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Sony’s New Laptop Is Smaller and Lighter, But Its Screen Is Bigger

Sony’s latest coup is an ultra-portable laptop series that manages to be both smaller and lighter than its predecessor while expanding screen size. An impressive design, Walt says, though the wireless capability has problems.

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Scratches Mar New iPod’s Beauty

Walt answers questions about badly scratched-up iPod nanos, using Slingbox to beam a cable signal, and video chat on Windows.

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Go Ahead, You Can Ask Anything

Walt tests a new service that attempts to be like a digital version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’s phone-a-friend, answering all sorts of questions via cellphone or email in just a few minutes.

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Wi-Fi Camera Offers Email, Quality Photos, But Still Needs Work

Kodak’s EasyShare-one camera can wirelessly email the photos it takes, and upload them to a Web site, all by itself. Walt finds much to admire, but complains that the wireless features didn’t always function properly.

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Searching for the Best Web Mail

Walt answers questions about Yahoo’s new Web mail and switching from PC to Mac.

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A Guide to Cellphone Technobabble

The cellphone industry generates more and more obscure jargon that makes it harder to decide what to buy. Walt delivers a basic glossary of wireless jargon, for mere mortals who speak only English.

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Yahoo Email Delivers That Desktop Feel Most Users Expect

Walt referees the battle for Web-mail supremacy between Yahoo Mail and Google’s Gmail. His verdict: Yahoo more closely matches the desktop experience most serious email users have come to expect.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Hard Drive

Walt answers questions about completely erasing a PC, installing Verizon’s Fios Internet service, and using a Firefox Web browser on an iMac.

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This Is a Test of Emergency Power Systems

Regardless of how “wireless” communications technology has become, your gadgets only work if the batteries can be recharged. With that in mind, Walt test devices that are specifically designed to work in emergency situations.

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Blogging For Beginners

About a decade ago, when the World Wide Web took off, it meant a dramatic lowering of the barrier to entry for publishing. Because anyone with a little technical knowledge, or technical help, could publish
a Web site at low cost, some analysts compared the moment to the invention of the printing press. Millions of Web [...]

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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