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Airis Praxis Slim Air Ultra-Thin Notebook

March 6th, 2010 2 comments

Airis-Praxis-Slim-Air-Notebook-1It has a sleek, minimalist look that Praxis Slim Air, created by Airis, a 1-cm-thick notebook with a 12-inch screen resolution 1366 x 768 which, as you can see, not too vaguely recalls the Apple MacBook Air well as in appearance even in the name.The instrument features a 160 GB HDD, Intel Atom processor from 1.6GHz, 2 USB ports, WiFi, HDMI port, integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam and a choice of

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Samsung to release a Chrome-based Netbook

February 15th, 2010 3 comments

chromeosnetbook_0_0After news of Google dishing out their proprietary netbook, new reports reveal that electronics giant Samsung are ready to dole out their own version of a Chrome based netbook.

As per reports by Samsung Australia, the company is working on designing the netbook at the moment, however, the laptop will not be incorporated into Samsung’s 2010 lineup until later this year. According to Phil Newton, head of Samsung IT Australia, the Samsung Chrome Netbook will boast a massive 12-hour battery life and will feature all the bells and whistles like 3G and Wifi. The device

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Who’s for dessert….? The New LG Ice Cream Cell Phone

February 3rd, 2010 No comments

ice_cream The same company that produced the KG800 Chocolate has just launched another dessert-oriented cell phone: the LH5000 Ice Cream. Judging by the popularity of the Chocolate series, the Ice Cream cell phone is going to be successful at least among teen-age girls.

The phone is not actually a new one, but an update version of the older LH-5000 model. It was released in Korea in 2007, but never made it to Europe or the US.

The Ice Cream phone comes in a clamshell design, weighs 101 grams, 100 millimeters long and only 13.6 millimeters thick. It comes in three “flavors”: vanilla (white),

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Google releases Chrome 4.0

January 31st, 2010 No comments

google-chromSearch giant Google has officially released the latest version of their Chrome browser, version 4.0 and it is loaded with 1500 new features. The features are merely file extensions that are created by developers to add functionality to Chrome. However that doesn’t mean this is not a major update.

Of course, Chrome would be available only for Windows users, Linux and Apple fanboys would get their hands on Chrome only in 2011. The new extensions are useful and so is the new bookmark syncing feature which lets you have the same settings with different computers. As the title goes, you can

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Best Cell Phone Service

January 27th, 2010 No comments

big_phoneIn less than twenty years, the cell phone has gone from being rare, expensive equipment of the business elite to a pervasive, low-cost personal item. In many countries, cell phones outnumber land-line phones; in the U.S., 50 percent of children have mobile phones. In many young adults’ households it has supplanted the land-line phone. The mobile phone is banned in some countries, such as North Korea.
Owning and using a cell phone has become a part of social culture, with new models and styles being brought out frequently. Best Cell Phone Service offers grants you passage into the culture of the

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Canon G11’s digital camera reviews

January 18th, 2010 No comments

Canon-G11From 2000 to 2009 of the G1 autumn G11, Canon G Series unknowingly have 10 years to accompany you, so I get the G11 when the station can not help but think of 10 years ago was seen in the windows The G1 … … is called a cycle of ten years, Canon G11 body Although there is no shadow of G1, but in many ways, we can also be seen as in recent years, G Series G11 return to the classic works.
G11 give me a good first impression is – flip screen come back! To say exactly who disappeared from a Canon G6’s flip-screen, in the after the G7, G9, and G10, the G11 was finally found in the resurrection!

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Debit-Card ‘Skimming’ Scams

January 16th, 2010 No comments

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Whether by choice or necessity, American consumers are increasingly relying on debit rather than credit cards. Debit card spending has risen steadily, growing from 47.7 percent of purchases made with plastic in 2003 to 58.9 percent in 2008 and it is expected to surpass 67 percent by 2013, according to the Nilson Report, a newsletter that tracks the consumer payment industry.

When you use a debit card, the money is immediately taken from your checking account. While using debit guarantees that you pay as you go, these cards have downsides, including a growing appeal to thieves. “As

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Solar Power, Mobile Phones Converge to Distribute Water in Kenya

January 14th, 2010 No comments

vendingwaterMobile phones have revolutionized trade across Africa, and in the space of just a decade or so, the continent has leapfrogged from minimal landline networks to pioneering mobile phone technology that often is not available in many western countries.

The communications company Safaricom, for example, introduced M-PESA — a phone based money transfer system — in 2007 (despite concerns over the lack of a legal framework governing transactions).

The system, which today reaches 6.5 million subscribers, allows cash to be deposited with a vendor and instantly collected from another, anywhere in the country,

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