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Pixel Qi show off latest displays outdoors with touchscreen

At the end of April Pixel Qi announced that their low-power displays were near ready for production. A little over a month later and CTO Mary Lou Jepsen is standing outside at Computex 2010 in very bright sunlight showing off three laptops with Pixel QI displays. The beauty of these displays is they have a backlight [...]
Publication date: 2010-06-02 more

Hitachi Travelstar Z offers 320GB in 7mm 2.5

Hitachi has pushed the boundaries of hard drive storage once again by managing to squeeze 320GB into a drive just 7mm high. The Travelstar Z not only offers a lot of storage, it is also the world’s first 7,200rpm 7mm 2.5″ drive. Data transfer maxes out at 1,334Mbps, the drive has a 16MB cache, is [...]
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iPad + Velcro = awesome

Talk about taking Apple’s iPad to the places their engineers never thought of. With industrial-strength adhesive, some loop fasteners, and tons of imagination anything is possible. Put together by Jesse Rosten, this amusing video teaches us how the Velcro adhesive and iPad can make love so you can use your shiny multitouch computer just about anywhere [...]
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Google Buzz plays a catch-up with Twitter

Google thought long and hard about naming a new feature that lets you repost someone’s buzz post with not one, but two clicks (more on that later). After mulling over several choices, Google opted for a simple “reshare” that people “tend to say naturally,” as they put it. Rebuzz sounded “kinda lame” and the search firm [...]
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Canon 1Ds Mk IV details revealed?

Canon’s current DSLR flagship, the EOS-1D Mark IV, looks to be set to get some competition from the 1Ds Mk IV. This camera is still in the rumor phase of its life, but we’ve been hearing about it enough that we can be relatively sure it’s coming and we have some pretty solid information on [...]
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Intel unveils Knights Corner 50 core server chip

Consumers may now have a choice between two, four, or even six core processors, but Intel has announced a new 50 core chip aimed at the server market. It is called Knights Corner and combines standard x86 cores with specialized cores to comfortably produce over 500 gigaflops of performance. Intel announced the new processor as part of [...]
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Sony announces first 3 PS3 games to get 3D update on June 10th

Sony has announced 3 games that will be the first to receive an update with 3D visuals for the PS3. They are: Wipeout HD Super Stardust HD Pain Both Wipeout HD and Super Stardust HD will receive the updates free, but Pain will require an additional payment of $3.20 to get the enahnced visuals. The updates are only of use [...]
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Woman files lawsuit against Google after getting struck on a highway

A woman from Park City, Utah by the name of Lauren Rosenberg has recently filed a lawsuit against Google for apparently leading her astray causing her to become injured. You see, Lauren had pulled up walking directions on Google using her Blackberry, which suggested a path for her to follow to get from one side [...]
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Check out how much economic activity Google generated in your state

Google isn’t just a search engine, it’s also an engine for job creation and economic development that impacted the US economy with a cool $54 billion last year, representing the value brought to US businesses, website publishers, and non-profits. Google representatives revealed the figure speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington during the National Small Business [...]
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Learn how to command Android with these secret codes

Like most cellphones, Android devices recognize a bunch of special codes normally used by service technicians to test out various hardware and software functions. Thanks to a poster at NexusOneForum.net who decoded .apk Android files, you can now learn codes that allow you to peek under Android’s hood. Should you want to control various device aspects [...]
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Apple kills music service Lala a week before WWDC 2010

The Mac maker has discontinued the Lala service on schedule, a week before its annual developer conference in San Francisco where, according to the rumor-mill, Apple could announce cloud iTunes that will store your entire media library on Apple’s servers and stream the content to your iTunes-authorized devices on-demand, eliminating the need for local storage [...]
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Google rolls out real-time polling on YouTube

Video commenting has long been the only way to provide feedback for YouTube videos, but this changed with the launch of YouTube Moderator this past Thursday. It’s a pretty big deal because here we have a crowdsourcing social platform baked right inside the leading video sharing site on the web, allowing anyone to solicit questions on [...]
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Adobe debuts Digital Viewer technology to power platform-agnostic digital magazines

Adobe took the wraps off its new digital publishing technologies Tuesday that it hopes will become the de facto standard for the creation and delivery of platform-agnostic, digital interactive magazines which run on a variety of hardware platforms, including Apple’s iPad. The Flash maker revealed it developed the new publishing software “with input from Condé [...]
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Pulse arrives as the ultimate iPad feed reader

The digital publishing revolution has avoided the old-fashioned RSS feeds altogether, leaving free web news unjustly stuck in the stone age. Not anymore, if Stanford graduates Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta have any say about it. The two grads have revitalized a dull news skimming routine with multitouch and the level of polish you’d expect from an interactive magazine, [...]
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How to turn your iPad into a scale (don

You’d be forgiven for thinking this one was real. After all, Apple’s iPad packs in an accelerometer sensor that might be somehow able to roughly tell your weight, with a little bit of software trickery. In addition, its 9.7-inch multitouch display has shown a surprising resilience to beating so it should be able to withstand your [...]
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Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures coming to the PC

For fans of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network, I have some special news from Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and LucasArts that will be sure to please. SOE and LucasArts have announced today that Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures is currently in development for the PC and will bring the adventures [...]
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Rockstar no longer attending E3

Rockstar Games, the company behind the Grand Theft Auto series and the recently released Red Dead Redemption, will no longer be attending E3 2010.
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Ireland

Digital Times magazine and Alchemy Event Management have announced the launch of Ireland’s first dedicated awards ceremony for mobile application development and design.
Publication date: 2010-06-01 more

Digital Life: The flag's up for the great race!

ModNation Racers, PS3/PSP, RATING: 8.5/10 - Musicians hate it when you try to pigeonhole their work by comparing them to another artist. Coldplay? Early Radiohead rewritten by bedwetters. Lady Gaga? Madonna without the tunes. See? Too easy.
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'Quit Facebook' protest day flops

Just over 30,000 of Facebook's almost 500 million users deleted their account in protest over security concerns
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Digital Life: Capture the high on camera

High definition has become the buzzword of the last five years, with everything from TVs to DVDs touting stunning resolution. Hell, there's even a mobile phone claiming to record high-def video!
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15 things you didn

Yes, it’s an infographic, but it rocks. We all know Steve Jobs is an extroverted tyrant, a tough negotiator, a genius, and the ultimate presenter, but there’s more to Apple’s boss than the little tidbits their marketing machinery is feeding us. Enter the Online School’s excellent infographic that takes you on a ride through Jobs’ [...]
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Joe Danger looks fantastic, has level editor

From the moment we first saw leaked footage of Joe Danger we knew it was going to be something a bit special. Last week an updated gameplay video appeared on YouTube of what looks to be a finished game. You can see that footage above. But it gets better than that. Developer Hello Games also uploaded [...]
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Sculpt and paint for free on your PC with Sculptris

3D modelling can be something done for free using an application like Blender, but that’s more of a general-use modelling package. Sculptris on the other hand, is a new solution aimed specifically at painters and sculptors. If you’ve ever used Maya, 3D Studio Max, Blender, MudBox, or ZBrush, then I urge you to take a look [...]
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IGF award-winning Limbo is Xbox 360 exclusive

You may remember a visually stunning platforming game appearing in March going by the name of Limbo. Its unusual black and white graphical style coupled with concept of a brave boy in a hostile world certainly captures your attention. It also struck a chord with judges at the Independent Games Festival which awarded Limbo both [...]
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Genki Wear to release new Star Trek Fragrance

From the folks that brought you a new line of Star Trek Fragrances last spring comes a brand new cologne for those Star Trek geeks that want to smell like a topless starship captain. From Genki Wear comes a bold new scent called Shirtless Kirk Cologne and it is the fourth in a line of fragrances honoring [...]
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Take a video tour of the International Space Station

We often see the International Space Station (ISS) appearing in the news, or in the odd film, but the images are usually of the exterior or small sections of the interior. If you want to see a proper tour of the ISS then look no further than YouTube and this gem of a video you [...]
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The Empire Strikes Back

It is a sad day for the galaxy when the evil Galactic Empire has to start picking on poor defenseless woodland creatures as they increase their grip on peaceful worlds.  No, I’m not talking about the Ewoks on the forest moon of Endor here. This time around, it appears the Empire is harassing backyard chipmunks. In the [...]
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Apple announces sales of two million iPads in less than 60 days

Apple announced that it sold two million iPads in less than sixty days since its launch on April 3. There are now over five thousand applications written specifically for the device, the company stressed. The demand is outstripping Apple’s current manufacturing output, chief executive Steve Jobs indicated in a statement: Customers around the world are experiencing [...]
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AT&T introducing $13.99 iPhone insurance option from June 6th

Not content with being the exclusive provider of the iPhone for the U.S. market, AT&T is trying to squeeze more money out of customers who opt for Apple’s smartphone. For an extra $13.99 a month, or $168 a year, you can have some peace of mind if ever anything were to go wrong with your [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-31 more

Motorola strikes promotion-heavy deal with Verizon Wireless

Motorola has struck a deal with Verizon Wireless which cements the carrier’s heavy promotion of upcoming Motorola models. A WSJ article states that Verizon Wireless plans to release two Motorola smartphones in July with one of them expected to be the Motorola Droid Shadow which we reported that an executive left in a corporate gym [...]
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Pokémon goes Black and White next Spring

Nintendo has officially announced that Pokémon Black and Pokémon White for the Nintendo DS will hit North American shelves in spring 2011. The games are currently scheduled to release in Japan this coming fall.
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Lenovo ditches Skylight OS to focus on Android devices

The Lenovo Skylight smartbook was originally expected to be released around May this year, but in April Digitimes reported that Lenovo had decided to delay and improve the device. The reason being the launch of the Apple iPad, and what must have been Lenovo’s realization their device just couldn’t compete. Now there’s been an even bigger [...]
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Sony considering more remastered PS2 games for PS3

Sony has hinted that it may be considering creating some more remastered collections of PS2 titles for the PS3. The first we saw was God of War Collection which went down well with gamers. According to a Kotaku reader Sony is gauging interest for further collections. A recent Sony survey he filled in asked the following [...]
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Rube Goldberg dice roller spares one dungeon master wrist at a time

We’ve been seeing a number of Rube Goldberg machines hitting YouTube these day but this one is definitely the most DIY. Rather than being super slick like OK Go’s or high tech like the RFID touch-less one it is definitely a homebrew, but the point is that it gets the job done. Sure, setting it up for [...]
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Rock Band 3 to include keytar and new

Rock Band 3 will feature a keytar, Ars Technica's inside source revealed. Information about the upcoming Rock Band package including a keyboard was teased in the Green Day: Rock Band demo. But rather than a keyboard, Rock Band 3 will be sporting a keytar, a lightweight keyboard supported by a guitar-like strap. According to Ars Technica, the keytar will be the only new instrument in the game.
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Thinner Kindle expected August, but without color touchscreen

Earlier this month it was speculated that the next Kindle would introduce color, multitouch, games, and apps. But Amazon may actually be taking a more conservative approach in a post-iPad marketplace. Bloomberg has heard from people familiar with Amazon’s plans that the next version of Kindle will be appearing in August, and little is set to [...]
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Toshiba creates bendable LCD for easy image zooming

Sony may be leading the field on creating a flexible display, but Toshiba is already looking at ways of associating flexibility with user input. At SID 2010 Toshiba has demonstrated a new bendable LCD panel which also acts as a type of input. As you can see in the video above, the display is housed in [...]
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Sony to launch new e-reader in Japan

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sony plans to once again release another e-reader in Japan, but this time it will be launched with something it was missing before. Sony has partnered with three local companies including mobile phone carrier KDDI Corp, Toppan Printing Co. and Asahi Shimbun, a major newspaper in Japan, to [...]
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Google in privacy row over its wi-fi mapping

Google was accused of intruding into people's privacy yesterday after it was disclosed that the company had mapped every wireless network in Britain.
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symbianking on "How to install this game in my Ipod Touch?"

The game name is Across Age 1.4. I just downloaded the game above from http://www.onesymbian.com/thread.php?t=29277. It is amazing but I have no idea how to install it. Please help me. :(
Publication date: 2010-05-30 more

ikarius on "MultiSearch for iPhone / iPod (and soon iPad)"

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One in six suffer from mobile phone

An FCC study has found that one in six U.S. mobile phone users have experienced what is being termed as “bill shock”. Bill shock is defined by the FCC as a mobile phone customer who finds a sudden increase in their mobile phone bill without any change to their service plan. The one in six [...]
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Review: Livio Car Internet Radio app puts car radio on your iPhone

Don’t let the traditional car radio dial fool you – this nifty little radio app lets drivers tune in to thousands of radio stations from all over the world, stream radio broadcasts in the background, and more. As the name suggests, Livio Car Internet Radio is an Internet radio client created specifically for use while driving. Detroid-based [...]
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Google removes all Tetris clones from Android Market

As Android is an open platform with no checks required before an app goes live, it means anything and everything can be made available as an app. Although users and developers may prefer this method of deployment some rights holders clearly don’t. The Tetris Company LLC. has issued DMCA notices against 35 Tetris clones which Google [...]
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Toshiba AirSwing: gesture input with just a webcam

MIT researchers managed to simplify gesture input to require just a pair of gloves and a camera, but Toshiba has simplified even further requiring only a camera. The system is known as AirSwing, and installs on a PC for use with a webcam. That means it will work with a media center PC under your large-screen [...]
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Nike

Not to interrupt your regularly scheduled tech news flow with a Nike ad, but this might be the best video advertisement that I’ve ever seen. Don’t hold its viral-ness against it, this is as good as advertising gets. The advertisement is for Nike Football (like the soccer kind) and it runs through plays from a few [...]
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YouTube videos get 50% of their views in 6 days

The half-life of a video posted on YouTube is 6 days according to analytics from TubeMogul. After that, it takes another 20 days for a video to get 75% of its total views. The lifecycle of a YouTube video was the spotlight for Silicon Alley Insider’s (SAI) Chart of the Day which shows the average [...]
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TheL0grus on "Mac or PC?"

Why bother with either OS? I'd find the box that has the specs you like and install your favorite distribution of Linux on it. Yes the industial engineering on the Mac products is nice. But is it really woth it? You pay an extra premium for an Apple product or anything that touches an Apple product. You will be joining the conspicuous consumption crowd. Oh look at me with my Gucci bag, Rolex watch and Mac. Then there is that OS. Don't get me wrong I love Unix which is why I hate the Apples evil bastardisation. Once you have it, your soul and everything you where will be wiped away. It is like sleeping next to a pod. All that is left is an empty souless shell that is owned by Steve Jobs. You will find yourself saying things like "I never have problems or crashes anymore" when in reality you have just as manny issues as everybody else in the world. And, Remember there is a reason that every year the Mac OS is the first to get hacked at the pwn 2 own compitition. http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/pwn-2-own-over-macbook-air-gets-seized-in-2-minutes-flat/ They make the same mistakes that M$ does with Windows. Using a swap file and not a swap partition. moving to much of the GUI into the kernal space threatening the security and stability of the system. Blah blah blah I could go on for days on how Mac OS is no better than Windows. But why bother. You will either think for yourself or not. Don't let them own you. Own yourself for a change. Go Linux Or let that which comprises you, what truly makes you unique be lost and forgoten. Good luck
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Technomethod on "Mac or PC?"

Mac book. Let me tell you why: Reliable sleep mode with super quick boot up speed, good quality parts (I have the alunimum casing one), less blinking lights, OS is a huge cut above windows, it's simpler to troubleshoot, good quality community software, more useful apps right out of the box, the computer isn't loaded with a bunch of garabage software you dislike (e.g., all those subscribe to antivirus software that expires after 15 days), no need for additional security software, file sharing is much easier, and a ton of other reasons. Here's a link to a more detailed look at the above reasons. Why you should choose Mac. http://apcmag.com/15_reasons_macs_are_still_better_than_windows.htm
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Grease: The Game to support Wii Balance Board and microphones

It's been 32 years since the movie. Now you can relive the Grease experience at home with the upcoming Grease: The Game for the Nintendo Wii.
Publication date: 2010-05-28 more

New study says Bejeweled and Peggle improves cognitive function

A new study shows that casual video games can actually improve short term cognitive function, PopCap Games announced Wednesday.
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Samsung develops 18.5

Samsung has already had some impressive technology on display at the SID 2010 conference. Yesterday we saw the unveiling of a 46″ transparent LCD TV, but today’s device demonstration is even more impressive. The screen you see above is an 18.5″ Samsung monitor sitting next to a PC. It’s a pretty typical setup, but this monitor [...]
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Review: Belkin Play Max wireless router

The Play Max is Belkin’s new flagship consumer router. It, along with the new Surf, Share, and Play routers, is designed for easy installations and consumer friendliness. As the industry moves to make wireless networking easier Belkin is finally taking some steps forward, making things easier on consumers and trying to reduce the number of [...]
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Opera ad parodies Chrome Speed Tests using a boiling potato

The advert you see above was released by Google at the beginning of May. The aim was to show off just how fast the Chrome browser is by pitting it against a potato being chopped and shot into a pan of boiling fat. Chrome wins, and the unusual ad definitely stays with you. Opera has outdone [...]
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MegaHex 6-Propeller RC Chopper takes to the skies with a video camera

If you are looking to have fun this season with cool gadgets in the great outdoors, some people turn to RC vehicles to get their kicks. And if you already happen to be an RC aircraft pilot, you know what a joy it can be taking to the blue skies with your RC plane or [...]
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Apple TV 2.0 to be A4 powered, $99

If Engadget’s anonymous tipsters are to be believed, then the next Apple TV could be as pretty big deal. To date, Apple’s $229 TV solution has been a flop, constantly pointed out as one of the company’s few (albeit minor) blunders. A second generation product could turn things around, especially now that companies like Google [...]
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Japan to establish robot moon base by 2020

Japan is going to the moon, and once there will setup a base controlled by robots. It may sound like the weak premise of a new movie or game, but this is apparently what Japan is intending to do within the next decade. According to a paper drawn up by the Japanese government, surveys of the [...]
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Field test: Leica M9

Few electronic devices are as lusted over as Leica’s cameras. Leica is one of a very small number of companies that has been able to get old-world, handmade craftsmanship and move that over to the digital age. Their eye-popping price tags entice as many people as they turn off, but the amazing shots we see [...]
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PhD Student gets quadrotor helicopter moving aggressively

Earlier today we got to see an impressive 6-propeller RC Chopper called the MegaHex. Capable of flying for 14 minutes with a heavy payload you can’t help but be impressed by the machine. But some people are experimenting and going past just creating a machine that can fly around and capture nice video footage. One of [...]
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Natal expected to be called Wave at E3 announcement

Xbox 360 Wave or Xbox Wave, how does that sound to you? According to NowGamer that’s what Microsoft will announce as the official names for Project Natal at E3. The news comes from a “source close to Microsoft”, so it may still be wrong and we could see my favorite instead: Xbox Motion. Wave certainly fits the [...]
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Foxconn plans wage increase to address suicide attempts

Foxconn, which manufactures electronic components for companies including HP, Dell and Apple, has had to deal with a serious string of suicide attempts by some of its factory workers. Due to its affiliation with Foxconn, the issue has led Apple to launch an investigation of Foxconn facilities to see that any worker issues, which may [...]
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Gadget fans in the North greet iPad launch

Gadget fans who queued all night outside Belfast's Apple store today became some of the first people in Ireland to buy an iPad.
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Dr. Who Theme played using Tesla Coils and a Faraday Suit

I love it when musicians push the envelope and think of inventive new ways to produce music using unique objects that most people would not even dare to consider as instruments. Just take the performance art group ArcAttack, for example. This group uses standard musical instruments like guitars and bass, but what the group is also [...]
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U.S. man first to leave hospital with artificial heart

Until today I thought you needed a real heart to be able to walk around and survive, but I was wrong. Charles Okeke, a 43-year-old from Phoenix, Arizona, is currently sitting at home with an artificial heart keeping him alive. He is the first person to ever manage to leave hospital without his own heart [...]
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Logitech accessories now available in colorful fantasy patterns

Last week, Microsoft announced the availability of new patterns for their Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 line. Now it seems that Logitech is answering that move with a line of peripherals which are just as artistic. Logitech’s Fantasy Collection will feature keyboards, mice, speakers, webcams, portable lapdesks and even a cooling pad. Three artistic styles offered include [...]
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Buddy radio let

If you’ve worked in a corporate environment you’ve probably seen the pin-up where a person can let everyone know what mood they are in today. A new device called the Buddy Radio, the brain child of Sidekick Studios, does the same thing, but also connects with social media platforms such as Facebook, IM and Twitter [...]
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Chrome 5 for Mac and Linux out of beta

Linux and Mac users needn’t look with envy anymore at their PC fellows who have been enjoying stable Chrome version for Windows over the past few months. After over half a year in a perpetual beta, Google has now posted stable Chrome releases for Linux and Mac. As a result, Chrome 5.0 is the first [...]
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Buy a PSPgo in the UK, get 10 free games

UK trade publication MCV has recently conducted an interview with SCE UK sales director Mark Howsen. Although the interview hasn’t been made live yet, some details of what was discussed have. Top of the pile is news that anyone buying a PSPgo in the UK after April 1st this year will now be entitled to [...]
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Anipov LED system lets bike tires display digital images

If you like to ride your bicycle in the evening it is highly advised that for safety’s sake, you equip your two-wheeled transport with lights so that motorists can see you on the road. But safety aside, wouldn’t it be sweet to have a wheel system on your bike that not only gets you noticed [...]
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AMtek bringing five new tablets to Computex

AMtek is betting big on tablets, and AMtek has just announced five new tablets they’ll be bringing to Computex next month, ranging from simple tablets boasting an 800MHz Freescale chip to an NVIDIA Tegra 2 powerhouse. Their lowest end tablet is the AMtek iTablet Ex-Lite II, a 10.1-inch multitouch device with an 800MHz Freescale CPU, 512MB [...]
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You can jump over the flagpole in Super Mario Bros.

