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CES, Booth Babes, and How To Piss Off Female Tech Reporters

Has it really only been a week since the Consumer Electronics Show started winding down? I took away a lot of thoughts from it, but there was one memory that really stands out. There I was at the Skunk Juice booth, shooting Noah as he checked out the company’s unique magnetic earbud system (which can

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CES Post-Show Journal: Behind the Scenes

If you’ve never been to the Consumer Electronics Show, it can feel like a massive tech carnival — a wonderland of gear covering practically every area of life imaginable. There are rows upon rows of cars, home appliances, mobile devices, accessories, smart TVs, and myriad other machines and gadgets, all clamoring for attention. For some

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12 Things I Learned at CES ’12

1. It’s never too late to play the game if you’ve got enough dough Intel finally joined the 21st Century by unveiling the first smartphone running on their silicon, the Lenovo K800. Powered by a Intel Atom Z2460 running at 1.6GHz, the phone features a full 720p display and dazzled most everyone who saw it

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CES 2012: New-Release Phones (By Carrier)

During the time span of four days at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, many smartphone and tablets were released.  Here at TechnoBuffalo, we know that it may be hard to disseminate and make sense of all the phones announced. To help you out, here’s a summary of the many phones released at

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Best in Show: CES 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards

The votes are in, and if polls can be trusted you all really like yourselves hot new mobile tech! We’ve tallied the results, and here are the winners of TechnoBuffalo’s CES 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards as selected by you, The Herd: Nokia Lumia 900 (18.6% of the vote) Nokia’s new flagship phone was built specifically

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Best in Show: TechnoBuffalo CES 2012 Editors’ Choice Awards

You made your voices heard loud and clear! Now check out the results of the CES 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards. In the meantime we’ve been voting too! The results are in, and here are the seven best products from CES 2012 as selected by the humble editors of TechnoBuffalo (presented in alphabetical order by manufacturer). Check

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CES: It Ain’t About the Specs, Dummy

3D printers and their simultaneously awesome-and-nightmare inducing capabilities aside, basically everything I’ve seen at CES this week has been iterative and evolutionary in nature. Bigger, thinner, faster smartphones. Cameraphones with garish megapixel counts. A garishly specced digital camera with an Android phone shoved inside. Thinner, lighter HDTVs. Brighter, higher pixel-count HDTVs. DSLRs that shoot even better

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Mike and Noah’s Excellent Car Adventure! @ CES 2012

Join Noah and Mike as they journey frantically throughout the CES 2012 show floor in search of the most unique automobiles in Las Vegas! You’ll see concept cars, electric vehicles, bass blasting audio systems and more! Witness madcap tomfoolery and zany hijinkery as Noah and Mike squeal their tires at full throttle on the highway of automobile tech!

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Twitter is Ablaze With Mentions of Microsoft, OLED TVs

Four days into CES 2012, and we’re still not finished with our coverage. The experience thus far has been exhausting: we’ve seen cameras, ultrabooks, insane gaming tablets, smartphones and everything in between. If it’s electronic, chances are it’s shown up at the cathedrals of Sin City. Our senses are being stimulated from every imaginable angle.

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Wirelessly Connect Your Phone to ViewSonic’s 23-Inch Touchscreen

Sure, phones are reaching astronomical proportions, like the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note, but what if you wanted to go even bigger? With ViewSonic‘s new 23-inch smart touchscreen display, you can now extend your handset experience through a wireless connection, meaning your game of Angry Birds just got huge. The monitor comes with a 10-point capacitive multi-touch

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Future Ride: Jon Gets Inside the Tesla Model S Electric Car (video)

Is a 17-inch, Web connected touchscreen smack dab in the middle of an automobile’s dashboard a good idea in the age of distracted driving? That remains to be seen. But there’s no question that the Tesla Model S’ connected infotainment system is super cool. Between the audio and navigation controls, electric powertrain monitoring system, and

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Vizio is Bored with 16:9, Introduces CinemaWide TVs

While Vizio further expands its reach into consumer homes with its new all-in-one PCs and laptops, the company is still sticking to what it does best: TVs. The Irvine-based company announced today a line of premium HDTVs that will truly attract avid cinephiles. Not content with the standard 16:9 aspect ratio, Vizio has taken upon

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Intel Keynote: Lenovo K800, Motorola Partnership and Ultrabooks Galore

There was dancing, uproarious fanfare and a few juicy tidbits in the smartphone and ultrabook space at Intel’s keynote today. CEO & President Paul Otellini highlighted a number of interesting projects the company is currently focused on as it moves into the mobile game, enlisting the help from Lenovo, Motorola and (bizarrely) will.i.am. Most importantly,

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Vote Now for the CES Readers’ Choice Awards!

