Archive for April 18th, 2012

Apple to add iOS sync hubs to Genius Bars for iDevice replacements

Your local Apple Store Genius Bar is about to get a much needed upgrade — a wireless data hub that will allow you to temporarily sync your data should you need an iDevice replacement. [Read more]

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Apple to add iOS sync hubs to Genius Bars for iDevice replacements

Mastering Laguna Seca with the 2013 Nissan GT-R

Participating in a Nissan GT-R Experience event, intended to let owners get some track time, CNET tests the limits of the latest version of this high-tech machine.

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Mastering Laguna Seca with the 2013 Nissan GT-R

Remains of the Day: Taste the rainbow

Apple’s next iPhone may melt in your hands (not in your mouth), Tim Cook really satisfies, and break me off a piece of those Steve Jobs interviews.

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Remains of the Day: Taste the rainbow

Banjo hits 1 million users, signaling mainstream interest in social location apps

The mobile app Banjo hit a million users this week, suggesting that a new crop of location-based social apps may become popular with mainstream users despite their privacy concerns.

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Banjo hits 1 million users, signaling mainstream interest in social location apps

Google gives Apache a SPDY boost

As part of their effort to speed delivery of Web pages, Google engineers have released a module for the Apache Web server software that augments the basic protocols used for carrying Web traffic across the Internet.

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Google gives Apache a SPDY boost

The Laziest Scams in Internet History

Some scams are unbelievably stupid

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The Laziest Scams in Internet History

AT&T stores report Lumia 900 shortage

Several AT&T stores report that the Nokia Lumia 900 are selling out fast. [Read more]

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AT&T stores report Lumia 900 shortage

Is the HTC One S T-Mobile’s savior?

T-Mobile USA is struggling to hold on to customers as subscribers ditch it for carriers with the iPhone and other cool Android handsets. But the HTC One S may finally offer something worth staying for.

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Is the HTC One S T-Mobile’s savior?

Colorblind Assistant, can you help me? (eyes-on)

To color-blind CNET copy editor Jeff Sparkman, different shades look alike or just altogether wrong, which makes it hard to delineate colors on his monitor. Can this little program make things easier?

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Colorblind Assistant, can you help me? (eyes-on)

A look at the hottest 2012 spring smartphones

With spring now in full bloom, device manufacturers are starting to roll out some of their marquee smartphones in an effort to generate some buzz before Apple inevitably drops its newest iPhone this summer.

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A look at the hottest 2012 spring smartphones