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Nominations for the Seventh Annual Weblog Awards (aka “Bloggies”) are now open to the public. If you like Technabob, please consider submitting a nomination for us here.

The Weblog Awards is a non-profit project that was created back in 2001 to recognize the best in blogging. There are a variety…

If you live in Chicago like me, the top story yesterday was the presence of celebs including Oprah Winfrey, Bono, Kanye Wes and Penelope Cruz on Michigan Avenue for the announcement of Bono’s Product RED.
Product RED incorporates special products and services from a variety of major corporations including American…

The folks over at New York’s DigitalLife consumer electronics and gaming show have extended the kind offer of free tickets to their show for all Technabob readers. Tickets are normally $15 each.
The DigitalLife conference features consumer, gaming and entertainment technologies and runs from October 12th through October 15th, 2006…

I don’t know how I missed this video when it came out back in June…
This guy recorded his call with the AOL anti-cancellation nazis. It would be really funny if it weren’t so sad. Actually, it is really funny……

Check out this cool video of Microsoft’s prototype for an augmented reality system known as “PlayAnywhere…“. The system combines a video projector and a sensing device that can detect a user’s gestures and the position objects placed on a surface in real time, and utilize that data to

The charlatans and snake-oil salespeople in corporate product marketing departments often are pressured to announce and hype products that are clearly not ready for prime time.
Over the years, there have been numerous examples of long-delays and missed ship dates (see Windows Vista), but there is a special place in…

I just went through the challenging process of trying to get rid of a bunch of old monitors, computers and parts for my company. Now, the week after I completed this task, Dell …has announced that they will be offering free recycling of any Dell-branded product, ensuring that the hazardous

The Bose Quiet Comfort (QC) headphone series has always been my favorite of the noise cancelling headphones out there. Now before you start saying “no highs, no lows, must be Bose…” or “they’re totally overpriced…”, I’ll give you my take. Yes…, the dynamic range isn’t what you’d find in

The folks at Cytonix Corporation claim they’ve got a solution to rainy/snowy-day satellite dish outages with their new WX2100 …spray-on coating.
According to the company, “WX2100 is a long-lasting, super hydrophobic coating that repels rain, snow and ice, keeping satellite dishes and radomes dry even in heavy precipitation and preventing

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