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The 2010 Toyota Prius IV.

July 27, 2010

The 2010 Toyota Prius IV isn’t the type of automobile that car aficionados lust after. Rather, it’s the type of car that those who only want to get from Point A to Point B will love because it’s fuel efficient and reminiscent of a luxury sedan. That’s not to say that it is a luxury [...]

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Automobile audio done right.

July 19, 2010

When the mp3 was created, it didn’t take long before people wanted a way to play these digital music files in vehicles. Juggling cassettes and compact discs was cumbersome, and “skipping” discs were exceptionally annoying. The mp3 was a perfect solution for audible, mobile content, but the adoption of this format has hardly been seamless. [...]

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Heat: an unaddressed iPhone issue?

June 21, 2010

We didn’t give much thought to iPhones overheating last summer, when reports were going around about iPhones shutting down after a certain internal heat threshold was met. But that’s because we never encountered this behavior, since we evidently didn’t put our iPhone through these types of paces. Things took a turn when we began using [...]

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Ford knows what consumers want.

November 16, 2009

The Ford Ka is a sub-compact, reminiscent of Asia’s offerings for the American small-car market. Yet while Ford is an American automotive company, the Ka won’t be coming to U.S. shores, as Ford CEO Alan Mulally recently noted. Our view is that Fiesta is about the smallest vehicle that we think will be a real [...]

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iPhone 3G S: wonder toy.

June 22, 2009
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What’s most interesting about the iPhone feature chart posted earlier today by The iPhone Blog isn’t the evolution of the iPhone since 2007, but that the chart makes the 3G S stand out over the other models by its evolutionary leap. That’s not to say that we think the 3G S is hugely innovative, but [...]

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