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It’s Thanksgiving today, and the SlashGear team will be taking a break to enjoy the day with family and friends. We’d like to say a big collective “thank you!” to all of the manufacturers, PR people and, most of all, you the readers, for keeping us informed, keeping us on our toes, and keeping yourselves opinionated! [...]
The holiday season is almost upon us, Black Friday fast approaches, and the stress of what gift to buy friends and family is already weighing on most of our minds. The SlashGear team can’t come shopping with you, but what we can do is make some suggestions as to what the special people in your [...]
According to the Institute for Mobile Markets Research (IMMR), come Q3 2011, 33-percent of the people who currently own or use a cellphone, smartphone or PC will have bought a MID [pdf link]. That’s quite a statement, considering Mobile Internet Device sales have been less than impressive up until now. However, this is another example of [...]
Last Christmas Vincent sent me a 64MB flash memory key in the shape of a squirrel, but apparently his gift selecting skills have been polished in the meantime as he’s been asked to help TopTechGifts put together their 2008 Holiday Gift Guide. Suggesting possible presents can be tricky, but I’d wager that Vincent’s top ten will have [...]
Over the past year or so, it’s become almost customary to prefix mention of Sprint with the phrase “beleaguered carrier”. The cash-consuming Nextel merge and WiMAX XOHM roll-out both took their toll on the company coffers, while users complained of lacking customer service. Has Sprint managed to turn things around in the tail-end of 2008, [...]
Read SlashGear - or any tech website - even semi-regularly and you’ll see new netbooks appearing pretty much every day. The niche that started off with the Eee PC 700 as an unusual budget ultraportable has flourished to the point where most major notebook manufacturers have at least one on sale or in the pipeline. [...]
Apple’s Let’s Rock event in San Francisco went off without a hitch this morning and we at SlashGear loyally covered every little information tidbit as soon as Steve Jobs uttered the words and showed the images in his massive slideshow. But now that the dust has settled and I’ve had some time to reflect, I’m [...]
Google have already admitted that they pulled the trigger a little early on the Chrome announcement yesterday; it was meant to hit the headlines today, in fact. As of writing, the www.google.com/chrome site still isn’t live, which means all we have to go on is the Chrome comic and some background understanding of Google’s webapp [...]
Word is out that T-Mobile looks likely to be the only network on which you’ll be able to buy an Android-based handset in 2008. The HTC Dream, understood to be called the T-Mobile G1, will likely be the first of many ‘G’-type smartphones running Android. Even before the initial platform announcement, Google was being asked [...]
People interested in technology and home entertainment like to get their hands on the latest, greatest products. Before, it was all about having the top of the line DVD player, receiver and speaker system. And though those things still hold serious importance, there’s one product type that seems destined to swoop in on the home [...]
