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Paperclip tripod: Use only when desperate - Oct 9, 2009

Crave Besides holding sheets together, the humble paperclip has plenty of other uses. Not only is its slim tip great for poking at small reset inserts on gadgets, we're pretty sure ... Read story »

CCD sensor inventors bag Nobel Prize in Physics - Oct 7, 2009

Crave William S. Boyle (left) and George E. Smith in a shot taken in 1974. If you're an avid photographer who loves the age of digital imaging, give thanks to the ... Read story »

In-app purchases for free iPhone apps approved - Oct 16, 2009

Crave Developers of iPhone and iPod touch applications can now enable purchases from within their freely available App Store applications. Until now, Apple has permitted in-app sales of content, subscriptions, and digital ... Read story »

New Dell Adamo XPS opens using heat sensor - Oct 19, 2009

Crave The Round Rock-based computer company is certainly milking its marketing worth out of the new Adamo XPS ultraslim laptop. After first unveiling it briefly at a recent press event and ... Read story »

Footage of China's Hu with Toshiba ad is banned - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs Many of you will remember the controversy caused back in October after Chinese Netizens complained that their National Day Parade was tainted by an ad for a Japanese company. Hu Jintao's ... Read story »

New EOS 7D firmware fixes ghost images - Nov 9, 2009

Crave The Canon EOS 7D. Canon has released new firmware for its EOS 7D camera that it says fixes a ghost-image problem in which faint traces of one image could show ... Read story »

Score a hole-in-one with the putting bra - Nov 13, 2009

Crave Sometimes you just want to practice your putting. If you're near a woman wearing Triumph International Japan's new golf outfit (in Japanese), and you can convince her to take it ... Read story »

Ditto Book aims for niche markets - Nov 25, 2009

Crave Though Amazon and Barnes and Noble are grabbing headlines with e-readers aimed at consumers, Ditto Book--a CES 2010 exhibitor--is marketing its device for niche markets. The US$249 e-reader doesn't compete ... Read story »

Is it "game over" for Microsoft's consumer business? - Dec 14, 2009

Crave The New York Times has given some online love to Mark Anderson, the influential writer of the Strategic News Service, who this week said that Microsoft is "not a place that ... Read story »

Details of PlayStation 3 new firmware 3.00 given - Aug 19, 2009

Crave There may not be many hardware changes inside the PS3 Slim, but each new console will ship with the PlayStation 3 3.00 firmware update. Here's what you can expect: There ... Read story »

Android apps show big growth potential - Aug 28, 2009

Crave Android, iPhone and iPod touch users are all highly engaged with applications and frequently download them to their devices, according to a new survey from AdMob. However, Android has a much ... Read story »

Of earthquakes, UFO sightings and the Great Firewall in China - Sep 2, 2009

Blogs Shortly after I arrived in Changsha end of last week, a high frequency sound hit my right ear so hard that my ear auto tuned out (i.e. went deaf) for more ... Read story »

Seagate fastest desktop hard drive has arrived - Sep 23, 2009

Crave Six months after showing off the demo, Seagate announced Monday that it is now shipping what it says is the word's first 3.5-inch 6Gbps 2TB hard drive. The drive is based ... Read story »

Six-watt dimmable LED bulb to sell soon on Amazon - Oct 5, 2009

Crave An LED replacement for an incandescent bulb. Is it time to make the leap to LED lights for the home? Perhaps, but only if you're willing to make a return-on-investment ... Read story »

Android war is brewing up here in India, too--Samsung i7500 Galaxy reviewed - Oct 6, 2009

Blogs Little did any of the phone enthusiasts expect that the Android phones would battle it out in India. But it looks like everyone was really caught off guard because we currently ... Read story »

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