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San Francisco misses the NextBus
I live in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. If you've visited San Francisco you may know it as the Italian district, where Joe DiMaggio learned to play baseball and where beat writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg forged their countercultural vision of the American dream. If you live here, though, you also know that it's the worst place in the city to try to find a parking spot.

Context on ice: Penguins fans get mobile extras
Fans can select and watch live video feeds from unique camera angles, as well as view and create their own instant replays, game-time information, player bios and personalized content on their Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices.

Palm Pre App Catalog Hits 1M Downloads
The Palm Pre, the world's first webOS device, went on sale in the United States on June 6. With it Palm launched a corresponding mobile software channel, the Pre App Catalog, which already boasts a number of great applications. Earlier this week, Medialets, a mobile advertising and analytics firm, released App Catalog metrics that suggest Palm's new app store hit the 1M downloads mark on June 24, just 18 days after its launch.

Elgan: Why the iPhone doesn't matter
Cell phones used to be about hardware first, software and networks second, writes columnist Mike Elgan. The game-changers of the future will not be new hardware features, but new software and network capabilities.

How cell phones will replace learning
The day is coming when the cell phone will be the dominant tool for accessing information. Announcements this week about Microsoft's Bing 411 and the Palm Pre suggest we're getting there fast, writes columnist Mike Elgan.

Palm Pre hype, EMC-NetApp tussle
Well, the week was busy enough with IT news that even with an actual technology link to our favorite baseball team (St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing Twitter), that story has not made the top 10. But with a lot of the current season to go, there is still hope that will change in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, Palm gets top billing with its hotly anticipated Pre smartphone, going on sale this weekend. EMC versus NetApp in a bidding war for Data Domain got a lot of attention, too, as did Intel's planned acquisition of Wind River.

CCE takes mobile to the next level: Analytics

Belkin Powerline AV+ Starter Kit F5D4075
Like the Netgear XAVB101 Powerline AV Ethernet Adapter Kit, the Actiontec MegaPlug AV Powerline Gaming Kit HPE200AV, and other Homeplug AV-based kits, Belkin's Powerline AV+ networking kit lets you extend your home network over your electrical wiring.

Netgear Powerline AV Ethernet Adapter Kit
Netgear's Powerline AV kit puts an ethernet port wherever you have a power outlet. Plug one of the two included adapters into a wall outlet and into your router, and then plug the other one into an outlet next to the remote device you want to connect, such as a game console, a streaming media box, or a printer. They will detect each other within seconds, and you'll be up and running.

D-Link DHP-303 PowerLine HD Network Kit
On the surface, D-Link's latest powerline networking kit looks like the others I tested, providing plug-and-play operation and top-notch high-definition video streaming. But under the hood, it has a different engine. The DHP-303 PowerLine HD Network Starter Kit is the only kit based on the Universal Powerline Association (UPA) standard; all of the others use HomePlug AV technology.

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