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While we were all paying attention to Steve Jobs stepping down from Apple, Google pulled the plug on Slide, the social networking apps company that it purchased last year for $200 million. The shutdown will result in the termination of nearly all Slide projects Slide operated primarily as an independent company, with Google there to back it up. Leading the way at Slide was Max Levchin, who famously founded PayPal. AllThingsD reports that… Read More

Amazon Kindle 2 $259 After taking the world by storm with the original Kindle, Amazon returned to the drawing board for the Kindle 2, a slimmer, sexier version of the original. It offers a 6-inch screen, 2GB of internal memory (to hold about 1,500 nonillustrated books) and most importantly, Whispernet access to pull down books from the sky when you’re out and about. Text-to-speech capabilities even allow it to read books to, if you don’t mind a… Read More

G.Skill Falcon II (256MB) Street price: TBA Priced aggressively and an admirable performer, G.Skill's original Falcon solid state drives hit the mark with a lot of early adopters. But that was then and this is now. Successor the Falcon II comes in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB flavors, and will take advantage of the latest SSD developments. Furthermore, G.Skill claims the entire lineup will once again be priced to please. For laptops or PCs.

When it comes to digital cameras, there’s a time and place for function, and one for fashion instead. Case in point: The hefty five-pound DSLR cameras you see pros muscling around at press conferences and football games are the tools of the trade for shooting magazine covers and Pulitzer award winners. But when it's time for a night out on the town? That's when you leave the big guns and tripods at home. Whether club hopping or… Read More

Check out some of the worst tech nightmares from the Digital Trends staff. What’s scarier than Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger and that creepy girl from The Ring combined? The horror of technology when it bombs out on us at the worst possible time, as both everyday individuals and some the world’s most prestigious companies alike can attest.

TV chef Alton Brown has it right: Unitaskers – specialty devices that only perform one function – have no place in the kitchen. And single-purpose gadgets have no place in your pocket. The same way lemon zesters to garlic presses clutter up kitchen drawers and cabinets, electronic voice recorders and standalone CD players fill up your briefcase and entertainment center without ever justifying their existence in more than one very… Read More

Attendance at the just-concluded CEDIA (Custom Electronics Design & Installation Association) Expo, held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, was down for the second straight year to around 20,000, and the number of exhibitors shrunk from 500 to 400. But the good news for home theater enthusiasts is as follows: What the various exhibitors that remained actually exhibited was a considerable amount of ingenuity.

Buttons belong to 20th century. While we’re sure that making electrical contact with the press of finger seemed nigh-miraculous at the same time that most people were still using the bathroom outside, the little switches and levers that brought us to this current age of technology have worn out their welcome. We’re ready for something better. We’re ready for something more refined. We’re ready for touch screens. The pretty little displays you… Read More

If the novelty of watching a slideshow of family photos on a tiny digital photo frame just isn’t doing it for you anymore, it may be time for an upgrade. Forget four by six inches, these things are into monitor territory now. Smartpants, maker of a full line of digital frames, announced their 15-inch model on Friday. The frame features an XGA (1024 x 768) LCD screen trimmed in birch wood, capable of displaying 16.7 million… Read More