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Fed to slash Rates as Recession Looms

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Fed to slash Rates as Recession Looms Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review
By Ros Krasny

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to cut lending rates at a two-day policy meeting this week in response to unprecedented turmoil in financial markets and the threat of a global recession.
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Posted on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:20:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony's FET enters FED Mass-Production end of 2009

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Sony's FET enters FED Mass-Production end of 2009 Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review It has been over a year since our last report on FED TV developments. So new details have appeared about the progress of FED technology.

Sony owns 40% of Field Emission Technologies (FET), which develops nano-Spindt FED (Field Emission Display) technology. FED technology has the capability to actually overtake OLED if everything works out as planned. Read more

Posted on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 07:43:31 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Official Indiana Jones Fedora on Sale

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Official Indiana Jones Fedora on Sale Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Gadget shop ThinkGeek has the officially licensed Indiana Jones hat on sale. You can be Indiana Jones for $99.99.

This is a fur felt fedora that you see in the Indiana Jones movies on close-ups of Harrison Ford. It's a hand made and features a leather sweatband and satin lining both emblazoned with Indiana Jones in the inside. Read more

Posted on Wed, 14 May 2008 06:15:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bush seeks Game Show help on Federal Budget

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Bush seeks Game Show help on Federal Budget Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, making a highly unusual appearance on U.S. television game show "Deal or No Deal," sought show host Howie Mandel's help to deal with the federal budget in upcoming talks with Congress.
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Posted on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Fed considering Comments on Internet Gambling Rule

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Fed considering Comments on Internet Gambling Rule Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is carefully considering all comments received on rules for a law banning bank and credit card payments to illegal Internet gambling sites, a Fed official said on Wednesday.
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Posted on Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Lawyers for Spears and Federline spar over Money

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Lawyers for Spears and Federline spar over Money Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review
Justin Kroll

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers around troubled singer Britney Spears battled in court on Monday over her parenting issues and $1 million in legal bills with one judge ruling the pop star should receive $1,500 a week to spend.
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Posted on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:45:59 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony FED TV

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Sony FED TV Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Sony demonstrated the current state of their FED (Field Emission Display) TV display technology in Japan.

Sony introduced a 19.2 inch FED panel. The specifications of this FED display are quite interesting with 1,280×960px resolution, a brightness of 400cd/m2, a contrast of 20,000: 1 and 0.306mm pixel pitch. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Palm LifeDrive PDA Review

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Palm LifeDrive PDA Review Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Our partners at Designtechnica reviews the HDD PDA Palm LifeDrive.

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"The Palm LifeDrive is the first of what we hope will be many "Mobile Managers" by the once king of PDAs. The heart of the LifeDrive concept is integrating a micro hard drive into the PDA.
If you ever thought it would be nice to have your essential PIM information in the same device as your pictures and music, all rolled up in a clean interface, your answer may have arrived. "
Read the full Palm LifeDrive Review.
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Posted on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:41:51 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

PalmOne LifeDrive 4GB PDA on Sale

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PalmOne LifeDrive 4GB PDA on Sale Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review Launching products during E3 is maybe not such a good idea. Anyway the rumored PlamOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager is now available for $499 from the PalmOne Store.

Amazon.com, which leaked LifeDrive photos a couple days ago, is not offering the new PDA yet.

The LifeDrive features a 4GB hard-drive, built-in Wi-fi and Bluetooth and 320x480 TFT screen with 16bit colors. It runs on a Intel 416Mhz XScale CPU with Palm OS 5.4 (Garnet). The only other PDA I know that features a 4GB hard-drive is the Sharp Zaurus SC-C3000, which only sells officially in Japan.
More details on PalmOne.

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Posted on Wed, 18 May 2005 04:25:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U Gadget Flyer: LifeDrive, LighTalk, Plasma TV PVR

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I4U Gadget Flyer: LifeDrive, LighTalk, Plasma TV PVR Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review The new and receive a 1 year subscription to Sync Magazine for FREE!

That is right! I4U gives away a 1 year subscription to the cool Gadget and Gear Print Magazine Sync. You only need to !

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Posted on Sun, 8 May 2005 00:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

PalmOne LifeDrive PDA shows-up on Amazon

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PalmOne LifeDrive PDA shows-up on Amazon Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review A couple pictures of the PalmOne new 4GB PDA LifeDrive showed up on Amazon.com with a little information.

We reported about the LifeDrive Mobile Manager rumors a couple days ago.

LifeDrive Feature list from Amazon:
Quickly drag and drop files from your PC onto your LifeDrive mobile manager.
Intel 416MHz XScale processor
Portrait and landscape viewing>
320x480 hi-resolution, color display
LifeDrive smart file management


There is no pricing information yet. Funny enough though, when adding the new Palm OS PDA to the wish list a price of $499.99 is displayed. Via Engadget.

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Posted on Fri, 6 May 2005 01:05:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Rumor: PalmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager

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Rumor: PalmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager Technology News, Electronics Buy Guide and Gadget Review There have been already lots of rumors about a new PalmOne high-end PDA with a 4GB internal hard-drive.

First it was called LifeDrive, then Tungsten X and now Brighthand reports that the name will be LifeDrive based on a leaked Powerpoint presentation they saw. The PalmOne LifeDrive is also supposedly starting a new product line called PalmOne Mobile Manager.
Rumored specifications of the LifeDrive include: 4GB internal HDD, 416 Mhz XScale CPU, 64/32MB, Wi-fi, Bluetooth, etc.
More details on Brighthand.

Buy the New Tungsten E2 at PalmOne!

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Posted on Wed, 4 May 2005 01:36:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr