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  1. Week in Apple: Apple TV, iTunes 10, Delicious Library, oh my!

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 4, 2010

    An Apple event means lots of new announcements. Almost the entire iPod line got updated, Apple TV got a serious makeover, and iTunes 10 got... But we also covered a patent suit, some lessons learned from Delicious Library 2, and a rumor about… Full Story »

  2. Week in gaming: Move review, new 360 D-pad, console repair

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 4, 2010

    Would it be sad to admit I was excited when our Move feature was pimped on the official True Blood twitter account? If so, chain me to the sad pole, because that was awesome. We went toe-to-toe with Sony's PlayStation Move for a week, and liked what we saw. Microsoft announced the price for Xbox Live was… Full Story »

  3. Week in tech: Android tablet army begins march, Chrome, OAuth fail

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 4, 2010

    Samsung fires first Android-powered salvo at iPad with Galaxy Tab: Samsung is putting the iPad in its crosshairs with its new Android-powered Galaxy Tab touchscreen tablet. The well-specced device will launch in a few week in Europe, with the US and Asia to follow soon.… Full Story »


  4. Week in Microsoft: here mousey mousey, best fake malware ever

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 4, 2010

    Microsoft unveils shape-shifting Arc Touch Mouse: Microsoft has officially announced the $70 the Arc Touch Mouse. The device is available for presale now, starts shipping in December, and officially goes on sale in January. New malware detects browser, shows fake… Full Story »

  5. Netgear offers 500Mbps powerline networking via next-gen standard

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 3, 2010

    Even as the IEEE P1901 working group was set to meet this week to recommend its draft standard for broadband over powerline networks for official status, Netgear announced its line of Powerline AV 500 adapters that incorporate the HomePlug-compatible flavor… Full Story »

  6. Frustrated Nexus One owner sues Google over "sporadic" 3G speed

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 3, 2010

    Imagine that your name is Nathan Nabors and that you live in the sunny climes of Orlando, Florida. Imagine further that, back when Google announced its own Android phone and called it the Nexus One , you realized that your… Full Story »


  7. iTunes 10 hands-on: snappier performance, questionable UI choices

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 3, 2010

    By now, most iTunes users have already downloaded and installed iTunes 10. We've already given you the low-down on the biggest addition to the new version of iTunes-the Ping social network-but we also wanted to give our impressions on two "improvements" promised in the release notes: look-and-feel and performance. While we agree that iTunes is "faster and more responsive," we're not sold on the revised user interface. Let's face it, performance is not iTunes' strong suit. I have a decent-sized library of some 6,700 tracks, for a total of 30GB of storage space-I can listen to music for nearly 51… Full Story »

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  8. Drumroll, please: the top Web scams of the decade

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 2, 2010

    One of the less pleasant aspects of our online Age of Anxiety is that most of us now get anonymous e-mails on a daily basis from people who, given their druthers, would rob us silly as fast as technologically possible. Of late, I've been getting a frenzy of bogus missives thanking me for the five thousand dollars or so worth of software, gadgets, self-help books, and lingerie I supposedly purchased on a famous online shopping service over the last five minutes. Of… Full Story »


  9. Hands-on: Twitter officially comes to the iPad

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 2, 2010

    Now, the official Twitter client for iPad is finally out in the form of a universal app. The team has clearly put some effort into utilizing parts of the multitouch experience in ways that third-party Twitter apps have not, and the app is certainly feature-rich. However, the interface can be confusing at times, and many of the features are not easily… Full Story »

  10. White space broadband to be finalized (at last) this month

    Ars Technica Gadget Tech Blog &bull Sep 2, 2010

    White spaces" broadband has been in hibernation-the rules governing unlicensed use in empty TV channels have never been finalized, and therefore no devices have yet appeared. This despite the fact that the idea was approved under previous FCC Chairman Kevin… Full Story »

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