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Too much traffic for dashboard-mounted GPS units

Thursday, March 4, 2010

An excerpt from my Vegas Seven column. This week, why prices for dashboard-mounted GPS units are crashing.
A quick search of Amazon.com returns several fine models, most below $150 and many priced below $100. Two major players, Garmin and TomTom, dominate these price points, offering models at a steep discount compared with this time last year, [...]

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The future of TV and the death of cable

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Originally published in Vegas Seven
Web-enabled TVs and streaming video suggest the days of paying for cable are numbered
I have two devices in my living room that stream movies and prime time TV shows straight from the Internet to my TV—and no, the setup wasn’t sourced from a scene in The Matrix.
One of the devices [...]

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Amazon vs. Apple: Don’t cry for book publishers

Monday, February 1, 2010

Amazon and Apple are apparently in an epic battle to sell e-books that will cost book buyers more money than what they currently pay. Who do we root for in this battle?
It started because Apple has big plans to make the new iPad the e-reading device of choice, turning the popular Amazon Kindle into digital [...]

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The Apple iPad pricing is revolutionary. But is the iPad?

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Apple’s iPad is iCandy, that’s for sure. But based on the demonstration I saw today — from the Internet and not live — I was largely underwhelmed with the exception of one key area: price.
The iPad looks like a giant iPhone or, more precisely, a giant iPod touch, a device I don’t think is generally [...]

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Tech’s endangered species: the stand-alone GPS unit

Friday, January 22, 2010

Even though Nokia foresaw a huge market for GPS services on mobile phones when it bought Chicago digital mapmaker Navteq in late 2007 for $8.1 billion, I’m pretty confident it didn’t plan on offering free turn-by-turn driving directions on Nokia phones. At least not so soon.
But that’s exactly what Nokia announced Thursday, saying 10 of [...]

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A new resolution: Wii be fit

Thursday, January 7, 2010

As parents of small children, now 6 and 2, my wife and I didn’t want to bring a video game system into our house. It was too soon, we figured, and we kept hearing horror stories from parents with kids who became addicted to video games. Heck, I reported a few of those stories.
We’ve softened [...]

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Six gadget deals that caught my eye at Best Buy

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

A brief tour Monday of the local Best Buy uncovered several fine deals if you are still searching for gadget-themed holiday treats. Here are six that caught my eye:

Nike Flight Sport headphones, $25. How good do these sound? I have no idea but I’m sure they are no worse than what ships with an [...]

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