CES 2012: The Hottest Smartphones

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CES 2012: The Hottest Smartphones Android is the word in smartphones at CES 2012, with a few Windows Phone 7 exceptions. Here are the phones that caught our eye on the show floor this week.
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Smartest HDTVs of CES 2012 It's the year of the smart TV: 3D capabilities, voice and gesture control, new display technologies, and apps, apps, apps. Let's take a look at some of more intelligent screens.
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Microsoft the Sleeper Hit Of CES 2012? Microsoft's CES swan song of product and technology announcements this week in Las Vegas may leave the biggest wake among news makers.
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CloudFTP: The Missing Link Between USB Drives and iOS Devices A $100 box the size of a small bar of soap, CloudFTP turns any USB drive into a wireless file server for iPhones, iPads and any other Wi-Fi enabled devices.
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iPad 3: What to Expect from Apple and When As iPad 3 speculation slows, a new Apple tablet begins to take shape.
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Google Search Changes Rile Privacy Advocate Search Plus functions that draw results from sources in your circles seems invasive to some users.
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Apple Sets Date for Expected Textbook Announcement Most observers believe that Apple will move into the textbook market, but how it will do so remains unclear.
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Home Theater Speakers Getting a Wireless Standard The Wireless Speaker & Audio Association is working on specifications for wireless high-def audio so that consumers can mix and match components from different manufacturers.
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Wacky and Wild Products at CES Who wouldn't want an Internet-connected smart rabbit? Or maybe an iPhone case that doubles as a bottle opener?
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Blue Microphones Unveils 3 New Mics The Tiki, Mikey Digital and Spark Digital range in price from $59 to $199 and are perfect for people who don't want to settle for mediocre audio capture.
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Ford Wants Vehicles to Monitor Your Health Ford wants to show that in-vehicle technology can be used for tasks other than finding your favorite radio station or checking your Facebook status.
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CES Highlights: Day One & Two From drool-worthy smartphones, tablets tricked-out for gaming, and robot balls you control with your iPad, here is what's caught our eye so far at CES 2012.
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Xbox 360 in 2012: What About the Games? The Xbox 360 is big for Microsoft this year, but it might not be so big for the devoted fans.
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Top Five Tablets of CES We boil down the tablet flood here at CES to just the best.
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Tablets will Kill Laptops, Say Nearly Half of Americans Users are taken with tablets -- but they aren't ditching the increasingly ultraportable laptops as fast as the doomsday predictions suggest.
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ICANN Begins Accepting Applications for Generic Top-Level Domains The move has the potential to befuddle consumers and provide a gold mine for scammers.
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Stream and Store Video With New Offerings from Belkin and Verizon Both companies build on old strengths, but dont venture out into uncharted territory.
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Samsung Galaxy Devices Get Important Security Clearance The new FIPS-140-2 security rating opens up the devices for use in government applications. What edge does this give Samsung?
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CES 2012: The Hottest Smartphones Android is the word in smartphones at CES 2012, with a few Windows Phone 7 exceptions. Here are the phones that caught our eye on the show floor this week.
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