Message date: 2009-12-30

Google schedules January 5 Android event

If you have been keeping your fingers crossed for a Google Phone, you’ll be delighted to know that the search giant officially announced a major Android press event. Google has invited select members of the press to its Mountain View, California headquarter for a January 5, 2010 Android-related event. Although the invitation makes no mention [...]
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Modder creates Wireless Visual Interface for PS3

Console modders are always looking for new ways to re-house their hardware and Ben Heck is probably the most well known modder out there. Unlike older consoles such as the NES and SNES, the latest hardware can’t easily be squeezed into a handheld unit. The best we have seen so far are 360 and PS3 [...]
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Mobile transactions triple on eBay in 2009

An ever increasing number of consumers have chosen to buy products and services online. Now it seems many of those consumers are making these purchases using mobile phones. eBay has reported that it saw purchases from mobile apps triple compared to 2008. For 2009, the online auction company saw more than half a billion dollars in [...]
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Modern Warfare 2 tops the piracy charts for 2009

There are always a lot of charts released at this time of the year such as best selling game, top search queries, and 10 best new gadgets. But charts don’t just exist for legitimate products, there’s also piracy to consider and in particular which games were illegally downloaded the most this year. It will come as [...]
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NYC ready for the iPhone: Did AT&T halt online sales due to unlockers?

AT&T has resumed online iPhone sales to New Yorkers. The carrier provided no details about a brief and widely reported weekend incident, fueling speculation that a sudden stoppage might have been caused by illegal exporters who are fraudulently buying iPhones and selling them unlocked overseas. AT&T has restored sales and the iPhone has been available for [...]
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Review: Mophie Juice Pack Air (soft-touch)

Back in May we posted an extensive review of Mophie’s Juice Pack Air, an iPhone case with a battery (hence the juice pack) and a slim design (the air part). At the time reviewer Joel Evans said that he would “fully recommend” the $80 case to iPhone owners, though he did note the lack of [...]
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Fraudulent Facebook group leads to malware scam

If you happen to be on Facebook today and spot a group that is called,
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PQI announce 64GB USB 3.0 flash drive

We have already seen companies announce USB 3.0 hard drives, motherboards, and even a laptop upgrade solution, but this is the first announcement I believe I have seen of a pocket-able USB 3.0 flash stick. PQI is making available 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB versions of its Cool Drive U366 flash drive. It has an aluminum casing [...]
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Future release World of Warcraft Magazine 40-page preview

Back in August Blizzard announced that it had teamed up with Future Publishing to launch a new magazine dedicated to World ofWarcraft . This magazine is going to be unique due to the fact it has 148-pages and no advertisements. It is also only being offered via a subscription and won’t be made available at [...]
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GSM encryption cracked making mobile call interception easy

Whenever you make a call using a mobile phone it is encrypted most likely using GSM and the A5/1 algorithm. The encryption works by rapidly changing the frequency used by the phone and the base station between 80 different channels. Doing so makes it very difficult for someone to intercept and listen in without very [...]
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Missed deadlines: Firefox 3.6 slips to Q1 2010, Firefox 4.0 not due until 2011

The final Firefox 3.6 release will be available for the public in the first quarter of 2010 and a major Firefox 4.0 update won’t be ready before late 2010 or even early 2011, Mozilla said Tuesday. The open source organization had originally planned to post the final Firefox 3.6 release by the end of 2009. [...]
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Five dollar Dragon Age DLC hits January 5

Just in time to cure your week-long New Years hangover, BioWare’s Dragon Age: Origins will receive its first piece of downloadable content, Return to Ostagar, for just $5. Following up on the early table-turning events at Ostagar, where the Grey Wardens were all but destroyed, you’ll seek out a fellow survivor and trek back to [...]
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Video hands-on: HP ProBook 5310m laptop

For the past few days I’ve been working with the HP ProBook 5310m laptop. If you are familiar with the ProBooks you know that these make up HP’s low- to mid-level business line and include HP’s consumer-friendly small business products. They are a step down from the enterprise-level EliteBooks. As for the 5310m, it’s a 13.3-inch [...]
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Nokia on the move: iPods and Macs also infringe on our patents

Nokia has escalated its legal battle against Apple with a new complaint accusing the Californian gadget maker of building its entire device ecosystem on the back of Nokia’s intellectual property. Apple has been infringing on Nokia’s patents in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers, Nokia alleged in a statement Tuesday. The [...]
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EA NFL Trainer may be Wii Fit for men

Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus are great. But I bet a lot of men out there finish off that statement by saying, “for girls”. The ball rolling games and the hulu hoop challenges may be fun for a while, but yoga? definitely a past time that interests the ladies more than the men, especially [...]
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