Hasta La Gadget!

Living in Manila, Philippines, Martin Gaw is used to hurricanes. He has seen hurricanes and typhoons that lasted four days, during which water levels were waist-deep. But he didn’t expect to spend his fall vacation in New York City bunkered down at the JW Marriott on Central Park South, watching the incoming Hurricane Sandy through the lobby windows.

Now, instead of going to a museum, a Broadway play or visiting the 9/11 memorial, Gaw is paying about $800 a night for his family to sit in their hotel and watch weather updates.

“I’m disappointed in a way,” Gaw said. “But I’m thinking of the safety of my family.”

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What, did you think Americans or Europeans would get the first crack at the Lumia 920? Continuing a recent pattern of Canadians getting devices first, Rogers has confirmed that some of its stores will have Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone 8 hardware in stock on October 30th — that’s almost immediately, folks. If you call and find you’re near one of the choice few shops carrying the 920, it will cost you either $100 Canadian on a lengthy 3-year contract or $550 outright to walk away with Microsoft’s poster child. Nearly the only drawbacks to being a pioneer are the black-only color choice (sorry, still no patriotic red) and Rogers’ current lock on the initial launch, although Microsoft’s own mention of the Lumia coming to Rogers “and others” gives us hope that Bell and Telus will follow soon. It’s a small price to pay for making even the Finns slightly jealous.

Update: Surprise — Rogers caught the Microsoft page for itself and says the hint of non-exclusivity was a mistake that’s being corrected. We don’t know if the carrier has a permanent exclusive, but we’d tentatively go shopping for a Samsung ATIV S on Telus if you’re looking for a high-end Windows Phone on another Canadian network.

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When Maroon 5 went on its very first tour, unknown singer Adam Levine didn’t have enough money to hold on to his $800 per month bedroom in a shared home, he told Architectural Digest. After the two-year tour was over, Levine had the opposite problem: he returned to LA a bonafide rock star, but had nowhere to rest his head. “I suddenly had a career,” said Levine to Architectural Digest, “but nowhere to live.”

All that is a distant memory now for Levine, a globally renowned musician and a judge on NBC’s “The Voice.” He saw his pay double to $6 million for the show’s third season, which premiered last September. Soon afterward, Levine invested some of that extra cash in a new Beverly Hills mansion, which makes for two multimillion-dollar properties under his name.

Celebuzz confirms that Levine closed the $4.8 million home purchase on Oct. 19. Known as the “Benedict House,” the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom home sits on a 3.5 acre lot and boasts a pool, tennis court, canyon views and a guest house.

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I do admit, with a name like the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix, it certainly does border on the cool, as it reminds me of the DNA helix, which is the building block of life itself. Well, the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix will be running on the Windows 8 operating system, where this tablet targets business users, sporting a detachable keyboard dock that comes in handy whenever you want to type a long, drawn out document on the go without having to grapple with the feeling of typing on air using a virtual keyboard. Not officially released yet, the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix has already appeared on the company’s Israeli website – no idea on whether this was done on purpose, or it is just a mistake on the webmaster’s part.

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By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx arrives at the FCC, Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 Ultrabook convertible,

GLENDALE, Ariz. — On an almost perfect Monday night for Alex Smith, the San Francisco 49ers flexed their NFC West dominance with a 24-3 flattening of the Arizona Cardinals.

Smith completed 18 of 19 passes for 232 yards and three touchdowns – two to Michael Crabtree and one to Randy Moss – to help San Francisco (6-2) open a two-game lead in the division and send Arizona (4-4) to its fourth straight lost.

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