One of the long held myths about the original Super Mario Bros. on the NES has been proven to be fact: You can jump over the flagpole at the end of a level. In total there are 24 flagpoles in the game, but only one can be cleared without triggering the flag slide. World 3-3 is [...]
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OLPC teaming up with Marvell to bring XO-3 tablet to market

The One Laptop Per Child project, or OLPC, have long divided technology enthusiasts with their founder Nick Negroponte’s vision to bringing computer systems to developing nations, but philosophies aside, today’s announcement that they will be partnering with Marvell to try to deliver their latest XO-3 tablet design. That design, in typical OLPC fashion, is probably [...]
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Barnes & Noble releases iPad app that lets you lend e-books to friends

As promised, the book retailer Barnes & Noble released its official e-reading app for iPad that one-upped the offerings from Apple and Amazon with a nice lending feature. Courtesy of Barnes & Nobles’ exclusive LendMe technology, it allows you to share eligible purchases with Nook owners and people who run the BN eReader app on iPad, [...]
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UK Therapist: Video Gaming gives same high as a line of coke

According to a UK therapist, playing video games for two hours will give you the exact same high as chopping up and snorting a line of coke on a glass tablet at Studio 54. She is, of course, self-evidently nuts, but it’s all part of a wave of hysteria in the UK, as the media [...]
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Finally you can move the Gmail icon column to the left side

Ever wanted to be able to move those message type icons in Gmail from far right to the leftmost side? Now you can, thanks to a new Gmail Labs project dubbed “Move Icon Column.” According to a post over at the Gmail blog, you can finally move the icon column to the leftmost side in your [...]
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Mozilla preps Firefox Home, a poor substitute for lack of Firefox on iPhone

Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the Firefox browser, says it’s working on a new iPhone project designed to provide access to your desktop browsing history, bookmarks, and recently used tabs. Announcing the software dubbed Firefox Home in a blog post, Mozilla called it “your home on the web, wherever you are.” Hold your horses, though, [...]
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Play Gears of War 2 online this weekend and earn triple the experience

Dust off your Gears of War discs. Title Update 6, available now on Xbox Live, introduces a new public multiplayer match feature for Epic Games' Gears of War 2. In celebration, fans who play online this weekend will earn triple experience.
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Acer unveils seven-inch tablet with QWERTY keypad

At a press event in Beijing today, Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci (the bulbously-schnozzed gentleman above, whose physiognomy is so reminiscent of Danny Devito) showed off a new 7-inch color tablet. According to Lanci, Acer will probably look to offer the device subsidized through mobile phone networks, implying 3G connectivity. The device itself looks like a shrunken [...]
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Acer

While they were busy announcing a new seven-inch tablet to counter the iPad, Acer decided to unveil another touchscreen device to compete with the iPhone and Nexus One: the Acer Stream. Specs-wise, it’s very Nexusy: inside, it’s got a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 512MB of RAM, 2GB internal storage (with an 8GB microSD card bundled). Otherwise, the [...]
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Distracting Beach Babes video virus strikes Facebook users

Considering the millions of people who use Facebook there’s little wonder why it has become a favorite vehicle by hackers to spread viruses. The latest one being reported by All Facebook is the Distracting Beach Babes Virus. The virus propagates by showing up on a user’s Facebook wall as a video post. The link in [...]
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Shuttle SX58J3 SFF is a mini PC case with lots of possibility

I’ve rarely seen a PC the size of a breadbox that I didn’t like, but with compression usually comes a dip in performance. Shuttle’s latest flagship SFF mini-PC, the Shuttle SX57J3 is capable of packing powerful hardware in a package only 33 x 21.5 x 19 centimeters in size…. but you’ll have to roll your [...]
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Review: JVC Everio GZ-HD620 1080p camcorder

Geek.com recently reviewed an HD camcorder from JVC, the HM300. While it was a great camcorder to use, it had one serious flaw–it shot video at up to 1080i, not the Full HD 1080p that so many people are looking for. If you want that (and you want a JVC) the camera for you is [...]
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Google holds on to disk in German Street View probe

Google hasn’t fully complied with a request for information on data it said was erroneously gathered for its Street View mapping service, a German regulator said.
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Facebook backs down on privacy settings

Facebook, the world's most popular social networking site, backed down last night and introduced simplified privacy controls after a storm of protest from users.
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Apple overtakes Microsoft to be biggest tech company

Apple, inventor of the iPod and iPhone, has become the world’s biggest technology company - eclipsing arch-rival Microsoft in size.
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Holiday Inn replace room keys with smartphone access

Gaining access to a hotel room used to involve using a key. More recently keys have been replaced with cards you swipe to unlock the door. But an experiment being carried out by Holiday Inn may remove the need for a key or card completely. Instead you’ll use a smartphone. Keeping track of keys and cards [...]
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Flash be damned, wonderful digital Wired magazine arrives on iPad

Nevermind the lack of Adobe’s Flash support on iPad and Apple’s rules of engagement prohibiting use of cross-compilers – publisher Condé Nast has debuted a digital Wired edition. And how did they do it? Easy, they compiled the original Flash project to the iPad-friendly Objective-C language. Riding on the heels of positive first impressions, the magazine’s [...]
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Survey shows iPad has cut netbook sales by 30%

Retrevo, a consumer electronics shopping site, released the results of their latest Retrevo Pulse Study which looked at how the iPad has impacted sales of netbooks. It’s clear based on the data that the iPad has had an impact on netbook sales. That impact occurred even before the iPad was released. When asked, “Did you hold [...]
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Facebook unveils simplified privacy controls

Facebook has acknowledged its complicated privacy settings and will be making changes to help users better control access to their information. Among other things the updated privacy controls will feature a single page that consolidates settings and information into a grid-based dashboard. Mark Zuckerberg was quoted saying, “We’ve focused on three things: a single control for [...]
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Fleet Week 2010

The last week of May 2010 marks Fleet Week, when part of the United States naval fleet visits New York harbor. The sailors and Marines get a chance to see NYC and civilians get a chance to see some awesome Navy hardware. I had a chance to helicopter (on a CH-53E) over to the USS Iwo Jima [...]
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Comcast bill details new Extreme 105Mbps broadband service

If you like your Internet speeds to be equivalent to that of an Indy race car taking a hot lap at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, you’ll probably be interested in a new Extreme tier for Internet access soon to be offered by Comcast. Back in March, we reported about a new 100MBps Internet service Comcast had [...]
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Team ICO Collection on PS3 rumored for 2011

Team ICO has already made a name for itself. Developing ICO, and then following that up with Shadow of the Colossus has many fans waiting eagerly for the release of the team’s next game: The Last Guardian. If you missed ICO first time round it saw a re-release on PS2. But you may get the chance [...]
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Boogie Board

With all the publicity around gadgets like the iPad, it’s easy to forget about other devices which offer a specific function with just as much convenience. One case in point is the Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablet. The gadget is eco-friendly since you will no longer need notepads, paper or pencils to take notes or sketch [...]
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EyeSeeCam: a camera system that tracks with eye movement

One of the problems you face when trying to film a subject is keeping the object you are focusing on in the frame. Undoubtedly you stop concentrating, relax the hand holding the camera, and get less than perfect footage. The EyeSeeCam is a possible fix for that as it’s a head-mounted eye-tracking camera. It may in [...]
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HP Slate will run webOS

When Microsoft unveiled the HP Slate at this year’s CES, it was self-confidently presented by CEO Steve Ballmer as the implied killer of a tablet, the iPad, that wasn’t even announced yet. Unfortunately, the reality was that any tablet running Windows 7 just wasn’t going to be competitive in the same space as a device [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-26 more

Opinion: The government must prohibit the carrier

As we reported last Friday, AT&T is jacking up their early termination fee (ETF) to $325 beginning June 1. The move arrives as Verizon’s doubling of their ETF to $350 was dropped for dumbphones following the unwanted attention from the Federal Communications Commission over the exorbitant fee. T-Mobile and Google wanted to slap would-be Nexus One [...]
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Geniuses sue Apple over poor treatment and unpaid wages

If the court sides with Apple’s former Mac experts, better known as Geniuses, the company will be force to grab its checkbook and pay monetary damages, unpaid wages, and penalties to its retail workers for the nearly five-year period since September 2005 through the present. A bunch of Genius staffers employed at Apple’s retail stores [...]
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Bittorrent makes uTP protocol open-source

uTorrent is the best Bittorrent client out there, and now the company behind Bittorrent technology is opening the source code of one of the revolutionary ingredients that makes it so great: the uTorrent Transport Protocol, or uTP. What’s uTP? It’s a protocol that is designed to reduce network congestion by automatically allowing other non-Bittorrent [...]
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Apple allegedly signs up director Sam Mendez to film the iPhone HD commercial

Sources claim that a Hollywood director Sam Mendez, who won an Oscar for “American Beauty,” landed a deal with Cupertino, California-based Apple to film an alleged iPhone HD commercial that will help sell video calling to couch potatoes. Mendez, 44, is apparently auditioning several actors for the commercial who bragged about it on Twitter. The same [...]
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Douglas Adams Fans celebrate Towel Day

Don’t panic. Do you know where your towel is? If you do, then you must be a really hoopy frood. Today is the day fans around the globe celebrate the works of science-fiction and comedy writer Douglas Adams. Adams was an English author responsible for several best selling titles, but his most well known book is The Hitchhiker’s [...]
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Google TV and iPad run the same graphics

Apple’s iPad tablet and the Google-backed Google TV project are both powered by the same graphics processing unit created by a fables UK-based chip designer called Imagination. Manufactured by Logitech and Sony, Google TVs run an Intel-manufactured system-on-a-chip that contains Imagination’s PowerVR graphics core, Fortune reported. The commonly shared graphics architecture allows both Google and [...]
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New from ThinkGeek: iPhone projector, Zombie blood, and $10 off

Every fortnight or so our sister site ThinkGeek (what, you didn’t hear?) has some news for all the geeks out there. You know, new products, hot deals, that sort of thing. So what’s looking good this time? First off, TG is offering 10 bucks off any order of $30 or more if you use product code UNUNDEAD [...]
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Star Trek Art transports over to Microsoft Headquarters

If you are an fan of Star Trek: The Original Series and you happen to be visiting Microsoft Headquarters located in Redmond, Washington, you might find a pleasant surprise as you venture into the Studio D building. In the lobby of Studio D, you will find several pieces of hanging art that make it appear [...]
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Sony concept wrist computer available in 2020

Our need to always be connected has turned our mobile phones into smartphones. So, it’s natural to assume that the next logical leap will be to have computers we can wear around our wrist. That’s the concept behind the Nextep Computer designed by Hiromi Kiriki for Sony which has been earmarked for consumers in 2020. Some of [...]
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AT&T opens free outdoor WiFi hotspot in Times Square

AT&T’s network is often dinged for poor service on their 3G network , but on the positive side, they at least have a great WiFi network, thanks to twenty thousand WiFi hotspots spread throughout the country to offload their iPhone-congested network. Now they’ve added another hotspot to that network. Making the number of WiFi hotspots 20,001 [...]
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Half-Life 2 for Mac released today

The roll out of Steam for Mac earlier this month was made all the sweeter because Valve decided to make Portal free to download for a couple of weeks. With that promotion over Mac gamers have another game to start enjoying. Today, May 26, will see the release of Half-Life 2 on Steam for Max OS [...]
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Motorola Droid Shadow left in Verizon corporate gym

Considering how much drama and coverage surrounded the prototype iPhone leak, which was lost in a bar, you would think that insiders would be a little more careful with unreleased models they are carrying around. According to Gizmodo, apparently not. It seems the unreleased Motorola Droid Shadow was left in a corporate Verizon gym in [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-26 more

Sony demonstrates rollable OLED

Flexible displays are something we would all like to have due to their space saving qualities, but we have yet to see a working example that provides the same quality display as those used in high-end smartphones and TVs. Sony has come one step closer to offering such a display with the rollable OLED demonstrated in [...]
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LaCie Rugged Safe is the

If the security of data on your mobile hard drive is a top priority then LaCie has just released a new drive that may suit your needs. It’s called the Rugged Safe, and LaCie tout it as the safest mobile hard drive on the market. The 500GB capacity, bus-powered USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 drive sports [...]
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CyberCom gets new 4-star general as boss

The new U.S. Cyber Command, CyberCom for short, has a new boss. CNet is reporting that Army General Keith Alexander will lead the new division as a four-star general after his promotion on Friday. The division will be based at Fort Meade, Maryland and will initially consist of 1,000 people. CyberCom is a subdivision of U.S. [...]
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British scientist infects himself with computer virus

A British scientist has infected a chip implanted in his hand in an attempt to demonstrate some of the threats we face in the future as technology becomes an integral part of our bodies. Dr. Mark Gasson of Reading University implanted a RFID chip under his skin last year. It is used to allow him secure [...]
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Ping.fm integrated with Google Buzz and Seesmic on the iPhone and web

Ping.fm, a free service that makes it easy to update all your social statuses and microblogs in one go, has been updated with Google Buzz support, allowing your posts to appear as buzzes as well. In addition, the service has been integrated with the Seesmic for iPhone app and Seesmic web app. It’s a natural progression [...]
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Amyli on "How to Make a Copy of DVD Movies on Mac OS X"

yeah, I think handbrake works perfect!
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Twitter to charge publishers

Twitter has announced that it will no longer allow third parties to pollute the Twitter stream with messages advertising products and services.
Publication date: 2010-05-25 more

Google Pac-Man doodle 'cost economy $120m'

Animated Google logo designed to mark Pac-Man's 30th birthday caused millions of dollars in lost productivity, according to one analyst.
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Game on: Thriller in need of a wake-up call

First unveiled five years ago, Alan Wake's protracted gestation hasn't augured well. Deadlines meant nothing and the original plan for a free-roaming world was jettisoned for the tightly scripted, strictly linear trek of the finished product.
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Digital Life: Add a new dimension to your TV

The stampede toward 3D TV is gathering pace as all the big manufacturers race to bring an extra dimension to your sitting room.
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Dell Streak

Computer giant Dell today sought to steal a march on Apple’s iPad launch by announcing the release of its Google Android-based Streak tablet in the UK. It will be available on O2 from early June, and then later in the month via Dell.co.uk.
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Eircom targets illegal music-sharing

THOUSANDS of Eircom broadband users caught illegally sharing music will be targeted each week as part of a major clampdown.
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Facebook chief makes privacy change pledge

Founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said that Facebook sometimes moves ‘too fast’ but is working to fix mistakes made on privacy
Publication date: 2010-05-24 more

Soda machine modified to dispense using iPhone app

Vending machines may be getting more futuristic with the introduction of touchscreens and gender-sensing camera systems, but when it comes to choosing and paying for an item there still needs to be interaction with the machine and money inserted. However, one MIT students has changed that with the creation of an iPhone app that can [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-24 more

Last day to get Portal for free

On May 12 Valve made a surprising, but very welcome announcement. To celebrate the launch of Steam for Mac Portal is free to download for a limited period. That free period ends today, so if you haven’t taken advantage of Valve’s generous offer head on over to the promotional page and get downloading before it’s too [...]
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Google betas encrypted Google search

Privacy is largely a luxury that all of us have sacrificed in order to be online, as the recent Facebook privacy lapse makes abundantly clear. Still, as bad as social networks and other web sites can be about your privacy, you’re usually most vulnerable on your home network… which is why it’s always somehow [...]
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Amazon and Asus team up to preload Kindle for PC software on netbooks

Asus and Amazon’s latest deal seems like a good one for both companies: the netbook manufacturer and the world’s largest e-book store are teaming up to deliver Kinddle for PC software on all Asus Eee PC netbooks. On Amazon’s part, they are simply following their strategy of countering Apple’s iPad and iBooks through ubiquity: the [...]
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Alienware M11x getting processor refresh next month

Dell clearly weren’t happy with already having the most powerful 11″ laptop on the market courtesy of the Alienware M11x, so they are upgrading it. Confirmed at the Digital Consumer Channel MEA 2010 by Dell’s Pearce Clune in the video you see above, the M11x will receive a processor refresh in June. Better yet, you’ll be [...]
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HTC Vision: HTC Desire with a QWERTY keyboard

The image you see above is of the already-available HTC Touch Pro2 sporting a QWERTY keyboard, but HTC may have a new phone with keyboard attached in line for a release. It’s called the HTC Vision and clips a QWERTY keyboard on to the back of the HTC Desire. With the Desire already having such a [...]
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Review: Skate 3 on Xbox 360

When EA Black Box released Skate for the Xbox 360 and PS3 back in 2007 it was a both a surprise and a reset for what a skateboarding game could be. Provide the player with a big open world to skate around, couple that with a solid set on controls and a simple trick system [...]
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Zynga to promote at 7-Eleven, get ready for the Farmville Big Gulp

Social gaming company Zynga is set to expand its presence in the real-world through a new promotional deal with 7-Eleven. Across some 7,000 stores we can expect to see Farmville, Mafia Wars, and YoVille getting heavily promoted with consumers able to claim virtual Zynga goods through certain purchases and redemption codes. Products such as the Big [...]
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jimmy8765 on "How to Make a Copy of DVD Movies on Mac OS X"

I previewed many (about 15) different DVD and Blu-ray ripping products and Pavtube offered the most flexible combination of options for the two tasks I wanted to accomplish. The thing that I would really love to see added to PAVTUBE Ripping and Conversion software would be the ability to encode video files with more than one audio stream. This would make PAVTUBE the absolute very best and it would allow me to eliminate the need for many other programs and provide me with one program that would meet all my needs! I am a mac user,I am really excited that Pavtube have released the Blu-Ray Ripper for Apple.I download demo version from here: http://www.pavtube.com/blu-ray-ripper-mac/
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MSI SketchBook laptop flips keyboard to reveal graphics tablet

If you are someone who uses your laptop for producing artwork then there’s probably a graphics tablet sitting in your bag. But that may not be the case for much longer if MSI’s SketchBook concept makes it to market. The SketchBook looks just like a normal laptop, but it has a hidden feature. Flip the keyboard [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-22 more

Watch a live feed of the BP oil spill

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’re probably well aware of the BP oil spill disaster in the gulf as a result of an oil rig explosion on April 20th. That initial explosion led to a fire and a secondary explosion which resulted in the sinking of the platform on April 22nd. Two leaks [...]
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Google: Apple is Big Brother now

Remember how Apple compared IBM to Big Brother in their famed “1984″ Macintosh advert? Google says Apple is Big Brother now. How times change… Speaking in front of developers at their annual conference in San Francisco earlier this week, Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president of engineering, compared the Californian consumer electronic powerhouse to Big Brother, throwing [...]
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Facebook account data could be used to predict dating

It’s no secret that Facebook sorts through millions of user accounts in order to determine patterns inside user data that could be used for targeted advertising and other future streams of income. But what may not be well known is that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also experimented in examining user data from time to time, looking [...]
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Tissot helps you choose a new watch with augmented reality software

Watch maker Tissot has a futuristic way for customers to see how a watch looks on them using 3D augmented reality. Using software called Tissot Reality customers will be able to view how the Tissot Touch collection looks on their own wrist. The software works with a webcam and is compatible with Windows and Mac [...]
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AT&T increasing early termination fee to $325

Considering a new smartphone contract and new phone with AT&T? Well, don’t even think about trying to end your contract early as the Early Termination Fee (ETF) is about to sky rocket. Currently AT&T charge $175 for ETF, but from June 1 it is being increased to $325 for smartphones regardless of whether you are a [...]
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Prima Strategy Guides get Steam powered

Back in the old SNES days when I was just an earnest gamer sprogling, I would never walk away from the local Electronics Boutique without both a new game and the accompanying strategy guide. Over the years, I ended up with quite a library of them, but eventually, those dog-eared paperbacks seemed like relics of [...]
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Huge breakthrough in quantum teleportation beams data ten miles

