Over the past few days we've watched app after app after app become a casualty in Apple's gradual clean up of the App Store—a ban on nearly all titillating apps. Apple executive Phil Schiller finally explains what happened:
It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content...
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Short version: An excellent backpack for bloggers or the Batman. It has a ton of pockets and compartments, lots of space, a padded laptop section, and a water-resistant exterior. Its main flaws: no good spot for a big camera, and no readily accessible outside pockets.
Features:
Laptop compartment fits up to 17″
About a gazillion sub-pockets
Water-resistant outside
Wide-mouth...
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If you've seen the internet (or Giz) this weekend, you've heard about it: the "real Google phone" that "changes everything." But before we get carried away, a counterpoint: Google isn't magic. And the Nexus One isn't a game-changer. Not yet.
And I don't mean to say that I don't understand what the Nexus One is,...
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By Evan Ackerman
There are any number of potentially useful and/or incredibly stupid light-up USB accessories that owe their glowyness to various flavorings of LEDs. That’s cool, I’m down with that, I like the futuristic look as much as the next geek. But retro is rapidly becoming the new futuristic, and this USB light fits...
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