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New Apple TV 2012 and What you need to know

As predicted on this blog weeks ago,  Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced a new Apple TV this week during the iPad 3 keynote address in San Francisco.  Techtipsandtoys predicted Apple would announce a new Apple TV at the end of … Continue reading

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Samsung Buys out Sony’s Share of LCD Joint Venture

Samsung Electronics has agreed to buy out Sony’s entire stake in their LCD Panel joint venture (S-LCD) for a whopping $939 million in a move to help turn Sony around by shedding some of it’s debt amid forecasts of an … Continue reading

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HP TouchPads Still Available

On August 30th, HP announced that it will produce ‘one last run’ of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand. Since we announced the price drop, the number of inquiries about the product and the speed at which it disappeared from inventory … Continue reading

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HP Calls it Quits for the TouchPad after only seven weeks!

I went to my local Best Buy store today and the entire storefront windows were a Giant Ad for the New HP TouchPad tablet.  Once inside I asked the sales agent if I could see an HP TouchPad and was … Continue reading

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Minnesota Woman Fined $54,000 dollars for Illegally Downloading Music

Last year a federal jury found a 32 year old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $62,500 each — a total of $1.5 million — for 24 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s case was the … Continue reading

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Asus GX-D1051, 5 Port Gigabit Switch Review

If you’re looking for a rock solid, affordable, 5 Port, Gigabit Switch the Asus GX-D1051 is an excellent choice and highly recommended. When you think of Routers and Switches d-link, netgear and cisco are the first brands that come to … Continue reading

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D-Link MainStage 2.0 WiDi Adapter – wireless video streaming

If you’ve got an Apple Laptop, iPad or iPhone you can us Airplay and Apple TV to wirelessly stream HDTV video to your Big Screen TV but up until this year there hasn’t been a lot of options for Windows … Continue reading

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iPad Changes the Way we Watch TV

You would think that from all the advertising and hype about iPads, Playbooks and other tablet computers that everybody’s got one of these shinny, new, high tech gadgets but a recent survey indicates that only about 5% percent of North … Continue reading

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Sonos Annouces AirPlay Support – Sort Of?

When Apple announced back on September 9th, last year that it would be working with BridgeCo to license it’s AirPlay technology to other electronics manufacturers similar to the Made for iPhone program we wondered what Sonos was going to do … Continue reading

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Sonos Controller App for Android – Finally !

The New Sonos Controller for Android has been in development for more than a year and promises to control whole home audio via Wifi on Sonos Zone Players using any Android Phone running 2.1 and above with a device screen … Continue reading

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