Although shows like Star Trek and movies like The Fly have indoctrinated us to think of teleportation as deconstructing matter in one location and then magically recorporealizing it in another, there’s another type of teleportation that rarely gets talked about: quantum teleportation. And it’s already here. In quantum teleportation, the quantum state of atoms, ions and [...]
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Adobe Photoshop crashes on quit, fills with rage

Over an ManiacalRage there are some funny CS4 Crash Report messages. Adobe opens the door with that text input area and people step right in, sending in the sort of sarcasm that only the software that people use all day long could generate. The one posted above is definitely the best of the bunch though. I’m [...]
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HP uses new flexible display technology for US Military watchphones

Watch phones continue to be rather absurd affairs, but HP’s latest conceptual project for the United States Military looks to up the ante on watchphones into the awesome. Internally called their “Dick Tracy Watch,” HP’s new watch phone actually seems more similar to the PIP-Boy 2000 from the Fallout series of games. Their next-generation watch is [...]
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Expect Android 2.2 update if you have one of these phones

Deciding to go on a two year contract with an Android smartphone certainly gives you a more open OS on which to communicate and use apps than the iPhone does, but the question always remains as to whether your phone will get the latest version of Android as an upgrade in a timely manner? Android 2.2 [...]
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Tesla Motors and Toyota partner to create electric vehicles

When it comes to developing electric vehicles it seems that Toyota and Tesla Motors won’t be competitors. The companies have announced a partnership to jointly develop electric vehicles and parts. As part of the agreement Toyota will purchase $50 million shares of Tesla’s common stock subsequent to the launch of Tesla’s initial public offering. Elon Musk, [...]
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Introducing the Machine, a homemade contraption made from scavenged car horns

If you’ve been following American contemporary art, you’ve must have stumbled upon the works of Llyn Foulkes. If not, what better way of familiarizing yourself with the artist’s opus than the Machine, a new kind of a homemade musical instrument that only a twisted mind like Foulkes’ could think of. A Los Angeles artist and musician, [...]
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GameCrazy begins its going-out-of-business sale, reducing prices by 20 percent

GameCrazy is officially liquidating its outlets across the US, reducing the price of the remaining inventory by 20 percent.
Publication date: 2010-05-22 more

The government gives Google

The stars are definitely aligning for Google. With a huge Android 2.2 splash, Google TV announcement, and a bunch of new stuff that came out of Google’s developers conference now behind us, the news has just reached us that regulators have greenlit the search firm’s $750 million acquisition of AdMob, the leading mobile advertising network. [...]
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iCushion allows you to take your iPhone to bed

It’s been a long day. You go to put down your iPhone to go to bed and are torn with the notion it won’t be in your hands again until the morning. What you really want to do is snuggle up with it before you go to sleep. Well, now you can. Freshome.com reports that the [...]
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Eclectic Method Music Video shows that robots have rhythm

Eclectic Method is a London group comprised of three music video artists that are well known for their AV sampling/remixing style that often gets them invited to perform to live audiences across the globe.  Today -it looks like the group has set their musical sights on one of our favorite geek subjects and that is robots. The [...]
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Fable III Collector

Lionhead Studios announced Friday that Fable III not only be released on the Xbox 360, but will also be available for the PC later this year. Those who purchase the PC version will get a $10 discount, knocking the price down to $49.99. However, the full-fledged Collector's Edition will only be available for the Xbox 360 for $79.99.
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Seesmic for iPhone launches

Seesmic has finally launched an iPhone version of its popular social networking application. Using the app, iPhone owners will be able to keep track of multiple social network accounts including those from MySpace, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Flickr, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook and Ping.fm. One of the most powerful features of the application is the ability to post [...]
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cnectd offers alternative to SMS/MMS and IM

If you are looking for an alternative to SMS/MMS and instant messaging cnectd may be your solution. The application, which supports  iPhone, Android, Symbian and BlackBerry operates independently of instant and text messaging solutions to allow a user to chat with multiple contacts, share images and location. The solution will even allow you to [...]
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Facebook: 'people don't want complete privacy online'

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, has said that people do not want complete privacy online, in a new interview.
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Apple changes policy, wants your cash now

Earlier this week we learned that Apple store weren’t accepting cash payments for some purchases, specifically for the iPad. This restriction has been overturned though, thanks to the efforts of Diane Campbell, and ABC local news team, and some good, old fashioned public outcry. The iPad currently has a purchase limit on it (two per customer) [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Intel considering allowing displays greater than 10.2-inches with Atom N-Series

During the recession, Intel was very cagy about allowing their Atom platform of cheap, low-power-sipping CPUs from cannibalizing sales of their bread-and-butter processors like the Core 2 Duo and Core iX line of CPUs. One of the way they’ve done this is by imposing an arbitrary limitation on the screen display size that manufacturers [...]
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Publish your own ebook with Barnes & Noble PubIt! service

Barnes & Noble is opening up its website and eBookstore to independent publishers and self-publishers. The platform, called PubIt!, will offer books through the widely adopted ePub format which is compatible with a number of readers including Barnes & Noble’s NOOK and BN eReader software which is available for the PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, and [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Make it: DIY iPad stylus

Personally I’d be happy to never use a stylus again but some people just won’t let them die, even with today’s high-end capacitive touchscreens. To be fair a stylus can be useful if you draw or insist on taking notes by hand, but those are both things I’d just as well avoid. If you want a [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

MacBook teardown reveals a ten-hour battery identical in shape and size to the previous model

Those crazy teardown experts over at iFixit took apart the brand new MacBook that Apple released Tuesday. Peeking inside its white polycarbonate shell, they took a closer look at the new hardware, namely the Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics and a longer-lasting battery. For starters, iFixit noted that the new MacBook has the same model number [...]
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Samsung Becomes Guinness Record Holders for World

Samsung may not have the best smartphone, or television, or stereo, or laptop on the market. But that doesn’t make them losers: far from it. While the iPhone may reign as king, and while Sony might rule the HDTV roost, that’s all just so much finely chopped liver compared to Samsung’s real accomplishment: they are [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Sega to release new Virtual On game for Xbox 360

Sega decided to re-release its Virtual On Oratorio Tangram (VOOT) mecha fighting game on Xbox Live last year. It proved popular, so popular in fact that fans can expect a follow-up game. This time round Sega has decided to forego the digital download route and instead will release a boxed game. This new game will be [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Google sued for collecting private WiFi data

A couple of days ago, Google came out and admitted that their fleet of Street View cars had been accidentally collecting personal WiFi data. It was the good guy thing to do, and Google immediately set about trying to make amends, not just by immediately going about purging the data but by prompting a third-party [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Moshi Voice Control Alarm Clock allows you to hit snooze with a snore

Gadget bloggers see lots of novelty alarm clocks. Alarm clocks that roll off the bedside table, screaming, until you hunt them down and turn them off. Helicopter alarm clocks that physically fly around the room until you bat them down with a broom. What’s most amazing about these alarm clocks is how extreme the methods they [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Google I/O Day 2

Yesterday we posted some initial coverage of Google’s I/O developer conference, but it turns out that today, day two of the event, was by far the more exciting part. Here is a brief overview of what we’ve seen so far… Android 2.2 (Froyo) is official and impressive This one doesn’t come as much of a surprise, but [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Wiimote with integrated MotionPlus hitting the FCC?

It’s been over a year since Nintendo first unveiled its Wii MotionPlus technology, a snap-on accessory that gives the Wiimote greatly improved accuracy and sensitivity. It’s a worthwhile add-on, but at this point, you’d really expect it to be baked into the Wiimote proper. Up until now, though, there’s been no word. An FCC filing [...]
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EU fines nine chip makers for DRAM price fixing

Nine of ten chip makers have received substantial fines from the European Unions over four years of DRAM price fixing. The companies involved include Micron, Samsung, Hynix, Infineon, NEC, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Elpida, and Naya. Micron is the only company not to be fined because it was the one to step forward and tell the authorities [...]
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Quick look: Sony W Series water-resistant Walkman

Sony’s NWZ-W252 water-resistant Walkman was not immediately a product that made sense to me. In fact it looked like something an elderly person would wear while taking an early morning walk around a mall. Its headphone-free design cuts down on loose parts, but loses major style points along the way. It holds about 400 songs [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Google Storage for Developers beta aims to take on Amazon S3

It’s not the long rumored GDrive, but Google’s recently announced Storage for Developers looks like fitting competition for Amazon S3, offering developers a cheap, scalable way to store data online. Currently an experimental Google Labs project, Google Storage for Developers is currently available by invitation to U.S. developers. Go to the free sign up page, [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

IPRED anti-piracy law is a failure, needs another law passed to work

When Sweden passed the iPRED law last year it was hailed as a turning point by copyright holders who would now be able to track down pirates much more easily online. However, what those same copyright holders didn’t expect was ISPs to start deleting IP address log data in order to protect their customers from [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Star Wars Fallen AT-AT Wedding Cake makes Imperial defeat taste delicious

For those of you who remember the Dead Tuantaun Wedding Cake, thankfully I have another Star Wars Wedding Cake to show you this week that won’t necessarily creep you out. It may make you feel a little sad though – that is if you are a fan of the Empire. This fallen Star Wars AT-AT Wedding [...]
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3FN is shut down by FTC

You’ve probably heard of a rogue person or agent, but how about a rogue ISP? Believe it or not, such an ISP existed and it went by the name 3FN. While most Internet service providers concentrate on providing hosting and connectivity solutions to customers, 3FN had a niche market. They worked with the underbelly of [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

This is what Google TV looks like

We learned all about Google I/O day 2 and Google TV this morning, but details are still coming out about Google’s television solution. We do know that they are working with companies like Sony, Intel, and Logitech on the project though. Logitech just put out some more information, including the picture above of the Logitech [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Pirate Bay makes U.S. Congressional caucus piracy watch list

The Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus has created what it calls its 2010 International Piracy Watch List. The list contains countries that the caucus believe have “serious problems” when it comes to copyright piracy. This includes the countries of China, Russia, Spain and Mexico, but the caucus didn’t stop there. In addition to naming countries, the caucus [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Apple rolls out iPad App Store internationally

Good news for our overseas friends who purchased their iPad from US friends: Apple has rolled out the iPad mobile bazaar to a bunch of international markets. As a result, international iPad buyers who lack a US iTunes Store account can now purchase and download apps for the device from their localized iPad App Store, [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Google in sexism row amid claims it 'censored cougar dating site adverts'

Google has become embroiled in a sexism row after reportedly censoring advertisements for a so-called "cougar" dating websites for women despite taking no action against similar sites for men.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Bricks-and-mortar retailers cannot ignore web presence

Indigenous Irish company Buy4Now Technology Group is set to create 20 new jobs over the next two years in a major R&D and export programme, with support from Enterprise Ireland. Michael Veale is CEO
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Broadband wars

THIS autumn, broadband providers are set to compete aggressively for the hearts and pockets of Irish businesses and consumers, offering speeds that would have been undreamt of even three years ago.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Dell on a mission to evolve from pure-play PC maker to global services giant

IT’S almost a year and a half since Limerick was struck with the harsh news that computer-manufacturing giant Dell was pulling out of the city, with the loss of 1,900 jobs, and transferring manufacturing to Poland.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Is it possible to have online privacy?

There’s a storm brewing in cyberspace. Internet users who, until now, have been perfectly happy to share their most intimate thoughts online, are questioning whether things have gone too far.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Facebook block over Mohammed caricature competition

FACEBOOK was sucked into a growing row over Islam and freedom of speech yesterday after a Pakistani court ordered the site to be blocked over a page advertising a contest to draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Blakeyates on "Mac or PC?"

Well I'm in sort of a dilema.. I'm wanting to buy a new notebook this weekend and cannot decide which side to go to. I'm a huge windows fan but lately I've been working with alot of Macs.. Should I get another PC or should i get the Mac book pro?
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Hewlett-Packard lifted by corporate demand

Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest personal-computer maker, reported second-quarter profit and sales that beat estimates after corporate buyers replaced aging server computers and consumers took home new PCs.
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Google plays down privacy fears

Google has played down concerns about user privacy, arguing that pictures and personal information shared on social networking sites could be more damaging than the data it collects through its search engine.
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Microsoft gives Hotmail a makeover

Microsoft is updating Hotmail, its free email service, in a bid to retain and grow market share over its major rivals: Google’s Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Gold Vending Machine premiers in Abu Dhabi

When people are thirsty, they often visit a soda vending machine. When they get hungry and there are no shops around, sometimes a snack vending machine will do in a pinch. But what is a wealthy person to do when they get a hankering to hold some new precious metal in their hand and the [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Cash isn

According to an ABC story by Michael Finney,  Apple is refusing to accept your hard-earned cash in exchange for an iPad. The last time I checked, paper money was a valid payment method in this country, even though the law doesn’t require retailers to accept dead presidents. The ABC piece describes the case of Diane Campbell, [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Crystal Dynamics release Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light gameplay trailer

Back in March developer Crystal Dynamics announced that a new Lara Croft game was in development called Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Unlike other games in the series this one drops the Tomb Raider name and will be download only. This week a gameplay trailer has been released giving us a good idea of [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Palm webOS phones arrive at AT&T

As we were told in January, Palm webOS phones have finally arrived on the nation’s #2 wireless network. Beginning yesterday, Palm fans can walk into an AT&T store or visit their online store and pick a Palm Pre Plus. The Palm Pixi Plus, however, will be available from June 6, the carrier said. AT&T is advertising [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Nvidia puts Tesla GPUs inside IBM

IBM has struck an important deal with the graphics giant Nvidia that has resulted in the creation of a GPGPU-enabled IBM datacenter. This major milestone helps IBM customers that crunch lots of numbers take advantage of a tremendous horsepower provided by the Nvidia Tesla supercomputing processors. Dubbed the iDataPlex DX360 M3, this new IBM datacenter server [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Seagate 3.1TB HDD first of many drives to require new BIOS

We’ve known the day was coming for a while now, but with Seagate’s announcement today of the world’s first three terabyte hard drive, the day has finally come when modern hard drives will no longer support DOS or Windows XP. Known as the Constellation ES, the drive will not only offer the largest storage platter out [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Microsoft previews the new Hotmail experience

Microsoft has revealed a number of new details about its forthcoming update to the Hotmail e-mail service. And this is no small update with Microsoft seeming to rebuild Hotmail from the ground up. Here’s a list of the major new features touched upon in the video and Windows Blog post: Sweeps Microsoft’s answer to the virtual broom. With [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Up next for Kindle: Color e-ink, multitouch, games, apps

According to a Monday piece by the New York Times, Amazon is on a hiring spree, acquiring engineers left and right as it preps the next Kindle. The online retailer appears adamant to get a piece of the iPad action as it’s believed to be adding greater functionality to its e-reader, namely a color screen [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Hulu Plus $10 subscription service delayed

Last month, we reported that Hulu was about to test a $9.95 a month subscription service possibly as soon as May 24th. The new subscription service is expected to offer greater access to Hulu’s catalog while non-paying members will be limited. For example, non-paying members will only be able to access the last five episodes [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Original Disney Parks

It’s a sad day for would-be Rebel X-Wing pilots. Disney Parks fantastic Star Wars themed Star Tours ride is being overhauled this year, and that means that the best ride in all of Disneyland will close its doors on July 27th, with Walt Disney World soon to follow on September 8th. If you’ve never been on [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

The Pirate Party is now the ISP for the Pirate Bay

Not that any of our honest readers noticed, but yesterday, the world famous Pirate Bay website and torrent tracker went down without notice after a German injunction knocked out their ISP. It wasn’t a big deal — this has happened to the Pirate Bay countless times — and sure enough, they were back up and [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Nintendo developer says next Zelda game will be

In an interview with German gaming site Gaming Media, Nintendo developer Shigeru Miyamoto discussed the early stages of development for the new Zelda game. According to Miyamoto, Nintendo is "creating a new way to play the game," one that differs from the typical pattern we've come to expect from the Zelda franchise.
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

NTT DoCoMo app generates e-mail from three words on your mobile

Japanses mobile company NTT DoCoMo has developed a new automatic e-mail generation feature for its latest mobile handsets. The system is meant to make it very simple to send e-mail to others by only requiring the user input 1-3 key words or phrases. So, for example, the user can select the word “late” and phrase “ten [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

EFF: 8 in 10 browsers have unique, trackable signatures

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has discovered that regardless of what measures are taken to protect your privacy online your web browser could allow you to be tracked. The EFF carried out an experiment which anonymously logged the configuration and version information of users navigating to the panopticlick.eff.org website. Every configuration is different and the EFF [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Quick review: Jabra Extreme Bluetooth headset

The Jabra Extreme is a tiny Bluetooth headset that offers up some of Jabra’s best technology. Selling for about $55 it will be competing with products like the Jawbone Prime and Jabra’s own Stone. The Extreme isn’t just another tiny Bluetooth headset, it has some nice selling point as well. These include A2DP, MultiUse support for [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Rumor: Sony PlayStation Network to go Premium, offer free games and streaming music service

Although Microsoft’s Xbox Live is a fantastic online service, it does have at least one obvious disadvantage over Sony’s competing PlayStation Network: it costs money to use, and without signing up for a subscription, you can’t even use your Xbox 360 to do basic online stuff like multiplayer gaming. The PlayStation Network, at least, doesn’t [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Google goes real-time with Feed API v2 push updates

Google has offered up video detailing the latest version of its Feed API. Version 2.0 will support real-time PubSubHubbub feeds which will allow new content to appear on a web page without the need for a visitor to reload the site. As shown in the video, an example would be a new blog entry that [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Panasonic Skype Camera available now for Viera HDTVs in the United States

First appearing at this year’s CES in Las Vegas and premiering in Japan a couple months ago, Panasonic’s Skype camera for the company’s Viera line of HDTVs has finally made its way to the United States. The Skype camera will work on Viera cast enabled Panasonic 2010 HDTVs (namely the Viera VT25, VT20, G25 and G20 [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Tweetie pulled from the App Store ahead of Twitter

Tweetie disappeared from the App Store late yesterday, leading some to suspect that this popular Twitter client for the iPhone has fallen prey of yet another app rejection. However, considering Twitter recently acquired Tweetie’s developer and the app itself, the move most likely signals the imminent release of Twitter’s official client for the iPhone, simply [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Best Buy gets into video on-demand with CinemaNow

Back in November of last year, we reported that Best Buy had teamed up with Sonic Solutions to offer on-demand video content to web-connected televisions, portable media players, PCs, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and mobile phones. Now it seems the partnership between Sonic and Best Buy is ready to bear fruit with the launch of [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

YouTube hits two billion views a day

YouTube has exceeded two billions views a day as it celebrates the fifth anniversary since first launching in beta in 2005.
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Google cars picked up private data from homes

INQUIRIES by German data officials led to the inadvertent discovery that Irish people's private online information had been collected by internet search giant Google.
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Digital Life: They shoot, they score

FIFA World Cup South Africa: Is there any game that is more doomed to obsolescence than FWCSA?
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Digital Life: Re-charging just got easier

Imagine the delicious scenario: you stop off for a cuppa at your favourite coffee shop, put your phone down on the counter and 20 minutes later it's charged up without ever plugging it in.
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Gamers, this is not the

Any World of Warcraft player worth their accumulated subscription fees has, at one time or another, dreamt of a smartphone capable of playing WoW. Heck, I’ve wished for one myself: maybe a limited iPhone app that doesn’t let me raid, necessarily, but at least allows me to access my in-game mail, chat and the auction [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Facebook privacy spurs movement to quit and funding of alternatives

While grumblings over Facebook’s privacy standards continue one website is asking users to take a definitive step to protest. The goal of the website? To get you to quit Facebook on May 31st. The website, appropriately named Quit Facebook Day, asks for people to add their name with others who plan to quit the social network. [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Source leaks info on Sony

Online rumors speculate Sony will announce a paid-for-premium PlayStation Network service at E3. According to VG247, an inside source revealed Sony will announce a large-scale monetizing scheme for PSN at the LA expo this June. For "less than
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Winner of best illusion contest seems to defy laws of gravity

The Best Illusion of the Year Contest is sponsored by the Neural Correlate Society which promotes research into the neural correlates of sensory perception, awareness, and cognitive experience. This year’s contest was narrowed down to the top 10 submissions with the first prize being awarded to an illusion which seems to violate the laws of [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

AT&T doubling 3G data speed to 14.4MBps for 250 million Americans by the year

AT&T is stepping up efforts to bring its high-speed data network to as many Americans as possible, announcing plans to deploy a HSPA+ data network upgrade to more than 250 million US customers by the year’s end. Although AT&T – which recently tweaked its branding in an effort to re-position itself as a lifestyle company – [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Iron Man 2

It’s pretty safe to assume that if a summer blockbuster was pushing the envelope in any field it would be that of computer graphics. This would be doubly true if the movie was about a man in an indestructible flying robot suit. It turns out that Iron Man 2’s most impressive feat of technology is not its computer [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Busted: AT&T doesn

