Switched On: Developing a sense of rumor (Saturday 07th of November 2009 05:00:00 PM)

We're proud to congratulate Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) on five years of Switched On, a column
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to five more years!
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(more)Switched On: Towards telepresence's tipping point (Saturday 10th of October 2009 12:09:00 AM)

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To steal a
line from Las Vegas' tourism board, what happens in the custom install channel has stayed in
the custom install channel. While technologies routinely filter ...
(more)Switched On: Toshiba and the Blu-ray Trojan Horse (Wednesday 19th of August 2009 08:00:00 PM)

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The Blu-ray
Disc society has positioned Toshiba joining its fellows as the epilogue in the company's once
pitched battle for high-definition disc domination. It could, ...
(more)Switched On: Apple wanes in the widget wars (Thursday 13th of August 2009 02:09:00 AM)

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One of the
challenges for companies trying to build across the "three screens" of the television, PC and
cell phone is adapting their distinctive technologies to those platforms. ...
(more)Switched On: The iPad could succeed Apple TV (Tuesday 04th of August 2009 11:35:00 PM)

Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about user technology. Much of the
reflection around an "iPad" -- a rumored 10" Apple tablet -- has portrayed it as an Amazon
Kindle-killer or a large-screen iPod touch, but there's a strong ...
(more)Switched On: The last smartphone OS (Tuesday 21st of July 2009 11:00:00 PM)

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Palm's
webOS right on* faces strong war as it vies for heedfulness from manufacturers, carriers,
developers and consumers. But Palm was able to knock out at least one ...
(more)Switched On: iPhone 3GS is fine, young, but not a cannibal (Friday 26th of June 2009 07:03:00 PM)

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At
least since the advent of the first camera phones, people have been wondering whether the cell
phone would limit the show for all kinds of other products, particularly ...
(more)Switched On: When netbooks suffer from 'Droid rage (Wednesday 17th of June 2009 12:13:00 AM)

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(more)Switched On: Big Kindle on Campus (Friday 08th of May 2009 11:12:00 PM)

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Amazon's
Kindle DX includes a few tweaks such as automatically rotating the orientation of the screen
when it is placed in scene mode and modifiable page margins because... ...
(more)Switched On: Windows 7, Non-Starter Edition (Friday 01st of May 2009 12:01:00 AM)

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Microsoft
is making many well-received improvements in Windows 7, but may be in for a black eye on its
Starter Edition because of growing misconceptions that it has optimized ...
(more)Switched On: Taking the iPhone to tasks (Saturday 21st of March 2009 01:27:00 AM)

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Apple may be right that
the perk of multitasking do not atone for its costs at this point, and the company will address
at least some of the needs that have traditionally been met with ...
(more)Switched On: The "phonetastic four" versus Windows Mobile (Wednesday 25th of February 2009 09:02:00 PM)

Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about shopper technology. Barring any disruptive
brief bag shifts prior to its introduction, the Palm Pre will end a new music and more handset
dynamic that began with the introduction of the iPhone. Each ...
(more)Switched On: Verizon Hub is a handset homecoming (Wednesday 11th of February 2009 10:31:00 PM)

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After years of given
the devices on which we spoke, Verizon is finally on these terms the Hub. The Verizon Hub is
not the first VoIP product to use that moniker -- with pay upfront ...
(more)Switched On: The 2008 Switchies (Monday 19th of January 2009 09:30:00 PM)

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The fourth
annual Saluting Wares Improving Technology's Contribution to Humanity's awards were not held in
the opulent insubstantial venue of anterior galas due to the subprime ...
(more)Switched On: When hardware startups zagged (Tuesday 30th of December 2008 12:35:00 AM)

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about user technology.
In 2008, a year
in which some of the most-used red white and blue lobbyist buzzwords were "change" and
"maverick", many mechanization companies bucked conformist wisdom. With ...
(more)Switched On: Alpha 400 pays a high price for low cost (Tuesday 23rd of December 2008 01:20:00 AM)

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about user technology.
When a recent
fake news story claiming that Coby online banking brain* chips would enter the netbook market
with a $100 PC be be be featured a quote I had given two years ago, ...
(more)Switched On: MiFi pushes 3G past the router limits (Saturday 13th of December 2008 01:03:00 AM)

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about patron technology. In a craft
pointing up* 30 Rock actress and producer Tina Fey and controller Martin Scorsese, the former
Saturday Night Live head writer uses her credit card to gain ingress ...
(more)Switched On: Blockbuster box boxes blocks to bust (Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 11:21:00 PM)

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January
2009 will mark the first jubilee of Apple's switch in positioning Apple TV from article that
transferred computer-based content to a PC to a video vending machine ...
(more)Switched On: Writers on the Storm (Friday 21st of November 2008 09:19:00 PM)

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What happens
when the productive menu-driven user know of the springtide meets the discoverable new user
vicarious of finger-driven touch? The answer for the breakup Storm ...
(more)Switched On: Riding Shotgun in a traffic jam (Saturday 15th of November 2008 02:03:00 AM)

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(more)Switched On: The Peek of popularity (Friday 07th of November 2008 10:49:00 PM)

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technology.
Last week's Switched On delved into Celio's REDFLY, an austere smartphone
accessory designed for venture
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(more)Switched On: REDFLY seeks your green before Halloween (Thursday 30th of October 2008 09:45:00 PM)

Filed under: LaptopsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about user
technology. A special note this week; this post marks the fourth year of Switched On columns
for Engadget, and we'd like to give a big thanks to Ross for all his hard ...
(more)Switched On: The T-Mobile G1 -- by Google and what's-their-names (Thursday 09th of October 2008 10:00:00 PM)

Filed under: Cellphones
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Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.
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(more)Switched On: With friends like Google, does Apple need Microsoft? (Friday 26th of September 2008 07:46:00 PM)

Filed under: CellphonesEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology,
multimedia, and digital entertainment.
In the 1999 geek classic, "Pirates of Silicon Valley",
an Apple hand regimen the famous "1984" mercenary with Steve ...
(more)Switched On: The Mo' hardware Experiment (Friday 19th of September 2008 09:45:00 PM)

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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about
technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.
What do people think of Windows Vista when
they learn more about some of its features? To find out, we located three ...
(more)Switched On: Rethinking the living room PC (Wednesday 13th of August 2008 09:00:00 PM)

Filed under: Laptops, Media PCsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about
technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.
Even as Microsoft continues to support
broadcasting comme il faut around the world to bolster Media Center's ...
(more)Switched On: WHDI seeks to unplug hi-def (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 08:51:00 AM)

Filed under: NetworkingEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology,
multimedia, and digital entertainment.
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seen a wide ...
(more)Switched On: Net-enabled movies pit a blue ray versus a true way (Thursday 24th of July 2008 08:30:00 PM)

Filed under: Home EntertainmentEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about
technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.
The oldest of the "three screens" -- idiot
box* - is frequently far from the wisest. Sure, an endless array ...
(more)Switched On: Livescribe's hot recording artist seeks mass appeal (Part 1) (Saturday 28th of June 2008 05:39:00 AM)

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about
technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment
If the pen truly is mightier than the sword,
Livescribe's Pulse smartpen ($149 with 1GB of flash memory, $199 with ...
(more)Switched On: The iPhone's iFunnel (Thursday 19th of June 2008 05:46:00 PM)

Filed under: Cellphones, WirelessEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about
technology, multimedia, and digital entertainmentThe first iPhone arrived at a time that
suggested Apple needed to protect its iPod right -- but Apple delivered ...
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