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Ken Auletta profiles the engine that drives most Internet navigation and drives the competition crazy in “Googled.”

Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive 500GB This speedy, colorful drive has FireWire 800 and 400 ports, and useful software (Retrospect Express and Iomega QuikProtect).

When you pop a Blu-ray disc into the LG BD390 ($300, price as of December 14, 2009), prepare to be impressed. The images it delivered to an HDTV were among the best we’ve ever seen.

Nokia fans disappointed by last summer’s N97 smartphone, get excited: The Nokia N900 ($570, unlocked; price as of December 18, 2009) delivers on its promises of fast performance and excellent Web browsing. It also offers solid multimedia features, as well as one of the best cameras I’ve used on a…

Take a low-power, silent desktop, and stuff it with netbook components. In the case of the $320 (as of December 13, 2009) Acer AspireRevo R3610, make sure to bless it with HDMI output and 1080p video playback, too