While Wi-Fi hot spots may be proliferating, they’re not always reliable and don’t help you much when you’re in between coverage areas. Neither do the usurious rates carriers are charging for Wi-Fi these days. When you’re in business and need Internet access while traveling there’s no substitute for an EV-DO card. Granted, the service is tad expensive, but if you need to access the Internet to make a living, an EV-DO card and service more than pays for itself.

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With women buying the majority of the wine consumed in this country, Mother’s Day offers a great opportunity to make their wine lives a little easier, both in understanding wine and serving it, with six cool and inexpensive gifts that you can give Mom separately or as a basket full of useful wine items. First, for the basics and beyond, pick up a copy of the paperback “Hip Tastes: The Fresh Guide to Wine,” by Courtney Cochran (Viking Studio, $18.95).

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Merlin Entertainments, the visitor attractions operator behind Madame Tussauds and the London Dungeon, has acquired the London Aquarium in County Hall from the Japanese owners of the former Greater London Council headquarters. The company, which is backed by Blackstone Group and Dubai International Capital (DIC), will convert the venue to its Sea Life brand and invest about £5 million in improving the aquatic displays and making it more child-friendly.

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Boy, isn't it awesome? Dell is really getting better in design department with each passing model. The latest to join their stylish products are Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 for fashion conscious prosumers. According to Engadget, they start at around 1-inch thick and taper up to 1.5 inches thick. All of them features Intel Core 2 Duo T5850 processor, Blu-ray drive, and 3G options in addition to usual configuration.

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Yeah, that's true. Researchers at University of Berkeley are actually planning to built a Supercomputer featuring 20 million processors, providing a peak performance of 200 petaflops! Reportedly, the supercomputer will be used for accurate climate studies and will be built using ultra-efficient embedded RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) CPUs. Wondering what would be the cost and power requirement of such a monstrous system?

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Catering to users who need an easy way to watch and record digital TV on PCs and laptops, ASUS has released a new TV Tuner product – the ASUS My Cinema-U3100Mini. Featuring high-quality DVBT TV signal reception, superior power saving technology and versatile utilities, this handy piece of hardware provides convenient access to multimedia entertainment wherever users may be.

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How many times have you been stranded somewhere with a dead cell phone battery? I’m sure that it’s happened to everyone at least a few times, and it’s always at the most inconvenient time. There are many solutions out there to ensure that you’ll be able to get some extra juice to your phone, but here’s one that is a bit more eco-friendly.

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I don’t care whether you’re a pilot or a frequent flier, there are still ways for the good old time zones to wipe your body clock clean of any past rhythms. Taking a trip from The U.S. to the U.K. is only fun once you’ve got your sleeping patterns back under control. At least enough so you can get a taste of both the night life, and the day light festivities.

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One of the things that I love about airline travel is the ice cubes in the drinks they serve. I always liked the cylindrical shaped cubes that were somehow hollowed out in the middle. Somehow, they were always better than the cubes that you crack out of the ice trays at home. It appears that a Japanese company has cornered the market on unusual ice cube shapes with the Ice Mold, a spherical ice cube maker.

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After seeing pictures of the Samsung Glyde, I believe that we have seen just about everything that can be done with cell phones. It appears that the new industry standard could be a touchscreen along with a QWERTY keyboard. Obviously some new iPhone-ish type of gadget has to come out in order to really revolutionize the mobile phone market any further. Until then, there is the Glyde. The Glyde is surfing the present industry standard with its touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard.

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The phones launching today may have the latest cameras, GPS, Bluetooth, MP3 players and the sorts in them but they leave a lot to be desired in the design and feel of the phone. The S-series however steps back from this approach and sets off in a radically different design direction by combining sleek, sophisticated styling with top quality materials all put together in a compact package, to make the whole experience of looking at and owning the phone just as pleasurable as using it.

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Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its compact bar-type Smartphone 'i200' in global market. Supporting windows Mobile 6.1 with mobile versions of office like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, outlook, etc. Additionally the phone is very efficient in email features offering HTML format email, easy editing (cut, copy and paste), and unified email and SMS/MMS management. Automatic pop-up helps users know whenever they get email and always be connected.

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Yesterday Pioneer announced a new line of KURO plasma displays featuring black levels five times deeper than the previous award-winning KURO. Announced alongside several other fine pieces of kit today in NYC, according to company bigwig Paul Meyhoefer, the ultimate goal is "pure, absolute black," and it's well on its way with the latest line.

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Pioneer has launched the Elite BDP-05FD and Pioneer BDP-51FD BonusView Blu-ray Disc players that exceed the capabilities of current players in the market, with support of next generation high resolution audio and video formats that fulfill the emotional experience of high end entertainment. It's choosing to focus on picture and sound quality, as both Summer-bound decks will internally decode every next-gen multi-channel lossless codec (DTS-HD with firmware update) or bitstream any of them to your AVR.

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This phone is generating all the rage in the past few days on the web; we now have a few more clear images on how it looks. The snapshots show a 5.0-megapixel camera and confirm that the keypad touts a two-character-per-button layout similar to the P1. The finish looks far more sophisticated than these images could convey, can't wait to grab hold of one soon.

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