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Cycling has obviously many advantages, especially when you live in a central area where everything is pretty much close by and driving a car will be too much of a hassle. Unfortunately, most bicycles aren’t too easy to carry around if you’re planning to be more adventurous from getting from point A to point B. The SwissBike XO is one mode of transportation that will change your mind - this full size mountain bike with 26″ wheels can be folded into a 36″ x 28″ x 12″ size in less than half a minute through a quick-release system that doesn’t even need a toolbox handy. All that is made possible thanks to the company’s Foldable Integrated Technology System and CLIX Wheel Retention System. (Read the full post about ‘SwissBike Folds Up Within Seconds’…)

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Going for a trip is exciting, but some people (like me) find packing to be a chore. After, we not only have to consider the number of clothes that we have to carry these days but all the gadgets as well. The Travel Charger Bag aims to ease this headache by letting you stow your various devices in four pockets, including their respective appendix cords. The bag is also spacious enough to hold chargers and a power strip/surge protector which is able to charge everything inside via a single hotel room outlet. Handy! It will cost you $40 to bring this puppy home (and on your travels). (Read the full post about ‘Travel Charger Bag’…)

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While many companies are dedicated in creating audio docks solely for Apple players, the Cambridge SoundWorks PlayDock is different. Thanks to 4 different kinds of holders, the dock is compatible with a couple of MP3 players, such as the Creative Zen Touch, Dell Pocket DJ, the obvious iPods, and many more. It can either be used in a portable mode, which means 10 hours of battery but with no cord limits, or it can be simply AC powered. In the latter case, the mp3 player gets recharged. The Cambridge SoundWorks PlayDock costs 125. Product Page Robust 15-watt subwoofer has 4-inch driver. Tags: pvr, Gadget, video, cellphone (Read the full post about ‘Cambridge SoundWorks PlayDock’…)

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It looks like Amazon’s decision to file a lawsuit against New York’s new tax policy on online stores may back fire on them as the Texas Comptroller’s Office is investigating the probability that the online store may actually owe the Texas government millions of dollars in unpaid taxes. If you will recall, in its case against the New York tax policy, Amazon argued that it should not pay the NY government any taxes because it doesn’t have a “physical presence” in New York. The same reason is now being used by the Texas government as it found out that Amazon has a “physical presence” in the area. (Read the full post about ‘Amazon’s alleged “physical presence” in Texas may cause them to settle unpaid taxes’…)

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Check out this Hello Kitty cell phone from Schenzen Fvman Electronics (China-base manufacture), which comes separate with a pair of speaker. Measures 90×49×15 mm and weighs 75 grams, this dual-band GSM (900, 1800) handset features a 2.2″ 26k colors 176 × 220-pixels display, mp3 player, 64MB of internal memory, and integrated 1,3 megapixel camera module with audio and video recording capability. The battery offers up to 150 minutes of talktime and up to 120 hours of standby time. There’s no info about the features and function of speaker, but it seems would be ship together with the phone. (Read the full post about ‘Hello Kitty Cell Phone And Speaker’…)

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After months of online speculation, rumor, and badly photoshopped innuendo, RIM announced its new BlackBerry Bold today. RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis stopped by the Wired offices last week and gave us some one-on-one time with an early version of the Bold. It’s, well, kind of awesome. I’m by no means a BlackBerry fanboy, but the Bold has some impressive features. First off the big news: HSDPA We tried it out in G-Lab HQ and were able to load several graphic heavy sites quickly. There were a few hiccups when pulling up Wired.com’s front page, but keep in mind this was also a beta unit. Mike assured us they were still ironing out all of the bugs and that final units would not have any issues. (Read the full post about ‘First Look: Hands On with the BlackBerry Bold’…)

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Are you a talented smart phone application developer? Then you will be pleased to find out BlackBerry is thinking about you. Well not that specifically, but still! Tomorrow in Orlando BlackBerry will announce the $150 Million blackberry Partners Fund backed up by Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters. This is actually great news for all smart cell phone users out there. More money means better quality of next applications designed for future BlackBerries. That also mean competition will have to do the same thing. Google started a $10 million fund in November and Apple have come up with the $100 million iFund in March. (Read the full post about ‘Coming Soon $150 Million BlackBerry Fund’…)

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Itching to get your hands on Motorola’s sexy new QWERTY smartphone, the Motorola Q 9c? Well then let this news story be the cure for your itch. Verizon is now offering the Motorola Q 9c in its full QWERTY keypad glory for just $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Of course that includes a two-year agreement with Verizon, but hey, you win some, you lose some. And with this deal, you’re actually winning a lot. Because the features of the Motorola Q 9c should be enough to keep you company for the whole two years of your contract anyway. (Read the full post about ‘Verizon now offering MOTO Q 9c’…)

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As if we have not yet seen enough of all these new touchscreen phones that have been jumping out of the woodwork lately, here comes yet another, featuring the same old touchscreen, and almost the same specifications as well. Although this time, it could have one thing that separates it from the myriad of other touchscreen phones out there - herculean battery life. That’s because this new touchscreen phone falls under the Philips Xenium brand, which, in case you don’t know, has a reputation for churning out gadgets with incredibly long-lasting batteries. And knowing that this same company completed its very own touchscreen phone (Philips Xenium 9@9v) a couple of months back, this new rumor becomes quite believable. (Read the full post about ‘Philips Xenium X800 e2e to come with “edge to edge” touchscreen?’…)

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