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The Federal Communications Commission wants to know what kind of internet speed you’re getting. Is it close to the speeds your ISP advertises? Are download and upload speeds different in different parts of the country?

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FCC launches broadband speed test for smartphones

Plastic Logic, which was set to ship its large screen Que e-reader in April, is now delaying it to “sometime this summer.” The company sent notifications to pre-order customers late Thursday afternoon announcing the delay and saying it needed the time to “fine-tune features and enhance the overall product.” Plastic Logic launched the Que at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The Que proReader has an 8.5 x 11-inch touchscreen display and the ability to handle a range of documents such as Microsoft Word files, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, digital books, PDFs, magazines and newspapers

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Plastic Logic Delays Que E-Reader

When it began taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, Apple also published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader. It turns out the iPad will read books out loud to you with audio dictation, a controversial feature that caused some trouble for Amazon’s Kindle last year

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Apple’s iPad Will Read Books Out Loud, Support Free E-Books

By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews A permanent injunction against Microsoft selling versions of Word that contain XML editing ability effectively remains in place today, after a shot-in-the-dark appeal by Microsoft of its appeals loss last December was shot down Wednesday by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals

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Again, it’s over: Microsoft loses second review of Word appeal

As we comb through the updated Apple website for more iPad-related clues, up pops this new picture detailing the physical buttons on the iPad. Now, in addition to the sleep/wake, home and volume buttons familiar to iPhone users, there is a new button named screen rotation lock

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iPad Gets New Button: Screen Rotation Lock

Part of the reason smartphone have largely replaced PDAs over the last few years is that there are a growing number of activities that require an always-on internet connection.

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Qualcomm patent details all-in-one folding tablet, phone, netbook

You would think that installing a zero cost operating system on a netbook would help keep the price low. But while there’s no licensing fee associated with Google’s upcoming Chrome OS, it turns out that netbooks running Chrome OS might actually be more expensive than the cheap, ubiquitous Windows netbooks flooding the market today.

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Google Chrome netbooks could cost more than Windows netbooks

Xilisoft iPad Video Converter allows you to convert just about any video (even high-definition video) format into iPad video formats, and extract iPad audio from video files, convert audio formats to iPad audio and create iPad video from pictures with the support for multi-core processing, multithreading and batch conversion. It can also split files and convert a file into multiple formats amongst many other features

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Xilisoft iPad Video Converter

Trustix Enterprise Firewall – world’s first WYSIWYG Firewall, protects assets and business transactions by ensuring fast, secure connections with the Internet and networks. It enables fast, controlled connectivity, providing strong protection against unwanted intrusion without slowing the flow of approved traffic

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Trustix Enterprise Firewall

The Apple Store was down for a short spell this morning, and it has popped back up with a pre-order page for the iPad. If you want to get your shiny new Wi-Fi Apple tablet delivered on April 3rd, you can buy it now. If you are holding out for the 3G version, you can still pre-order, but you’ll be kept waiting until the infuriatingly vague “late April”

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iPad and Accessories Available for Pre-Order

Look, up in the sky! It’s a netbook killer. No it’s an oversized iPod touch! No it’s the iPad! Apple’s new 9.7 inch touchscreen tablet may or may not be a revolutionary new device that will change the way we interact with computers. But one thing’s for certain

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And… the iPad pre-orders begin

There are three* video games I know anything about, and all of them I played obsessively through my college years. One of those games is Streetfighter II, Capcom’s amazingly popular (and awesome) one-on-one beat’em-up.

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Fingers-On with Streetfighter IV for iPhone

Toshiba JournE tablet Toshiba is making it known that the company ha s no intention of sitting out the tablet PC revolution.

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Toshiba to launch a line of slate PCs

The folks at Geeky Gadgets have got ahold of some screenshots from Sony’s upcoming mirrorless Alpha camera. It appears that the innovation isn’t all on the outside: this camera will have a touch screen and a smart new interface to go with it. Mirrorless cameras are becoming popular because they put big sensors in small bodies with interchangeable lenses, and Sony’s concept added typical Sony Style.

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Leaked Shots Show Sony Mirrorless Touch Camera Interface