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The Acer Aspire AS7745G-6214 comes with a quad-core processor and a Blu-ray drive, but it doesn't pamper you like other media centers do.

The Acer TimelineX AS5820T-5951 features a Core i3 processor and 7 hours of battery life—pretty sweet for a $700 laptop.

The latest Samsung smartphone is another great choice for Verizon Wireless customers.

The Toshiba Libretto W105 is no threat to any existing computing device, thanks its full plate of flaws.

Essentially a browser-based version of Flipboard, this new application culls stories posted to Twitter into a newspaper-like interface, but infrequent updates keep it from reaching its potential.

Netgear's WMS105 wireless management is a good, affordable way to manage up to five Netgear access points, and it's easy enough to use that anyone who has set up a home wireless router can probably handle it.

The Samsung Rugby II SGH-A847 is an excellent voice phone for AT&T that one-ups Nextel with 3G speeds and push-to-talk capabilities.

If you've got five to sixteen Netgear access points in your network, Netgear's ProSafe 16 AP is ideal for management.

The Pandigital Novel functions as a basic e-book reader for the exceedingly patient, but it's no bargain tablet computer, by any stretch of the imagination.

Sporting a (mostly) clean layout, multiple account support, and the slick Panes feature, Twitter's official iPad app is one of the best of its kind.

The Sceptre X270 LCD monitor handles fast-action gaming handily, but there are better performing monitors out there in this price range.

The Samsung Flight II isn't a terrible phone, but it's mediocre in so many ways that it looks hideously overpriced per month.

One of the most popular third-party Twitter apps comes to the iPad, bringing with it nearly all of the functionality of the desktop version, but not any additional social media integration.

Sony may not be first to the motion-gaming party, but the PlayStation Move technology is a step above the Wii—now if developers tap the system to produce more compelling game titles, we'll have a true winner.

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz's disastrous user interface makes every action into a chore.

The Samsung Eternity II offers smooth, broadcast mobile TV, but it doesn't have much else to recommend it.

At a prominent conference celebrating the drive toward open government, officials from the White House and Federal Communications Commission come with announcements in hand.

Gadgetank writes "Researchers out of the Australian National University have created a device, working in conjunction with other necessary devices, that can literally move small particles with light. And only light. The way it works is by shining a hollow laser beam around some tiny glass particles. The researchers heat the air around the particles, and therefore cause the dark center of the beam to remain cool."

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A security researcher who also happens to be a Google employee is warning of a new zero-day exploit affecting Internet Explorer 8 that could automatically send out unintended tweets.

I'm Not There (1956) writes "Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of Wi-Fi transceivers, open sources its Linux device drivers. This is a big win for Linux users, as there are a lot of users that face Wi-Fi problems when they use Linux on their laptops. With these device drivers now open source, distributions can ship them out-of-the-box, and that means no Linux Wi-Fi problems for new devices and upcoming distributions at all."

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