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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:04:27 +0000 30 http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/img/gadget-republic-logo-144px.gif http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/category/2/gadgetrepublic-com-personal-tech/ 144 39 Google's recent emphasis on software and services in the cloud for businesses has evolved one step further with the launch of Google Apps Marketplace - an online store for integrated applications and a place where it hopes software vendors will begin to flock as we get deeper into cloudland. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1762/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1762/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:36:00 +0000 Personal Tech One hundred new maps, three new countries and more than 1,000 kilometres of new road have been added to the TomTom map shop for its sat-nav devices. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1760/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1760/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:56:00 +0000 Personal Tech With Amazon's Kindle, the Sony Reader and the looming iPad, the lure of the e-book is stronger than ever and Litrocht.com - the first online-only Irish-language bookshop - is celebrating the first day of Seachtain na Gaeilge by launching its own e-book section. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1740/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1740/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:21:00 +0000 Personal Tech LG's latest hands-free car kit for your mobile phone differentiates itself from others on the market: not only does it vocally announce the name of the incoming caller but it is economical, too. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1726/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1726/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:49:00 +0000 Personal Tech Sure there have been guitar tab software and tuner apps and the like but the i-tab can lay claim to the fact that it is the word's first ever dedicated portable guitar tab player. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1719/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1719/ Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:30:00 +0000 Personal Tech Formerly the Pirate Bay of 1999 to 2001, Napster was a P2P haven but has long gone legal in its music offerings and today it has announced it now holds 10 million music tracks, making it one of the largest online digital music libraries in the UK. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1709/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1709/ Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:16:00 +0000 Personal Tech The DVD format is a long way from dying out, kind of like the racket that bored kids make from the backseat of the car on long trips, which is why the portable DVD player is still a winner in the consumer electronics market. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1693/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1693/ Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:40:00 +0000 Personal Tech TomTom has added a second car kit for the iPhone to its line-up: the ProClip, which screws onto your car rather than attaching to the windscreen. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1685/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1685/ Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:59:00 +0000 Personal Tech Following the sudden departure of its CEO Owen Van Natta last week, things suddenly seem to be looking up for MySpace as Google integrates the social-networking site into its search results. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1678/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1678/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:15:00 +0000 Personal Tech Apple is banning people associated with jailbreaking its products, from the looks of things. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1667/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1667/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:16:00 +0000 Personal Tech Just in time for MacWorld this weekend, Google has unveiled a new beta version of its Chrome browser for Mac computers that allows users to share their bookmarks across several computers. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1643/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1643/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:00:00 +0000 Personal Tech As we enter the Cold Snap Part Deux, you've probably been cursing the piezoelectric conductivity of the iPhone screen. Fear not, you can keep your little fingers toasty by using a meat stylus instead. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1637/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1637/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:50:00 +0000 Personal Tech Yes, it's that time of year when Cupid pierces us with arrows tinged with noxious chemicals or the greeting card, chocolate and flowers industries have a field day, depending on your worldview. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1632/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1632/ Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:26:00 +0000 Personal Tech Apple's new release of its photo-editing and management software Aperture today comes with more than 200 new features, including Faces and Places, which were introduced first in iPhoto 09. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1626/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1626/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:26:00 +0000 Personal Tech Car manufacturer Toyota announced today that it is to recall more than 400,000 hybrid cars globally, including its new 2010 model Prius as well as the Lexus Division 2010 HS 250h, due to braking problems. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1622/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1622/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:11:00 +0000 Personal Tech Just in time for Valentine's Day comes the TomTom Ease decked out in red. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1620/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1620/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:50:00 +0000 Personal Tech IBM launches the first of its beefed-up Power7-based systems today as Microsoft sits on an employee blog post that may or may not suggest a free upgrade to the forthcoming Office 2010 for late buyers of Office 2007, and Google goes Babel fish on us. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1615/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1615/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:20:00 +0000 Personal Tech Douglas Adams and the Dr Who series may not have been too far off reality when they came up with the idea of a universal language translator because Google is working on complex linguistic software that could translate phone conversations almost instantly. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1613/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1613/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000 Personal Tech Flash will work on the iPad and other Apple devices "if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users", says Adobe chief technology officer (CTO) Kevin Lynch. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1599/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1599/ Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:26:00 +0000 Personal Tech Footie fans, well, Arsenal fans at any rate, will soon be able to use their Sony PSP to catch live video during Barclay's Premier League games. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1592/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1592/ Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:42:00 +0000 Personal Tech The MiFi device is a combination of a broadband dongle and your own mini wireless router but will it satisfy the busy tech consumer? http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1577/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1577/ Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000 Personal Tech Google has released a "stable" version of its Chrome web browser with extensions including a news reader and Gmail checker, as well as more resources for Chrome developers. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1560/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1560/ Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:40:00 +0000 Personal Tech Online retail giant Amazon has revealed plans to open up its popular Kindle platform to allow "active content" - aka software apps - and has unveiled a Kindle Development Kit in a move that will directly position it against Apple. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1541/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1541/ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Personal Tech The Sony Reader: Pocket Edition is lightweight, easy to set up and aside from puchasing books, free online reading material is plentiful. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1518/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1518/ Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000 Personal Tech Confirming the upcoming 27 January media event, Apple has sent out its email invitations today with reference to the unveiling of its "latest creation". http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1519/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1519/ Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0000 Personal Tech The Sony Reader: Pocket Edition is lightweight, easy to set up and aside from puchasing books, free online reading material is plentiful. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/reviews/item/266/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/reviews/item/266/ Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:00:00 +0000 Personal Tech Authors wishing to self-publish and upload their books for sale on Amazon's Kindle e-book store can now do so outside the US, as the online retailer opened up its Kindle Digital Text Platform. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1509/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1509/ Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:00 +0000 Personal Tech With more than 350 million users worldwide and a change in recent privacy settings that worried some users and online privacy advocates about the amount of private data people were perhaps unwittingly sharing online, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says the company is simply adapting to the online social norm. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1478/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1478/ Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:49:00 +0000 Personal Tech Recording artist Dr Dre's Beats line of headphones are going red with a special edition (Product) Red model, where a percentage of each sale will go directly to the Global Fund to help fight AIDS in Africa. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1473/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1473/ Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:40:00 +0000 Personal Tech US tech firm Spring Design has introduced the first Android-based dualscreen e-book device that allows for web surfing while reading e-books. http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1467/ http://www.gadgetrepublic.com/news/item/1467/ Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:31:00 +0000 Personal Tech