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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:50:00 GMT

Multitasking Earbuds Stress Great Design, Not Sound

Cool looking and inexpensive, the Remix earbud from VMODA doesn't quite deliver solid sound quality.


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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:20:00 GMT

iPad Could See 50 Tablet Rivals This Year

Microprocessor company ARM says there will be more than 50 new tablets launching worldwide to compete with the iPad.


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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:00 GMT

Broadcast Video From Your Mobile

You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.


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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:46:00 GMT

Storyboard: Extreme-Test War Stories

From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.


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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:00 GMT

Just How Fast Is Cisco's New Router? Really Freaking Fast

Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.


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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public

Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.


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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:00 GMT

Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000

For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.


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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 GMT

Motorola's Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged

Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.


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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

Turn an FM Transmitter Into a Micro Pirate Radio

Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.


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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Shocknife SK-2

There's no sharp point or edge, but the electrodes in the polycarbonate Shocknife deliver a stabbing 7,500 volts. Ouch. Kilo-ouch.


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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/03/apple-fires-at-htc/

Apple sues HTC, claiming infringement on patented technology used in the iPhone. But the real target here is Google, as another front is opened in an increasingly hostile face-off by Silicon Valley's two biggest heavyweights.


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Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:00:00 GMT

Exclusive: How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web

When it comes to finding stuff online, there's Google — and there's everyone else. Wired senior writer Steven Levy gets an unprecedented inside look at the company's technological wizardry.


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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:06:00 GMT

How to Connect Port-au-Prince With a Wireless Network

Though reconstruction in Haiti has barely begun, organizations are moving to deploy internet services in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince.


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Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:00:00 GMT

How Can Tech Help Haiti? Introducing Haiti Rewired

As the crisis in Haiti shifts from emergency response to rebuilding, it's time to focus on how smart tech and infrastructure ideas can help rebuild the country. Wired's social network for discussing Haiti tech is one place to generate solutions.


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Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:45:00 GMT

How Google Could Have Changed the World With Nexus One -- and Still Might

Google introduced a new smartphone that's full of hot features, but it's just an unsatisfying baby step in a plan to change how people buy and use mobile computing devices.


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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:00:00 GMT

People's Processor: Embrace China's Homegrown Computer Chips

China's creating a computer chip that can drive anything from an industrial robot to a supercomputer is succeeding. It's going to have a profound impact on computers everywhere.


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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Top 7 Disruptions of the Year

Recession or not, technology kept marching in 2009, making us keep up with its beat. Here are Wired.com's choices for biggest disruptions in technology and business in 2009.


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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:45:00 GMT

Microsoft Loses Word Appeal, Will Adjust Program

After losing an appeal in a patent-infringement case, Microsoft said it will tweak the XML editor in its Word application, in order to continue selling one of its most widely used products.


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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:00:00 GMT

Time Your Attack: Oracle's Lost Revolution

Larry Ellison announced a computer in 1995 that would run applications that lived in the cloud. One thing: The cloud didn't exist yet.


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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:24:00 GMT

Mobile Phone Cancellation Fees Help the Poor, Verizon Tells Feds

Verizon defends the hefty fees it charges customers to break their contracts, saying it helps the poor buy smartphones. But critics say the fees are out-of-line given the company's huge profit margins.