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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
After getting my Dell XPS M1710 late last year, and noting that it had a built-in 802.11n mini-PCI card, I decided to make the jump to Draft n. Now, I’d already heard that 802.11n had problems with stomping on your neighbor’s older wifi, but I’d also heard the Draft 2.0 [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Yep, even Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, is so entranced by the device that he was willing to stand in line for it.
Steve Wozniak arrived at the Apple store at Valley Fair Mall in San Jose at 4 a.m. to begin the wait wearing a button that read, “The line starts [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Insane, insane. I suppose if you have enough disposable income, and couldn’t wait … the iPhone went on sale about an hour ago on the East Coast, but if you couldn’t get to a store, there’s always eBay.
As you can see from above, there was an auction with a BuyItNow [...]

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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Finally … no, I don’t mean finally a non-iPhone story. I mean finally an online mapping service that allows you to drag-and-drop to re-route your directions, in case you know there’s a roadblock due to construction, or perhaps you know a shortcut and want to map it out and print [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
I feel like this has been the period leading up to the Super Bowl, with all the iPhone stories. But it all ends today (OK, OK, probably not, as there will be many more AFTER they go on sale) as the iPhone goes on sale today at 6PM. That [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
It’s not as good as the Lost in Space robot and his electric bolts, but it’s something! Taser and iRobot have formed a strategic alliance which will develop robot which are finally armed, for police and military use.
The two companies have already integrated a Taser X26 stun gun–also known as [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
If you want more than one iPhone on launch day … well, you better not want more than two, cuz that’s the most you can get (sorry eBayers!). And you can only get that at an Apple store.
Attention iPhone line sitters: you can forget about hording devices for later sale [...]

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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
An article at News.com caught my eye today. It wasn’t so much the subject itself, rather the implication. The title of the story is “Can cryptography prevent printer-ink piracy?” The gist of the article is using cryptography tech to make it more difficult for printers to use cheaper [...]