BrandZ- Apple unseats Google as World's Most Valuable Brand

Amazing product sales, high user demand and continued innovation and market success have boosted Apple Inc. beyond search ginat Google as World's Most Valuable Brand.

Registering a staggering 84 percent increase in value over the past year, Apple has emerged as the most valuable brand in the world, ending the four-year reign of Google at the top of the table in the sixth annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands study.

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Griffin Technology's Beacon Remote puts your iDevices in control

Having a remote for every device in our home entertainment centre can be confusing and frustrating (not to mention use up a lot of batteries.) Griffin Technologies has devised a solution powered by Dijit called the Beacon Remote which can be programmed to control over 200,000 devices right from any iOS device. Beacon isn't yet available but you can sign up on Griffin's website to get updates once it ships.

Review: Motorola ATRIX 4G smartphone

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Motorola Mobility's ATRIX Android smartphone is, in many ways, a breakthrough device. It is he first dual-core smartphone to martket running Google's Android OS. It is one of the first smartphones to have almost netbook or tablet-like specs with 1GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage and, thanks to a novel line of innovative docks, the first smartphone that can work as a notebook or a desktop, at least theoretically.

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Review: Speaker HD Dock for the Motorola XOOM tablet

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Of all the recent tablet releases, the Motorola XOOM WiFi has distinguished itself as the dominant multimedia and video playback device. Credit this to its powerful 1GHz Tegra 2 dual-core processor, its HD recording (at 720p HD) and playback (at 1080p HD) graphics capability as well as that stunning (although distractingly reflective)  10.1" inch 1280x800 resolution screen. The Motorola XOOM also offers mini HDMI-out connectivity right out of the box which makes it convenient to take over any HDMI enabled screen or projector.

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