Power up Skype with live remote access

Gogrok is a companion program that runs with Skype (download for Windows and Mac) to give users remote access capabilities. More than a typical plug-in but not able to stand on its own, the Skype-Gogrok combo makes for a good voice-and-remote access tech support duo that's not quite dynamic.

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2008 Geneva Auto Show coverage

We sent Kevin Massy and Brian Cooley to Geneva, along with our video crew, to get full coverage of the 2008 Geneva Auto Show. They will be posting blogs, photos, and video from the show ...

Review: 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI

Last year we tested the 2008 Subaru WRX and were left hoping the STI version would make up for the suburbanization of the model. Well, the 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI arrived in our garage and set all our worries to rest. From our first ...

Microsoft’s Surface hits Sin City

Microsoft's Surface has yet to become a permanent act on the Vegas Strip, but the tabletop computer did play a one-night gig at Caesars Palace last week.

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One to One program creates bond with customers

“One grandmother,” explains John Boudreau (mercurynews.com), “used a tutorial to learn how to make podcasts with Apple’s GarageBand software so she could read bedtime stories to her grandchildren, who live on the other side of the country.” It’s just one of the examples Boudreau uses to explain how the One to One personal training sessions available at the retail Apple Store have become “one of the most powerful marketing tools for the Cupertino company.”

MySpace gets its own MTV show, but only in the U.K.

News Corp.'s MySpace and Viacom's MTV are partnering again, and this time it's on a weekly TV show. But the program, a countdown show called MySpace Chart, will only air on the U.K. network MTV Two (the equivalent of the U.S. MTV2 channel) and there ...

AT&T’s spring lineup leaked?

Ah spring time; when romance, flowers, and new cell phone rumors bloom. A leaked "confirmation" to Engadget reveals a slew of upcoming phones to AT&T's lineup, and the lineup is a

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Bigger Eee PC comes into focus

Asus isn't officially revealing its 9-inch Eee PC until a press conference reportedly scheduled for tomorrow, but Engadget has photo proof that a larger Eee PC does, in fact, exist. Engadget chatted up Asus at its booth at CeBit, and while Asus wouldn't allow the machine ...

Time Machine offers a no-click backup solution

Long an advocate for backing up the data on your Mac, Glenn Fleishman (seattletimes.com) believes he’s finally found the “no-fuss backup system.” It arrived with Time Machine. Part of Mac OS X Leopard, Time Machine “lets you back up your Macintosh with the least fuss combined with [the] greatest access of any archiving system I’ve ever used.”

NIN nails it

Nine Inch Nails' surprise release of Ghosts I-IV today in five differently priced formats is the perfect example of how recorded music can, should, and inevitably will be sold in a world where free has become the norm.