Holiday Tech Gadget Sneak Peek

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October 10, 2011
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Holiday Tech Gadget Sneak Peek Gadget makers are gearing up for the holidays, showing off AudioBulbs, Kinect add-ons, and sub-$250 tablets. Here is a look at what they'll be promoting.
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Spec Showdown: Acer Aspire S3-951 Ultrabook vs. 13.3-inch MacBook Air Acer is expected to announce its MacBook Air alternative Ultrabook laptop--the $900 Aspire S3-951--Tuesday.
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Steve Jobs Retrospective: On his 30th Birthday Analysis: An early Apple employee shares the video greeting staffers prepared for their CEO two and a half decades ago.
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iPhone 4S Breaks Apple Preorder Record -- 1 Million in 24 Hours Apple says 1 million people ordered the iPhone 4S the first day it became available for advance orders, beating all previous preorder records for Apple products.
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BlackBerry Service Crashes in Europe Users on all UK networks and in other countries are reporting an extensive data outage, cutting them off from e-mail, instant messaging and the web.
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Netflix Kills Qwikster DVD Plan The video service caves to customer complaints and announces it will maintain a single site for DVD rentals and video streaming.
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Google Targets JavaScript with Dart Preview edition of web programming language is posted as a "structured yet flexible" alternative to JavaScript.
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Acer's S3 Ultrabook Cracks $1000 Barrier Acer on Monday shipped its Aspire S3 ultrabook starting at $899, becoming the first to crack the $1000 price barrier in Intel's new category of thin and light notebooks.
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T-Mobile Unveils Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in US, Braving Apple Lawsuit T-Mobile USA unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to U.S. buyers on Monday, just days ahead of a court hearing where Apple will seek an injunction preventing its sale.
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Apple's Siri has Rival in Sensory Speech recognition tools draw the spotlight with Apple's pending release of Siri, but startup Sensory "hears" even in noisy environments.
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Microsoft Preps Big Win Phone 7 Push Heading into Holidays Microsoft is gearing up for the holidays with a big push of its Mango mobile OS and handsets.
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Microsoft Kills Zune for Good (Probably) The audio player quietly slinks away, but some of its features remain in Windows, Xbox, and Microsoft phones.
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LulzSec Leader Holds Onto Sun E-Mail The 4GB worth of e-mail stolen by the LulzSec hacking group from The Sun earlier this year are sitting on a server in China, according the alleged leader.
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Quick Poll: How Do You Use Virtualization? Virtualization is taking hold in data centers for both servers and desktops, and even storage and networking. How far have you come? Take our poll for the chance of winning a $25 Amazon gift certificate.
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Homeland Security Develops a 'Pre-Crime' Detecting Machine The Department of Homeland Security creates a pre-crime detecting machine that can sense mal-intent from behavioral and psychological changes.
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Ubuntu 11.10 Is in the Wings: Three Days and Counting A wide array of new features promise big improvements for use on desktops and servers.
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AT&T's Toggle to Deliver Enterprise Apps to Android Phones AT&T on Monday announced plans to offer a new service, called Toggle, that will securely run enterprise apps like email on any Android phone a worker chooses...
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Free HTC Trophy Smartphone With Verizon Account For a limited time, you can get a free HTC Trophy with a new Verizon account at Wirefly.com.
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24 Fingered Robot Massages Your Head While Washing Your Hair Need some help in the morning washing your hair? Robots with lots of fingers can help you with that!
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Google Launches Dart as a JavaScript Killer Google has launched a preview version of a new Web programming language called Dart, designed to address some shortcomings of JavaScript.
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Holiday Tech Gadget Sneak Peek Gadget makers are gearing up for the holidays, showing off AudioBulbs, Kinect add-ons, and sub-$250 tablets. Here is a look at what they'll be promoting.
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