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FiOS
I don’t usually get excited about wire, but I have to make an exception. Verizon has an awesome new product called Magic Wire that’s about to make your home entertainment system better than ever before but, more importantly (and more noticeably), less ugly and obnoxious than ever before. Everybody who’s ever had a cable television Continue Reading →
Xbox Fitness
Microsoft’s initial Kinect sensor might not have been awesome for first-person shooters, but it rocked for fitness games. Redmond is taking this one step further for its next-gen console with Xbox Fitness, a subscription-based service for the Xbox One. Xbox Fitness promises “instant, personalized feedback” on heart rate and form (thanks to the new Kinect’s Continue Reading →
Airplane
With the blessing of an influential advisory panel, federal regulators are closer to letting airline passengers use their smartphones, tablets, e-readers and other electronic gadgets during takeoffs and landings. The 28-member FAA advisory committee voted to recommend the change during a closed-door meeting Thursday, said industry officials familiar with the deliberations. They spoke on condition Continue Reading →
Beats by Dre
Looks like the rumors were true. HTC announced on Friday that Beats Electronics will buy back the remaining 25 percent stake it had in the headphone maker for $265 million, all but bringing to an end a two-year partnership that has never really worked out. It’s quite a bit of cash for HTC, after it Continue Reading →
Steam Controller
Valve revealed details on Friday for its very own gamepad — the Steam Controller, designed to work with the company’s Steam Box console. The device features two circular, clickable trackpads with a touchscreen in the middle. “Driven by the player’s thumbs, each one has a high-resolution trackpad as its base,” explains Valve. The company says Continue Reading →
Microsoft Surface 2
Delta will distribute Microsoft Surface 2 tablets to its pilots and not Nokia’s “Sirius” tablet as originally planned. The move comes in the wake of a deal to distribute Nokia Lumia 820 smart phones to nearly 19,000 flight attendants. I wrote about the original Delta deal in Delta Equips 19,000 Flight Attendants with Windows Phone Continue Reading →
LTE
I remember when I used to be excited about LTE. It was going to be a super-fast wireless technology that would deliver broadband speeds over the air and make the Internet faster for millions of people who are stuck on low-end connections. How naive I was! In all my enthusiasm for LTE I’d forgotten that Continue Reading →

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