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StarTech.com’s new DisplayPort KVM Switch helped me solve a computing problem I did not realize I had. The company’s KVM Switch provides direct connections to monitors and computers without using a converter. The DisplayPort KVM Switch let me control two DisplayPort-capable computers with a single keyboard, mouse and monitor. The device’s
graphical and audio capability did [...]

I was at CES last week, and the magic was clearly back in this show. In the past couple of years, CES has been dominated by one device — making it more like a one-product waste of time. Two years ago, everyone was talking about the iPhone, making many of us wonder if we were [...]

In recent months, portable auto GPS navigation systems have been challenged in their market by smartphone applications that mirror much of the functionality of the standalone units. Now an attack is being launched from another vector, thanks to a new iPod gadget announced by a major player in the take-it-with-you auto nav arena. The gadget, [...]

Best Buy has never been a favorite company among Linux fans, and that feeling was not improved by the Microsoft ExpertZone training scandal that erupted last September. A whole new crop of reasons to hurl insults at the chain came up in recent weeks, however, following news of one blogger’s experience. “My four month-old [...]

When most people think of electronic book readers, Amazon’s thin, white Kindle probably springs to mind. However, that could be about to change. A cascade of e-readers will hit the market this year, taking the devices far beyond gray-scale screens with features like touch navigation and video chatting — and probably lowering prices, too. It’s [...]

The company behind the magicJack, the cheap Internet phone gadget that’s been heavily promoted on TV, has made a new version of the device that allows free calls from cellphones in the home, in a fashion that’s sure to draw protest from cellular carriers. The new magicJack uses, without permission, radio frequencies for which cellular [...]

Twitter, Pandora Internet radio and other popular smartphone apps are hitting the road, thanks to Ford Motor Company’s Thursday announcement of forthcoming dashboard technologies that will soon be available in a wider, more affordable range of its cars. Ford CEO Alan Mulally, along with other company executives charged with integrating more consumer-friendly technologies into their [...]

One year after first showing the world its Pre smartphone, Palm on Thursday announced a new generation of the device at the Consumer Electronics Show. It also unveiled an upgrade to its Pixi, a smaller smartphone that relies on the same webOS software as the Pre. These, the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, will debut [...]

The 2009 holiday spirit seems to have faded for Google and Apple, who didn’t waste much time getting back to the business of giving each other the stinkeye. First up was Google, which gave its Nexus One smartphone its first official public appearance. It’s a phone manufactured by HTC, and it runs on Android 2.1, [...]

The cavernous halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center during any Consumer Electronics Show, and the endless rows of exhibitor’s booths hawking edgy technology products, can remind you of the final shot of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” — which is itself, of course, an homage to the last sequence from “Citizen Kane.” We’re talking [...]