Believe it or not, but Apple’s exclusive US carrier doesn’t know that the App Store is carrying well over 200,000 apps on its virtual store shelves. Worse, they’re advertising the iPhone as having a hundred thousand apps despite the mobile bazaar having crossed that particular milestone well over six months ago. Think I’m making this [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

A new patent reveals insanely great Facebook integration in iPhone OS 4

Apple has fixed an issue with data exchange between incompatible devices and solved the problems related to social sharing between different platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn. According to the ideas outlined in Apple’s patent application titled “Device-to-device workflows,” iPhone OS 4 could let you perform common actions, including various social networking requests, with a touch of [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Adjectives introduced in 5th Cell

Prepare to dawn that thinking cap once more. Super Scribblenauts, the sequel to 5th Cell's revolutionary Nintendo DS game, is set to release in autumn 2010, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced Monday.
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

LEGO Keyboard Decals won

As a sentient biomass of pure geekdom, the Internet shows no signs of abating its love for the dimpled, brightly colored plastic bricks of its collective youth: LEGOs. The LEGO company has gleefully taken advantage of our fanaticism even in the realm of consumer electronics: there have been LEGO digicams, even. But even LEGO hasn’t ever [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

New Ford Fiesta will now tweet your terrible driving

Twitter’s always been full of too much superfluous information, from a middle-aged office manager’s musings on what kind of sandwich she’ll have to lunch to a too-lurid description of a mysterious pustule found upon the backside of a seventeen year old. Gadgets haven’t helped any: there’s gadgets out there now that will tweet your plant [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Project Natal Might Cost $150 In The United States

In order to compete with the Nintendo Wii in the casual market, Microsoft’s been working on their long-touted Project Natal motion-sensing accessory for years now, but the big concern has always been price: while the Wii costs just a couple hundred dollars, Project Natal is an additional expense on top of an already expensive Xbox [...]
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Google grounds Street View fleet after they inadvertently record privacy-breaching public WiFi data

Google’s corporate philosophy is simple: “Don’t be evil.” Last week, though, Google got caught doing something very evil indeed: using their fleet of cars that make the pedestrian-style view in Google Maps possible, Google was probing unprotect WiFi networks that they passed and recording which websites were looking at. Pretty evil, huh? It sure is. So [...]
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More iPhone 4G videos leak

Back in the day it was pretty hard to get your hands on an iPhone prototype, just about impossible. Well, something went seriously off the rails with Apple security with this release because another next generation iPhone has hit YouTube. This time the leaks is from Vietnam, just like what we saw last week. Not a [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Sylvania MusicLite LED bulbs turns any lamp or light fixture into a wireless speaker

There’s a lot of ways to get your music wirelessly piped into the room of your choice, from expensive, high-end systems like Sonos’ offerings to affordable, Mac-friendly solutions like Apple’s own Airtunes. One of the wireless music solutions I like best though is the Lightspeaker system Klipsch announced earlier this year, which combined LED bulbs and [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Royal Companion Arcade Stick turns a typewriter into a joystick

Like many writers, I’ve always been romantically and nostalgically drawn to the venerable typewriter, which, like a bicycle, is pretty much the definition of the perfect analogue gadget, and as both a writer and a gadget lover, I’ve always wanted an old Underwood. Unfortunately, I’ve always known I would never actually use one: while I [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Apple vs. media: Steve Jobs and Gawker

To cut a long story short, a Gawker blogger lured Apple’s boss into an email flame war over iPad, the company’s walled garden approach, and recent business decisions. The conversation quickly takes a turn for the worse and a blogger eventually got what was coming to him. It all started rather benignly, when a Gawker author [...]
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iPhone HD: E-reading display, iBooks, June launch, 24 million units in 2010

Digitimes reported Monday that Apple’s component suppliers and manufacturing partners are now receiving big iPhone HD orders, the strongest indication to date that the official launch is weeks away. The publication’s senior analysts Ming-Chi Kuo interviewed sources close to Asian component makers who believe Apple commissioned its favorite contract manufacturer Foxconn to build 24 million iPhone [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

IBM Model M keyboard simulator

Stuck on a crappy rubber membrane keyboard? Forget what it even feels like to type on IBM’s Model M, the king of clickiness? This keyboard simulator will get you half way there. Basically you type on your keyboard and the site makes the sounds that the Model M would make. So you get the auditory feedback [...]
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Quick Review: Picross 3D for Nintendo DS

Summary: Picross 3D is Minesweeper for the 21st century. A 3D shape is hidden within a block of cubes. Some of those cubes have numbers on them telling you which blocks need to stay and which need to go. Using the available information you need to reveal the object within as quickly as possible. Verdict: [...]
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White MacBooks with faster processor and graphics en route

According to a credible new leak, the white MacBook will receive a minor upgrade to better align Apple’s entry-level notebook offering with the recently refreshed 2010 MacBook Pros. According to a post, the new MacBook retains the same white polycarbonate plastic enclosure and a 13-inch widescreen display at 1280×800 pixel from the previous upgrade, with a little [...]
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NVIDIA wants Tegra 2 equipped Android devices to compete with Apple

Apple’s A4 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are some of the snappiest CPUs in the mobile market, but NVIDIA is now looking to take both of them on, with CEO Jen-Hsun Huang saying that the GPU company is looking to position the second generation Tegra chipset as a multimedia and performance-focused alternative for high-end mobile devices.
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i-Fairy Robot Marries Japanese Couple, Each Working in Robotics

After a lifetime of indoctrination through sci-fi cinema, I usually spend my time worrying about robots ripping humanity apart with their steel, servo-controlled pinching claws, so it generally warms my heart to see that at least one robot out there is capable of bringing two people together… in matrimony that is. The story comes from Japan [...]
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Details leading up to Gizmodo iPhone search warrant released

Unless you have been living under a rock you probably know all about the drama surrounding the lost iPhone prototype that an Apple engineer by the name of Gray Powell lost in a bar that was later found by Brian Hogan (pictured above) who then sold the prototype to Gizmodo. Those series of events led [...]
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Stallman: Any non-free program is wrong

Mashable was able to line up free software advocate (and geek legend) Richard Stallman for an video interview recently. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s worth a watch. This is just one part though, more are on the way. Stallman is, as usually, all about free and open source software. But what does “free” mean? [...]
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Co-founder of Wikipedia giving up his editing rights

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, found himself in a public relations hurricane after Fox News reported that Wales had sent an email to the FBI in April with concerns over content posted in two categories of the Wikimedia Commons archive including one on pedophilia and another for Japenese lolicon comics. Wales [...]
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New 'secret iPhone 4G prototype' discovered in Vietnam

A second 4G iPhone next-generation prototype has reportedly been discovered, this time surfacing in Vietnam and apparently without permission from Apple.
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Using laptops or iPads just before bed 'increases risk of insomnia'

Computer users should turn their laptop or Apple iPad off at least two hours before going to bed if they want a good night’s sleep, scientists say.
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Bandai to offer Gundam replica that stands 5 feet tall

If you are a big fan of Gundam anime you may want to add this latest replica by Bandai on to your holiday wish list. The replica stands five feet tall and is a 1/12 scale of the RX-78-2 Gundam. It will ship with a beam rifle, beam saber and a shield. Each replica, which will [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-16 more

Got $190,000 laying around? Then grab a Solid Gold iPad

If you are one of the people out there that think the iPad is more costly than practical, just wait until you get a load at this Richie Rich style modded iPad. Created by the luxury design folks over at Stuart Hughes, this iPad has been tricked out with 53 flawless diamonds in the Apple logo, [...]
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Student? Text folks for free and read voicemail transcriptions while in class with Google Voice

Google Voice may still be an invite-only affair limited to a few hundred thousand lucky users, but if you’re a US student you can get a Google Voice invite within 24 hours and join the party. All you have to do is visit google.com/voice/students and enter an email address that ends in .edu. Jason Toff, an [...]
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AdMob serves up its 200 billionth mobile ad

AdMob announced that it has now served up its 200 billionth (that’s with a b) mobile ad.  AdMob is one of the world’s largest mobile ad networks and was first founded back in 2006. Incredibly, the company reached the 100 billionth ad milestone only nine months ago back in August 2009. Chances are you’ve probably seen [...]
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Google to pull down Nexus One from web store and sell it exclusively through carriers

Google will stop offering its iPhone-killer Nexus One through the web store because that didn’t work out for them. Instead, the search firm said today, Nexus One will be exclusively sold by the carriers around the world, just like any other handset. Calling the Nexus One “a beacon of innovation among Android handsets,” Google’s mobility chief [...]
Publication date: 2010-05-15 more

The iPhone HD to launch June 21, AT&T may have inadvertently slipped

AT&T, Apple’s exclusive carrier in the US, is allegedly changing upgrade eligibility dates in the system to reflect a rumored June 21 iPhone HD launch. At least one reader informed MobileCrunch of a sudden change in upgrade eligibility date on his AT&T account. According to the publication, AT&T has moved upgrade eligibility date for this individual five [...]
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Google vanity lands copywriter a new job

Ever googled your name to see what kind of results they receive? While the task may seem a bit on the narcissistic side, the practice of vanity googling ended up helping a copywriter who was bored with his current gig find a brand new job. Alec Brownstein, a man determined to elevate himself on the corporate ladder, used the [...]
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Want to see what your coworkers are doing? Raise a cubicle periscope.

You ever get that sensation when working in a cubicle that you feel a little isolated – cut off from the rest of the world or at least the office? Apparently so did flickr account user Ian. To remedy this feeling of dread, though, he took it upon himself to successfully fashion a cubicle periscope [...]
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GMail cutting into Yahoo

Google may be beating Yahoo when it comes to search engine market share, but Yahoo is still tops when it comes to email according to Silicon Alley Insider (SAI). The website’s chart of the day shows the U.S. unique visitors to each service’s webmail sites. While first impressions of the chart would leave you to [...]
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The next iPhone could auto-add local business apps to your homescreen

Picture this: You’re travelling on a vacation and the minute you land at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France your iPhone offers an app highlighting the must-see landmarks. Or, you walk in that fancy restaurant that a friend was telling you about the other day and up pops a virtual menu automagically disappears [...]
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A barcode scanning app RedLaser is big on the iPhone

What do you reckon files as a stellar achievement for an iPhone app? A hundred thousand downloads? A million? How about two million downloads of RedLaser, a barcode reader that costs a buck? Wait, that’s not all. Besides being featured in an iPhone TV commercial, the RedLaser app has maintained nearly a million active users who [...]
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MONKEYmedia sues Apple for patent infringement using Apple

You’d be forgiven for mistaking MONKEYmedia’s patent infringement lawsuit against Apple for the Mac maker’s legal claim against the handset vendor HTC as the user interface studio’s complaint represents a blatant rip-off of Apple’s argument against HTC. If you ask me, that’s a really bad way to claim an intellectual property theft. The lawsuit that MONKEYmedia [...]
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Dell Mini 5 aka

Dell’s long imminent first tablet, the Dell Mini 5 aka “Streak,” is getting closer to release: according to CEO Michael Dell, the Streak will debut in the United States on AT&T in late summer. The Streak isn’t really iPad-like. Instead, it has more in common in size and form factor with various MIDs, or a larger [...]
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Quick Thoughts: Adobe Creative Suite 5

By: Josh Korwin and Sal Cangeloso Right on schedule Adobe has released the newest edition of their industry-standard Creative Suite software package. Creative Suite 5 brings some big changes to the suite, more than users might expect if they were using CS4 as a benchmark. Interestingly (and finally) these changes weren’t just on the features/UI side. [...]
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Schmidt says Android OS will be

There’s been a lot of back and forth lately about whose on top in the smartphone wars between Apple and Google. The NPD group recently claimed that Android was the biggest smartphone operating system in the United States… a claim loudly contested by Apple, who pointed out that the mobile operating system ecosystem as a [...]
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Apple Support Will Be Almost Entirely Offline For The Weekend

If you have a problem with your Mac, iPhone or iPod, this is not the weekend to call Apple support: according to an internal Apple memo, all of Apple’s support servers will be offline this weekend, limiting customer support to basic troubleshooting. Don’t expect an Apple Store to even consider fixing your product if you [...]
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i-Got-Control turns your iPhone or iPad into a universal remote

We all know that besides his dog, another one of man’s best friends is his remote control. But if you happen to own several audio or video devices, keeping track of all their separate remotes can sometimes be a little daunting. What if you could use a device you already carry with you from day to day [...]
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LimeWire found liable for copyright infringement

LimeWire got some bad news this week. PC Pro reports that Judge Kimba Wood announced her decision in the lawsuit brought against the company by the RIAA back in 2006. The decision found that LimeWire’s parent company as well as its founder, Mark Gorton, were liable for copyright infringement. LimeWire offers file sharing software which allows [...]
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MW2 Resurgence DLC screenshots released

We already know that the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence DLC is landing on the Xbox 360 on June 3, 2010, but how about some pictures? Oh yeah, and some details would be nice too… There will be 5 maps and Shacknews is reporting that the DLC will sell for $15 (1200 MS points), the same price [...]
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Upcoming Mass Effect 2 DLC pits Shepard against a rogue human-robot hybrid

Five new level areas and two new Achievements will be available in the upcoming "Overlord" DLC for Mass Effect 2. First revealed at Electronic Arts' European Showcase even in London on Wednesday, the DLC has now been detailed and priced on the official Mass Effect 2 website.
Publication date: 2010-05-14 more

Smartphones to blame for shrinking voice call margins

With smartphones and data plans getting cheaper by the month and with the rise of alternative ways like Twitter, email, and Facebook to communicate on your phone without touching your minutes, it’s no surprise that the length of the average cell phone call in America is at an all-time low. What is surprising, though, is [...]
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NPD: Nintendo DS will overtake PlayStation 2 as best-selling console of all time

The PlayStation 2 is the king of all video game consoles. It has sold more units than any other console ever, a deserved distinction: the PS2 was host to some of the best video games ever, and while it wasn’t the most advanced console of the last generation, it was certainly the machine most synonymous [...]
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1 in 4 U.S. households only have a wireless phone

The National Center for Health Statistics has released the result of a survey which found that 24.5% or 1 in 4 U.S. households only have wireless phones. The stats, from the last half of 2009, show an increase of 1.8% when compared to the first half of 2009. Even more interesting, another 14.9% did have [...]
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Boeing

We usually think of Boeing’s supersonic stealth fighters are enormous mechanical manta rays skating through the stratosphere. Boeing’s latest Phantom Ray aircraft immediately surprises, then, by its small size: it’s only thirty-six feet long from wing to wing. It’s small for a reason, though… there’s no room for a pilot. The Phantom Ray is [...]
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John Cleese displays British wit in new Fable III documentary

Designer Peter Molyneux and actor John Cleese discuss the upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive Fable III in the latest installment of the "Inside Lionhead" video documentary series.
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Apple eying contactless payments, exploring e-wallet app

Apple is exploring software and hardware technologies that could turn the next iPhone into a payment processing machine, several patents indicate. The latest patent that Apple filed with the US Patent & Trademark Office points to a software program called Transactions designed to handle mobile payments on the handset in conjunction with either a near-field [...]
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Subscribe to publications without leaving Facebook

Facebook users will soon be able to subscribe to their favorite publications without leaving the Facebook website. That’s the goal behind a new partnership between Synapse (part of Time Inc.) and Alvenda, which has built Facebook e-commerce apps for companies including Hallmark and 1-800-Flowers. The system would allow Facebook users to fully expand blurbs of magazine [...]
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India looks to jails to help fill outsourcing needs

Many U.S.-based companies have looked to India to outsource IT functions in efforts to find savings. Now it seems Radiant Info Systems has found a way to increase these savings by securing employees from a new source: jails. The BBC is reporting that Radiant has joined a public-private partnership with the Indian department of jails. The [...]
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Android 2.2 to support tethering and turn your phone into a mobile WiFi hotspot

Whenever Googlers drop an enormous dessert sculpture on their lawn, you can bet a new Android version is about to be released. And while it’s been quiet in the Android camp lately, a frozen yogurt delivered outside Google’s Mountain View headquarters yesterday signaled that the change is coming. Android 2.2, code-named Froyo, will update Google’s mobile operating [...]
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Apple yanks wireless syncing app out of the App Store

Yet another app rejection, but this one matters. Apple has red-flagged a cool iPhone app that lets you wirelessly sync your device with iTunes on the grounds that the software collides with App Store boundaries. Meanwhile, Greg Huges, the brains behind the Wi-Fi Sync app, has gone underground and is now selling the program for jailbroken [...]
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God of War writer to pen Shank for XBLA, PSN

Writer Marianne Krawczyk, best known for her BAFTA award-winning work on the God of War franchise, will be penning the 2D action brawler Shank, Klei Entertainment announced Thursday.
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Hulu: Forget about the iPad

Hulu, one of the internet’s large premium video sites, has announced a new video player and said it has no immediate plans to switch to HTML5-embedded videos that play inside web pages without requiring a browser plugin. According to the company’s blog post, ditching Flash video in favor of HTML5 is easier said than done [...]
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Review: Lost Planet 2 on Xbox 360

Your level of anticipation for finally getting to play Lost Planet 2 will probably come down to how much you enjoyed the first game. However, regardless of your like or dislike for the original, you will be in for a surprise. Lost Planet 2 may loosely follow the general mechanics of the first title, but it [...]
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Landscape formatting features added to iWork for iPad

Apple has fixed the iWork suite for iPad, the first update since this multitouch Office replacement launched alongside the iPad. All three apps in the suite – Pages, Keynote, and Numbers – addressed several reported issues, including the lack of landscape formatting toolbar in the word processing app Pages. All iWork apps are now fully localized to [...]
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DC Comics to produce comic series for Kane & Lynch

Kane & Lynch are getting their own comic book series courtesy of DC Comics. Developer IO Interactive has done a deal with DC’s Wildstorm imprint to create a series based on the past of both characters, which is typically bloody and crime-ridden. They will be written by Ian Eddington (Aliens, Predator, Terminator, Star Wars, Star Trek), [...]
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Enterprise wars: Business software giant SAP snaps up Sybase for $5.25 billion

Business software provider SAP has upped the ante in enterprise wars by acquiring database maker Sybase for $5.25 billion, the New York Times reported. As a result, SAP now has Oracle, but also IBM and Motorola, in its sight. The company will swallow Sybase’s $400 million debt and pay $65 a share for Sybase, a [...]
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Who needs Flash? Asteroids clone in HTML 5

While Adobe continues to put forward arguments as to the reason Flash is still relevant on the Internet and desktop, an enterprising few are starting to experiment with what is widely thought of as the successor to interactive and rich-media content on the web: HTML 5. One such example has been put together by Doug McInnes, [...]
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Evidence suggests Rockstar used no-CD crack for Max Payne 2 on Steam

When Valve’s digital games service Steam got popular publishers and developers were quick to jump on board. That involved updating older games which had seen a retail disc release so that they were compatible with digital download distribution. Rockstar was one developer who had a number of games to update, and it now looks as though [...]
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Apple invites you to test-drive a beta of next-gen MobileMe Mail

Apple is inviting people to try out the beta of a retooled MobileMe webmail that sports greater security and better performance, in addition to several new interesting features. According to Apple’s post, the updated MobileMe Mail is a significant upgrade that enables several new capabilities commonly found in rival webmail services. For instance, the new web [...]
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German court rules that private unsecured WiFi owners can be fined

Do you have an unsecured WiFi connection in your home? Not only is that a terribly bad idea since your neighbors could be stealing your Internet bandwidth, if you lived in Germany, you could be facing a potential fine. A recent German court ruling states that if someone downloads illegal movies, music, or other media using [...]
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Google shows off Quake-clone running in Native Client

Google might already be impressing us all with the performance of the Chrome browser, but the search giant is only just getting started with the functionality of its web browser. Another project that has been slowly gathering pace is called Native Client. In the video above Henry Bridge, product manager for Native Client, sums up the [...]
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iPad arriving at Walmart in 2010

Later this year, you’ll be able to pick up a brand-new iPad while shopping for groceries at Walmart. Putting the multitoch computer on the shelves of the world’s biggest retailers is bound to give Apple’s device a major boost in sales. According to Bloomberg, select Walmart stores in the US could offer Apple’s multitouch computer later [...]
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A new iPad commercial copies Apple

Apple aired a new iPad commercial titled “What is iPad” that tells us again how “magical,” “powerful,” and “beautiful” the 9.7-multitouch gizmo really is. It’s yet another highly polished Apple advert that’s a pleasure to watch if you disregard the fact that it takes more than a few cues from the company’s own commercial for [...]
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Boxee secures Vindicia as payment provider

Boxee has announced that it is one step closer toward allowing content providers to offer premium content via pay-per-view or subscription models. One big missing piece of the puzzle has been coming up with a way for providers to receive payment for such content. Boxee has begun to solve that problem by announcing it has [...]
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Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack arrives June 3rd

Activision and Infinity Ward have today revealed details of the next Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer map pack. The full title of the new pack is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack and you don’t have to wait long to get it as it will be available on June 3rd through Xbox Live. The Resurgence Pack [...]
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Hands-on: HTC Evo 4G handset from Sprint

Last night at a Sprint launch event I got some hands-on time with the HTC Evo 4G. This is Sprint’s newest handset as well as the first 4G phone that’s going to be available in the US. It’s a Android-powered superphone that has a 4.3-inch display and will be available for $199 on June 4th [...]
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New iPhone HD images leak on the web

This time around, a French publication BeGeek discovered a bunch of new images of another iPhone HD prototype. The device looks like an exact replica of the phone that Gizmodo broke to the world. BeGeek was able to trace those shots back to a Vietnamese forum that recently tore apart an iPhone HD prototype allegedly belonging [...]
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Apple //e and iPad make beautiful music together in video

You have got to love it when old and new technology merge. That’s the theme behind a video on the Panic Blog website. The video involves an old Apple //e, an iPad and source code which was behind a music video for the song Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) by the band Grandaddy. What spurred the [...]
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iPhone OS 4 to play nice with Facebook?

