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Here is your chance to join the staff of The Gadgeteer! At this time we have 2 job openings: -Palm OS Software Review Editor -Windows Mobile (Pocket PC and Smartphone) Software Review Editor Details: These positions are open to people that do not already write for another tech site. You do not need to be

Well, it looks like David Ciccone has broken the news on two USB based GSM wireless cards…now I wish I hadn’t been so hasty about buying a CF version! I am especially interested in the plug & play FALCOM SAMBA 75. His review states, “For the past few months I have had the pleasure to

Alison with Astraware just sent me the following:  We are currently developing a new game aimed at families and we’d like to ask readers of The Gadgeteer who have children to help us in testing the game. If any of your readers are interested in this idea, please ask them to take a look at

It’s a pet peeve of mine that when I am not using my headphones I don’t have any way to neatly store their cable. I was recently sent a sample of a product that manages my cord problem without a fuss… The Cordgo is an approximately 2″ diameter x 1″ thick white plastic device that

I just read an interesting article over at BusinessWeek Online. It’s entitled Handhelds Mon Amour and talks about the fact that in Japan, handheld gaming systems like the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP are selling more than consoles like the XBOX. It goes on to question how well the PlayStation 3 and Wii might do

I just received some news about an interesting new free service: “Palm and Yelp today announced the release of Yelp Mobile (mobile.yelp.com), which has been optimized for Treo users to easily read what the local community is saying about a specific business. Yelp Mobile allows users to search for a particular local business, or browse

If you haven’t seen this already, then you might want to take a look: Dave Ciccone at Mobility Today has posted a review on the new Franklin Wireless USB EVDO Card. This product is perfect for those of you that have an ultra portable computer or UMPC that doesn’t have a PCMCIA slot for a

I have a couple of products that require a volunteer reviewer. Are you up to the task? As always, the requirements are: 1. That you have a digital camera 2. That you own the product necessary to conduct the review 3. That you take nice clear pictures of the product being reviewed 4. That you

Sweltering Sunday in Southern Indiana It was 99 degrees here before noon. Can you say Global Warming? ;o) On a day like this you need a good fan. So I broke out one that Brando had sent me to try. The Fantastic USB LED Fan. For $10 you get a little desk fan, powered by

Hi all! We just returned from a week in chilly San Francisco, Carmel and Monterey! We left the 100º weather in Texas and nearly froze in the California…it just didn’t seem natural for it to be so chilly in what are typically the dog days of summer! When we stepped off the plane tonight to

This is pretty nifty! Someone just emailed to let me know that we were mentioned today in an article on MSNBC’s site. :o) In other news, I have put the Vibrant Media links back up (double underlined links). Supposedly they fixed the IE crashing problem. That remains to be seen though as Rob our web

I received an email from one of Sony’s PR people concerning their forthcoming Portable Reader System (PRS-500) eBook Reader device, which was first announced this past January at CES. According to this person, there has been quite a bit of confusion and misinformation floating around about this product. They would like to help dispel some

For those of you that might have purchased the Insignia IS-PDVD10 portable DVD based on my review last month, you may want to also check out the Init Portable DVD Travel case that works great with it. Rhinoskin sent me a Pink leather case for the 60gb Apple iPod video. It’s not really my style,

Apologies in advance – these pictures were taken late last night and my lighting wasn’t the best. I spent much of yesterday afternoon and evening playing with the cPC – getting comfortable with it, configuring various settings, adding programs to both XP and WM5, figuring out work-arounds for the portions of the system that still

Unpacking the DualCor cPC Engineering Sample… Nothing is going to jostle this baby! The treasure chest… I am sure that the final version box will be quite glossy – with photos of some self-satisfied user smiling as they hold their cPC. Hey this was unexpected! A Rhinoskin cPC branded pouch…nice! My long-awaited cPC and it’s

I need some help from you guys… For the past 2-3 months, I’ve had a handful of email complaints from people saying that they sometimes have problems loading pages using Internet Explorer. The page will almost completely load and then a small popup window will come up saying that the Operation Aborted. If you press

I have the FedEx tracking number for the DualCor cPC; it will be here tomorrow! The WeiTel GPRS Compact Flash Modem came today…the anticipation is killing me…

Judie is all excited to receive the Engineering test sample of the DualCor cPC. Me, not so much. I just can’t seem get too thrilled about the whole teeny tiny Windows XP in your hand devices anymore. It’s crazy because just a few years ago, I would have sold one of my kidneys to get

I was offered the opportunity to buy an “Engineering Sample” of the DualCor cPC today, and I jumped on it – you had better believe it! Consumer models will not be shipping for another 90-120 days, and as most of you know, I have been eager (understatement!) to try this device since its announcement early