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Burger King’s Facebook Gimmick Gets Eaten

A Facebook application offering free food for terminating Facebook friendships has been nixed by the social media site for privacy reasons.

Google Axes Apps, Offices

Google's perpetual explosion of growth has slowed for the time being, as it skims the fat from both its app portfolio and collection of worldwide offices.

Apple Allows New Browsers on iPhone

The company has eased up on its dictatorial app stance a bit and allowed access to browsers that challenge its own Safari.

SanDisk SlotRadio

SanDisk's ultra-budget player offers songs for cheap, if you can stomach the restrictions.

Steve Jobs Leaves Apple until June

Jobs will temporarily step down from his post at Apple while he takes time off to focus on his health.

Pocket-Sized Casio FS-10 Shoots at 1000 fps

Super slow motion video and rapid burst shooting is no longer just for the big guys.

iRiver’s Wave Phone Taps Wi-Fi for Voice

The handset and PMP uses Wi-Fi to make calls within the home, but lacks the cell receiver that would make it a real cell phone.

Mobility Radeon 4000 Doubles Performance?

AMD has made some pretty tall claims for its new line of mobile graphics cards released at CES.

HP DV2 Ultraportable Notebook

The DV2 combines the price of a netbook with the performance of a true ultraportable.

Sharp Gets into Soundbars at CES

The inexpensive BD200 and BD300 offer simulated surround sound with a finish to match Sharp's Aquos displays.

Casio Cams Do Green-Screen Style Editing

The company's latest Exilim cameras can automatically strip the background out of short videos to key in custom backgrounds.

Nokia Launches Sleek Budget Models at CES

Nokia brought a host of new phones to CES besides the $729 N97, one of which will sell for only $30 with contract.

Asus Eee Keyboard

Asus has managed to fit the guts of a full desktop computer into a standard-sized keyboard.

Travel Tips: Keeping Gadgets and PCs Powered

Before you take off for a trip, take our simple advice to make sure your gadgets keep on humming.

Pioneer Receivers Make iPods Plug ‘n Play

Using only Apple's standard USB data cable, two new Pioneer receivers will pull music off the device digitally.

Kodak’s Theatre HD Leads in YouTube Quality

Of all the set-top boxes we've seen stream YouTube to the TV, Kodak's seems to do the best job masking the shoddy source quality.

Iriver’s Wave Home Wears Many Digital Hats

For tasks that don't quite require busting out a full computer, iRiver hopes its Wave Home will do the trick.

Hefting Mio’s 7-Inch GPS Giant

Mio's new S700 GPS offers a mammoth seven inch screen and a revamped interface for $300.

TomTom Debuts Connected Nav Device

The GO 740 uses an integrated wireless modem to pull data like gas prices and restaurant ratings from the Internet.

Motorola Vastly Refines Noise Cancellation

Crystaltalk Plus makes a dramatic difference when using a cell phone in noisy areas.

Motorola A3100 Feels Two Years Old

Another generic Windows Mobile device fails to generate much stir for Motorola at CES.

iPrint: From iPhone to Printer in Seconds

HP's recently released iPrint photo allows iPhone users to send photos directly from the phone to HP printers.

Garmin ecoRoute Keeps Track of Gas Use

How much gas will your trip to the store cost you? Garmin ecoRoute will tell you precisely.

Garmin Brings Motorcycle GPS Up to Speed

The Zumo 660 brings a number of much-needed updates to Garmin's tired and bulky old Zumo 550, but the price hasn't dropped.

Toying with Motorola’s $2,000 Aura

The best aspects of this ultra-pricey fashion phone don't show up in feature lists or photos, but hands-on.

First Glimpses of LG OLED Display Impress

Like its brothers from Samsung and Sony, LG's OLED display boasts amazing color reproduction, 180 degree viewing angles, and tight pixel density.

TransferJet Challenges Bluetooth

An upcoming form of near-field communications needs no passcodes, no pairing, and operates at over 100 times faster than Bluetooth.

Netgear Pushes YouTube into Living Rooms

A $200 price point and seemingly endless streams of content make the Netgear Internet TV Player look like a sound buy for those who just want to bring Web video to the big screen.

Sampling the In-Home 3D Experience

Nobody's ready to cough up a set you can actually drag home from Best Buy and watch in 3D quite yet, but this year's show has plenty of demos.

Coming Soon: 10-Minute Battery Charges

New battery technology from Toshiba will allow a notebook battery to hit 90 percent of full charge within 10 minutes, and is on the brink of becoming reality.

Toshiba Cell TV Can’t Make YouTube Shine

Despite the promise of Cell TV, we found the difference in image quality hard to discern.

Top Five Coolest Features of WebOS

There are a lot of WebOS features to comb through, but here are there ones that really blew us away.

Hands On With Sony’s P Series Vaio

A smaller, lighter chassis and superior screen really do set the P Series apart from the common netbook.

The Hardware Behind WebOS: Palm Pre

Palm has released a smoking new piece of hardware to accompany its long-awaited OS, and it brings many of the features hardcore smartphone users have been waiting for.