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Car Wars

In the titanic struggle for world domination, your car’s dashboard is the next software battlefield.
- By Ken C. Pohlmann
- Posted December 3, 2012
Pop quiz! Quick! Which industry is evolving faster? Automobiles or computers?

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Review: Nintendo Wii U

Is Nintendo's unique take on the console concept for you?
- By Timothy J. Seppala
- Posted November 28, 2012
With the HD-capable Wii U, Nintendo has finally caught up with Sony and Microsoft. While the PS3 and Xbox 360 have had their share of faults, Sony and Microsoft have managed to address most of those over the past six and seven years of their respective console’s lifespans.

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Review: Halo 4

343 Industries revamps the franchise to produce the most human Halo so far
- By Timothy J. Seppala
- Posted November 6, 2012
Master Chief always seemed like Heinlein's ideal of a soldier: You never felt like he needed to sleep — just give him his ten thousand–mile check-ups and dust him off occasionally. In the opening scenes of Halo 4, Spartan 117 goes from sleep to trigger in a few moments, but that's enough to begin his journey to becoming human again.

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Show Me the Content: Google Nexus 7 Tablet and Nexus Q Streamer

Oooh, look! More self-important tablets!
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted June 29, 2012
I like writing about tablets about as much as I like getting kicked in the privates, but when big companies announce big dumb things, I feel obliged to cover it. Last week it was Microsoft, with their could-be-awesome-but-probably-won’t-be Surface tablet. This week it's Google and the Nexus 7 (and the Q streamer). As usual, the lazy tech writers made hyperbolic comparisons, claiming it a Kindle Fire "killer" and... oh WTF IT'S THE CONTENT.

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Microsoft Surface: to iPad or not to iPad, that is the Question

Our hopes, dreams, and likely disappointments for the latest tablet
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted June 22, 2012
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To a surprising amount of excitement, Microsoft announced the a pair of new tablets this week. Web reactions to the new Surface — as you’d expect — were split down party lines: “It’s not an iPad! It’s stupid!” and “It’s not an iPad! It’s the second coming!”
Reality, as usual, is somewhere in the middle. It’s possible the Surface is a worthy iPad competitor something that, so far, we have not seen.
It all comes down to one, seemingly simple, thing...

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The Last Big Bite

In the battle to own your living room, Microsoft’s window of opportunity is closing, while Apple’s remains wide open.
- By John Sciacca
- Posted June 21, 2012
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This is the tale of two companies whose products you likely interact with on a daily basis. Two companies that aim to capture the Holy Grail of the consumer electronics world: your living room. One company has had great success with its mission, while the other one has repeatedly failed.
The companies are Apple and Microsoft.

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E3 2012: The Big News from Gaming's Big Three

With the Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo press conferences over, the looming question as we enter this hardware cycle’s twilight years is still "What’s next?"
- By Timothy J. Seppala
- Posted June 6, 2012
With the first day of this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo behind us, it’s time to make sense of what the three console manufacturers showed at their annual media briefings. What was shown is just as important as what wasn’t and reading between the lines is key.

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New Gear: Aperion Aris Wireless Speaker

Don't like AirPlay? Windows steals some of Apple's thunder, with a little help from Aperion.
- By Michael Berk
- Posted May 8, 2012
Well, just when you thought AirPlay (and, to some extent, Bluetooth) devices had the stylish wireless desktop all-in-one music system market all to themselves, along comes Aperion's new Aris Wireless speaker to shake things up (and, possibly, to finally make Windows 7's AirPlayesque DLNA

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Bye, Bye, Microsoft

What Microsoft’s departure from the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show says about its future
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted December 27, 2011
When I attended my first Consumer Electronics Show in 1990, Microsoft was a relatively small company that had had one real hit (MS-DOS) and was struggling to gain traction with its other applications. I don’t think the company even exhibited at CES back then.

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Xbox, set (at last) to take over your living room

Microsoft aims to take over the living room, make controllers and remotes things of the past
- By Michael Berk
- Posted June 6, 2011
Microsoft's keynote was the hot ticket this morning at the E3 Expo, and the company didn't disappoint. While a few had held out hopes for a hardware surprise (the company dominated last year's event with the Kinect motion controller), no such thing was forthcoming from Redmond.

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Gaming in Stereo: Mortal Kombat, Crysis 2, and MotorStorm Apocalypse

We play three of the latest 3D titles to gauge the state of the art in stereoscopic gaming.
- By Timothy J. Seppala
- Posted May 3, 2011
While movie pundits squabble over whether or not 3D does anything besides eke out a few extra bucks per ticket at the box office, gamers have been reaping stereoscopic rewards for the past couple of months.

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Xbox 360's Video Marketplace going 1080p

Today, on the first day of video game trade show, E3, they announced that they were changing things up. When you purchase a video, it will start playing right away at a reduced bitrate. Then it will ramp up to 1080p video and 5.1 channel audio
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 1, 2009
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