According to a “plugged-in source in the mobile industry,” iPhone OS 4 will integrate with Facebook on the system level, with Apple believed to be formally announcing this feature at the upcoming developers conference kicking off June 7. Furthermore, Apple could also include support for Facebook Connect in the iPhone OS 4 SDK so that developers [...]
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First Alan Wake DLC lands in July

Alan Wake just arrived this week (check out Geek.com’s review) but you know that DLC is already on everyone’s mind. It was just revealed on Twitter that the first Alan Wake downloadable content will be released on July 28, 2010. This is coming from Daniel Maher, an Xbox Live editor for EMEA. As for the token [...]
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Philips develops LED bulb to replace your incandescents

CFL bulbs have been making some great progress but the next step in lighting technology is the LED. These have been making rapid advancements in design and color temperature control while seeing price drops. Philips just delivered the bulb that is the next step in LED lighting–a true replacement to the incandescents and CFLs. This bulb had to [...]
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Acer Chrome OS devices at Computex on June 1st

VentureBeat has heard from several sources that Acer intends to unveil its first Google Chrome OS devices at the Computex Taipai show running June 1-5. Google has stated that Chrome OS is intended for netbooks, so we have to assume Acer will have either a new model, or even a whole new line of netbooks to [...]
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Air Force supercomputer in jeopardy due to Sony PS3 update

Back in November of last year we reported that the U.S. Air Force planned to buy 2200 (in actuality it turned out to be only 1700) PlayStation 3 consoles in an effort to connect them into a supercomputer. The consoles were updated to run the Linux operating system which would support such a daisy chain [...]
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Slots.com domain sells for $5.5 million

The Slots.com domain name has sold for a staggering $5.5 million. That’s the most expensive domain name of 2010, and in the top 10 all-time list according to Domain Name Wire. The auction for the domain was handled by Snapnames, but the sale wasn’t straight forward. At the end of the auction the reserve hadn’t been [...]
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A combined effort is needed to

Irish Internet Association (IIA) CEO Joan Mulvihill is on a mission – to digitise the nation. She believes the opportunities the digital age heralds for citizens and businesses alike must be grasped.
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Facebook: can it open the web to business?

It is not easy reading when you discover that in some large towns 40pc of retailers have closed because of the recession. At the same time, the internet as we know it has sped up in terms of size and complexity.
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Start-up promises to get small firms paid on time

Billfaster.com offers an easy-to-use online invoicing and cash-management system, helping businesses create and send invoices and manage payments in just three clicks. Rod Condell is co-founder
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Adobe founders criticise Apple

Adobe's founders, Chuck Geschke and John Warnock, have written an open letter defending the freedom of the internet and criticising Apple's "walled garden" approach.
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4-Player Co-Op DLC announced for Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is expanding its multiplayer experience with a 4-player co-operative mode called "Onslaught," DICE announced Wednesday. Onslaught mode takes up to four players across four multiplayer maps - Valparaiso, Atacama Desert, Isla Inocentes, and Nelson Bay - redesigned with new lighting, time of day, and other effects in addition to added vehicles. Each map has a dedicated gameplay focus. For instance, Atacama Desert requires vehicle warfare while Nelson Bay focuses on infantry assault. Players can compete in squads and check individual progress via the Onslaught leaderboards.
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Mozilla expands Plugin Check to include other browsers

Ensuring you have the latest web browser is not only a matter of preference, but is a security concern as well. Browsers are patched and updated to ensure any identified security holes have been closed. Unfortunately, a browser’s plugins are sometimes missed in the equation. To help ensure users have the latest plugins the team at [...]
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Cool villa in Thailand comes complete with a 256-foot water slide built-in

Have you ever heard the term, if you are going to be a bear, be a grizzly? Well, if I ever hit one of those mega lotteries dishing out hundreds of millions of dollars, I’m telling you folks right now I’m going eccentric. Not just a little bit strange mind you, but like a Howard [...]
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HP Labs offers Gloe as geo-tagging experiment

HP Labs has introduced what it calls a “geo-tagging experiment”. The experiment, which has been dubbed Gloe, has the goal of tying web content to a person’s location. HP is showcasing the platform through an app hosted on the Gloe website. The app, available through a computer or mobile phone browser, will determine a user’s location by [...]
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New downloadable maps and game mode now available for Bioshock 2

The second installment of post-launch DLC for Bioshock 2 is now available on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, 2K Games announced Wednesday. For 800 MS Points or
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Another seven-inch Android tablet from Asia shames iPad with HD video

If anything, Apple’s iPad has inspired dozens of knock-offs and lookalikes that are being developed by Chinese manufacturers who are falling over each other to profit on the hype surrounding Apple’s device. One of the promising-looking tablets heading our way is an Android-based Moonse E7001, a tablet-focused publication Shanzai.com reported Wednesday. As you can see from the [...]
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Toughbook 31 drops 20 feet, hits aircraft carrier, survives

Yesterday Panasonic launched their newest fully-rugged mobile computer, the Toughbook 31. In celebratrion of the launch they did some extra testing on the system, under slightly more demanding conditions than normal. Standard Mil-Spec 810G shock testing calls for dropping a system 26 times at heights up to 72 inches. It’s a tough test, but the [...]
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Gameloft turns 10, gives away free iPhone games

French games publisher Gameloft is celebrating its tenth year in the business and they’re marking the occasion by giving away ten iPhone games to everyone between May 10 through next Friday, May 21. No sign-ups, entry forms, or lottery schemes apply here, just track Gameloft’s daily tweets and download a free game each day within [...]
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Marvell to produce 40nm ARM server chips

Intel may already be facing strong competition from ARM in mobile gadgets sector, but it looks like soon the server market could be another battleground for the chip giant. Marvell Technology Group has announced that it will start shipping multicore 40nm ARM processors for the server market before the end of 2010. The chips are expected [...]
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Facebook enters arbitration to gain

If you own a domain name with the word “facebook” in it, you can expect that domain will gain the attention of a certain social networking company, right? You bet. In addition – one can equally assume they are going to want that domain name for themselves, correct? Yes, that is also very true. Take the latest example [...]
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HTC sues Apple to protect its intellectual property

Back in March Apple filed a lawsuit against HTC for patent infringements relating to iPhone hardware and software. HTC responded by saying it would take Apple head-on as it disagreed with Apple’s actions and would fully defend itself. Now Apple is getting a taste of its own medicine as HTC has filed a complaint with the [...]
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Valve updates Counter-Strike: Source Beta with new features

Valve has announced a major update to the Counter-Strike: Source Beta. If you play the game and aren’t in the beta this should still be of interest as these are the features that will be rolled out to everyone for free very soon. Here’s the list of new features and updates in this beta release: 144 achievements [...]
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Garminfone to launch in June on T-Mobile for $199

Back in April, we reported that T-Mobile USA announced that it will be the exclusive carrier of the first Android-powered smartphone by Garmin. Unfortunately, few details were available at the time around price and any specific date for launch. Now it looks like our friends at Engadget have not only gotten their hands on the [...]
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Portal is free to download until May 24th

Valve has decided to be very generous and started offering its popular game Portal for free. Until May 24th you can download Portal from Steam for absolutely nothing on both PC and Mac. Visit the promotional page and click the “Get Portal Now” button to be taken to the Steam Store to download. The message from Valve [...]
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Amazon releases awesome iPad app for shopaholics

Amazon has posted an awesome shopping app for iPad people that lets them explore and shop any item, including products sold by other retailers. It’s the shopaholics’ dream come true. Optimized specifically for iPad, the app takes advantage of the “generous display size” to show off products in their full glory, including awesome image galleries, detailed [...]
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Google adds unlisted video feature to YouTube

Something strange happened a little over two hours ago when Google blogged about a new feature that lets you unlist YouTube videos. A bit later the company took down the post and the original link now leads nowhere. Furthermore, the advertised feature was missing when we checked it out and sites like CNET that reported on it [...]
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Google suggests upgrading to Google Docs instead of Office 2010

Google, quite obviously, would prefer it if you didn’t upgrade to the just out of beta Microsoft Office 2010. Instead, enterprise customers are encouraged to carry out an upgrade to Google Docs. In order to show the benefits of why a move to Google services is the right choice the search giant posted the following table [...]
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Gmail now supports drag-and-drop for images

If you’re a Gmail user I am happy to report that inserting photos into email just got a lot easier. Google has introduced a new feature which will allow users to simply drag-and-drop an image from their computer into a message. Once inserted you will even be able to resize the image before it is [...]
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Original Star Wars Saga retold in a Lego movie

One of my kids favorite video games right now on the Wii is Lego Star Wars. Oddly enough, when asked if she would like to see the Star Wars movies so she can see what the video game is based on, she says that she wants to finish the game first. That’s okay though. I [...]
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Sony launch waterproof headset Walkman W

Sony has launched a new Walkman W in Japan carrying the name NWD-W253. What differentiates this Walkman from other W models is the fact it is waterproof. By adding a moisture barrier Sony hopes the W253 will better suit those users interested in listening to music while participating in sports activities. It can handle sweat, the [...]
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Mega-preview: Chillingo to unleash four zombie killers on the iPhone

It’s that time of year, again, when the allure of zombies is just too strong to resist, at least when it comes to upcoming iPhone games. Today, we take a look at four zombie killers by the UK-based publisher Chillingo, headed straight for the App Store – you better cover up your brains. Chillingo recently told [...]
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Farmville developer Zynga losing members, may leave Facebook

Two weeks ago, Farmville creators Zynga lost 3.1 million monthly active users across it's Facebook gaming empire. Just last week, that number grew to 4.2 million. But even with losses in the millions, Zynga still stands as the leading social game developer with more than 244 million monthly active users total.
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More stages, new monsters, costumes and

New DLC for the recently released Nier is expected to be available for download Wednesday, May 12 on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. The DLC features a time-traveling scenario, adding 15 new stages and different forms of Shades as well as new costumes for Nier's vulgar female companion Kaine, the cursed boy Emil, and Nier himself.
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The ultimate geek coffee mug

Do you have a geek/nerd that you need to find a simple gift for? Boing Boing, which offers up a fantastic mug that gives little doubt to those seeing it that the owner is pretty geeky. The mug sports the words “Science Gangster” next to a picture of an old gangster-style machine gun with something that [...]
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Accept credit card payments on your iPhone: Square app hits the App Store

Back in January we reported on a new start-up called Square which is expected to revolutionize the way merchants take payments. The company, which was founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey back in February 2009, allows merchants to use their mobile phone to process credit card payments. In addition to software for your mobile phone, the [...]
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Super Mario Bros. beaten using a DDR dance pad

Finishing Super Mario Bros. in under six minutes is already impressive. Beating the game with just your feet is another matter altogether.
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Review: Alan Wake for Xbox 360

Alan Wake is a writer, a sort of aging-hipster-meets-Stephen-King characters who goes on an ill-fated vacation to the scariest place imaginable–Cauldron Lake. He has writer’s block, which is only a problem until his life becomes a hellish nightmare where a mysterious force known as the “Darkness” wants him dead. He is [...]
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Adobe demos Flash working with touchscreen input

Adobe may have given up on Flash for iPhone/iPad, but it certainly hasn’t given up on touchscreen mobile platforms altogether. One concern over using Flash on such devices is how well it works with touch input. Lee Brimelow, Platform Evangelist at Adobe, has posted the video you see above to clear things up for doubters. In [...]
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New teardown images and video prove that the iPhone HD runs Apple

We’ve been kind of expecting the fourth-generation iPhone to run an Apple-made system-on-a-chip dubbed A4, but no-one has produced any hard evidence to date to substantiate this popular notion. However, that changed today. A new set of teardown photos published by a Vietnamese site Taoviet.vn corroborated the claim that the iPhone HD runs an Apple-built processor. [...]
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Best Buy launching own gaming magazine in June

The print industry may be slowly dying with the growing popularity of digital content, but that doesn’t stop new paper publications being planned and launched. This latest magazine announcement came as a bit of a surprise, though. Best Buy has decided to launch its own videogame magazine. The mag will be called @Gamer and is being [...]
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HyperMac Battery Pack holds enough juice to keep your iPad running for over four days

Road warriors are no strangers to HyperMac’s famed external batteries that hold enough juice to power your MacBook continuously for more than a day or recharge your iPhone 52 times. If the ten-hour battery on the iPad doesn’t cut it for you, HyperMac has made their external battery lineup compatible with Apple’s couch computer. Available in [...]
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Amazon starts storing and sharing Kindle e-book user highlights

Depending on your feelings about online privacy this bit of news might make you a little angry. Amazon is introducing the logging of all highlights users make to passages in their e-books on a Kindle. The highlighted sections will be sent back to an Amazon server and combined with information from other users to find out [...]
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Google 'working on' iPad rival

Internet giant Google is working on a tablet computer to rival Apple's iPad, according to reports.
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Microsoft and LG bring 3D gaming to Xbox

Microsoft's Xbox 360 console will soon be able to play 3D games, after the company signed a deal with LG.
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How celebs reacted

Tweets from Twittergeddon -- How the big names took the news.
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It's Twitterpocalypse!

The love affair between A-list celebs and Twitter may be about to end thanks to the chaos caused by a hi-tech hacker.
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Panasonic launches Toughbook 31, the ultimate rugged notebook

Panasonic has refreshed its rugged clamshell notebook series at a media event onboard the USS Intrepid in New York City, adding a new 13.1-inch touchscreen design to the mix. The Toughbook 31 represents the sixth generation design that pairs the latest and greatest Intel processors and ATI graphics with a remarkable display and longer-lasting battery, all [...]
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What to know about Wikipedia

Believe it or not, knowledgeable people who by definition should be brighter than us mere mortals are having trouble finding their way around Wikipedia. That’s reason enough for the web-based encyclopedia to freshen up its look a little bit. The user interface will see several changes, including a simplified navigation and the more prominently positioned search [...]
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Mac gaming disrupted: Steam launches tomorrow

Beginning tomorrow, Mac users will be able to download and play the same meaty games – not the crappy ports – like their Windows counterparts. After a years-long wait and a few weeks filled with anticipation and rumor-mongering, Valve has finally posted Steam for Mac launch details. According to the official statement, Steam will launch on [...]
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Cybercriminals using deceptive Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor e-mail to conceal trojan

BitDefender has spotted a new deceptive e-mail that is making the rounds infecting users with a trojan. The e-mail is seeing a healthy infection success rate as it purports to be a Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. It even uses the same text as the real compatibility checking tool, but in this case the user downloads malware [...]
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Take a trip to 1985 with Radio Shack Outgoing Messages

Here is a blast from the past. WFMU has posted on their blog the audio and the image of an old Radio Shack tape with telephone answering machine outgoing messages from 1985. This may make you hark back to the good ol’ days where people not only owned telephone answering machines, but ones which ran [...]
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Panasonic launches Toughbook 31, the ultimate rugged notebook for real men

Panasonic has refreshed its rugged clamshell notebook series at a media event onboard the USS Intrepid in New York City, adding a new 13.1-inch touchscreen model to the mix. The Toughbook 31 represents the sixth generation design that pairs the latest and greatest Intel processors and ATI graphics with a remarkable display and longer-lasting battery, all [...]
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One-woman-symphony plays Star Wars on an Electone

Ever hear of a one-man-band? Sure you have. But I suspect you have never heard of a one-woman-symphony before have you? Well if you haven’t, you will certainly know what that phrase means once you view the video above. YouTube contributor atokun111kyusyu demonstrates some awesome keyboard skills by using her Electone to perform several pieces from the musical [...]
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Apple could pocket $40 million a year on its Office killer on iPad

Apple’s Office replacement suite tailored specifically for iPad could already be worth $40 million annually, with the potential to rake in hundreds of millions when hardware sales reach eight-digit figures. A derivative of the fully-blown iWork suite for the Mac desktop, iWork on iPad packs in multitouch-tailored Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps that let you [...]
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EA to charge gamers $10 for playing used games online

Gamers like used games as they are cheaper than buying new. Retailers like used games as they are additional revenue for selling the same game multiple times. Publishers and game developers don’t like used games as they see no revenue from these additional sales of their titles. The first publisher to react to the used games [...]
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Project Natal to launch globally in October

Whether intentional or not, Microsoft has confirmed the launch window for Project Natal is October. The news comes from Microsoft Saudi marketing manager Syed Bilal Tariq who let the details slip when speaking on GamertagRadio. Syed’s exact words when asked about Project Natal coming to Saudi Arabia were: I do have great news to share with everybody, [...]
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NZXT Vulcan Micro-ATX gaming case available May 20th

NZXT is about to release a new PC case for gamers who wants to remain portable. It’s called the Vulcan, and manages to pack a surprising number of enthusiast-friendly features into a Micro-ATX size chassis. Here’s a rundown of the features included in the Vulcan: Durable Non-slip finished top handle for portability Black Interior Dual 5.25″ slots and four [...]
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Apple could make MobileMe free, paid subscribers are scratching their heads

If you’ve been a paid MobileMe subscriber, you’re not going to like this – Apple is apparently considering making its $99 a year online services suite totally free. According to a tip from an unknown tipster that MacDailyNews guarantees has “at least an air of credibility about it,” the Cupertino firm is seriously thinking of [...]
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China has blocked Dropbox

If you are a Dropbox user in China chances are you are waking up today to find your files inaccessible. Multiple users on the Dropbox forum are reporting that China has decided to block the service. As with other services like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. we will probably never know why this block been implemented, or [...]
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Use Wiimote to play games on your Android smartphone

If you own a Wii you also own the solution to making it easier and more enjoyable to play games on your Android smartphone. All you need is to download the Wii Controller IME from the Android Market. Currently, the app retails for $3.99. Using the application, you will be able to use the Bluetooth connection [...]
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Business users can now verify their Twitter accounts and accept tweets from everyone

The microblogging startup is testing out several new features with select businesses and organizations, a part of Twitter’s effort to charge companies for advanced tweeting capabilities that are off-limits to individual users like you and me. Those new features that Twitter calls the Twitter Business Center are currently limited to a private group of select business [...]
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Watch Flash 10.1 running on Android 2.2 using a Nexus One

If we put aside arguments for and against Flash for a moment we have to point out that Flash content looks pretty slick in the video above. It’s the new Flash player 10.1, but running on the yet to be released Android 2.2 (Froyo). The hardware the above demo is running on is a Nexus One. [...]
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Near-final screenshots of Windows Phone 7: Elegant, crisp interface will show Apple who

Don’t write off Microsoft’s mobile operating system yet! Putting aside for a moment the fact that Windows Mobile has not done very well, to say the least, Microsoft might have finally found the right recipe to keep its mobile platform in the game while differentiating itself from the iPhones, Blackberries, and Androids of this world. The [...]
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Apple spins Android figures: Forget the US, the iPhone outsells Android worldwide

Apple doesn’t believe NPD’s survey showing Android’s US lead over the iPhone in the first quarter of 2010. Judging by a recent comment made by a spokesperson for the Cupertino firm, the company is rejecting NPD’s survey and instead insisting on the iPhone’s global lead over Android. It all begun when NPD posted the latest smartphone [...]
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Fallout: New Vegas Collector

Bethesda has announced details of the expected Fallout: New Vegas Collector’s Edition contents, which will be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC gamers. The box will include: “Lucky 7″ poker chips. Each of the seven poker chips was designed to represent chips from the major casinos found on the New Vegas strip and throughout the [...]
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A 7-inch iPad lookalike that does 1080p video output could cost just $120

It’s no secret that Apple’s iPad has paved the way for an influx of mobile devices from brand-name manufacturers, like the HP Slate, or a bunch of iPad knock-offs and unknown vendors seeking to grab their spot under the tablet sun. The latest gizmo to join the tablet craze comes from a yet unidentified manufacturer [...]
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Android phones outsell iPhone

Mobile phones running Google's Android operating system have outsold Apple's iPhone in the US for the first time, according to an industry report.
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Digital Life: Angry monsters and giant spiders

Returning, appropriately enough, to the frozen planet EDN III of the first game, LP2 is a shooter itself stuck in time.
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Digital Life: At last, a phone even granny can use!