Now’s the time to make your voice heard! We’re criss-crossing the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center to find the best of CES 2012, but it’s up to you to decide which products are the cream of the crop. It’s the TechnoBuffalo CES 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards! You have until Thursday at 11 am

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Qualcomm Keynote All About Using Innovation to Solve World’s Problems

There was flash, booming music and appearances by MMA’s Alistair Overeem and popular dance collective Jabbawockeez. But today’s Qualcomm address was all business. CEO Paul Jacobs kicked of Tuesday’s CES frenzy with a keynote that focused on how mobile technology can improve our world in developing and emerging markets – from green initiatives to healthcare

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PlayBook OS 2.0 Hitting in February

Hankering for a native email client on that dusty old PlayBook? It’s coming in PlayBook OS 2.0, RIM announced yesterday, along with calendar and contact apps. We’re finally getting a full-featured experience PlayBook OS should have been in 2011. Included in the new OS is the ability to rearrange apps via drag-and-drop, as well as

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7-Inch Tegra 3 Asus Tablet Teased with $249 Price Tag

Is Asus’s current Transformer Prime a bit too big for your taste? Not to worry, because a new 7-inch tablet sporting Tegra 3 quad-core internals was just announced at nVidia’s CES press conference – and it’s only $249. The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet just got some serious competition. Neither nVidia nor Asus revealed anything

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Microsoft’s Final Ever (Maybe) CES Keynote

Steve Ballmer, along with the help of Ryan Seacrest and a few colleagues, spearheaded Microsoft’s last CES appearance today, recapping the company’s just announced product reach – HTC Titan II, Lumia 900 - while looking at what the future holds for the Redmond-based company: Metro, Metro, Metro and Windows, Windows, Windows, Ballmer emphatically shouted. The show

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Intel Talks Up Ultrabooks at CES Press Conference

Intel was all about the ultrabooks at their CES press conference this morning, showing off a few of the 75 models company execs expect to see released by hardware partners before 2012 is done. While most of the ultra-portable laptops are expected to at least loosely follow the thin profile, wedge shape, and metal housing

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Say Hello to Samsung’s 55-Inch Super OLED TV

Samsung just announced a 55-inch Super OLED TV from the future at its CES press conference. The TV boasts an incredibly beautiful design, with practically no bezel and a wafer-thin body. A new age of television is upon us, and we couldn’t be more excited. Samsung promises its new TV will eliminate the need for a

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HTC Titan II vs. HTC Titan I: Does “New” = Better? (video)

Some of you may remember that I’m an advocate of the first Titan, even made it my daily driver. Now faced with the new iteration, I couldn’t wait to check out a quick comp. Verdict? Very nice indeed. The II’s soft-touch plastic feels really nice in the hand, the photo-snapping chops are robust (at a

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HTC Titan II: Fast, First Impressions (video)

We managed to get some hands-on time with the HTC Titan II, the latest WinPho phone that was announced this morning at AT&T’s Developer Summit. So does “new” mean better? Well, after 2 minutes of usage, we’d have to say things are looking pretty great for this handset. Here, Jon Rettinger takes a quick look

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Galaxy Tab 7.7 With 4G LTE Coming to Verizon

Just when you thought the tablet market had been hit from every possible angle, out comes another device to fill the size-range gap. Samsung introduced on Monday the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 with 4G LTE in tow. Having gotten a brief hands-on of the device at IFA 2011, we’re excited to see this puppy hitting stateside

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To the Maxx: Motorola Launches Droid Razr Maxx for Verizon

Verizon and Motorola today announced a few new additions to their Droid lineup of Android powered smartphones. In addition to the Droid 4, VZW will start carrying a purple version of the Droid Razr. The new color will hit retailers in the coming weeks with the same $199.99 on-contract pricing as the white and black

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Vizio Introduces New All-In-One PCs and Laptops

Vizio has announced the company is jumping into the PC-making game with a few all-in-ones and notebooks, aiming to make “the personal computer a true entertainment device.” Vizio has previously earned a reputation in the HDTV space for producing beautiful, affordable products – the company’s PC effort will be no different. Vizio hopes its experience

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