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A decent budget navigator that’s a bit behind the times.

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With mobile broadband, an excellent display, and a speedy solid-state hard drive, the latest version of the OQO model 02 makes a case for the usefulness of the UMPC format.

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Magellan is using SEMA 2007 to launch the latest portable navigation system in its RoadMate family. The RoadMate 1200 is a “budget-conscious” pocket-size GPS device that replaces the RoadMate 2000 at the bottom of the Magellan lineup. The RoadMate 1200 comes with a suggested retail price of $…

Canon U.K. has asked its retailers to return any unsold EOS 1-D Mark III cameras for a fix, according to reports Tuesday.

Canon U.S.A. says that it has no plans to issue a formal recall, but will address the autofocus issue soon.

Canon’s EOS-1D Mark III…

Prince can’t push this mother around.

The pop star wanted YouTube to remove a clip of an infant boy dancing to his 1984 hit song “Let’s Go Crazy.” When the clip got scrubbed, the baby’s mother cried foul and filed suit asking for damages. The woman’s

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Tons of storage on sale

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We all need a little backup sometimes. Fortunately, Circuit City’s running a discount on Western Digital’s 1TB My Book Essential edition external hard drive. Currently listed elsewhere at $350 or more, its easy install and flexible USB/Firewire interface make …

The Magellan RoadMate 1200 was announced earlier this morning, and we have one in our hands ready to be put through a few hundreds miles of testing. While we are out driving around with the new RoadMate 1200, here is what you can expect to find.

The Dell XPS M1730 is the latest high-end gaming notebook from Dell, replacing the aging M1710. Dell has improved both the outside appearance of this gaming rig and the components inside its glossy shell. One item added to this notebook, a first for any notebook, is the AGEIA PhysX Processing Unit. Packed inside you also get dual 256MB NVIDIA 8700M GTs running in SLI alongside the Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 processor making this notebook a force to be reckoned with.

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Just what we needed: another competitor in the portable navigation market. Panasonic is using this year’s SEMA show to launch the CN-GP50U, its first portable navigation device, and the second product in its Strada navigation series. The CN-GP50U features a 5-inch display, and comes with text-to-speech technology …

Photo and image editor: Without giving a history lesson, but for the benefit of those whose life has more exciting things in it than tracking the evolution of software companies, Paint Shop Pro was acquired by Corel a few years…