New ideas emerge at lightning speed in gadget-land and too many of us get caught up obsessing about megapixel-this, WiFi-that or GPS the other. Call it the "ooh shiny" effect -- like magpies we always have an eye on the next thing.
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Google U.K. office makes logo out of 884 4×6 photos

Clay Bavor, who writes a blog and works at Google’s London office, wrote about an ambitious project he undertook with his fellow Googlers to create what he calls a “real” photomosaic. As he puts it, instead of a photomosaic using “tiny, postage-stamp-sized images” he wanted to use high-resolution 4×6 photographs for tiles. The result of [...]
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Steve Jobs: Educate yourselves, do your math, and blame your governments for pricey iPads

Steve Jobs is on a roll again, this time defending international iPad pricing end explaining why overseas customers will pay more for the gadget than their US counterparts. Apple announced this past Friday that its iPad is coming to nine new countries on May 28, with pre-orders beginning today, May 10. The price list that [...]
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AMD CPUs will ship on 109 notebooks this summer

It’s been years since it could even be charitably said that AMD was keeping pace with Intel, at least in the desktop and notebook markets. While AMD keeps its head above water when it comes to servers, AMD isn’t even licking the shoes of Intel when it comes to the success of their other chips. [...]
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Sony redesigns Vaio P, adds acceleromter and PS3 Remote Play

Sony has announced details of its second-generation update to the Vaio P range of smartbooks/netbooks. You may remember the Vaio P as the device Sony said was pocket friendly even though it was way too big to fit in most pockets. This time round Sony say they are “easy to carry”. The update sees a number [...]
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WiGig Alliance announces new 60Ghz wireless standard

It’s been a few years since we got a fresh WiFi standard, so good news: here comes the WiGig Alliance to bring faster wireless transfer rates to everyone. WiGig — or the Wireless Gigabit Alliance — are heavily pushing a new standard that incorporates backwards compatibility with the existing 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands used by 802.11 [...]
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Case Mod turns vintage NES into ION 2 Packing HTPC

As computers continue to decrease in size, the home theater PC becomes less of an imposing contribution to the entertainment center… and the case modding possibilities become exponentially more enticing. Take, for example, this little two-toned gray box. You might recognize it by its bright red letters on the cartridge lid, or by the big springy [...]
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HTC file patents to turn cellphone case into speaker

HTC has filed for two hardware patents that may allow for even thinner smartphones in the future. Today’s phones rely upon a small speaker unit sitting inside the phone with a grill allowing for the audio to be heard umuffled through the phone casing. The two patents HTC have applied for would replace such a unit [...]
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Canonical Unveils Ubuntu Light and Unity

Ubuntu’s a fantastic operating system, but no matter how good it is, it’s Linux, and that makes getting WIndows users to switch over to it a huge challenge. One of the ways in which Canonical has been clever and spry, though, is identifying emerging opportunities to introduce Ubuntu to a new audience. During a keynote [...]
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How to prevent new page links in your Facebook profile from damaging your online identity

The social networking giant has rolled out a new feature that automagically links your profile entries to matching Facebook pages. Both useful and dangerous, this feature could damage your online credibility if you don’t use it with cautious. Although Facebook made no official mention of this at press time, the site put up a dialog [...]
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FCC approves SOC, gives Hollywood control of your TV

Like most consumers, you probably think there’s enough DRM protection built into your gadgets, but that’s not going to stop Hollywood from putting more and more controls on our living room devices. The latest measure they’ve successfully pushed through? The FCC has just given the Motion Picture Association of America the ability to utilize Selectable Output [...]
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Apple to refresh MacBook Air tomorrow?

The MacBook Air, once heralded as the world’s thinnest and lightest notebook, has grown old in the tooth. That being said, road warriors better keep their eyes open because Apple could launch refreshed models in the next 24 hours. According to the Australia-based Macworld magazine, Apple could update its thin MacBook Air notebook tomorrow, Tuesday, May [...]
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Cloud-focused Peppermint Linux OS now available

Last month we reported that a new Linux distribution was about to be released that had a major focus on cloud computing. That distribution was called Peppermint, and today it went live. Peppermint combines the base Linux operating system with a number of cloud-based applications and services. The result is a lightweight distribution, but with integrated [...]
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HP Slate is dead, webOS-based HP

HP’s ill-fated Slate looked promising, but then became a sitting duck once we read first impressions. If the rumors are true, HP is working on a new killer tablet that will run Palm’s resource-savvy webOS software. With a hands-on describing the HP Slate as yet another “slow netbook” due to its reliance on Windows 7, it’s no [...]
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The line starts here: International iPad pricing, data plans, and more

While US folks have been enjoying their iPads for weeks, buyers in nine international markets can finally pre-order both WiFi and WiFi+3G version of the 9.7-inch multitouch gizmo beginning today. International iPad pricing may shock those expecting to buy the device at US price points. As promised, Apple has begun taking pre-orders for both WiFi and [...]
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Olympus TV commercial about the PEN camera was shot with a PEN

Olympus’ new advertising campaign for the company’s PEN E-PL1 digital camera was shot with–you guessed it–an E-PL1. Talk about eating your own dog food! This is a clever marketing move from Olympus that has yielded a pretty solid commercial. Of course, the significance of this technical feat will probably be lost on most consumers. People familiar with video made [...]
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Capcom plans new franchises and faster development

After what Capcom called "sluggish" sales in 2009, the company has released a strategy report that says it hopes to "create games faster by using a hybrid approach combining internal and outsourced development."
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3D television to launch on terrestrial television broadcasts

3D television is making its way to terrestrial television broadcasts for the first time. Unfortunately, it isn’t happening in the U.S. The Korea Times has reported that the four major television networks in South Korea, KBS, MBC, SBS and EBS, have plans for trial services. The area where the 3D terrestrial broadcasts will be available [...]
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Steve Jobs reportedly claims printing

With all the positive reviews that users are giving their iPads, their hot portable still falls short on two fronts and that is printing and multitasking. Now while the multitasking issue might not be resolved for some time until the end of the summer, the printing problem could be fixed sooner rather than later. As reported by [...]
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Halo: Reach Beta week one wrap-up

It's week two of the Halo: Reach Beta, and more than one million players have already joined the fun. Hopefully, you've had the chance to test out the multiplayer for yourself. But if you're shy of a Xbox Live Gold Membership or Halo 3: ODST disc, here's a run down of what we've seen up to this point.
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Despite being wicked fast, new multi-gigabit WiGig wireless networking won

The Wireless Gigabit Alliance has teamed up with the Wi-Fi Alliance on the next-generation wireless connectivity standard aptly named Wi-Gig that will put both the Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11n WiFi specifications to shame with transfer rates up to 7Gbps. For comparison, 802.11n WiFi peaks at the theoretical maximum of 600Mbps. According to a statement released earlier [...]
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Husqvarna

It might look like a stealth bomber landed on your lawn, but what you’re seeing here is a solar-powered Batmobile-styled lawnmower that will make your neighbor’s old-school, manually operated piece of junk look like relic from a bygone era. Husqvarna’s droid, dubbed the Automower Solar Hybrid, packs in a bunch of technologies that strike a chord [...]
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Nokia: Apple is stealing our ideas

Nokia has filed a lawsuit against Apple in the United States, claiming that Apple’s iPhone and iPad 3G infringe on several of its patents.
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This is how Microsoft advertises Windows 7 in Japan

In the West, Microsoft advertises Windows using real people talking about how “I’m a PC“, how they helped develop Windows with their own ideas, as well as putting cute kids on the TV managing to edit together video and photos with ease. In Japan, advertising is a little bit different. As you may expect, the Japanese [...]
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7 minutes of Sonic 4 footage appears on YouTube

Sega must have some seriously big holes in the security surrounding its Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 development. We’ve already seen footage of Splash Hill Zone Act 1 leak in April, but Sega promptly had it removed from YouTube. Now another seven minutes of footage has appeared, this time from Mad Gear Zone Act [...]
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Volvo car collision warning system goes wrong during press demo

Car manufacturers are always striving to make their cars safer, and stringent safety checks are constantly updated to ensure that new car you buy is safer than the one you are currently driving. One of the latest pieces of safety tech currently being tested is collision warning systems. If a car is fitted with one [...]
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roses on "How to download free iPhone games"

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Make your digital camera look more like a camcorder

Check this accessory out for a MicroFourThirds camera (in this case the Olympus PEN)! The new video kit includes an ST grip and a shading hood with the goal of turning your camera into a full blown camcorder. Considering most digital cameras have the ability to take high quality video this new accessory by Japan-based [...]
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Opinion: Steve Jobs was right, Flash video is an old hat

Let’s talk about web video for a moment. You’d be forgiven for dismissing it as a smokescreen in Apple’s crusade against Adobe Flash, but this doesn’t change the fact that HTML5 video is gaining ground. It’s only a matter of time before YouTube switches default video format to HTML5 and when that happens, rival video [...]
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Japanese PSN gets Final Fantasy IX May 20

The next Final Fantasy re-release via PSN may not be too far off in the West. Sony and Square Enix have announced that Final Fantasy IX will be available on PSN in Japan on May 20th. With language conversions already done for the original release we can therefore hope U.S. and European gamers will not have [...]
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Border

Kobo and Border’s have just announced that the Kobo e-reader, once described by Wired as a “Kindle killer,” is now available for pre-order, to beging shipping on June 17th. The Kobo e-reader will cost $149.99, but eschew other reader’s WiFi or 3G in favor of Bluetooth, which is an interesting choice, although understandable if they are [...]
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WePad becomes WeTab, pricing and release date announced

Last month, our own resident Apple Geek, Christian Ziberg, posited that Neofonie’s actually-quite-impressive-looking WePad tablet was playing a game of chicken with Cupertino in their choice of brand name. Steve Jobs, after all, has claimed that Apple owns the “Pad” trademark. They don’t (at all!) but they’d still have a successful lawsuit on their hands: the [...]
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Trillian coming to the BlackBerry

Trillian is a powerful instant messaging client that allows someone to utilize a single application to stay connected with their Facebook, Windows Live, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP and MySpaceIM networks. A mobile version of the app has been available for the iPhone, but now a closed beta version has finally made its way to [...]
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Netbooks will have banner year in 2010

A recent survey suggested that Apple’s iPad was cannibalizing netbook sales, but that may not be the real truth: research firm iSuppli Corp believes that netbooks and Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage, or CULV, notebooks are looking at a banner year in 2010. According to their report, notebook PC shipments will increase overall by 25.5% this year, [...]
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Viewsonic VX2739wm: 27

ViewSonic has announced its latest entry into the large-screen LCD monitor market with the VX2739wm 27″ display. A 16:9 1080p Full HD (1920 x 1080 WUXGA) screen coupled with a 1ms response time and a 100,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio (1200:1 typical) make the VX2739wm the “first and only 27
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Toshiba looking to release the lightest notebook thanks to Super Charged Ion Battery

Laptops keep on getting thinner and lighter, but Toshiba — a company that’s been known for years for their line of thin, light laptops, even before the rest of the industry caught up — looks ready to deliver one of the most ethereal notebooks yet, according to vozExpress, who have an exclusive leak of [...]
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Review: Sin and Punishment: Star Successor on Wii

Depending on where you live in the world the first Sin and Punishment game on the Nintendo 64 may have passed you by. Not because it got no marketing or lacked stock at launch, but because it probably was never released in your region (it was an Asia-exclusive). That did nothing but increase demand for [...]
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Amazing hand crafted UFO abduction lamps

Every geek loves a great UFO gadget, and while we are personally skeptical that if aliens managed to conquer space-time and travel thousands of light years to visit us they’d spend their time gravitationally sucking rednecks and cows up into the mothership, we still can’t help but be gobsmacked by the laborious attention to detail [...]
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Palm Pre Plus reported to launch on AT&T May 16th

Engadget has broken the news that the Palm Pre Plus will finally be available to AT&T subscribers beginning May 16th. AT&T has been hinting about the availability of the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus on their website and have also been allowing those interested to sign-up to be alerted when they are available. [...]
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German scientists test the killing limits of robots

While we’re all on board with slavish robot servants, I doubt I’m alone in experiencing some trepidation in allowing robots into my home (and access to my cutlery and power tools) before Asimov’s Five Laws of Robotics are finalized… or at least something that prevents these servo-controlled golems from outright murderizing me. Three German scientists were [...]
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NEC creates pirated film detection algorithm with 96% success rate

The war between media content providers and pirates is generally a losing battle, but Japanese IT company NEC thinks they might have a weapon that will nuke infringing content off of YouTube once and for all: a video content identification technology that detects illegal copies of video content uploaded to the Internet in a matter [...]
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Yahoo uses traffic to determine the typical iPad owner

So who is typical iPad user? That’s what Yahoo wanted to find out so they took a look at the kind of traffic that was coming from the iPad while on the Yahoo network. Yahoo began its analysis of iPad users just a week after its launch by Apple. One fact that’s apparent is that the early iPad adopters [...]
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Street Fighter fan film from one of the makers of

Historically, Hollywood has been terribly cheesy about adapting gaming’s beloved Street Fighter franchise to the silver screen. That may, actually, be appropriate: the Street Fighter franchise is pretty cheesy, story-wise. That said, no one deserved Van Damme’s Street Fighter… and don’t get us started on The Legend of Chun Li. After decades of waiting, though, fighter [...]
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Amazon Kindle 2.5 Update Brings Password Protection, Collections and Social Networking to E-Reading

Amazon needs their soon-to-be-released Kindle 2.5 update to be firing on all cylinders. Weakened by the iPad and competing e-readers, Amazon needs a significant software update to stop the tide of users from fleeing the system. Ars Technica managed to get their hands on an early version of the firmware, and while it might not [...]
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All CBS.com videos to be iPad-ready by this Fall

It looks like content owners are realizing that open video embedded via HTML5 is gaining ground, driven in part by the fact that Apple’s iPad recently zoomed past the (psychologically important) one million unit barrier. According to a CBS Interactive senior vice president and general manager Anthony Soohoo, the broadcaster will achieve content parity by the start [...]
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New Dropbox API allows iPhone App Developers to integrate cloud document saving and syncing

As we mentioned earlier this week, the free, web-based file backup service Dropbox has a lot of tricks up its sleeves in the coming months, but the most exciting is the new API that gives developers a way to access, edit and save any file in a user’s Dropbox account… even if they are on [...]
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Couple announces wife

Couples expecting a baby have often come up with amusing ways to announce their joyous news to the rest of the family. But if the couple happens to be huge Star Wars geeks, then are we completely surprised if they add a little Force to the announcement to make the baby message even more fun? [...]
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Clamcase turns your iPad into a netbook with a physical keyboard

People who thought Apple’s iPad would file as a decent netbook replacement have no doubt grown displeased by the fact that the tablet forgoes a physical keyboard and a netbook form factor in favor of a simplified design focused on its large touchscreen. If you’re among those folks, you should look no further than the [...]
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SanDisk licensed Xbox 360 USB flash drive now available

We’ve known for over a month now that Microsoft has decided to allow USB flash storage to be used with the Xbox 360. You can use a USB stick to store save games, profiles, demos, and even DLC. The only limit iss a storage cap of 16GB, much less than the hard drives offer. The official [...]
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Microsoft shows off HTML5 support and GPU-accelerated browsing IE9 Platform Preview

This week Microsoft has released the second Platform preview edition of Internet Explorer 9 along with the video you see above. The focus with this release is performance improvements and the all-important HTML5 support. Through the IE Test Center Microsoft are claiming through a series of tables that IE9 is by far the best browser in [...]
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The iPhone HD to support 720p HD video recording?

The iPhone HD, a significant upgrade to Apple’s popular smartphone slated for this summer, could be capable of recording high-definition video clips in 720p, a major improvement over the iPhone 3GS’s video recording feature limited to VGA-quality clips in 640×480 pixels. The basis for this rumor is MacRumors’ finding of two HD recording presets in [...]
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Motorola thought to have acquired mobile OS company Azingo

Motorola may have just acquired itself a mobile Linux OS company called Azingo. The hint comes in the form of a profile update on LinkedIn for Azingo’s senior software engineer Yogish Kulkami. His profile now has the same position but listed as working for “Motorola Pvt Ltd. (by acquisition)”. If that is not a mistake (and [...]
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Dishwasher dev announces upgrade to non-indie XBLA status for Charlie Murder

Ska Studio's Charlie Murder will now debut on Xbox Live Arcade in 2012, not as an indie game but as a full-fledged XBLA title. After appearing at PAX East 2010, the punk-rock beat 'em up was pulled from the the indie lineup and thrust into the Arcade limelight.
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Carriers beware: International Skype calls are now just one cent a minute

Skype announced Wednesday a bunch of new monthly calling plan subscriptions that let users call landline and cellphone numbers in more than 170 countries for up to 60 percent cheaper than their standard Pay As You Go rates. Previously, Skype subscriptions had been limited to around 40 countries. The basic subscription starts at just $1.09 a [...]
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Casini Studio

Who says MP3 players have to look boring? Well don’t tell that to the product design experts at Casini Studio. Their idea for a sporty MP3 player contains a single body design that looks like a pendant, where the removable case make it appear that the headphone cables flow together into the player interface, so the [...]
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Dropbox is going places: Android and iPad apps, mobile API

A popular online storage startup Dropbox has posted Android and iPad apps and announced a new mobile API to allow third-party developers to integrate Dropbox functionality into mobile software. Apologizing for “being so secretive”, a Dropbox engineer Jon Ying announced in a blog post that a new Dropbox mobile API lets participating developers add Dropbox features [...]
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DS beats Game Boy lifetime sales while Wii goes past 70 million

The latest sales figures released by Nintendo show that the DS has managed to beat the Game Boy’s lifetime sales. Introduced in 1989, the Game Boy managed to sell a staggering 118.69 million units over its lifetime. But now Nintendo has a new front runner as DS sales reach 128.89 million taking the crown as the [...]
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GameCrazy and other affiliated stores officially closing

GameCrazy, Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery are shutting their doors. An internal memorandum obtained by Joystiq confirms that Movie Gallery Inc, the owner of these three entertainment franchises, will be closing its remaining 2,415 outlets across the U.S. and liquidating its remaining stocks over the coming weeks.
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Did Apple just greenlight online gambling on the App Store?

You can’t have boobs, skin, and sex on the App Store, but you’re sure free to bet your money and possibly gamble away your future, so to speak, using your iPhone. Either this particular submission managed to slip under the Apple censors’ radar or the company relaxed its policies in order to allow new software [...]
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Visa payWave contactless payments iPhone case in development

Contactless payment using a credit card is becoming more common, but why get your card out when another, more readily available device can be used? In Japan using your mobile phone as a device for payment is already becoming common. Now Visa is set to bring that same functionality to the iPhone with the help of [...]
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Review: Topre Realforce 87U keyboard

When it comes to a keyboard enthusiast’s dream keyboard, a Realforce is often at the top of the list. These keyboards are expensive and available in relatively limited quantities, but their impressive build quality and capacitive switches have been able to win people over. And yes, that’s right, electrostatic capacitive switches, not mechanical, which is [...]
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Over 1M books online for those visually or learning impaired

Efforts to digitize books  and put them online have either run into legal hurdles or don’t include some of the most popular works. When they do get online many books are not in formats that are accessible by those who are visually impaired or dyslexic. A new initiative by the Internet Archive plans to change that. The intiative [...]
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iPad seen as a netbook replacement, survey says

Apple’s iPad is killing netbooks, but also cannibalizing sales of Apple’s mobile products, namely the iPod touch. According to a survey, a whooping 44 percent of respondents would choose an iPad over a netbook and 41 percent would pass on an iPod touch and opt for the tablet instea d.However, of the 44 respondents who’d [...]
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Interested in dual-booting your HTC Hero?

You’ve probably heard about setting a dual boot on your computer. It’s when you are able to select between two operating systems to load when you boot up your computer. What you may not have heard of is being able to do the same thing with your smartphone. Pocket-lint is reporting that one hacker figured out [...]
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Roku media players to get Netflix channel update

Roku currently offers three media players that allow consumers to connect their television to a number of online video and music services. In addition to free channels such as Pandora, Flickr and Facebook Photos there are also premium channels including Amazon Video On Demand, MLB.com and Netflix. Netflix, in addition to DVDs by mail, offers [...]
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Guinness World Records Gamer

The votes for the Top 50 Videogame Series are in. After receiving more than 13,000 votes, the Guinness World Records has created an official list of the best all-around franchises, including all titles and spin-offs, to be featured in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition.
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Monopoly Streets heading to consoles this fall

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Hasbro's Monopoly Brand, a multi-platform of release of the upcoming 3D Monopoly Streets is scheduled to launch this fall, EA Play Label announced Thursday.
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3D will go mainstream this summer

I think we are finally tiring of this era of on-demand, and often, free entertainment; the instant satisfaction of having entire albums on your iPod literally minutes after they are released or, in the case of pirated content on the web, having movies before they are actually released. But worry not, 3D has come to save the day.
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With 100Mbps broadband, how fast is fast? Seriously?

