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Samsung Series 9 NP900X3D Windows 8 ultrabook review

Samsung has been offering a line of ultrabooks since before they were called ultrabooks. The Samsung Series 9 line of laptops including thin and light cases, solid state disks, and Intel Core family processors. When Intel introduced the ultrabook category, Samsung resisted calling the original Samsung Series 9 an ultrabook — because it was too […]

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NEC introduces a 15.6 inch ultrabook that’s just 0.5 inches thick

NEC’s newest ultrabook features a big screen… and a small case. The NEC LaVie X measures just 0.5 inches thick, but sports a spacious 15.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display. The ultrabook is expected to go on sale in Japan toward the end of December. Like most NEC laptops, I’d be surprised if the LaVie […]

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Nexus 7 modified to work with Palm TouchStone inductive charger

Google’s new Nexus 4 supports wireless charging — but what about the Nexus 7 tablet that came out earlier this year? Out of the box the only way to charge the tablet is the old-fashioned way: plug in a cable. But that’s boring. Rod Whitby from the webOS Internals team decided to crack open the […]

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Now Google Play Books can read books aloud to you

Google has rolled out an update to its eBook app for Android, adding support for pinch-to-zoom, double-tap to zoom, improved text editing when taking notes, and bug fixes. Oh yeah, there’s also a new “Read aloud” option in Google Play Books that lets you listen to books instead of reading them. Google Android has text-to-speech […]

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Rumor: Polaroid to introduce high-quality Android-powered camera

Last year Polaroid introduced a point-and-shoot camera with a touchscreen display and Android operating system. It was kind of cool… but also kind of underwhelming, both as a camera and as an Android device. Now it looks like Polaroid is ready to try again — this time with a higher quality camera with mirrorless camera […]

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Google Music gets matching feature, saves you from uploading 20,000 songs

Google Play Music lets you upload as many as 20,000 songs to Google’s servers and then stream them to any device with a web browser or mobile app. You can also re-download songs you’ve uploaded, which makes it a useful service for backing up your music collection. But uploading thousands of songs takes a lot […]