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Entries for January, 2011

Col. Littleton No. 50 Wallet for iPhone Review

Here at The Gadgeteer, we have a thing for wallets and several of us are equally enamoured with the iPhone. So what could be better than the No. 50 Wallet for iPhone from Col. Littleton, which combines a leather wallet and an iPhone case into one front pocket holder? Let’s see. Note: Some of the [...]

Sony Wants To Put Your Game Saves In the Cloud

itwbennett writes “Sony may be planning to have three platforms (Android device, NGP, PS3) running Playstation Suite content and needing access to the same saved data stored in the cloud, says blogger Peter Smith. At last week’s Playstation Meeting, game developer Hideo Kojima said his ‘dream’ was to offer the same game on the PS3 [...]

Toshiba faces $100 million gender bias lawsuit

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A senior human resources manager at Toshiba Corp has filed a $100 million lawsuit accusing a U.S. unit of the Japanese technology company of “systemic” gender bias against women in pay and promotions. Original post by Whitson Gordon

Intel finds chip flaw, cuts revenue forecast

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Intel Corp found a defect in one of its chips, hurting its credibility at a time when demand for microprocessors in personal computers is being threatened. Original post by Whitson Gordon

How to Hack Your Brain [Video]

Sandy Bridge Chipset Shipments Halted Due To Bug

J. Dzhugashvili writes “Early adopters of Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors, beware. Intel has discovered a flaw in the 6-series chipsets that accompany the new processors. The flaw causes Serial ATA performance to “degrade over time” in “some cases.” Although Intel claims “relatively few” customers are affected, it has stopped shipments of these chipsets and [...]

Android tablets finally dent iPad market share

Lead by the impressive sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, the Android platform is finally starting to gain momentum in the emerging consumer tablet market. Analytics firm Strategy Analytics reports that Android owned 22% of the global tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2010. The iPad’s share of the market dropped from 96% to 75% [...]

Buy Your Honey a Sony Pocket Edition Reader for Valentine’s Day

Sony is offering the Pocket Edition Reader (PRS-350) at a special discounted price until February 14.  The Pocket Edition Reader is normally $179.99, but it’s currently on sale for $129.99.  The Pocket Edition Reader is available in silver or pink, and both colors are currently in stock for immediate shipment.  This version of the Sony [...]

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iTunes 10.1.2 Update Adds Support for Verizon iPhone, Stability Improvements [Updates]

Apple pushed an update to iTunes late last week, and while Apple’s support page discusses only “stability and performance improvements”, PC Magazine says it’s the update that’ll work with the upcoming Verizon iPhones—which you can learn all about here. More » Original post by Adam Pash