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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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)
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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)
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(more)Switched On: With friends like Google, does Apple need Microsoft? (Friday 26th of September 2008 07:46:00 PM)
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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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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)
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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)
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The past few years have
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)
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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)
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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)
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technology, multimedia, and digital entertainmentThe first iPhone arrived at a time that
suggested Apple needed to protect its iPod right -- but Apple delivered ...
(more)Switched On: Dash delivers open roads, open questions (Part 1) (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 09:23:00 AM)
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multimedia, and digital entertainmentWhat do you get when you cross a convenient marine device
and a cellphone? Dash Navigation's answer is the $399 Dash Express, ...
(more)Swtched On: Green Plug tries to replace the worry warts (Part 1) (Sunday 11th of May 2008 01:04:00 AM)
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The best and most popular light
camcorders product don't work for long without them, but the general customer sentiment ...
(more)Switched On: The Linux ultraportable opportunity (Wednesday 07th of May 2008 03:18:00 AM)
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The US smartphone market may continue to be dominated
by mobile platforms from Apple, Microsoft, and RIM, but Linux ...
(more)Switched On: Slacker in your slacks (Part 1) (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 03:20:00 AM)
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The Slacker conveyable is the proverbial
elephant being inspected by blind men. One is the crop of lightweight ...
(more)Switched On: Blu-ray had friends in high def places (Tuesday 26th of February 2008 02:03:00 AM)
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When Sony be be featured a DVD
drive on its computerized game [tm] 2, it was clear which telecommunications ...
(more)Switched On: PopCatcher teaches a new 'Pod old tricks (Part 2) (Tuesday 12th of February 2008 11:31:00 PM)
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As discussed in last week's Switched
On, the PopCatcher Ripper scours FM radio stations to separate the ...
(more)Switched On: PopCatcher teaches a new 'Pod old tricks (Part 1) (Tuesday 05th of February 2008 12:36:00 AM)
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Before MP3 players, CD burning and even the
Mini-Disc, there was the analog mix tape. Patient proto-playlist ...
(more)Switched On: Apple TV gets its second audition (Tuesday 29th of January 2008 03:51:00 PM)
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(more)Switched On: Apple bets that to Air is human (Monday 21st of January 2008 06:31:00 PM)
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'http://digg.com/apple/Switched_On_Apple_bets_that_to_Air_is_human'; The MacBook Air is the
third ...
(more)Switched On: The grouch (Wednesday 26th of December 2007 03:15:00 AM)
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[We have a special treat today -- our
Ross Rubin has penned yet another amazing poem, for which we'd officially ...
(more)Switched On: Following in the Eee's wide footprints (Thursday 20th of December 2007 03:10:00 AM)
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In a year in which the OLPC bedrock turned
attention on its child-optimized OLPC stateside and Palm's backbone ...
(more)Switched On: Vudu starts on its to-dos (Tuesday 11th of December 2007 10:33:00 PM)
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Imagine a history in which
publication box* programming languages was not sent due to box* sets. ...
(more)Switched On: Rainforest fire (Part 2) (Monday 03rd of December 2007 08:18:00 PM)
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Last week''s Switched On discussed some of the
similarities and differences between Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader. ...
(more)Switched On: Rainforest fire (Part 1) (Tuesday 27th of November 2007 07:48:00 PM)
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Naming a product "Kindle" might be a
bit unusual for a company named after a giant waterway. Did Amazon ...
(more)Switched On: Touched by a hacker (Tuesday 18th of September 2007 11:47:00 PM)
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multimedia, and digital entertainment:
I glanced at the clock, 1:36 PM. Perhaps I should not
have gotten my hopes up. For weeks I'd been exchanging e-mail with ...
(more)Switched On: Fruit versus fowl (Wednesday 12th of September 2007 08:19:00 PM)
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multimedia, and digital entertainment:
As most Americans were getting ready for a peaceful
Labor Day, it was war between Apple and NBC as the two companies ...
(more)Switched On: The WiMAX Window (Part 2) (Friday 07th of September 2007 08:56:00 PM)
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about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment:Last week's wary On discussed some of
the promise of WiMAX as delivered through Sprint's Xohm service. ...
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