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Apple fans rejoice – you no longer need to go to the Apple store in Boston to play with an iPad, the new feminine hygiene product mobile gadget that has been all over the news. All it takes is a trip to the Computer Product and Repair Center in the Science Center basement, and three display iPads are yours for the fiddling...
Technology Services has been actively promoting the new gadget, sending e-mails over their lists on Monday and even displaying a human-sized iPad sign to announce the device’s arrival...
Greg Brown, Co-CEO of Motorola, likes to compare his company's recent performance to the Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities. Yes, that's got to be the most clichéd literary reference in Western history, but Brown is not a wordsmith. He runs a gadget company. And that's the problem: Motorola was once renowned for manufacturing ultra-chic mobile phones. Yet since 2006, that business has been in free fall, and the company's overall revenue has dropped by half. The recession didn't help much. Keeping the $22 billion firm afloat were its less glamorous...
...slowly improving in late 2009 as Jha set about changing Motorola's 9-to-5 corporate culture and wooed top talent away from competitors. He scrapped much of the 2009 product portfolio in favor of new smart-phone offerings, all running Google's Android operating platform. (Get the latest gadget news and reviews at Techland.com...
...results were mixed. After using time and temperature info I found on the Web, as well as some recipes that came with the PolyScience gadget, I ended up with truly divine endive: cooked for 45 minutes with a little bit of lemon, it came out sweet, melt-in-your-mouth good. But that 24-hour steak was not memorable. And the chicken was gross, like a wet sponge. (See a special report on the science of appetite...