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Engadget: 400 of Wells Fargo’s WebATMs in northern California (Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara counties) are in the process of getting a technological makeover that will allegedly cut down on the time it takes to make a deposit, increase security and eradicate those pesky bank errors, which unlike in Monopoly, hardly ever seem to […]

Engadget Mobile: Hiptop news is all the rage today, it seems. Not satisfied merely showing off her shapely exterior, Sidekick III may be bringing us her first screen capture, as well. (Scrawled handwriting not included. We hope.) The UI appears to be refined while still retaining that youthful Danger charm, and if this screen cap […]

Silicon Beat: Shares of Vonage, the Internet telephony company, plunged 12.6 percent on its first day of public trading today.Not like the company had any choice. It had to go public.
We’ve all been saying it is losing money, and its prospects looked really rough, and we all questioned whether it should go public. But […]

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., and SAN DIEGO — 05/24/2006
Sprint (NYSE: S) and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. (LG Mobile Phones) introduce FUSIC, a trendsetting mobile phone with a progressive design and music and entertainment services delivered at broadband-like speeds via the Sprint Power Vision(SM) Network. This […]

vnunet.com: Coffee shop chain Starbucks plans to use its wireless internet connections to help launch a download music service to rival Apple’s iTunes.Starbucks hopes to market the service to the 40 million people it serves every day by expanding its hotspots to more coffee shops.
According to rumours, the firm is currently testing different options […]

Tech Digest: The digital music revolution seems to have affected all age-groups – with your nan being as likely to listen to her iPod while she’s gardening as your annoying nephew is to be rocking his Walkman ‘phone at the back of the ‘bus. A problem that perhaps affects the older MP3 enthusiast a little […]

Engadget: The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg caused a stir with a column on Apple Computer’s “device model” vs. Microsoft’s “component model.” And, although Mossberg’s assertion was that Apple’s model of end-to-end control over its product line had, in the “post-PC era,”  benefited consumers more than Microsoft’s model of allowing PC makers to sort out […]

Tech Digest: Here’s an idea that could rack up a phone bill large enough to cripple a small nation quicker than you can say ‘data fee’. D-Link has come up with a way to let users share a 3G wireless internet connection through an ordinary 802.11g wireless connection using a special router.The D-Link Wireless 3G […]

Tech Digest: Here’s a quick and nifty tweak for Microsoft Word from Propellerhead. Reverse Printing is a way of setting Word to reverse the order in which documents are printed. By default it’s set to print in the order they appear on the screen, i.e. page one first. The trouble with that is when you […]

Tech Digest: The guys over at HDTV UK do love their world firsts. This time it’s LG’s HD-Ready wall mounted projector, the AN110, which looks dangerously close to making home cinema projectors practical. Arguably, it’s not 100% HD, as its 1280 x 768 native resolution will compress 1080 signals. Even so, it should still produce […]