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Synaptics Touchpad Gesture Demo (CES 2009)

Warner Crocker from GottaBeMobile.com caught up with Robin Palmer from Synaptics. She shows off how gesture-enabled touchpads are much more functional than standard touchpads.
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Seagate FreeAgent Home Theater

Seagate officially announced the FreeAgent Home Theater today at CES 2009. The device makes easy to get digital content from your computer onto your HDTV. I recorded a full demo of the FreeAgent Home Theater a few weeks ago at Seagate's offices.

MSI X-Slim 320 Ultraportable (CES 2009)

ces_09_1The new MSI X-Slim S320 caught my eye at CES Unveiled last night. It's ultra-thin and drew a small crowd to the MSI booth. The fashionable look certainly contributes to X320's attraction and will be available in champagne gold, pearl white and black.

Blogging from CES 2009 w/All the Cool Kids

I'm at CES 2009 press day with a lot of the top mobile tech bloggers and industry insiders. It's been great catching up with people I've known for a while and others who I follow online, but have never met before. Check out the pics of the show so far.

Novatell Wireless Intros MiFi Mobile Hotspot (video @ CES 2009)

novatel_mifi_09_cesMike Kelly showed me the Novatell Wireless MiFi Mobile Hotspot, a 3G router that plays double duty as a WiFi router. It supports up to five WiFi devices at once and will be available via major wireless carriers in a few months. It will cost $200 before carrier subsidies.

Apple Intros Unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro, No Removeable Battery

17-inchmacbookproApple announced a redesigned 17-inch MacBook Pro at MacWorld, featuring its relatively new unibody design that's used in the rest of the Apple notebook lineup. The base configuration comes with 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, NVIDIA 9400M and 9600M graphics.
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Macworld 2009: Day 1 First Impressions

I am currently at Macworld and have been since the keynote. One of the questions asked frequently by those who are not attending is "So, how is it compared to p...

CES 2009: Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds (video)

w700dsLenovo's ThinkPad W700ds is the world's first workstation to have dual displays. Tom Ribble, director of ThinkPad marketing, explains the benefits of dual displays.
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MacWorld 2009: iTunes Music Now DRM free

Apple's killing DRM on its entire music library starting today and enabling music downloads on 3G iPhones. I've been using Amazon's MP3 Store, but these changes will probably mean I'll end up buying more music directly from iTunes Music Store.
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ASUS CES 2009 Press Conference

The ASUS CES 2009 press conference is under way where they're announcing new notebooks and talking about touch based computing.

Macworld 2009: Skype Updates & Partnership (Video)

One of my favorite chat and VoIP services Skype announced their new release for the Mac. The Skype 2.8 beta should be available by the time this article is posted and features a couple significant upgrades. Watch the video for more.
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Apple Intros Notebook With No Keyboard…MacBook Wheel

I've blogged about Apple's crappy design choices before and the MacWorld rumor mill is predicting a that the new 17-inch MacBook Pro won't have a removable battery. I stumbled across this gem of a video produced by Onion News Network that pokes fun at how Apple trades functionality for form and simplicity.

HP Pavilion dv2 Introduced, Features AMD Yukon Platform

HP's introducing the first AMD Yukon-based ultraportable at CES this week. I got to spend some time with one and liked what I saw. Kevin Wentzel showed me a prototype of the dv2 in San Francisco a few weeks ago. Here are some videos and pics of the all new dv2.