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    Review: Dell's acrobatic XPS 12 is the Windows 8 convertible to beat

    I can't help but think everyone is missing the point here... A few thousand will sell. Some of those customers will do the convertible thing for a while. Mostly it'll just be a laptop with compromises.
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    In risky move, T-Mobile to eliminate mobile handset subsidies entirely

    How ridiculous! If they want to get rid of subsidy, they'll have to be a lot cheaper than that. Subsidies in the US are already terrible. In Australia you can get most high end smartphones for free on mid-range plans for 24 months. If you want a more expensive phone (more capacity, for...
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    Nexus 4's LTE chip actually works, sort of

    Huge, huge difference. I get about 11mb/s download speeds on LTE, which isn't much faster than what I can get on HSPA+, but pages are much quicker to appear. It's something that you test pretty often too, because at different times and different parts of the city your phone can be using either.
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    In living color: Ars reviews the hacker-approved Philips Hue LEDs

    Need this in Australia. Suits how I want to do the lighting in my house perfectly. Don't get the colour thing at all, but turning on individual lights and setting brightness is perfect.
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    Wii U hardware review: GamePad's tilt-sensitivity rocks two-screen gaming

    Honestly what the fuck there's no way I'm going anywhere near this Welcome to 2012 (nearly 2013) there's no excuse for VCR product design. I'm completely shocked and baffled after the very pretty looking Wii. Before you write me off as caring about looks too much; firstly there's absolutely no...
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    "December" conspicuously missing from Android 4.2's People app

    Good thing this affects nobody
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    Siri versus Google Voice Search: Fight!

    Well, I don't often ask Siri for information. I get it to set calendar reminders most frequently. Getting answers is only one part of Siri's "personal assistant" role.
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    Siri versus Google Voice Search: Fight!

    I really don't like the way Google approaches these things. Not talking about privacy or anything, but instead the database-driven, algorithmic nature of knowledge and intelligence. I'm much more of a manually curated kind of person. PS I'm not saying that Siri is much different in this...
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    13" Retina MacBook Pro review: more pixels, less value

    A really good review, thanks. This confirms that the 15" rMBP really hits the sweet spot for portability, power and working size. I can't imagine many situations where the 13" retina would work, but the 15" wouldn't. But then, Apple have made its smaller size something almost worth paying for...
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    Apple joins the fray: A survey of the 7-inch tablet scene

    That's not impossible. The iPod nano very quickly overtook the full sized iPod, despite much less capacity for not much less cost. In a similar way, the smaller iPod wasn't the focus of Apple hype and attention, but consumers chose it hand over foot. The market is certainly still in its...
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    Apple joins the fray: A survey of the 7-inch tablet scene

    And you never will! Apple is to blame for this, in positioning their products as things people love. Before Apple, it was much more acceptable to hate technology. In this transition, we've lost the perspective that no gadget or device is perfect. There are always going to be things that...
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    Apple joins the fray: A survey of the 7-inch tablet scene

    The iPad mini looks fantastic and runs full sized iPad apps. What else is there? Oh, more screen space for web browsing, but a thin bezel so the overall size is constrained. Who would buy one of these boxy plastic Android pieces of shit with upscaled phone apps I have no idea. I guess some...
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    RIM shot: Can BlackBerry regain its corporate ripeness?

    The only people I know who use Blackberries do so because they have to, or because they're given them for free from work. They actively hate them, and will willingly spend money on a different phone even though they're given an unlimited supply of Blackberries for free.
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    Chomp-powered App Store update may be coming with iOS 6 launch

    Siri doesn't use Google for answering queries. Any that she refers to searching the web uses the standard default - so Bing if you like. I like how Apple doesn't choose to directly compete with existing businesses, not for big things anyway. Search engine is done, there's not much that can be...
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    Chomp-powered App Store update may be coming with iOS 6 launch

    Maybe Google will have to start making some money off their pet projects then.
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    After $8.6 million kickstart, Ouya now has to build its consoles

    Do people really spend that much time and money just to avoid renting movies on apple tv for $3 Jesus Christ talk about schadenfreude.
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    The 10 features removed from Mountain Lion that we miss the most

    Are you just saying things because you can? Who could give a shit either way these are such stupid little trivial things. I'm not anti apple by any means but why does every little insignificant thing they do have to be discussed in such painful detail.
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    The 10 features removed from Mountain Lion that we miss the most

    Linkbait garbage of an article.
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    After $8.6 million kickstart, Ouya now has to build its consoles

    Is it just me or... I have no fucking idea what you're talking about. Just imagine an Android phone, with a screen the resolution of a TV and controllers instead of a touch screen. It's a fairly new sort of concept, a bit of a mash of PC gaming, mobile phone gaming and console gaming. Just...
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    After $8.6 million kickstart, Ouya now has to build its consoles

    The power of a Reddit storm