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Introducing The Juicebox: A Simple, Sexy Smartphone Charging Station

The Juicebox is an elegant mobile phone charging station that lets users juice up their iPhones, Androids, or BlackBerries in public venues. READ»

Dreams Of Macs With All-Day Batteries May Come True, If Apple Ditches Intel For ARM

Rumors are flying that Apple might pull the old chip switcheroo again and embrace ARM CPUs instead of Intel's silicon. That would make your MacBook lasts pretty much all day on a charge. And a million graphic designers' Mac-loving hearts just started racing...READ»

Believable Rumor: iPhone 4.0 Software Includes Multitasking

Some tech rumors pop up then fade quickly into obscurity, while others just keep coming back--one of the biggest of this sort concerns multitasking on the iPhone. It's here again, centered on the upcoming 4.0 firmware. And it rings ...READ»

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Ten Days In, How's the Palm Pre Doing? Not Too Badly

Here's one for the iPhone haters: Just ten days into its life, Palm's Pre seems to be doing not as badly as some hoped. There are, of course, some big plusses and minuses to talk about, and it turns out that some of our early Pre ...READ»

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Is The MacBook's New Super-Battery Actually Cutting Edge?

The best new feature in Apple's [AAPL] new MacBook Pro is the 8-hour, ultra-durable battery that Apple says it custom-designed. But is it really the advanced powerplant it claims to be? Conventional notebook batteries, or lithium-ion ...READ»