Gadgetwise Blog: A Box of Crayons for the iPad

DigiTools is a set of physical coloring tools for the iPad that includes 3-D glasses and three apps. It is an effort by Crayola to bring the crayon's waxlike simplicity to touch-screen coloring, and a second chance to gain some needed credibility in...

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Gadgetwise Blog: Tip of the Week: Managing Hefty iPad Apps

Want to see which apps on your iPad are hogging too much space, and then throw a few off the tablet to make room for more? On the Home screen, tap the Settings icon and then tap General on the Settings screen. On the General screen, tap Usage to see...

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Adobe Cuts Forecast as Users Migrate Online

Adobe Systems, the maker of Photoshop and Acrobat software, said Wednesday that its earnings in its current quarter would decline or remain flat because customers have adopted the company's new subscription-based model faster than expected. The...

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Bits Blog: Google to Topple Facebook as Leader in Display Ads, eMarketer Says

Google is set to overtake Facebook in earning money from display ads, making it the leader in all three types of digital advertising — search, mobile and display.That is the prediction of eMarketer, a research firm that many in the tech industry rely...

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AT&T Chief Speaks Out on Texting While Driving

SAN FRANCISCO — Randall L. Stephenson, the chairman and chief executive of AT&T, spoke Wednesday morning at a conference in New York to hundreds of major investors, including Fortune 500 executives. The topic was the state of the telecom businesses,...

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Apple iOS 6 Leaves Out Google’s Maps

Millions of iPhone customers may soon find themselves losing touch with an old friend: Google's maps. On Wednesday, Apple released a software update for the iPhone that, among other changes, replaces the Google maps that have been on the phone...

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Noted: Celebrity Hoax Death Reports

From left, clockwise: Danny Moloshok/Reuters; Cindy Ord/Getty Images; Max Nash/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Evan Agostini/AGOEV, via Associated Press; Alexandre Meneghini/Associated Press; Chronicle Books Among those targeted by fake death...

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Leica Cameras, Favored by Celebrities

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Brad Pitt has one. So do Jude Law and Miley Cyrus. For celebrities, a Leica camera adds cachet. By STEVEN GREENHOUSE 20 Sep, 2012 -Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/fashion/leica-cameras-favored-by-celebrities.html?partner=rss&emc=rss--Manage...

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Tool Kit: Jukebox Apps for the Party-Pleasing D.J.

My mission was to supply the music for a friend's big birthday party. Sounds simple enough, right? Set up a playlist on an iPod and throw in a little Motown, because everybody likes Motown. Plug it into the sound system at the bar we had rented out...

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App Smart: Daily Journal Writing Without the Inconvenience - App Smart

Despite being a wordy sort of fellow, I've never put pen to paper daily to create a meaningful diary. I did make some tentative attempts when I was an adolescent, sure, but I never got hooked on a journal. With my sievelike memory, this means some...

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Agreement Could End Europe’s E-Book Price-Fixing Inquiry

BERLIN — The European Commission said Wednesday that it was prepared to drop its investigation into the fixing of e-book prices by Apple and four European publishers after the companies agreed to let online retailers like Amazon sell e-books at a...

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Bits Blog: HTC Unveils Phones Running Microsoft's Mobile Software

As the first manufacturer to support Google's Android software, HTC, the Taiwanese handset maker, was briefly the top American smartphone maker before it was surpassed by Apple and Samsung. Now HTC is pushing another underdog: Microsoft's Windows Phone...

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TECHNOLOGY: TimesCast Tech | September 19, 2012

September 19, 2012 By Emily B. Hager, Nadia...

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Verizon Workers Reach 4-Year Tentative Pacts

Unions representing 45,000 Verizon workers announced tentative new contracts on Wednesday that call for an 8 percent pay raise over four years while requiring workers to pay more for health coverage. The contracts, covering workers from Maine...

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Gadgetwise Blog: Extra Protection for Weekend Warriors

Pelican Products has long been known for making durable cases for military and industrial fields. Seeking to reach a wider audience of consumers, the company recently began offering a new line of portable protection for laptops, tablets and smartphones.The...

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Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Customize Folders in Windows 7

In Windows 7, when I arrange a folder the way I like it with Details view, is there a way to make all my other folders automatically look the same way by default?Windows 7 offers a way to save personalized folder settings as a default for all your other...

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Gadgetwise Blog: Polaroid's Z2300 Is a New Instant Camera

Polaroid's latest move to revive the field of instant photography (and Polaroid itself) is the Z2300 instant digital camera.Going by ratings on Amazon, the $160 camera seems popular indeed. Suspiciously so – with five-star reviews like the one from ...

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Bits Blog: A Start-Up Figures Out Photoshop Abuses

Hany Farid, a professor at Dartmouth College, has built a career and a reputation as a leading researcher in digital image forensics. He has made software tools for a number of impressive projects in recent years. One was a pixel-sleuthing program to...

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Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Extra Security for Gmail

I have read that I should turn on "two-step" authentication for my Gmail account to keep it safe from getting hacked. What is this and what do I do?Google's two-step verification (authentication) for Gmail users requires both your account password and...

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Pogue’s Posts Blog: New iOS 6 Loses Google Maps, but Adds Other Features

The arrival of the iPhone 5 isn't the only big news for phone fans this week. Wednesday, Apple is also making iOS 6 available to anyone with a recent iPhone (3GS, 4, or 4S), iPod Touch (fourth generation) or iPad (2 or 3). It comes installed on the iPhone...

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Coursera Adds 17 Partner Universities, Including Brown and Columbia

Coursera, a start-up online education company that has enrolled 1.35 million students in its free online courses since it began just five months ago, is now more than doubling, to 33, its partners, universities that will offer classes on its platform....

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Barry Diller and Scott Rudin Form E-Book Publishing Venture

Two powerful entertainment moguls, Scott Rudin, the film and theater producer, and Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, are joining together to enter the turbulent world of book publishing. Mr. Rudin and Frances Coady, a longtime publishing...

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Bits Blog: A Boost for an App That Replaces Digital Picture Frames

A couple years ago, I gave my mother a digital picture frame so she could look at a rotating series of family photos. The picture frame eventually ended up unplugged and tucked away in a corner because it was so hard for her to update with fresh photos.Last...

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