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New Jawbone Headset: More Comfortable, Better Sound, Flashy Colors

I feel like I should start anything I write about headsets with a disclaimer: I’ve still never met one I can love unreservedly. I have trouble getting them to stay in my ear; I find myself having to...

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Jawbone Icon: Finally, a Bluetooth Headset I Can Love?

Whenever I write about Aliph’s Jawbone Bluetooth headsets, I start by explaining that I’ve never met a Bluetooth headset I really wanted to use. The company is releasing a new version of the Jawbone...

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A Bluetooth Headset With Its Own iPhone App

Hands free headset Sound ID has actually managed to innovate in the headset space, where you’d probably not think there was much more room for drastic improvement. It’s Sound ID 510 Bluetooth headset...

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A Jawbone for Your Work Phone (and Your Mobile Phone, and Your Tablet)

Back in April, networking kingpin Cisco and Aliph, maker of the stylish and sophisticated Jawbone headset, announced they were working together. The first result of their partnership is being...

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Plantronics Headsets: Small and Subtle or Big and Bold?

Last Gadget Standing Nominees: Plantronics Savor M1100 and Voyager Pro+ headsets Price: $99.99 each If you’ve got a hundred bucks to spend on a Bluetooth headset, Plantronics offers two...

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Jawbone’s New Era of Bluetooth Headsets

Almost exactly one year after releasing the stylish Jawbone Icon, Bluetooth headset maker Aliph is back with the Jawbone Era, a new $129 model that’s meant as a higher-end complement to the $99 Icon,...

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Plantronics’ New Savi: One Headset to Rule Them All

The more phones you have in your life, the more you might be interested in Plantronics’ Savi 700 series of wireless headsets, which the company announced today. Unlike most headsets, the new Savis are...

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TechReads for July 16, 2014

Why that Comcast rep wouldn’t let Ryan and Veronica just cancel. (Adrianne Jeffries/The Verge) Because doing so would cost him money. Fox tried to buy Time Warner. (Andrew Ross Sorkin/Michael De La...

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The New Features in Jawbone’s Up App Are All About Eating

Thanks to wearable fitness gadgets such as Jawbone’s Up and Up24 wristbands, it’s now very easy to get some sense of how many calories you’re burning as you go about your everyday activities. But...

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TechReads for July 17

Microsoft to reorg, cut up to 18,000 jobs. (Satya Nadella/Microsoft)

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How to Animate Your Dragon

A DreamWorks Animation artist works on How to Train Your Dragon 2 using Premo Mr. Peabody and Sherman, the computer-animated movie which DreamWorks Animation released in March is–of course–the tale of...

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A Celebration of James Garner’s Polaroid Commercials

They weren’t the best thing he ever did, or the one which we’ll cherish the most. But with the sad news of the passing of James Garner, it’s worth pausing to remember the commercials he did in the late...

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I’m Going to Want a Car With Built-In LTE…Eventually

Buick owners enjoying their car’s built-in LTE in a photo provided by GM Last week, General Motors invited me to a press event at which it showed off some new Buicks. Normally, such events involve...

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RIP, Jim Frederick

Jim Frederick, the first editor I had during my time as a tech writer for TIME, died unexpectedly on Thursday night. He was only 42, and I’m still in shock. The loss would be incalculable no matter...

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TechReads for August 11, 2014

Apple University revealed. (Brian X. Chen/NYTimes) Apple’s in-house training program sounds very, very Apple-esque.

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I’m Over at Fast Company. Join Me, Won’t You?

Just a quick reminder: I’m now happily ensconced in my new gig as technology editor for Fast Company. That means that the vast majority of my tech writing will appear on FastCompany.com. To see what...

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That Time I Interviewed Click and Clack

Back in the summer of 1997, I got my one and only assignment for a magazine called The Web, back when it seemed like it made sense to publish reviews and profiles relating to websites on dead trees. It...

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Technologizer: The Flipboard Edition

Back in 2014, when I became technology editor for Fast Company, I said I was keeping Technologizer open and reserved the right to write here if I had anything to say that didn’t fit into Fast Company....

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New Jawbone Headset: More Comfortable, Better Sound, Flashy Colors

I feel like I should start anything I write about headsets with a disclaimer: I’ve still never met one I can love unreservedly. I have trouble getting them to stay in my ear; I find myself having to...

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Jawbone Icon: Finally, a Bluetooth Headset I Can Love?

Whenever I write about Aliph’s Jawbone Bluetooth headsets, I start by explaining that I’ve never met a Bluetooth headset I really wanted to use. The company is releasing a new version of the Jawbone...

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