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Gadget Gal's daily deals: Magellan GPS, Klipsch home theater, Sharp AQUOS HDTV

A Magellan Maestro GPS navigator, a Klipsch home theater system, and a 32-inch Sharp AQUOS LCD HDTV. Here are your daily deals for Tuesday, June 9, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Get the Magellan Maestro 4350 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth & Integrated Traffic from...

Tags: Home Theater, HDTV, Sharp Corp., GPS Unit, Vann, Com, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, TVs, GPS, Personal Technology, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-06-09

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What should open source do in a car?

Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...

Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Samsung Caliber (U.S. Cellular)

We've seen plenty of Samsung touch-screen handsets come our way, but not many of them make it to U.S. Cellular, a regional carrier based in Chicago. The only one so far has been the Samsung Delve, which made it to the carrier's lineup late last year. Now another one has...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, U.S. Cellular, Samsung Caliber, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-10-29

Google, Android 2.0 sticks fork in GPS devices

It would also be great if Android could automatically re-route you in real-time, when things like the Bay Bridge suddenly close. This means munincipalities automatically posting closures on a web site, that all providers can use in real-time. Munincipalities could also distribute traffic in real-time. Lots of possibilities to replacing...

Tags: Handhelds, Mobile operating systems, Smart phones, GPS, Google Inc., Google Android 2.0, GPS Devices, battery, Google Android

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

2010 Scion xB

Photo gallery:2010 Scion xBWith funky styling and a reputation built around the tuner crowd and the sound-off set, the Scion xB almost single-handedly established the market for little boxy city cars in the North American market. However, the current generation xB faces stiff competition from the likes of the even-quirkier...

Tags: Performance management, Scion xB

Product reviews 2009-10-27

GPS Me for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

GPS Me for iPhone introduces the ultimate experience in location-aware communication: the ability to share your exact geographic location with others over email, SMS text, Facebook, and Twitter. Using GPS Me for iPhone a few simple taps prepares a location-aware set of information suitable for sending over email, SMS text,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Twitter Inc., SMS, Big Hill Software, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-22

GPS Mail for iPhone 2.0 (Mobile)

With GPS Mail for iPhone simple taps results in a location-aware email message ready to send to a friend, business associate, emergency service, or family member who will be able to immediately locate and or navigate to your exact location through Google Maps in a computer web browser or the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Big Hill Software, E-mail, GPS, Smart Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-22

Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumers

Can't wait to see theseThe local Best Buy is having a midnight launch. I'm probably going to go and geek out for a bit.RE: Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumersWish I could afford the upgrades.Been laid off and on for 6 years now.Could not renew my...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), way thing, Linux, U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Win7, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

LG Bliss - white (US Cellular)

LG is one of the top makers of touch-screen feature phones, and though many of them go to big national carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless like the LG enV Touch and the LG Xenon for example, quite a number of them make it to regional carrier U.S. Cellular...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, U.S. Cellular, LG Electronics Inc., home screen, LG Bliss, phone, Bliss

Product reviews 2009-10-14

Pioneer AVIC-Z110BT

At the top of Pioneer's AVIC line of navigation receivers, and indeed its entire line of car audio receivers, sits the AVIC-Z110BT. This grandest of car stereos features just about every bell, whistle, and whizbang that Pioneer has to throw at mobile audio and video. From GPS navigation that can...

Tags: GPS, Digital music, Digital media, receiver, SD card

Product reviews 2009-10-13

News to know: T-Mobile; Cloud computing; Oracle; HP; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV? HP...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., PC, T-Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-13

X-Driven DRS-1100 Drive Recorder

Short of a simple rear-end collision, liability in car accidents can be difficult to prove. However, a new breed of products eliminates some of the confusion by recording video and GPS data to show what actually happened. The X-Driven DRS-1100 Drive Recorder is such a product. it constantly records driving...

Tags: Corporate communications, X-Driven DRS-1100, car, cable, software

Product reviews 2009-09-29

Yukyung Viliv X70EX

In a world of ever-multiplying Netbooks and increasingly more versatile smartphones, it seems like there's been no better time than the present for ultraportable computing devices. Amid a landscape of larger, full-keyboard devices and smaller, pocket-size touch phones, the only question is whether there is room for the UMPC (or...

Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, ultramobile PC, netbook, Viliv X70EX

Product reviews 2009-09-17

Samsung SGH-T659 (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Samsung SGH-T659 (T-Mobile)Samsung, we have a message for you: 2006 called and it wants its phone back. All right, maybe that's mean, but the fact remains that the Samsung SGH-T659 exhibits a design trend that was popular three years ago. And as features go, the SGH-T659 offers nothing that...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Instant messaging, slider mechanism, display, T659, Samsung SGH-T659, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., phone, T-Mobile

Product reviews 2009-09-14

Nextar 43LT - GPS receiver

Nextar 43LTWhat's great about it: Advanced features found on expensive GPS units, free traffic, easy to enter address."This GPS by far has more advanced features than most GPS units in this price range. I did not have any of the problems mentioned in the negative reviews.After using this GPS unit,...

Tags: GPS receiver, GPS-unit, GPS

Discussion threads 2009-09-12

GPSPhotoLinker 1.6.4 (Mac)

GPSPhotoLinker adds GPS position and location data to your photos. The latitude and longitude recorded by your GPS unit are linked and saved to your photos. GPSPhotoLinker automatically enters the city, state and country into the metadata.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Photograph, GPSPhotoLinker, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-05

10 things you can do while waiting for the Palm Pre to boot

Sorry Jason.....Timed it on my Smart Buy HP laptop with Windows 7 and came out at 2 minutes 6 seconds to boot up, send email, and shutdown. I feel sorry for anyone that can have sex in 30 seconds, I'm sure their woman is not to happy about that...

Tags: Smart phones, Mobile operating systems, Handhelds, Mobile applications, Operating systems, Palm Pre, Pre, Palm Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Nokia 7610 Supernova

Photo gallery:Nokia 7610 SupernovaThe Nokia 7610 Supernova gave us deja vu when it first arrived in our offices, and it wasn't due to its common slider design. Instead, we remembered that we had reviewed a Nokia handset with that same model number almost five years ago. We thought perhaps the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, slider mechanism, Supernova, Nokia Corp., slider design

Product reviews 2009-09-02

Verizon Wireless Escapade

If you wanted to use a cell phone in the U.S. and abroad, we would usually recommend you get a quad-band GSM handset if you were an AT&T or a T-Mobile customer, or a dual-mode CDMA/GSM phone if you were a Verizon Wireless or a Sprint customer. So far, the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Escapade, Verizon Wireless Escapade, Verizon Wireless, phone, display, dual-mode CDMA GSM phone, GSM

Product reviews 2009-09-02

GPS device maps typically two years old

Openstreetmaps?What about http://www.openstreetmap.org/ ? This is a great project that anyone can contribute to and download.RE: GPS device maps typically two years oldI have reported several discrepanices to Navteq. What bothers me is the priorities. On their website, they were two years behind on a major 4-lane highway that had...

Tags: Handhelds, GPS, GPS Device

Discussion threads 2009-09-02