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Gamers tend to fall into two categories…PC gamers and console gamers. For the PC, it’s basically just that…games on the PC. Yes, there are games available for the Mac but serious gamers shun the Mac as a gaming platform. On the console side we’re all familiar with the battles between the Microsoft’s XBox, Sony’s Playstation, […]

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Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past two years you’ve undoubtedly heard of this iPhone thingy. Some computer company decides to make a phone. Mac fanboys everywhere have been speculating and drooling over the prospects of an Apple-created phone. Pundits everywhere dismissed the notion. Even after its release, it was met with […]

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Why Palm, why?!?! It’s not ground-breaking news, but it is official news at least (rather than the many rumors that were flying around for a while). Palm’s next OS, code-named Nova, is due to come out in the third quarter of 2009. Two thousand NINE!!! Originally slated to come out at the end of 2008 […]

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So there I was watching the Vice Presidential debates last night. Had the PowerBook on my lap, cleaning out a few emails, taking care of menial tasks while catching key points in the debate. Something struck me as particularly funny in the debate so I updated my status on Facebook and within 30 seconds I […]

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Business and technology moves abound. Yes, I know, it’s been a while since I’ve posted and there’s been quite a few things I wanted to comment on such as Google’s Chrome browser, Best Buy selling the Samsung Instinct, the iPhone vs Instinct debate, and of course T-Mobile’s Android-based phone called the G1.
So why have I […]

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Even as new technologies continue to flood the marketplace signaling death for older technologies, some older technologies simply refuse to die. I was reminded of this recently as I read a release touting IBM Lotus would be available on mobile phones. Wow. And here I was thinking Lotus was going to die a slow death…continuing […]

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The Samsung Instinct is just loaded with features. It’s won “best of show” awards. It’s been regarded as the best of the “iPhone competitors”. Sadly, as great of a phone that it is, it will be just another competitor that gets left in the dust as the iPhone gains traction.
Chia Town readers know I have […]

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The Samsung Instict officially goes on sale today on Sprint’s network. Some lucky people could have purchased theirs yesterday if they had signed up to be one of the early-notified people. I’ll admit, I was tempted. This phone is receiving great reviews. It received “Best of Show” at CTIA and is continually lauded as “a […]

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2008 certainly seems to be the year of the smartphone. Sure, smartphones have existed for years. In fact I remember way back in 2001 when someone was talking about this “BlackBerry” device that allowed people to read their emails. Huh? What were they talking about.
Over the past few years it was mainly business people that […]

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