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Palm Pixi Needs a Dusting of Speed

Palm offers the Pre’s webOS operating system in a tinier package: the Pixi.

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A New Search Engine Specializing in Fun

Goby.com aims to take the guesswork out of finding leisure activities.

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Countertrend: H-P Says Please Print Often

Katherine Boehret reviews the HP Photosmart Premium All-in-One printer-scanner, with a touch screen to display Web apps that promote printing.

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Yahoo Renovates Its Home Page

Katherine Boehret reviews Yahoo’s made-over home page, which features less clutter and new “apps.”

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Second Chances: T-Mobile Tries Again

A review of T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google, the second “Google phone” to be released.

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The Swiss Army Knife of Portable Videos

RealPlayer SP grabs videos from the Web and converts and transfers them to over a dozen portable devices. While other software programs perform two or just one of these tasks, RealPlayer’s trio of talent make it like a digital Swiss army knife.

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Creating ‘Moments’ of Your Life

ThisMoment — a free software program that artistically assembles digital content — will give your moments a polished look that makes you proud to share, writes Katherine Boehret.

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Easy Way to Log In Face Time

Logitech Vid aims to help non-techies who simply want to use their Webcams to see someone while they’re talking, without any fancy features.

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Microsoft Effort to Best Google Yields Results

Microsoft’s Bing search engine retrieves on-target and useful information in a user-friendly manner that looks and feels more inviting than Google.

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A Kick Start to the Sidekick’s Social Side

The new Sidekick LX has a camera, 3G-connection and social-networking apps, but the absence of a touch screen is glaring for this expensive device.

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Tracking Friends the Google Way

Katie reviews Latitude, a new feature of Google Maps that uses location-based technology to track its users’ movements. Latitude displays the user’s location on a map for friends to see, so they can know where the person is at all times.

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A BlackBerry That’s Easy on Your Thumbs

In two weeks, the latest version of the BlackBerry, the Curve 8900, arrives. This device doesn’t have a sleek touch screen or completely overhauled operating system, nor is it meant to compete with the likes of Apple’s iPhone. But it has a physical keyboard and still manages to look stylish — and that’s no small feat.

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Web Searches That Really Bear Fruit

There’s nothing more frustrating than a fruitless Web search — or one that returns results that distract you from your original goal. This week I tested two free tools that attempt to make your Web searches more relevant by learning from users’ reactions to search results.

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Organizing Your Web Life in One Place

Katie reviews Windows Live, Microsoft’s Web-based attempt to consolidate many of the regular activities you perform on the Internet: sharing photos on Flickr, emailing via Hotmail, posting status updates on Facebook, following tweets on Twitter, sending instant messages on Google Chat and keeping a calendar on Apple’s MobileMe.

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BlackBerry Bold Is Big, Bulky And Beautiful

Change is a familiar concept in the mobile-phone industry. Most recently, Apple and Google introduced mobile devices with two vital innovations: They run on fast 3G networks and use touch screens. Yesterday Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, brought out a device that goes halfway: the BlackBerry Bold, which runs on AT&T’s 3G network, but doesn’t have a touch screen.

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