UPC reveals that 100Mbps broadband will be available to over 500,000 Irish homes by late summer, enabling consumers to download an entire iTunes album in five seconds. Mark Coan is sales and marketing manager at UPC
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New iPhone could include HD video

The next generation of the Apple iPhone looks more likely than ever to include HD video. In the developers’ kit for the new device, there is now the option to record at a higher resolution, 1280 x 720, which is otherwise known as 720p.
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A gripping story but not the last chapter for traditional book shops

It's a cruel irony that tales of our economic woes were among the best sellers last year in Irish book shops, including the now defunct Hughes and Hughes.
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Adobe: Apple wants to turn the web into a walled garden

Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s chief technology officer, has accused Apple of creating a "walled garden" on the web and preventing competition, in the latest round of the battle between the two technology giants.
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teairra on "Don't Buy Apple"

I think the only reason for not having an Apple product is its price...We all know how expensive are those, but its worthy thou. It's just funny how people think of choosing other product over an Apple product, as long as you got the budget then might as well go for what Quality Product really is all about. Apple product is not just all of its "Price". There's more into it... :) Technically it's way better than Microsoft, I'm not saying that Microsoft products are that bad but if you know how to compare... :) http://isearchanddestroy.blogspot.com/ thanks guys,
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How to turn your iPad into a skateboard

Wow, the iPad is truly versatile. You can read books on it, play games, browse the web and access email. Yet, the one thing you can do with it that really puts it over the top for me is that you can skateboard on it. Ok, you got me. You do have to make some modifications [...]
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Mocca Pearl Espresso Maker makes a Barista out of Bunyan

Espresso makers come in many forms, from the venerable moka pot to the manual piston driven to the programmable Nescafe automaton, and they all make a pretty good cup of joe. What do you do when you want a small cup when you’re camping though? Don’t scoff: even the most rugged outdoorsman covered in leaves and [...]
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Graphing calculators go touchscreen with the TI-Nspire

Touchscreens and multitouch are pretty du jour right now, especially in the wake of the Apple iPad, but consumers should always beware when they see an old device suddenly boast some fancy touch action. The question you always need to ask yourself is what is the software like: has it been built from the ground-up [...]
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Microsoft KIN phones available from Verizon online store tomorrow

While the KIN ONE and the KIN TWO handsets will be available from Verizon Wireless stores on May 13th, the company has announced that consumers will be able purchase them from Verizon’s online store tomorrow, May 6th. Pricing will be as follows: KIN ONE, $49.99; KIN TWO, $99.99; both after a $100 mail-in rebate with a [...]
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Facebook security fail: live chats accessible with a few mouse clicks

If all your friends are bugging you to get a Facebook account, and you need another excuse to say no, here’s a big Facebook fail you can point them to. With just a few clicks of your mouse you can, or at least could, circumvent Facebook security and view the live chats and pending friend requests [...]
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Intel Unveils Atom Z6XX CPUs for Smartphones

Three years after Intel first announced the Moorestown Atom platform aimed at cell phones and mobile devices, promising a reduction of existing Atom chips’ energy consumption by a factor of twenty, Intel claims they’ve done it with the new Z6XX series. The problem, as Engadget correctly notes, is that while three years ago, that sounded great, [...]
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Blizzard to integrate Facebook with Battle.net for StarCraft II launch

Blizzard has today announced that Facebook and Battle.net are to be integrated. The game developer intends to do this in time for the launch of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. Paul Sams, chief operating officer of Blizzard Entertainment, said: We’re pleased to be working with Facebook to integrate their platform with Battle.net to enhance the social-entertainment experience [...]
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Microsoft advertises for Flight Sim LIVE software engineer

Is Microsoft about to start development on a new game in the Flight Simulator series? A job posting on the Microsoft Talent Network certainly points to it happening. A new position is listed with the title, “Software Development Engineer in Test – MGS – Flight Sim LIVE Job”. The description is as follows: Microsoft Games Studios is [...]
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Droid Incredible disassembled

The DROID Incredible, an Android 2.1 powered smartphone offered by Verizon Wireless, seems to have garnered a lot of attention leading many to want a closer look. TechRestore seems happy to not only oblige, but they take the ideal of a “closer look” to the next level by offering a video showing the complete disassembly [...]
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Survey says AT&T dropping more calls despite network improvements

According to a recent ChangeWave Research report wireless carrier AT&T is dropping more calls than ever. The network has been derided for its inability to successfully handle voice calls, but it dealt with those claims in January when the company stated that major network upgrades were on the way. In a poll of about 4000 people [...]
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A bunch of new features surface with iPhone OS 4 Beta 3

Apple seeded its developers with the third beta of iPhone OS 4 yesterday. The release sports a few previously unknown features, including file sharing between the supported iPhone apps and desktop iTunes, a better way to kill running tasks, a brand new orientation lock feature, and more. iPhone OS 4 is coming along pretty well. According [...]
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Android Multi-Touch Tablet featured in Adobe booth at Web 2.0 Expo

While Apple has decided to take a stance against putting Adobe Flash and Air on their iPad and iPhone it seems the industry has moved on without them. Zedomax.com is reporting that Adobe was all too happy to display smartphones including the Nexus One, Droid and Palm Pre running Adobe technology in their booth during [...]
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University of California ends Gmail pilot due to privacy concerns

The migration to Gmail by companies and institutions seems to be happening at a break-neck pace, but Google isn’t immune to suffering the odd setback. One such failure has happened at the University of California, Davis which has just ended its Gmail pilot. The pilot was used to see if Gmail was the right solution for [...]
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New Grace Solo internet radio turns iPhone into remote

One internet radio that caught our eye is the Solo (GDI-IRA500) which was released by Grace Digital Audio last month. The Solo is a Wi-Fi radio and media streamer which allows you to access your digital music collection or online music services including Pandora, Live365, and SIRIUS. All you need to do is connect up [...]
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Toshiba Qosmio X505 hands-on video

Click through for 720p version. Geek.com’s coverage of the Toshiba Qosmio X505 gaming/media laptop was posted a little while ago, but the hands-on video finally got uploaded to our YouTube channel. Long story short: The X505 has great components, but corners were cut on the chassis. Laptop geek faux pas: There is only one X505, and that’s from [...]
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A 1995 Apple TV predecessor proves Apple

An old Apple prototype that the blogosphere tentatively named an Apple TV predecessor appeared on eBay, priced and sold for just $46. The unit bears little resemblance to the actual Apple TV, sans the TV functionality. AppleInsider exposed the gadget as a prototype Apple Interactive Television Box that had been engineered over fifteen years ago, back [...]
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Canabalt

The simple platformer Canabalt won the hearts of browser-based game lovers and iPhone gamers alike last year, and its newest mode adds yet another creative twist to its PC version: A typing tutor mode. If you select the keyboard option from the free-to-play PC game’s main menu, it changes the game’s input controls from mouse [...]
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Red Dead Redemption to receive free downloadable co-op missions this June

Co-op multiplayer is coming to Red Dead Redemption this June via a free downloadable Mission Pack titled "Outlaws to the End," Rockstar Games announced Wednesday. Available through Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, the DLC features six all-new multiplayer missions for 2 to 4 players, XP rewards, and unlockable Achievements and Trophies.
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Xbox 360

Pitfall! and Super Breakout will be ready for download as part of the Xbox 360's Game Room, a Krome Studios representative announced. Last week, an Xbox Europe rep tweeted that the content would be "delayed until further notice."
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Nintendo exec says the Wii is still going strong

In this calendar year alone, consumers have bought more than five million Wiis, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told CNBC. In an interview detailing the launch of the new black version of the Nintendo Wii console, the executive revealed Nintendo's skyrocketing sales for both the Wii and DS.
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The White Castle Candle has a smell that will slider right into your heart

Living in the Midwest, I am all too familiar with White Castle and their delicious little gut-bombing burgers, also known as “sliders”. Unfortunately, there are those that truly despise these tiny onion-grilled burgers, but then, there are some who absolutely go bonkers at the thought of the taste and smell of a White Castle burger. For those people who [...]
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Alpha Protocol is done, seriously, for real, finally

Obsidian Entertainment’s longtime-coming espionage role-playing game, Alpha Protocol, is finally complete; the game went gold today, which means it will hit retailers on June 1 in North America, and May 28 in Europe, fully a year later than expected. Rumors of troubled development, despite incredible ideas, is the most likely culprit for the wait. Set for [...]
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PSP gets God of War: Ghost of Sparta in 2010

With God of War III excitement just starting to die down, Sony today announced that Ready at Dawn, the team behind the incredible PSP action game, God of War: Chains of Olympus, is working on yet another Kratos-centric portable title. Ghost of Sparta, set to release later this year, fills the gap between the first [...]
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Batman 3 release date announced

Batman 3, the follow up to 2008’s The Dark Knight, has gotten a release date. Warner Bros. tells us that the movie will be released on July 20th 2012. Details on the film are still extremely limited but IMDB does have a page up on the 2012 Untitled Batman Project. We do know that Christopher Nolan will [...]
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Embed tweets via HTML using Blackbird Pie

If you have ever wanted to insert a tweet into an article or a blog you’ve had two choices. The first has been to simply copy the tweet text, while the second has been to do a screen grab of it on the Twitter website. Of course, the nice thing about the screen grab method [...]
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Seagate announces GoFlex modular external hard drives

Today Seagate announced their new line of external storage products, the FreeAgent GoFlex series. This line will replace the current FreeAgent brand consumer-focused storage and connectivity products. All the FreeAgent products will be phased out and replaced with new GoFlex models, so it’s a huge shift in Seagate’s retail presence and marketing strategy. The big news with [...]
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More Dragon Age DLC on the way this month

BioWare is doing its best to ensure your Dragon Age: Origins experience never ends, apparently: May 18, that’s less then two weeks away, sees the release of yet another downloadable expansion pack, this one called Darkspawn Chronicles. What the five dollar — 400 Microsoft Points — download contains is still a mystery; the reveal itself [...]
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Build your own Iron Man arc reactor

With Iron Man 2 getting ready to hit movie theatersyou are probably wondering how you can get your hands on an arc reactor like the one used by Iron Man to power his suit. Luckily, you don’t have to be Tony Stark to build one. Now there are instructions on the web to build one [...]
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HP announces new 14 and 17-inch Envy notebooks

HP’s new 14 and 17 inch Envy laptops have been a poorly kept secret, so it might have seemed a bit anti-climactic to see them officially announced if not for the fact that HP was ultimately so successful in keeping the more interesting details to themselves. Here’s what we’re looking at. Externally, the Envy line has [...]
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Star Wars Character Voices arriving at TomTom

In more GPS navigation news today, we are hearing that Star Wars has officially made an appearance at TomTom. Starting this month, TomTom owners can download one of four official Star Wars voice packs to install into their TomTom GPS units to spice up their GPS travels. Up first this month is the Dark Lord of [...]
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HP

HP’s opened up its embargoed coffers on a whole slew of new notebooks this morning, and rounding out their newly refreshed models comes a rejiggering of their ProBook line of business laptops. Like the last run of ProBooks, the HP ProBook 4325S, 4425S and 4525 are brushed aluminum notebooks, but instead of Intel CPUs, the new [...]
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iPad clone features Android OS 2.1, 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8

Some say impersonation is simply another form of flattery. Not sure if Apple would feel the same way about an iPad clone being reported by the blog Cloned In China. What makes this clone stand out is that it is powered by the Android 2.1 OS and features a 1GHZ ARM Cortex-A8 processor. Other specs include [...]
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Intel Atom-Z runs Quake 3 at 100 fps on a cellphone

It may be a game that was released some 11 years ago, but it still counts as a benchmark people recognize. If Quake 3 runs like lightning on your latest device, then you know you are on to a winner. So it’s with little surprise that Intel is using it to show off their Atom-Z [...]
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Ellen apologizes after joke iPhone ad upsets Apple

In what seems like a case of Apple taking things a little too seriously Ellen DeGeneres has apologized on her show for a joke commercial she made about the iPhone. The commercial saw Ellen attempting to use an iPhone and ended up getting a bit confused, sending a text message accidentally, and getting lost on a [...]
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OCZ Enyo external USB 3.0 SSD expected before end of May

Freecom may claim to have the smallest 2.5″ external hard drive measuring just 109.87 x 79.5 x 13.5 mm, but OCZ may be about to take that crown away from them while adding a significant speed boost. The OCZ Enyo external drive uses SSD, a USB 3.0 interface, and measures 56mm x 120mm x 10mm beating [...]
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46% of TV to ship with Net connection by 2013

With the importance of an Internet connection in the home continuing to grow it may come as no surprise TV manufacturers are reacting. By 2013 ABI Research claims nearly half of all new TVs shipped will have the ability to connect to the web. Be that through wireless or Ethernet. This year the figure stands at [...]
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Google to start selling digital books this summer

Google has announced its plans to turn Google Editions into a gateway for consumers to buy digital books.
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Apple may face competition probe over Flash defiance

Technology giant Apple is on the verge of becoming embroiled in a US investigation amid allegations it has attempted to stifle competition.
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magneto714 on "Don't Buy Apple"

it's called "technical difficulties." I'm sure Microsoft has had to say that one too many times, but let us not get off topic.
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Bits and bytes

Google Earth brings you on a spectacular virtual tour of the world from the air but until now it required loading up a special program on your computer.
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Digital Life: Toy soldiers on a whole new level

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Apple sells a million iPads in first month

Critics panned its lack of camera and "ugly touch-screen keyboard" but it is proving a winner with consumers.
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Millions of homes to receive treble broadband speed

International cable operator UPC is to more than treble the speed of its broadband capability, it was announced today.
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Zettabytes overtake petabytes as largest unit of digital measurement

The size of the "digital universe" will swell so rapidly this year that a new unit – the zettabyte – has been invented to measure it.
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kaedesea on "Don't Buy Apple"

that's funny, what about orange? i got a macbook and nano 4gb. and they all works well for me. what's more, it seems there is something wrong with apple CRM
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Digital Life: My, what a big lens you've got

Always watch the quiet ones -- hidden depths, you see. Pick up the Nikon Coolpix S8000 and it appears a fairly bog-standard compact camera -- small, light, pocketable, yet relatively anonymous.
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So, Mr Wayne, how does it feel to lose

There must be mornings when Ronald Wayne wakes up feeling an urge to weep until his tear ducts run dry. Wouldn't you be the same if you had passed up the chance to remain an investor in a little start-up company called Apple in the 1970s, subsequently missing out on a
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World of Warcraft running on iPad via Gaikai

Services like OnLive and Gaikai are currently promising games on every platform without the high-end hardware required to run the latest titles. All you will need is a solid broadband connection to stream a game to your desktop. But Dave Perry of Gaikai has shown the true potential of the streaming game service by posting the [...]
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Google acquires BumpTop, is Chrome OS going 3D?

BumpTop is a company that started getting noticed when founder Anand Agarawala appeared as a speaker at TED. His company’s software replaced the standard 2D desktop on Windows and Mac with a 3D environment. The video below offers a good demonstration as to what BumpTop can do. With multitouch support BumpTop was always going to work [...]
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Spirit: untethered iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch jailbreak now available

George Hotz may have been the first to demonstrate an untethered iPhone jailbreak, but he looks to have been beaten to an actual release by Spirit. Spirit is an untethered jailbreak for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch and is available to download right now for Windows and Mac users. It does not include a carrier unlock, [...]
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iPad beats the original iPhone, crosses the one million mark in just four weeks

Apple has just announced that it sold its one millionth iPad on Friday, April 30, the same day when they launched the 3G model. As you know, WiFi iPad launched on April 3, but Apple begun accepting pre-orders on March 12. This means that it took just 28 days to sell one million iPads, considerably [...]
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Nvidia GeForce 480M Fermi mobile graphics chip solution listing spotted

Looks like a laptop manufacturer has stolen Nvidia’s thunder in announcing a successor to the 280M mobile graphics chip. Eurocom has started listing a GeForce GTX 480M Fermi chip that ships with a lot of memory and a big power draw. The new 40nm Nvidia chip was spotted as a configuration option on Eurocom’s X8100 Leopard [...]
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MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries free to download and play

Following in the footsteps of EA, which started releasing old Command & Conquer games for free, Microsoft has green-lit the free download of a full-copy of MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries. Originally released in 2002, MW4:M was developed by Cyberlore Studios and published by Microsoft. It was a standalone expansion for MechWarrior 4 and received generally good reviews. If [...]
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3G iPad teardown: Five antennas, unlocked 3G, and more

The teardown experts at iFixIt have peeked inside 3G iPad, which carries a model number A1337. As you know, 3G iPad is basically the same device as the WiFi-only model, sans an added 3G circuitry and GPS sensor. Surprisingly, iFixIt noted, 3G iPad is unlocked and works on any cellular network, not just AT&T’s. The only [...]
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RayStorm HD available May 5th on Xbox Live and PSN

Shmup fans will be pleased to hear that Taito’s RayStorm update, entitled RayStorm HD, finally has a release date. You’ll be able to get it on May 5th for both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. It’s not cheap though, and will cost either 1200 points or $15 depending on your format of choice. The first [...]
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Star Trek Online Free Trial Weekend and Demo coming May 7th

Cryptic Studios is about to roll out a number of new promotions for Star Trek Online. Regardless of whether you have played the game before, or have yet to purchase a copy, Cryptic is going to offer you a free way to play the game. For former players a “Welcome Back Weekend” promotion is being run [...]
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Everything you want to know about the iPad

Over at TidBITS Glenn Fleishman has a thorough post up on the iPad’s 3G service. As you probably know, the recently released iPad Wi-Fi+3G has unique no-contract data plans available from AT&T. The article breaks down how to connect, how to setup your plan, the importance of the Cellular Data switch (like the Airplane button, but [...]
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The government is thinking different about Apple

Apple could be just days away from becoming the subject of an unpleasant antitrust inquiry into a recent decision to restrict software development on the iPhone and iPad. Nevermind Apple’s moral policing which always ignites the heated debate among our readers, this is a much more serious issue than app rejections, the one with potentially [...]
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Similar pages arrive to Google search

If you’ve spotted sporadic occurrences of similar pages on the search results page in the past, you’ll be delighted to learn that Google is now rolling out this feature broadly to help everyone discover web content similar to that they like. According to the Mountain View, California-based search monster, similar pages help raise visibility of [...]
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webOS update arrives early June

Palm has emailed its developers to announce the pending update to its webOS software development kit (SDK). The operating system powering Pre and Pixi smartphones will also be updated. Although Palm cited a “limited scope of the changes,” it demands developers test their apps against the release candidate, especially the software ported from other platforms. [...]
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How to hook up your iPad to T-Mobile

Seriously tempted by the recently launched 3G iPad, but the very thought of connecting to AT&T’s mobile data sends shivers down your spine? As you know, Apple is selling 3G iPad unlocked (yes, it’s hard to believe). As a result, users aren’t required to use it with a specific carrier, like with the iPhone. This paves [...]
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PURE launches three connected radios on July 1st

PURE, a manufacturer of digital and internet-connected radios, has announced the launch of three products in North America beginning July 1st through the PURE website and other online channels. The products were first shown during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January and include the EVOKE Flow, the Oasis Flow and the Siesta Flow. The EVOKE [...]
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New Wii bundle to include Wii Sports Resort, MotionPlus, and optional black color-scheme

When the black Nintendo Wii console hits stores May 9, buyers will get much more than just the system. Like the standard system purchase now available, the new Wii package will include a Wiimote, Nunchuck, and Wii Sports. However, the upcoming bundle will also include Wii Sports Resort and the control-enhancing Wii MotionPlus accessory.
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School offers green careers in ecotech

If you have an interest in ecotech now you have the opportunity to make a career out of it. The Education Corporation of American announced the opening of the new Ecotech Institute. The institute, which will be the first of its kind to prepare graduates for careers in renewable energy and sustainable design fields, will [...]
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Robot creates ice models using 3D printing

Ice sculpture artist may be the next career on the chopping block, due to a breakthrough in technology. Two professors, Pieter Sijpkes and Jorge Angeles, at McGill University based in Montreal, Quebec have figured out a way to print small-scale 3D ice models using what they call the FAB@HOME robot. Their preliminary work has led to a $173,000 grant [...]
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Biomechanical Mike Stand looks as if the Terminator became a roadie

I’m sorry to disappoint you readers, but this sweet looking microphone stand wasn’t ripped out of the shoulder socket of a T-101, nor was it stolen from the research vaults over at Cyberdyne Systems. This Biomechanical Mic Stand was created by modern sculpture artist Chris Conte. Adam Gontier, the lead singer for the group Three Days [...]
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Visualization of European airspace as volcanic ash threat ends

Regardless of where you are in the world it was hard to miss the news about the active volcano in Iceland spewing out tons of volcanic ash a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately for Europe the wind was blowing in its direction, which resulted in most of European airspace being closed for several days. It’s hard [...]
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No Doubt

The entire No Doubt album, Tragic Kingdom, will be available on Rock Band next week, on top of singles from Orianthi and Picture Me Broken, Harmonix and MTV Games announced Friday.
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The Motz Tiny Wooden Speaker for iPod and MP3 Players

Sometimes big things often come in small packages. Take for example this tiny organic looking speaker gadget offered by Korea-based company, Pyramid Distribution. It may not seem like very much. After all, the device only weighs about 15 grams. But this small wooden external speaker for the iPod and other MP3 Players is big on charm. It not only [...]
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Packard Bell announces EasyNote TM Core i3 notebook

Packard Bell has announced The EasyNote TM as the latest addition to their line of laptops. The laptop features a 15.6-inch, 16:9 widescreen display and is powered by an Intel Core i3 processor with up to 8GB of memory. Consumers can choose from models including an ATI or NVIDIA graphics card. Besides its computing power the [...]
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Hydrophobia to be released as timed-exclusive on XBLA with later releases on PSN, PC and retail

Dark Energy Digital's Hydrophobia will only be exclusively available on the Xbox Live Arcade for an unspecified period of time. However, the survival adventure will later be released on the PlayStation Network, PC, and Xbox 360 as boxed, retail code. There will be no PlayStation 3 version.
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Oh no, Apple is trademarking the iPhone app icons

Apple is seeking to legally protect the familiar iPhone app icons. If the company has it their way, those yummy iChocolates, app fridge magnets, and other TWLTOs (Toys We’de Like To Own) inspired by iPhone apps could become a thing of the past. According to Patently Apple, the US Patent & Trademark Office has published yesterday [...]
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Green or just cheap? iPad 3G+WiFi ships in stickered WiFi box!

