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The unlimited monthly plan wars continue to get hotter following a new service from TracFone. The Mobile Virtual Network Operator recently debuted StraightTalk, a prepaid, no-contract wireless brand that offers 30MB of data plus unlimited calling and messaging for $45 per month. Alternatively, you can get 1,000 anytime minutes …

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The first day the Apple iPhone 3GS went on sale was the biggest sales day ever for AT&T, according to an internal memo sent to company employees that has since been published in various blogs.

That’s right, iPhone Day 2009 beat out the two previous iPhone …

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The Einstein Sound Master Photon Ball iPod Dock.

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As a child of the ’80s, I can distinctly remember a time when decorative electrostatic plasma lamps were very cool. They were also very expensive and–for the most part–useless. These days, though, I can’t look at one without …

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Here we go again with another installment of the weekly Crave giveaway. This week’s gadget: the Seagate 500GB Blackarmor PS 110, a pretty sweet external hard drive from Seagate.

In case you’re wondering what CNET really thinks about it, CNET editor Justin Yu has given the …

Three months ago at CTIA in Las Vegas, I visited with Zer01 Mobile, a new VoIP carrier that’s promising unlimited voice, messaging, and data for $70 per month. At the time, Zer01 promised a July 1 launch date, and true to its word the carrier made a formal announcement …

BlueAnt S1

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BlueAnt is no stranger to Bluetooth speakerphones. The BlueAnt Supertooth 3 and the Supertooth Light from years past were favorably reviewed, and for good reason. The Supertooth 3 especially impressed us due to its ability to translate text to speech, which meant it could read out …

Things are finally slowing down after a few busy weeks of cell phones news, so this week, we finally catch up on some neglected listener e-mails and questions. Plus, we talk about the RIM BlackBerry Tour that’s coming to both Verizon Wireless and Sprint on July 12 for the …

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The AS220 Drawbot kit includes a laser-cut wooden box, engraved with the same pattern the Drawbot is programmed to create.

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I don’t care how much money you spend on a piece of hoity-toity artwork–eventually you’re going to get sick of looking at it. To keep things …

Sprint RIM BlackBerry Tour

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Well, well, looky here. Just one day after Verizon Wireless announced a July 12 availability date for the RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630, Sprint has responded and said it, too, will start selling its version of the BlackBerry Tour on July 12 for $199.99 …