The open approach that Valve decided on years ago is paying off big when it comes to the living room -- if only five percent of that installed base jump in on Steambox in 2013 (what we'd call a highly conservative guess), that's 2.5 million users.

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About the size of a DVD player, the Z-Base 220 can fill a room with 3D sound -- including excellent bass -- with no external speakers, subwoofers or speaker wires.

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Baseball fans will find the new 175-room Residence Inn Fenway to be a great home base for Red Sox fans.

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Our only complaint with Airport has been that, while the signal passed through plasterboard and brick--letting us stay online even while enjoying fresh air in a courtyard a floor below and 100 feet from the base station--we had an intermittent connection from the room opening out into that courtyard.

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In this room, which is impervious to outside radio signals, our test engineers connected the phones to our base-station emulator, a device that simulates carrier cell towers (seevideo: IPhone 4 Design Defect Confirmed).

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