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Samsung Galaxy Tab Pricing and Availability Roundup

And then there was one. AT&T is now the last of the big four carriers to announce pricing for the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, as T-Mobile just announced it will be selling the tablet for $400 with a two-year contract starting November 10th. You'll recall that Verizon will be selling the Galaxy Tab without a [...]

Rock Band 3 Review: You Might Accidentally Learn an Instrument

Rock Band 3 MTV Games/Electronic Arts Developer: Harmonix Xbox 360, PS3, Wii ESRB rating: T for Teen System reviewed on: Xbox 360, PS3 Here's where I'm coming from with these music rhythm games: I found myself in several bands throughout high school and college—band bands, not "Where's my sheet music?! I lost my reed!" bands—playing [...]

Review: Logitech Revue with Google TV

I'm bullish on Google TV. Bullish. Well, bullish on the concept of Google TV and how it integrates with the current way most people consume television and the way we'll all consume television in the future. Whether Google TV as a platform ultimately succeeds or fails doesn't matter as much as the method with which [...]

What You Need to Know About the Mac App Store

For the record, I'm not huge on the forcefulness of these WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW headlines but, hey, apparently they attract readers better than something titled Useful Information About the Mac App Store That May Interest You. No Hard Feelings If It Doesn't. Just Wanted to Put It Out There For Anyone Who May [...]

Samsung Focus With Windows Phone 7 Review

Some people will never give up their iPhones. Or their Android phones. Or their BlackBerry phones. Or whatever. Windows Phone 7 will appeal to those people as much as any other platform that competes with the one they love. Those people constitute a tiny sliver of fiercely loyal customers, though. For anyone else either considering [...]

How to Free Up Space in Gmail

If you find yourself running low on storage space inside Gmail, Lifehacker has a good piece on a service called Find Big Mail. The service basically hooks into your Gmail account and creates three new folders in your inbox: My Big Mail, My Really Big Mail, and My Ultra Big Mail. You can then scour [...]

Windows Phone 7 Predictions (Spoiler: It Won’t Fail)

Microsoft officially unveiled its initial lineup of Windows Phone 7 devices today, with the Samsung Focus looking to be the first US handset available—it'll start selling on November 8th for $200 with a two-year AT&T contract. While the first crop of handsets and the shiny, new operating system running atop them certainly look polished, Microsoft [...]

NHL 11 Review: It’s a Bullet Train to Sore Thumb Junction

NHL 11 EA Sports PS3, Xbox 360 ESRB rating: Everyone 10+ for Mild Violence System reviewed on: Xbox 360 The NHL season officially kicks off this Thursday, and hockey fans looking for a way to live out their dreams via their videogame consoles don't have too much to agonize over this time around. If you're [...]

How Should I Replace My Ancient Cell Phone?

Have a question for Techland? Send an e-mail to tips at techland dot com and we'll do our best to answer it. Question: My ancient AT&T cell phone—it has a Cingular logo on it, if that gives you any indication of its age—is rapidly circling the drain. People can't hear a word I am saying [...]

Scrabble for Kindle Review: Good Fun, Bad Graphics

Scrabble for the Amazon Kindle was released about a week ago. As a self-proclaimed Scrabble nut, I downloaded it as soon as I found out about it—all the time wondering how in the world EA could publish Scrabble as the first paid Kindle app while neglecting to make Scrabble available in the Android Market after [...]