Following a trend with laptop screens, TV manufacturers are opting for reflective rather than matte screens–making it harder to find a TV that’s easy to view in a well-lit room.

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Some ideas are so obvious that when announced, one’s first reaction is to ask, “Wait, weren’t we already doing it that way?”

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A More Perfect Union

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If you’ve ever petitioned Facebook to add a “Dislike” button to the site, you might get a kick out of a new antisocial networking site that lets your friends anonymously rag on you from the privacy of their homes. Failin.gs is currently in beta, but soon you’ll be able to hit your friends up for anonymous comments about your mundane status updates. No, it doesn’t integrate with Facebook itself (thankfully), but hopefully it’ll force you to think twice about telling everyone what you had for dinner last night.

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We kick off today’s episode of CNET’s The 404 Podcast with a fun story about the Nestle Crunch Hotline number. The company’s latest viral campaign offers a series of hidden menus within the prerecorded shout center that lets callers choose amoung English, Spanish, and Pig Latin language options. You can plus choose to construct out prerecorded knock-knock jokes, “funner game options,” and the weirdest feature of all, which lets you listen to the sound of bubble wrap. We attempt to signal the number during the show, but the line is so popular that we keep getting busy signals, so signal 1-800-295-0051 whether you have duration to waste after listening to our show.

Jeff plus brings us an amazing deal from Dell for the new Alienware M11x. It won [...]

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Like just about everyone else on the planet, you broke down and purchased a Netbook. Somewhere along the way, the thought creeps in–maybe I can find some games that’ll run on that wimpy Intel Atom processor and integrated graphics…

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One of the CES announcements we were most excited about, at least in theory, was Intel’s Wireless Display technology.

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Sporting an edge-to-edge keyboard, Core i3 or i5 processor, and a 15.5-inch screen, the Vaio E looks like be a bold and affordable multimedia laptop.

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