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Mario delivers national weekly television segments for Comcast’s “Your Morning” and “Money Matters” and on WBAL-TV, a top ranked local NBC affiliate. He is a technology correspondent for National Public Radio heard on NPR’s Morning Edition and News and Notes programs. Armstrong’s oeuvre is rounded out with “Mario Armstrong’s Digital Spin” on XM radio, which he owns and distributes, and two regional technology talk shows named “The Digital Café” and “The Digital Spin”. Mario’s passion is to bridge the digital divide between the haves and the have-nots. To that end, Mario has delved into the world of social entrepreneurship by touring the nation and delivering an interactive showcase of technology and fun for youth called “Mario Armstrong’s Dream, Create, Go!.”™ The goal of this project is to morph kids from passive users of cell phones and laptops into the next generation of digital scientists and activists.

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Battery life down again? Try XPower.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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Battery life down again? Try XPower.

How many hours of battery life does your “not-so-new anymore” laptop get you? On average I get less than 75 minutes on a fully charged battery and that’s with low power settings. I am so sick and tired of battery-life issues for my laptop that it forced me about 2 years ago to look for [...]

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Print photos Wirelessly from your iPhone or iTouch

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

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Print photos Wirelessly from your iPhone or iTouch

I don’t know about you but I have way to many photos sitting on my iPhone. I just don’t seem to find the time to print them that often. Well now that’s really changed. Yesterday, we had an inauguration “O” party (aka an Obama party”) and I was taking photos with my iPhone of various [...]

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CES 2009: Ludacris releases first Rap HDS Blu-ray album

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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CES 2009: Ludacris releases first Rap HDS Blu-ray album

Not only will I interview Stevie Wonder this Saturday but I’ll also nabbed an exclusive interview with “Mr. Chicken & Beer” himself, Grammy-award winning artist Ludacris. The Atlanta-bred rapper’s new album “Theater of the Mind” will experiment with a new technology called HDS (High Definition Sound) which is basically a higher fidelity of surround sound [...]

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CES exhibit space before it kicks off

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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CES exhibit space before it kicks off

So the show doesn’t officially kickoff til Thursday morning and exhibitors are putting up the final portions of their booths. It’s alot of construction, drilling and banging goin’ on right now. Some of the exhibitors started setting up since December! The show brings 2,700 exhibitors, now that’s down, due to the economy by only 300 exhibitors from last year. [...]

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Pre-CES meeting before all CES heck breaks loose

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

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Pre-CES meeting before all CES heck breaks loose

The 2009 CES show is about to officially kickoff for invited media tonight for what is called CES unveiled, we will be there blogging, shooting video & tweeting. But before the show kicksoff the CEA staff had their “all hands” meeting. You can feel the excitement in the room as they go over last details [...]

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CES 2009

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

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CES 2009

Well I’m all packed up and ready to go to Vegas to cover the largest show about technology and gadgets on the planet - CES 2009, happening next week! I’m going hardcore “backpack journalist” style, a let’s double check my list: iPhone, CHECK! MacBookPro, CHECK! Livescribe Pulse Pen, CHECK! Flip Mino HD, CHECK! Verizon evdo and [...]

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Top 4 Holiday Tech Gifts for 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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Top 4 Holiday Tech Gifts for 2008

After much review and testing here are my Top 5 Holiday Tech Gifts for 2008, some of these are great for techies while others are great for newbies or those tech-phobic family members you may have in your household. Now look there are alot of items out there I could choose from so I really tried to pair down the list to really practical and cost-effective tech gift ideas. Let me know in the comments what else should be on this list.

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Sushi USB Drive

Thursday, December 4, 2008

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Sushi USB Drive

With the holidays now in full swing, coming off of CyberMonday I figured it’s a great time to start giving you our holiday tech reviews. But before we can kick off our reviews you have to know the hottest place to acquire the best gadgets. Before I give you one of the best sites online [...]

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Obama isn’t all that BOLD

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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Obama isn’t all that BOLD

He might have to give up his BlackBerry but that doesn’t need to stop you from picking up the brand new BlackBerry smartphone called the BOLD on ATT. We all know how much President-elect Obama used technology to run his campaign, but now the same tech that helped him win the presidency can be used [...]

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Nokia 810

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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Nokia 810

Nokia 810 helps new President-elect Obama shine in style

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