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New Portable HD Kicks Butt :: eGo Helium

New Portable HD Kicks Butt :: eGo Helium

Iomega introduced a new Iomega portable hard drive USB 2.0 320GB*, a perfect match for the style and incremental storage needs of Apple’s revolutionary MacBook Air notebook, but can easily formatted for any Ubuntu, Windows machine.  This is not only small but sleek HD. The tapered 320GB eGo Helium portable hard drive echoes the stylish lines of the streamlined MacBook Air laptop, enclosing a state-of-the-art 2.5-inch portable hard drive in an anodized aluminum shell to create a package that is a mere 0.63 inches thick (16 mm) and weighs only 7 ounces (200 grams). Formatted with Apple’s HFS+ file...

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Tivo RIM Blackberry

Tivo RIM Blackberry

No, this is not a technology based sexual act instructions.  TiVo Inc and Research In Motion (RIM) a global leader in wireless innovation, today announced a partnership to bring customized TiVo services to the BlackBerry wireless platform. Initially, BlackBerry smartphone users will gain the convenience of being able to discover what shows are on and schedule television recordings while away from the living room and on the go. Future collaboration between the companies will focus on software applications that further simplify mobile access to video content. “TiVo subscribers will soon be able to wirelessly control their TiVo DVRs using...

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iSkoot Scores

iSkoot Scores

iSkoot, the leading provider of carrier-friendly mobile VoIP solutions, today announced that the company has acquired Social.IM, the social network IM client. This acquisition positions iSkoot to grow beyond mobile VoIP and create a compelling and valuable consumer solution with a growing lineup of Web communications that can be integrated and pushed to your phone. “Social.IM has served as an instant Web communications desktop platform and we see a clear consumer integration with iSkoot‘s upcoming suite of Web to mobile push services,” said Mark Jacobstein, iSkoot CEO. “Acquiring Social.IM is a key step in our path to introduce later...

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Seeking Advice: Palm Tungsten T

Seeking Advice: Palm Tungsten T

O.K. When I bought Tungsten T and keyboard it cost me the same price as an Acer Laptop in today’s market. It is still working and functioning quite well and no plans to discard. It does have bluetooth and no way to have access to wifi, scandisk’s wifi card doesn’t work on the Tungsten T. If it did have wifi access I would do so much more with it besides a PDA. Can I remove the OS? Install a new OS? I would love to be able to Puppy Linux or have a mini OS. Any suggestions?

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I’m A Box Jockey

I’m A Box Jockey

The Problem(s) We have 4 computers and 3 cell phones in our house. All of which have music and picture collections on them. We need to backup the data on all of our computers. My computer has customer and project data. My wife’s computer contains her work files. The kid’s computer(s) have game data and homework on them. And as stated above, all machines/cell phones have music and pictures. If we loose any of the data on just one of these devices our life could be hell. Especially mine since I’m the IT person of the house. The Solution...

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