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Tuesday
Mar 4,2008
(Credit: Crave UK)

No quirky intro for you today: Along with the B&W Zeppelin, Tannoy’s i30 is the best iPod speaker system Crave UK has ever heard.

From the minute we opened the beautifully packaged i30 we knew we were in for a treat. The system itself …

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  • Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008
    (Credit: Crave UK)

    Imagine (pun intended) there’s a race. In one lane is the late, great John Lennon. In the other, James Blunt. The starting gun fires, and somehow Lennon, who has been dead for 27 years now, beats Blunt to the finish line. Well, that’s exactly what’…

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  • MacBook Air “takes portability to ethereal levels”

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    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    “The MacBook Air is so sleek and elegant,” writes Etan Horowitz (orlandosentinal.com) “that pulling it out of your bag and using it is as easy and seamless as taking a small notebook from your pocket.” “Wowed by its razor-thin design,” Horowitz “wanted to bring it everywhere.” Horowitz says “it’s a pleasure to sit with the Air on your lap while watching TV on the couch, listening to a speech at a conference or riding in the car. In fact, I wrote much of this column on the Air while riding in a car at night.”

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  • Google Gears heads for Windows Mobile phones

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    Google is bringing Google Gears to mobile phones so that people on the go can access Web-based applications even when they’re not connected to the mobile Net.

    Smartphones and 3G data services are changing the way some people work, allowing them to access documents and applications from anywhere. But …

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  • Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    CNET reader Georg Frausing asks:

    It is difficult to find some of the tested laptops with the lowest noise level. Any suggesting how to find them?

    The noisiest parts of a laptop are likely to be its internal fans, the hard disk drive, and the optical drive. The hotter a …

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  • Razer’s big tease is a big disappointment

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008
    (Credit: Razer)

    Well that was a yawn. Here we got all excited over that teaser page for a new mouse from Razer, mostly because we’ve seen it come up with some pretty neat stuff in the past. This time, not so much.

    First of all, its name–”Salmosa“–sounds …

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  • Report: Spielberg’s spooky social site

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    On Steven Spielberg's rumored social network, maybe you can discuss whether that ghost was really a ghost or just the creepy old caretaker from the abandoned amusement park.

    (Credit: Hanna-Barbera)

    Who wants to believe? TechCrunch reported Monday night that Steven Spielberg is developing a new social network where …

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  • Distinguishing between a wink, a nod, and an iPod

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    Do you sometimes feel that the convenience of having hundreds of songs and other digital files loaded onto your iPod is offset by the inconvenience of having to manually navigate through the file list? OK, well maybe not. But still, you should know that a researcher at Osaka University has …

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  • Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008
    (Credit: Steve Guttenberg)

    The SACD is a “super” CD, it sounds better, offers multichannel, high-resolution sound, and hybrid SACDs are backwards compatible with CD players. Sony initially pushed SACD as a CD replacement and the market yawned. OK, but you would have thought that audiophiles would have, en mass, supported …

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  • $25,000 uber-box gets Blu-ray

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008
    (Credit: SE2 Labs)

    When SE2 Labs debuted its “ITC One” media system late last year, one of the complaints was that it lacked a Blu-ray player. That might seem picky at first blush, until one surveys the laundry list of functions this uber-box already provides: an Xbox 360, HD personal …

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