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04/10/2014

Pebble Smartwatch is in-house for a review.

02/06/2014

Right on the heals of the interesting factoid that Steve Jobs offered Sony the opportunity to be the sole Mac-compatible vendor back in 2001. We will forever wonder what position Sony would be in now if they had taken the offer.
http://bit.ly/1ix5pqq

Sony Selling VAIO Division Amidst Falling PC Sales1 hour agoby Michael EpsteinReads (63) TweetComments (0)DiscussEmailPrintAlongside their announcement today of Q3 earnings, Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony announced that they would be selling their VAIO PC division. The deal with Japan Indust...

02/05/2014

Here are some shots of us cracking open the HP Omni 10 - their latest Windows 8.1 tablet - only $400 and it comes with a license for Office Home & Student - sweet! Working from home today because of yet another New England snow storm. Check our fancy tablecloth.

01/31/2014

Amazon Prime is slated to go up in price by $20 - $40. Will the service still be worth the price at $120 a year. What do you think?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/amazon-prime-price-increase_n_4698124.html

Enjoy that $79 Amazon Prime while you can. The price of Prime, the $79 yearly subscription that includes free two-day shipping, may increase between $20 and $40 in the U.S., the company said late Thursday in a call with investors and analysts.

01/29/2014

Why do Android updates take so long? Most pros will reply "It's complicated." HTC now tries to answer that question with this pretty awesome infographic. It's still complicated - but at least there are pretty colors and pictures.
http://www.htc.com/assets-desktop/images/softwareupdates/HTC-Anatomy-of-an-Android.jpg

01/23/2014

Seven years after Microsoft killed Clippy - Google give us Pegman. Wonder how this will go?

01/17/2014

Our friends at Futuremark just dropped the latest build of PCMark8 on us so I busted out everything in the lab to get a baseline of test results. All those cranking CPU's are making it warm in this place.

01/10/2014

Yay! First new test product to hit the lab in 2014!

12/09/2013

Are you looking for a new flat screen to go with the new Xbox One or PS4 - better check with these guys first.
http://www.displaylag.com/

Welcome to Display Lag, the premier HDTV & monitor input lag database. Here you will find articles pertaining to display lag, and a database of displays tested using Leo Bodnar's Lag Tester.

11/28/2013

Happy Thanksgivukkah from the TechnologyGuide Test Lab. I got to spend half the drive to turkey time checking out the HTC One Max. I love my job!

11/27/2013

Another parody of what we usually take so seriously from the fine folks at iFixIt.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Orange+Teardown/13470

This Orange bit the bullet on April 1, 2013.

11/27/2013

Old, but awesome:
http://www.awalkerinla.com/2010/03/31/unboxing-the-ipeep/

I know people doubt the ability of a company to keep rolling out superior products season after season, but they’ve done it again, I tell you!