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[22 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
The iPad As In-Car Entertainment System Killer

Cars.com’s David Thomas speculates that the iPad could prove to be a serious problem for automakers that charge a ransom for rear entertainment systems.
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Headline, mobility, travel, wifi »

[9 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
A Wireless Hotspot For Your Car. Why Not?

Want your very own wireless hotspot to follow you everywhere you drive? Plan a long trip and want to keep your kids busy and quiet updating their online social networks? Well, you’re lucky because UK mobile operator 3 has unveiled its in-car Wi-Fi to offer just that.
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[6 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
iPad Review

If like millions of connected people you’ve been wondering whether you should buy (or not) the Apple iPad, this thorough review by Gizmodo of Apple’s latest cool device will definitely remove the last doubts you had (or not yet had) and will make you feel comfortable buying (or definitely not) one of those tablets.
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Featured, Product review, mobility, technology, telework »

[24 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Need a secondary display for that laptop? Got you covered.

When I’m working from home, I have a dual-monitor setup for my PC. Very useful on busy days or for keeping an eye on RSS feeds while watching a movie. The truth is, it makes me feel like being some kind of a successful trader who monitors the financial markets… “buy, buy” or “Oh my God! Sell, sell!!”. Really??!
No. But some fellows do that, I’m almost sure.
On the road I take my MSI Wind netbook, and while multiple desktops are handy, I sometimes wish I had a …

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[10 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
How Blogging Can Save Your Expat Life

An expat myself, I couln’t but identify myself to Alison, a very cool expat blogger based in Brussels, when I read her post “How Blogging Saved My Expat Life”.
I guess we all somehow experience the same feelings when we move for good to a new place we don’t know, a place we don’t speak the language and are not familiar yet with the culture.  A place we feel like a foreigner, though we now leave there. In her post Alison explains how to turn this, at first challenging, change into …

Featured, picture of the week, technology, weird »

[19 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Picture of the week – Back to the future: the iPhone of the 80s

Hartmut Esslinger, one early superstar of high-tech design, was responsible for the design of Apple devices in the 80s. He then developed together with Steve Jobs a prototype of a touchscreen phone whose main function was to make possible sending digital bank checks though a phone wire. This quite revolutionnary gizmo – remember that we’re then in 1983 – was part of the Snow White design language applied to the IIc and the original Mac.
Was Apple already trying to raise the buzz?
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[16 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Maemo and Moblin merge

Today, Intel and Nokia announced the merger of their respective Linux platforms for mobile devices. Maemo (Nokia) and Moblin (Intel) will form the new MeeGo.
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[14 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]
Passive Agressive Wi-Fi Hotspots

Do you have enough of your neighbour stealing your Wi-Fi connection or letting his dog shit on your lawn? Today there is a better solution than suffering silently with your brooding anger: leave your neighbour “a message”!
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