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Tablet Thursday Digest: Injunction Junked

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:30:05 +0000

Well, that was fast. The injunction against the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab has — albeit temporarily — been lifted in the European Union (a notable exception is Germany, where the ban is still in place). This news came Tuesday a day after several blogs, such as PC World, pointed out that it looked […]

Bad Inventions: Hand iPhone Case

Jon Clinkenbeard — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:20:02 +0000

There’s an old saying that goes “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Well, for this case, “hell” is holding a severed hand every time you try to make a phone call, and the “good intentions” are all the reasons this severed hand replica should comfort you instead of completely creeping you […]

Garmin Embraces the Dark Side

M. Gilden — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:30:41 +0000

If there’s one thing I miss about the days before Google Navigation, it was tricking out my Tom Tom Navigator with custom voice prompts. Voices like Austin Powers, Sean Connery era James Bond, Darth Vader, and of course the obligatory KITT from Knight Rider were all the rage on the internet, from official paid downloads to […]

Segues: Sometimes, The Tech News Gets Weird — That’s Techweird

Justin Davis — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:34:55 +0000

We invent the word techweird and I discuss nudist web coders, Latin American dictators ruling with a digital hand, and anti-pervert vigilantes at San Diego Comic-Con.