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Laptop searches to continue at US borders - Aug 31, 2009

Crave When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced last summer that it could seize anyone's laptop, mobile phone, or camera at the border to analyze them for an indefinite period, the ... Read story »

VHS over and out in the US - Feb 3, 2009

Crave Panasonic DMP-BD70V Blu-ray/VHS player. While Panasonic recently announced a new Blu-ray/VHS combo player at CES 2009 last month, the antique tape media is definitely giving up the ghost in the US. ... Read story »

New image hyperlinking patent comes under fire in online forums - May 27, 2008

Crave If Vuestar Technologies Pte Ltd, a Singapore-incorporated company, has its way, the World Wide Web could be facing its biggest hurdle to date. According to an alert from Singapore technology law ... Read story »

Verizon turns Wi-Fi handsets into TV remotes - Aug 24, 2009

Crave Verizon Communications is getting ready to launch a new feature that allows its Fios TV customers to interact with their sets using their Verizon Wireless cell phones, according to a story ... Read story »

250GB PS3 Slim is heading for the US - Oct 16, 2009

Crave Following our prior report on the Japanese 250GB PS3 Slim in pink, Sony has finally announced the US availability for its higher-capacity game console. Due on November 3 for US$349.99, ... Read story »

Google shows us the way to explain outages - Sep 2, 2009

Blogs Check this out: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-issue.html Google explains in detail how Gmail died for about a hundred minutes. Patiently. My favorite excerpts: "We had slightly underestimated the load which some recent changes (ironically, ... Read story »

Selamat Hari Kebangsaan to all Malaysians - Aug 31, 2009

Blogs Selamat Hari Kebangsaan to all Malaysians. You are a Rakyat Malaysia regardless of whether you are Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian, Kristang, Punjabi, Baba, Bidayuh, Kelabit, Iban, Penan, Jakun ... as long ... Read story »

Motorola Dext in Asia next year? Maybe - Sep 11, 2009

Crave Motorola Cliq Motorola has announced its first Android-based smartphone in the US called the Cliq. This will be available later this year with operator T-Mobile stateside. Outside of the US, this ... Read story »

Asia gets Dell Adamo XPS ahead of US - Nov 19, 2009

Crave Though our US readers will be able to get their hands on Dell's latest premium laptop only from December 22, Asian consumers can will be the first to hold the superslim ... Read story »

Filipino educator named CNN Hero of the Year 2009 - Nov 22, 2009

Blogs We should not allow anything and anyone to stop us from learning--not even poverty. This is the very message why Efren Peñaflorida embarked on a project to teach less fortunate kids. ... Read story »

Turn Wii remotes into instant dumbbells - Jan 22, 2009

Crave Calling out to all Wii Fit fanatics and health conscious Wii gamers, convert your console's remote into an instant dumbbell with the upcoming riiflex weighted attachment. It's available in 1kg ... Read story »

Sony Vaio shoots for the stars - Nov 4, 2009

Crave Feeling a little spaced out? Sony has a limited-edition Vaio that may suit your mood. The Nebula FW, part of Sony's Signature Collection, features an intergalactic theme that really makes us ... Read story »

Obama: "I have never used Twitter" - Nov 16, 2009

Blogs One of the interesting things to come out of his just concluded townhall meeting in Shanghai was US President Barack Obama's admission: "I have never used Twitter". Obama casually divulged this ... Read story »

Google Wave user manual released: The Complete Guide to Google Wave - Nov 2, 2009

Blogs People who may have been excited to play with Google Wave but who, like me, would appreciate a user guide, will be happy to know that The Complete Guide to Google ... Read story »

US Air Force enlists 2,200 PS3 for their Cell processors - Nov 24, 2009

Crave Engineers outside of the game industry continue to find uses for the powerful Cell processors housed within Sony's PlayStation 3. Last week, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center ... Read story »

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