Flip Video rolls out new HD mini camcorder: The Mino HD

The Mino HD looks identical to the regular Mino.

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With Kodak and RCA putting out so-called HD versions of their YouTube-friendly mini camcorders, we knew it was only a matter of time before Pure Digital Technologies, the maker of Flip Video mini camcorders, put out an

Report: G1 costs 10 percent less to make than iPhone

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When it comes to the next-gen phone wars, two handsets immediately come to mind: Apple’s iPhone and the G1 from HTC and T-Mobile, the first commercially available phone to run Google’s Android OS.

The G1 retails to new customers for $399, while the …

Samsung unleashes another Boeing phone

The SGH-A777 comes in blue (pictured here) and red.

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Never one to rest on its laurels, Samsung has released yet another phone with a slim slider design. AT&T’s Samsung SGH-A777 is the latest in the company’s Boeing series, as we’ve come to call …

Exclusive: Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 review, release date, pricing

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

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You’re hearing it here first, folks: The long-awaited Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 will be available in the United States on November 28 for an unlocked price of $799.99 through Sony Style stores. Go ahead, we’ll give you a …

Dell laptop designs help in AIDS battle

West African painter Joseph Amedokpo created the above "New World" design for Dell, while Siobhan Gunning conceived of "Shine Within," pictured below.

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Tell your alarm to shut up with Moshi

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Don’t know about you, but personally, I have often fumbled around trying to snooze the alarm clock, and then ended up having to get up from bed because I pushed it off the table to a place I couldn’t reach. Moments like that I wish I …

OLPC’s Give One, Get One program to be rekindled Nov. 17

Starting on Monday, One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop will be available through the Give One, Get One program again, this time facilitated by Amazon.com.

For $400, the nonprofit low-cost laptop program will send one XO to the purchaser and one to a school-age child in a developing …

Hitachi announces self-encrypting hard drive

If you are a fan of notebook hard drives with hardware-level encryption, apart from Seagate, you now can turn to Hitachi.

The company announced on Tuesday the third generation of its 2.5-inch Travelstar hard drive with built-in encryption, the Travelstar 5K500.B. This is a 5400rpm, SATA II hard …

‘Fire’ lights up your wrist, but probably not your life

Fire

With instructions this detailed, you just know you're in for trouble.

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Tokyoflash, which previously brought us such aptly named wristwatches as the Infection, has alerted us to its latest vexing timepiece, the Fire. But not to fret: if you have trouble telling the time with this …

HP Pavilion dv3510nr: Best Buy’s Blue Label laptop wins Editors’ Choice award

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With the HP Pavilion dv3510nr, Best Buy’s Blue Label laptop program is off to a hot start. It packs a ton of features and performance in a sleek, 13-inch frame and earned itself an Editors’ Choice award in the process.

What is Blue Label, you ask? It’s a new program where Best Buy takes input from its customers and then works with its vendors to create a laptop that serves up the features its customers want most. According to Best Buy, the features its customers wanted most in a laptop are longer battery life, a thin and lightweight design but with a roomy screen, and a backlit keyboard–all backed with “superior” support. The HP Pavilion dv3510nr hits on all of these points, and it looks good doing it.

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