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Back to School Tech Guide

Know someone heading back to school? We review notebooks, smart phones and dorm room odds and ends.

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Bamboo-panelled laptop
a stylish statement

Ivor tossell reviews the Asus U33 Bamboo, a wood-panelled laptop that may be the best-looking of the year, except there's no optical drive

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This product image provided by Flipboard.com, shows the Apple iPad displaying the Flipboard app.

Flipboard – a news app that lets you choose your editor

The iPad app is an excellent way to get a quick sense of what your Facebook and Twitter friends are up to

A clerk checks inventory at a Nordstrom store in Seattle: Unlike typing or mousing, touching comes naturally.
Gadgets

When it comes to tech toys, touch is king

Consumers have made the touch screen a must-have feature for gadgets

Globe Drive: Gizmos

Satellite radio for your smartphone

Tune in, turn on to XM or Sirius

A screen grab of the Craigslist site for the San Francisco and Bay area on Sept. 4. The adult-services section has been replaced by a label that says 'censored.'

Craigslist blocks erotic classifieds in U.S. as legal pressures mount

Canadian sites unaffected by classified giant’s apparent change of policy

YouTube ads turn piracy into revenue

Studios changing their tune on copyright violations as ad revenue-sharing grows

BlackBerry a spy tool: Dubai police chief

Comments raise new doubts about possible deal with RIM before an Oct. 11 deadline

Samsung to challenge Apple's iPad

Galaxy Tab to come with 7-inch screen, Android software

Music labels eager for Google-Apple battle

Google mulling download store, song locker service

UN says RIM should share data

Tech chief says governments have legitimate security concerns that should not be ignored

CRTC takes firm stand against big telcos

Regulator’s order to share advanced networks and expand rural broadband service has Bell pushing back

Gambling on mobile devices to exceed $48-billion by 2015, report

Even Apple is now allowing gambling apps to be sold via the App Store

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Review
Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant

With a knockout screen, Samsung’s new handheld is poised to help Android take on Apple

The iConnected Parent
Is technology stunting postsecondary kids' growth?

A new book argues that technology is making postsecondary kids too connected with their parents

Focus
Why it's okay to wage joystick jihad

As terrorism concerns soar, critics are blasting a video game that lets you play a Taliban insurgent. But, writes Richard Poplak, there's nothing to fear

Cover story
In telecom, a new battle for Quebec

After it poached hundreds of thousands of customers from Bell when it launched home phone service five years ago, Vidéotron is girding for battle again with a new wireless service

David and Goliath
TABATHA SOUTHEY
Craigslist goes to the devil

The secret history of one cursed item up for sale, and its unfortunate owner

Technology
The end of online privacy

If Ottawa thinks the census is invasive, what about the 64 trackers that popular websites install on visitors' computers?

Photo illlustration by Brian Gee/The Globe and Mail/AFP