Tuesday - January 6, 2009
Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs generally has the latest and greatest cell phones. But he's never owned the uber-trendy Apple iPhone. "Not until they put a Qualcomm chip in it," Jacobs said in a September interview. It could soon be time for Jacobs' first Apple phone. The company is widely rumored to be planning an iPhone nano, a smaller touchscreen version of its popular phone. One industry analyst says it will run on Qualcomm chips. The weeks leading up to the annual Macworld conference are typically filled with rumors of expected product announcements.
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Sunday - January 4, 2009
The human personality is as complex and diverse a system as anything that can be found in this world. Everyone ticks in their own way. While some can mask their inner selves and emotions well enough to win the World Series of Poker, others wear their hearts -- and even more -- on their sleeves. Either way, if you want to get a good snapshot of someone's personality, a peek at their iPod's playlist might just be the way there.
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Saturday - January 3, 2009
Adam Parks is an avid reader of digital books, but you won't find him downloading the 20 or so titles he reads each year onto an electronic book device like Amazon's Kindle. Instead, Parks flips through pages -- Web-site design manuals and Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" are recent favorites -- on his trusted iPhone.
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Friday - January 2, 2009
Getting video out of your iPod and onto a television screen is often both easy and difficult at the same time. It's easy because Apple's proprietary cables are plug-and-play, and hard because early iPod-to-TV options were somewhat easier -- some early models of iPods would deliver TV out via the iPod Universal Dock and a cheap S-video cable.
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Wednesday - December 31, 2008
For Internet junkies with high-speed access, there's a growing set of options for viewing online TV shows and movies. Sites like Hulu.com, Joost.com and even YouTube.com are showing full-length TV shows online. While YouTube is far behind Hulu and Joost in that regard, at least iPhone owners can watch YouTube videos on their mobile screens.
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Tuesday - December 30, 2008
Am iDrunk? It's a question that rains down during the holiday party season, especially with New Year's Eve just a couple of days away. Checking your sobriety is now just a reach away to an iPhone. A number of downloadable iPhone applications, or "apps," are ready to test your sobriety through blood-alcohol calculators and balance tests.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
In AT&T's end-of-the-year online refurbished phone sale, the wireless service provider is offering reconditioned iPhone 3Gs for just $99 -- roughly half the cost of a new unit. It's not the first time iPhones have dipped below $199. Just this weekend, the much-rumored Walmart iPhone debuted at $197 -- just $2 lower than the standard entry price for the 8 GB iPhone 3G.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
Most home networks are cobbled together without a lot of forethought about which devices are used to create it. For most, the decision is basically to use whatever their service provider shipped in a cardboard box. Whether they're going for wireless or wired, homeowners often haven't thought through their options.
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Sunday - December 28, 2008
Many consumers take it for granted that the next generation of iPod, cell phone or flash drive will contain ever more memory to store music, photos and videos. That's because scientists and engineers have continually devised ways to shrink the components on flash memory chips to cram more data into small devices.
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Saturday - December 27, 2008
When the 11:45 a.m. bell signals lunch at Whitefish Bay High School, students burst through doors like executives out of a meeting, their phones and personal electronics shimmering into view. Sleek iPods appear and ear buds pop into place as students share songs or listen to podcasts or books over the lunch hour.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
HP has introduced a new application for the iPhone and iPod touch that leverages its diverse product line of inkjet printers. HP iPrint Photo is available for free at the
App Store. As the name suggests, it allows users to print photos from their Apple devices using a local WiFi network and a nearby printer.
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