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Digital City Podcast 59: Black Friday shopping tips, and a PS3 MAG beta invite giveaway

Dan Ackerman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:16:00 PST

It's episode 59 of the Digital City, and if our cast looks a little different today, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. Joey, Julie, and Scott all called in sick,

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Rating the Black Friday laptop doorbuster deals

Dan Ackerman — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:02:00 PST

We've scanned some of the ads and picked several potentially promising Black Friday deals, including limited-time special officers, in order to give you some context on what constitutes a good doorbuster deal, and what's just a bust.

New Pogoplug gets hard drives online with more color, extra USB ports

Scott Stein — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:00 PST

An affordable way to get your offline hard drives online adds extra ports and costs a little bit more than before.

Crave giveaway of the week: Nokia Booklet 3G Netbook

David Carnoy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 PST

We're upping the ante in this week's Crave Giveaway with Nokia's new Booklet 3G Netbook. It doesn't come with wireless service but it's still a stylish Netbook with great battery life.

Hands-on with the Asus 3D laptop

Dan Ackerman, Scott Stein — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:46:00 PST

Earlier this week, Asus unveiled a 15-inch laptop with Nvidia's 3D Vision technology built in. We've just had a chance to take the $1,699 Asus G51J 3D for a test drive, and came away largely impressed with the results.

Asus packs an Eee PC Netbook with Nvidia Ion and a dual-core Intel Atom

Dan Ackerman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:00 PST

Hot on the heels of the well-regarded HP Mini 311, Asus has moved the Netbook bar forward by taking a 12-inch Netbooks chassis and including both Nvidia's Ion graphics and a dual-core version of Intel's Atom processor.

Who makes the most reliable laptops?

Dan Ackerman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:12:00 PST

Warranty firm SquareTrade has just released a research paper analyzing the failure rate for 30,000 laptops comparing brands and hardware categories--and the results might surprise you.

Carriers to sell majority of mobile devices by '13

Lance Whitney — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:56:00 PST

With more carriers offering Netbooks, In-Stat forecasts that over 60 percent of Internet-enabled mobile devices will be sold directly by carriers by 2013.

Asus builds Nvidia 3D Vision technology into a gaming laptop

Dan Ackerman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:00:00 PST

We're fans of Nvidia's 3D Vision technology, so we're pleased to see that Asus is announcing a new 15.6-inch laptop with Nvidia's 3D Vision technology built in. The $1,699 G51J 3D has a 120Hz LCD panel, and comes bundled with a pair of Nvidia's active gla

Pre-beta Flash update makes Nividia Ion Netbooks even better

Dan Ackerman — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:39:00 PST

The HP Mini 311 is one of our favorite current Netbooks, thanks to its hi-def screen, reasonable price, and Nvidia Ion graphics. Our main knock has been that the accelerated video, while great for basic gaming and HD video file playback, didn't work with