 3000 an Inside Look

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The guys over at TechRestore take lots of technology apart to show us how it works. They made one of the best screen backgrounds that I have ever seen. It is a picture of what is literally behind the screen!

NY Design Week 09 Preview: 400 Years Later–Cite goes Dutch

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In conjunction with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and the 400th anniversary of the founding of New Amsterdam by the Dutch East India Company, Jan Habraken and Alissia Melka-Teichroew, in collaboration with CITE, present 400 Years Later--CITE goes Dutch, an exhibit that attempts to...

We [heart] Icons really does [heart] icons

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Filed under: Odds and endsOne of the most common ways to customize your tried-and-true desktop is by changing the wallpaper. While easy and effective, the wallpaper switcheroo is not the only trick up the sleeves of the customizers among us.

FACEBOOK for Windows Mobile Gadgets

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FACEBOOK is a COMMUNIQUE site on net and that is presenting various reliable and remarkable high advance internet concepts.

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In honor of all you Star Trek fans, now you can have your own ST Internet phone

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Section: Communications, Accessories, Computers, Gadgets / Other, Lifestyle, Miscellaneous, Peripherals I’m sure any self-respecting Star Trek fan knows this is opening weekend for the latest Star Trek film. So, in honor of the big weekend, here is a nifty little gadget just for...

Star Trek: In the 2240s…

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Nokia has finally established itself in North America, with customers even in relatively undeveloped Iowa using the company’s products. As the underage and rebellious James T. Kirk drives down in an “antique” Corvette, he gets a call from the angry owner.

Text messaging to blame in Boston trolley collision

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Section: Communications, Cellphones, MobileA MBTA trolley slammed into the back of another one in downtown Boston last night, injuring 100 and sending 49 to the hospital. In what MBTA officials called an outrage, the driver of the trolley that caused the crash admitted he had been texting his...

Now we know why he was Evel

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Now we know why he was Evel

Organize Your Windows 7 Desktop with Fences

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Earlier we have talked about Bumptop, a 3D virtual desktop that can help you immensely to keep your desktop uncluttered. Today, let’s focus on another program, Fences that helps you organize your desktop.

Is Dell making an Android Laptop?

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It seems like the guys at Dell are working on a Android Notebook. According to what we are hearing is that the Android Netbook is the Dell Mini Inspiron 910. The info was leaked by Bsquare who are porting Adobe Flash Lite for the Dell android netbook.

Top 10 Web Hosting for 2009

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You know getting off the ground with a blog/website can be an easy task at times and sometimes it can be a really hard task. One of the major problem is finding a reliable and cheap Web Hosting service. So here is a list of the Top 10 Web Hosting Service for this year.

2009 MEX Conference

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The fifth Mobile User Experience Conference will run from 19-20 May in London this year, and refreshingly, it will focus on building a collaborative response to an eight-point MEX Manifesto. Here's a taste of #2: Achieving a great tactile experience is a subtle art...

T-Mobile’s CTO, Expect Android devices from 3 manufacturers this year

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T-Mobile is betting big on Android this year. Cole Brodman, T-Mobile’s CTO, We are looking to launch multiple Android-based devices in the second half of this year with three partners, Three he says?

Acer Aspire One D250 Windows XP Drivers

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If you already buy the Acer Aspire One D250 and you know all of the drivers is not available on the CD. It’s already include on the netbook with Windows XP Home Edition SP3.

Samsung Exclaim M550 Goes to Sprint

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Samsung Exclaim M550, the messaging cell phone from Samsung is about to be released by Sprint. Samsung Exclaim M550 comes in a slider design and sport slide-out qwerty keyboard and a 2.6 inch display with QVGA resolution.

DIY Gas Hydroxyl – Hydrogen Supplemented Fuel

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We are all trying to save some money these days when jobs are scarce and gas prices are high. 9w2bsr has built a custom PWM system to control the Hydrogen Generator, it attempts to maintain a constant current to the system.

Nokia 5900 XpressMusic Spotted

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Nokia 5900 XpressMusic, the supposed to be successor of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is surface today on PConline.com.cn. No one can confirm that this is a real deal but from the picture we can see thsat its build is better than the XpressMusic wannabe phone from China.

LaCie launches high capacity storage device

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LaCie has announced their two new high capacity storage devices, the d2 network and the Big Disk Network. The d2 network supports up to 1.5TB storage capacity while the Big Disk network combines the power of two drives in a RAID 0 setting to give the user a 4TB storage capacity.

Samsung Exclaim M550 from Sprint

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The Samsung Rant finally gets a sucessor at Sprint Mobile, the successor is the Samsung Exclaim M550.

HAVA Titanium HD WiFi

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Okay, Okay, I know we seem to love HAVA here, but we thought we’d let you know about the HAVA Titanium we mentioned in a pervious post. The HAVA Titanium HD WiFi (to use its proper name) allows you to stream HD video to your TV via a super-fast 802.11n connection.

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