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  • Wikipedia Gets Pretty with Articles iPhone App
    By Mashable on March 19th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    When it comes to accessing Wikipedia on your iPhone , there’s no shortage of options. This week, a new app entered the arena dubbed Articles , and for users who value a solid interface and pleasant viewing experience, it’s an excellent choice. The app, which is $2.99 in the App Store , …

  • Steam Comes to Mac, Offers Cross-Platform Gaming Free of Charge [Steam]
    By Gizmodo on March 8th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    It’s official, Valve’s digital distribution service Steam is coming to Mac, and bringing Left 4 Dead 2 , Team Fortress 2 , Counter-Strike , Portal , and the Half-Life series (along with Source) with it this April. But there’s more. Apparently, through Steam Play, gamers will be able to play supported titles (anything built on Source, it…

  • Nokia adds Skype to Ovi Store, foreshadows death of regular phone calls
    By Engadget on March 3rd, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    Skype for Symbian . A freely downloadable application that allows you to converse with your Skype-equipped friends over a WiFi or 3G connection. Seriously, why would you ever make another cellular call again? Nokia’s just announced the addition of the online communications client to its Ovi Store , meaning that now more…

  • Dell’s Latitude 13 business laptop now available, looking businessy
    By Engadget on March 2nd, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    Hey, if you’re in the market for a beauty of a thin and light, and you mean business, you’re in luck today. Dell’s Latitude 13 laptop marketed for the business type (with a preinstalled Citrix client, simplified virtualization options and so on) is now available on the Dell site. With three customizing options — base, economy…

  • Will the iPad Launch Be Delayed? [RUMOR]
    By Mashable on March 1st, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    An analyst has been speculating that manufacturing bottlenecks may reduce the number of iPads available at launch — or delay it entirely, according to AllThingsD . More than a month ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad to the world, with an ambiguous “late March” shipping date for the Wi-Fi version of the device. In…

  • Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 gets unboxed, sized up against the competition
    By Engadget on February 28th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 started shipping to Americans just over a fortnight ago, and now one has landed into the capable hands of Pocketables . Boasting a 2GHz Atom CPU and some of the most unsightly adapters we’ve ever seen, this flip-open handheld — which just looks too lovely to be saddled with the…

  • DSLR camera built from scratch, looks like a really old SLR
    By Engadget on February 26th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    As you know, we’ve seen plenty of camera hacks in our day, but seldom is the camera itself the hack. A gentleman named Denis posting on a French camera forum has scrounged some parts, tooled some more, and built himself a nice little DSLR — and he’s been kind enough to give us the …

  • Why Apple Banned Sex Apps: We Were Getting Complaints From Women
    By Gizmodo on February 22nd, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    Over the past few days we’ve watched app after app after app become a casualty in Apple’s gradual clean up of the App Store —a ban on nearly all titillating apps. Apple executive Phil Schiller finally explains what happened: It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints…

  • Dell issues Alienware M17x stuttering audio fix, will it stick?
    By Engadget on February 20th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    About a week after we ran an update on the Alienware M17x stuttering audio problem, Dell’s community manager John B. has written in to let us know that the company has posted a fix. It entails using a particular BIOS revision, dropping to the Windows native mass storage driver, and installing…

  • TED Talks mischief: lasers killing mosquitoes by the hundreds
    By Engadget on February 14th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    Malaria is a huge problem worldwide, so its no surprise to anyone that plenty of people spend lots of time trying to think of ways to rid the world of mosquitoes, prime movers of the disease. Nathan Myhrvold’s company Intellectual Ventures Labs (and former chief technology officer at Microsoft) is focusing on just that. …