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Entries for October, 2010

Canon S95 Review

At $399.99, the Canon S95 boasts a 10.0-megapixel sensor, 3.8x optical zoom, 28mm wide angle lens, HDMI-out, 720p HD video recording capabilities, and the DIGIC 4 Image Processor. Product page. Video review after the break. Click here for more pictures. Here’s the bottom line: The Canon PowerShot S95 addresses virtually all of the issues that [...]

From the Tips Box: International Googling, Facebook Links, and Paper-Free Maps [From The Tips Box]

Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet

MojoKid writes “A small company out of Palo Alto, CA — Cherrypal — made headlines recently with the announcement of their dirt-cheap $188 CherryPad tablet. The CherryPad is a 7-inch slate that comes preloaded with the Android 2.1 operating system and is driven by an 800MHz ARM11-based processor by Samsung, backed by a meager 256MB [...]

Early Kinect Games Kill Buyers’ Access To Xbox Live

Stoobalou writes “Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller isn’t due to ship until November 4th, but one retailer has jumped the gun, leaving a number of gamers with a bit of a quandary. The un-named distributor has sent what Microsoft describes as ‘a very small number’ of Kinect systems to lucky buyers who might not consider themselves [...]

Facebook hosting mysterious ‘mobile event’ November 3rd

Moments ago, Facebook began to send out invites to a “Mobile Event” scheduled for November 3rd at the company’s headquarters. Back in September, TechCrunch and Business Insider both reported that the social networking behemoth was developing their own handset with deep Facebook integration. Will we see the rumored device come to fruition on Wednesday? Perhaps [...]

Facebook hosting mysterious ‘mobile event’ November 3rd

Moments ago, Facebook began to send out invites to a “Mobile Event” scheduled for November 3rd at the company’s headquarters. Back in September, TechCrunch and Business Insider both reported that the social networking behemoth was developing their own handset with deep Facebook integration. Will we see the rumored device come to fruition on Wednesday? Perhaps [...]

Evil Week Wallpaper for Your Desktop and Smartphone [Wallpaper]

Herding Firesheep In NYC — Do Users Care?

An anonymous reader writes “Following the Firesheep uproar, I spent some time telling people who don’t read Slashdot about the vulnerability that open WiFi networks create in what seemed like the most effective way possible: by sidejacking their accounts and sending them messages about how it happened. The results were surprising — would users really [...]

T-Mobile Galaxy Tab: Microsoft Windows 7, 10-inch screen, 1.66GHz CPU?

And here we thought all Galaxy Tabs were created equal… While Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint customers will be fiddling with wimpy 7-inch Android-powered tablets from Samsung, T-Mobile subscribers apparently have a beast of a slate to look forward to next month. Here are some notable specs according to T-Mobile’s website: Microsoft Windows 7 Starter [...]

SAFECELLapp Pays You to Drive Safely with Your Smartphone [Downloads]