With less than an hour before 3G iPad arrives on store shelves, the first batch of unboxings show 3G iPads arriving in the same boxes as the WiFi counterpart, down to a big WiFi iPad image on the box front. Surprising sloppiness on the part of a company that likes to pride itself for their rocking unboxing [...]
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Californian beats Bejeweled 2

A dedicated individual has beaten Bejeweled 2, an addictive casual game that, until now, has never been recorded as game that could be beaten. But, after three years of playing a single round of the web-based game, a California steel contractor named Mike Leyde has performed the impossible.
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Google Docs: Freehand image resizing and affixing

Google has added a small but useful tweak to the document editor that’s part of the free Google Docs online office suite – the ability to freely re-size an image right inside your document, just using your mouse. Previously, you would right-click on an image to choose among preset sizes or enter custom width and [...]
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Legacy Games giving away autographed House, M.D. swag

In anticipation of the upcoming PC release of House, M.D., Legacy Games is giving away autographed DVDs, posters, T-shirts, an autographed script, hats and more. Fans must enter their e-mail addresses to be entered into the drawing and receive information regarding the game's release.
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EA Canada to put names of fans in Crysis 2 as in-game graffiti

EA is giving 50 people the opportunity to have their names, Xbox Gamertags or PSN IDs immortalized in Crysis 2 as graffiti. The contest is open to residents of Canada, the U.S., United Kingdom, and Germany.
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Robot performs a perfect balancing act on a ball

This week in addition to a device that balances a ball on a moving platform, we now hear of a robot that can move around and remain upright, all while balancing itself on a single ball. Created by Dr. Masaaki Kumagai and Takaya Ochiai from Tohoku Gakuin University in Japan, this ball balancing robot gives circus performers a run for [...]
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Google search gets virtual keyboard

You may have already noticed a tiny keyboard icon next to the search box on the main Google homepage that lets you enter special symbols and international characters using your mouse rather than a physical keyboard. It’s a natural extension of Google’s API that lets developers put up a virtual keyboard in text fields on [...]
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) now available to download

Canonical has announced the availability of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) in server, desktop, and netbook editions. As well as sporting Linux kernel 2.6.32 Lucid Lynx includes the following new features and improvements: Boot speed: Noticeably quicker on almost any machine and super-fast on SSD-based machines such as netbooks, which means users can speed straight to [...]
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Adobe previews Flash Player 10.1 for Macs with accelerated H.264 video decoding in hardware

Steve Jobs may have a handful of valid arguments to explain Apple’s dislike of Flash, but Adobe is as adamant as ever to push the upcoming Flash Player 10.1 to all systems, including the Macs. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 “Gala” preview release enables hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding on Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X Snow Leopard [...]
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All Points Bulletin release date and pricing revealed

An updated version of the FAQ on the All Points Bulletin (APB) website has revealed both launch dates and pricing for the online game. Developer Realtime Worlds is aiming for a June 29th release in the US, and July 2nd launch across Europe. We’ve known for a while that APB would have an unconventional subscription model, but [...]
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DROID Incredible now available with mobile broadband connect option

On Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced the availability of the DROID Incredible by HTC. The cousin of the popular Motorola Droid is the first Verizon Wireless phone to feature an 8 megapixel camera and the superfast 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Owners can choose from a number of interactive widgets which can be placed on a seven-panel home screen. The [...]
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You can now post Picasa images to Twitter, Blogger, and Buzz

Google has added new sharing options to Picasa Web Albums, its free online photo editing and sharing service that syncs images with the Picasa desktop app. Although you’ve been able to share individual photos and entire albums via email in the past, you couldn’t post to popular social networks. Starting today, Picasa Web Albums has a [...]
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Apple patents the

With touch screen devices becoming all the rage, one might think that the days of physical buttons are numbered. It could very well be the case. At least, that is indeed Apple’s direction in regards to their devices, and that initiative doesn’t seem to be wavering as shown in their latest patent application for something called, [...]
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Microsoft: Yes, the Courier did exist

Microsoft has officially confirmed existence of the Courier project only to say that such a device will never hit the market. Contrary to the popular belief, the Courier wasn’t vaporware, it’s just that Micosoft decided against pursuing this project. Engadget quoted Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s vice president of corporate communications, who explained the reasoning behind such [...]
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James Cameron to bring

3D auteur and science fiction visionary James Cameron isn’t content with taking film goers to his living extra-terrestrial world, Avatar’s Pandora. Now he wants to take them to Mars. Apparently, the Oscar-winning director is helping NASA to build a high resolution 3D camera to be fit on the next generation Mars rover. This isn’t the [...]
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Field Test: Eye-Fi Pro X2 8GB wireless SD card

The Eye-Fi line of wireless memory cards has been around for some time now and they’ve filled a useful niche. You can drop one into any camera that has an SD (or SDHC for that matter) slot and have your images and video automatically uploaded to the web. This means easy syncing to Picasa or [...]
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Adobe responds: Apple is a lock-in, blame Mac OS X for Mac crashes

The Apple vs. Adobe brawl has grown ugly with both companies’ CEOs criticizing each other’s corporate culture. And at the center of it all lies Flash and a huge ecosystem of connected technologies, partners, and developers. Apple’s Steve Jobs posted a public whining titled “Thoughs on Flash” that painted Flash as being insecure, resource-hungry, closed, [...]
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Cupcake cannon is as amazing as it sounds

Pro tip: Protective eyewear is mandatory when cupcakes are being shot at you using a 120 psi cannon. A 700 frames-per-second, $120,000 Phantom HD Gold video camera is not necessary, but it sure helps if you want to make an awesome slow-motion video like this one. As for how to stay as calm as some of [...]
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Amazon goes to war with Penguin over e-book pricing, all Penguin hardcovers now cost $9.99

When the iPad and Apple’s iBooks service was first introduced, publishers used the sudden competition in the e-book space to push Amazon into a corner, breaking the online retailer’s strict $9.99 e-book pricing lock seemingly for good. But Amazon’s striking back. Their contract with Penguin ran out on April 1st, which means that Amazon can’t [...]
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Apple shuts down Lala

In December of last year we reported that Apple acquired music startup Lala. Lala offered ad-free, streaming based music subscriptions and individual song purchases. Use of the past tense “offered” is no mistake. Apple has shut Lala down. Visitors to the website are presented with a simple graphic stating that the site is no longer accepting new users and will be [...]
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NVIDIA: Moore

Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuited will double every two years, and it’s been the backbone of industry projections for the last twenty years. But is Moore’s Law at an end? According to NVIDIA’s chief scientist and vice president Bill Dally writing for Forbes on [...]
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Video: Nokia demonstrates the N8 browser

Nokia’s recently unveiled N8 smartphone is being much maligned in some early previews, but Nokia wants to know that’s poppycock, and to prove it they’ve been releasing a number of video demos to entice customers. Their latest shows off how their new Symbian3 operating system handles web-browsing. Pretty well, actually! The new video, embedded above, not [...]
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Apple launches 3G iPad today at 5:00pm

Are you feeling the launch atmosphere yet? 3G iPad launches today. While the initial hype and novelty of a new Apple device wore off earlier this month with WiFi iPad launch, today is another big day for Apple that marks the arrival of a beefier iPad version officially called WiFi+3G iPad. While 3G iPads will first [...]
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Opera acquires FastMail.fm

Opera Software, known for their Opera desktop and Opera Mini mobile browser, has announced the acquisition of email provider FastMail.fm. FastMail.fm was first founded 10 years ago and provides secure email services via WebMail, IMAP, POP and SMTP. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. FastMail.fm’s reasons for selling were detailed in the company’s blog and [...]
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The Secret of Monkey Island now on a website near you

Who can forget the classic LucasArts’ game Secret of Monkey Island. InstantAction, an online game distribution company, has figured out a way to embed a special edition of the game into a web page. The web version is a 20 minute free trial that allows the player to purchase the full version of the Windows [...]
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Review: HP Mini 5102 netbook

HP’s Mini 5102 is the company’s current business netbook. It’s a slight refresh of the Mini 5101 that we reviewed last year. In addition to the new Intel Pine Trail processor the 5102 got a number of interesting upgrade options, including a fold-out handle and a touchscreen. The 5102 is largely unchanged from the previous [...]
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kaedesea on "differentiate iphone 3g and 3gs"

wow, is the pic a newly release iphone?
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New downloadable gameplay modes available for Dead to Rights: Retribution in late May, early June

A new DLC pack for Dead to Rights: Retribution will be available on May 26 in the PAL region and June 1 for North America. Titled the "GAC Pack", the downloadable content adds two new gameplay modes for the Xbox 360 and PS3: Assault on the 87th Precinct and Riot Control.
Publication date: 2010-04-29 more

Apple may have ditched OmniVision for LG Innotek for the next iPhone

A new report claims Apple switched the CMOS image sensor supplier for its iPhone HD last minute. According to the Chosun Ilbo, Apple’s rumored phone upgrade will feature a five-megapixel camera and LG Innotek will provide CMOS image sensors for the device.  Industry sources told the Asian publication that it’s a done deal: The electronics component [...]
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AOL sells ICQ to Russian company for $187.5MM

Flash back fourteen years and you would have found me, a teenager, rushing to my Windows 95 machine in response to the queue of a high-pitched “Uh oh!” WAV, synonymous to this day in my mind with the sound of an incoming instant message. The program was ICQ, one of the first internet IM applications, [...]
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Ben-Q

Ben-Q’s not exactly the best known of electronics manufacturers, but that’s not the way it should be: they’ve actually released many excellent budget products, particularly their line of HDTVs. Their new point-and-shoot digicam, the Ben-Q E1260 HDR, looks to conform to that mould: it boasts a 12-megapixel CMOS, a 28mm optical wide angle zoom lens capable [...]
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Daily App Store submissions grew 15 percent following the iPad and iPhone OS 4 unveiling

It’s been a while since Apple shared an App Store milestone. The news that Apple’s mobile bazaar now sports over 200,000 items came in Steve Jobs’ thoughts on Flash posted on Apple’s website early morning.A part of  Jobs’ rambling about why Apple won’t support Flash is an App Store update, tucked away as a side-note: The [...]
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Japan to send a humanoid robot to the moon by 2015

Japan’s pathological love for humanoid robots goes back to the days of Tezuka, but as the country “grays” and the young find themselves vastly outnumbered by the old, robots have shifted from fantastic mechanical golems to Japan’s best hope for supplementing its rapidly dwindling workforce.. That hope extends as far as outer space. Last year, the [...]
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Hotmail to gain push email support, Facebook integration and more

Hotmail has become increasingly obsolete under the pressure of Google’s webmail onslaught and quick feature roll out. One particular advantage GMail has over Hotmail is push email, and in an increasingly mobile era, Hotmail’s lack of that sole feature is enough to cause an exodus of users to Google’s service. Belatedly, Microsoft intends to staunch [...]
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Polaroid

Polaroid pretty much built its empire on instant cameras… but then digital cameras happened. Polaroid struggled to keep up, releasing a few eminently forgettable little point-and-shoots along the way, but it never could quite seem to get its bearings once photography stopped being analogue: they even went as far as to make the misguided move [...]
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Apple wants to charge a premium to show iAds inside iPhone apps

Apple is shopping their new mobile advertising platform called iAd around Madison Avenue ahead of the June launch, demanding marketeres pay a premium for the privilege of having their next-generation ads appear inside iPhone apps. According to several ad executives who spoke to the Wall Street Journal, Apple will charge $1 million to inject a campaign inside third-party [...]
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Following Samsung

You only have to look at the evolution of televisions over the last couple of years to realize that the future of sets is to make them into computers. Televisions have gone from analogue sets to plasmas with resolutions measured in pixels; from coaxial affairs to displays indistinguishable but for tuner and size from the [...]
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Skyfire 2.0 brings Flash to Android handsets

Steve Jobs isn’t a big fan of Flash, and is openly skeptical about its place on the mobile web. He may be right going forward, but for right now, the web is flash handy, and a lot of people want a way to view that content on their devices. Irony of ironies, on the same [...]
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Halo: Reach beta will feature five rotating playlists, earns players free Avatar hoodie

The Halo: Reach multiplayer beta is almost here. Just four days from kick off, the beta is scheduled to run from May 3 through May 19. Players can access the beta via the Halo 3: ODST game disc, however an Xbox Live Gold membership and internet connection is also required.
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Motorola wants to release their own tablet running Android or Windows Phone 7

Motorola isn’t having a very good last couple of years. The once prominent handset manufacturer has turned in a miniscule profit of a little over $100 million this year, following a similarly poor showing last year. Like other companies that have been slow to embrace smartphones, the company’s devices have floundered even as Android handsets [...]
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Gmail imploding for you too? UPDATED

Users (this one included) are having some serious problems with Gmail and other Google services right now. Twitter is being swarmed with messages about Gmail being down and the App Status dashboard seems to be inaccessible. Is this an isolated incident or a major outage? 3:26p – Wow, seems like a false alarm (or I just got [...]
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Apple patents a bunch of new multitouch gestures

Just when handset makers have finally gotten the guts to implement the iPhone’s trademark pinch-zoom, Apple has patented a new selection of complex multitouch gestures that will presumably find its way into the upcoming fourth-generation iPhone, future iPads, and possibly even the Macs. According to the patent titled “System and method for packing multitouch gestures onto [...]
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Upcoming Kindle update includes Facebook and Twitter connectivity

We recently mentioned some of the significant updates that the NOOK has received, including the addition of a web browser and games. Now it seems that Amazon is looking to beef up the connectivity of its Kindle as well with the Version 2.5 update scheduled for late May. In addition to a number of enhancements the update gives users the ability [...]
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Bridgestone creates flexible color touchscreen e-paper

You may only know Bridgestone as a tire company, but the Japanese firm is very serious about the future of e-paper. In fact, last year, Bridgestone announced that they’d invented the world’s first flexible e-book reader. That’s a big deal; while devices like the Kindle and iPad are showing there’s a mass market for e-readers, [...]
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Penny Arcade writers make Time Magazine Top 100

Penny Arcade writers Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, better known as their alter-egos Gabe and Tycho, have made Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People for the year 2010, joining the ranks of Barack Obama, Conan O'Brien, Oprah Winfrey and others.
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Apple iPhone 4G could go on sale in early June

Apple set to unveil new iPhone at Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 7.
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Apple acquires Siri: the 'virtual personal assistant'

Apple has acquired Siri, a mobile application which acts as a virtual personal assistant, doing everything from booking taxis to locating the nearest restaurant.
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Yahoo secures rights to show Premier League highlights online

Yahoo has landed a deal to show Premier League highlights over the internet, following a competitive auction in which it outbid current rights holder Virgin Media.
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somguy on "Mac for modeling, pro'g, etc.."

Hi all, Complete newbie here; so, sorry if this is in the wrong spot. I'm about to enter the world of scientific forward modeling and am seeking advice/opinions on macbook pro spec and requirements for a series of projects ahead. As a keen photographer and an apple fan I'm set on a mac anyway. But with the modeling and programing in mind, is a macbook the best bet for me? And, if so, what might be the minimum requirements? Should i splash out for the i5, 4gb ram, etc. Initially, data & model output analysis will involve Linux OS commands for file handling, writing executable scripts in Linux, Python and/or Matlab use, loading and plotting data. Future model development stuff will include programming in C, C++, C
Publication date: 2010-04-28 more

Google moves to block Groggle over 'similar trademark'

Internet search giant Google has threatened an Australian businessman with legal action if he tries to register his company Groggle as a trademark.
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US senators demand Facebook privacy changes

Let users decide which websites their personal information is shared with, demand Democrats.
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Live-action Halo: Reach short launches April 27 with extended version to come April 28 via Xbox Live

The Halo: Reach live-action short launches this week on the internet, TV and silver screen. Titled "Birth of a Spartan," the one-minute film depicts the transformation of Carter 259, the future leader of Noble Team in the upcoming Xbox 360 release Halo: Reach, from an ordinary man to a Spartan warrior.
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Quick Review: Toshiba Qosmio X505 gaming laptop

Toshiba’s Qosmio X505 is a high-end notebook at a not-so-high-end price. The system has a monster 18.4-inch display and packs an Intel Core i7 processor, but those two are just the start of the fun–it also comes with a 64GB SSD and Nvidia’s GeForce GTS 360M graphics.  With a current MSRP of $1900  the system [...]
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Supreme Court to determine legality of selling violent video games to minors

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether California, Illinois, and five other states can make it illegal to rent out or sell violent video games to minors.
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Super Street Fighter IV footage stolen during Capcom Fight Club party

On Friday, April 23rd, Capcom held its latest Super Street Fighter IV Fight Club in Los Angeles. It was open to the public and fans queued around the block waiting to get in. 2,000 turned up, most got in the warehouse where the event was being held. Everything was going well until the end of the [...]
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Did Apple incite lost iPhone investigation? UPDATED

Apple may have been instrumental in a raid of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house over leaking Apple’s lost iPhone HD prototype that the publication’s parent company Gawker Media publicly admitted to have bought for $5,000. Yahoo! News offered a compelling argument that Apple might have influenced the investigation: The raid that San Mateo area cops conducted last [...]
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PS3 3.30 firmware allows Remote Play on VAIO laptops

The big news about the PS3 3.30 firmware update was the introduction of 3D stereoscopic game support. But there was another feature added that you may find a lot more useful. Sony has introduced the ability to use Remote Play with Sony VAIO laptops. This will allow you to stream media to future VAIO laptops, with [...]
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50% off Rockstar Collection on Steam this week only

Steam is running another promotion. This one lasts a week and offers you the Rockstar Collection for 50% off. For $42.49 you get the following 13 games as part of the package: Bully: Scholarship Edition Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto 2 Grand Theft Auto 3 Grand Theft Auto IV Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Grand Theft [...]
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Sir Clive Sinclair, creator of the ZX Spectrum, finds happiness with a lap dancer

For many, the Sincalir name will always be associated with that most popular of 8-bit home computers the ZX Spectrum. Sir Clive Sinclair, owner of Sinclair Research Ltd., released the ZX Spectrum in 1982. He may have found happiness in his earlier days geeking out with computer hardware, but now as a 69-year-old millionaire he [...]
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New photos of Motorola 3D phone leaked

AndroidandMe is reporting that new images may have leaked giving consumers a peak into what is reported to be Motorola’s first 3D Android phone. Other images of what is believed to be a prototype were leaked earlier this month. As the report details, the Motorola 3D phone supposedly works by taking the 2D images of the [...]
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NVIDIA to unify notebook and desktop driver releases

NVIDIA has announced a change in the way it releases video drivers for notebooks. Historically, the company has released drivers for notebooks and desktops separately, but that will no longer be the case moving forward for drivers on to Windows Vista and Windows 7. According to the company’s blog, each time a desktop driver is released an [...]
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WePad appears three more times, 36 minutes of video posted

After posting about the WePad recently we realized just how much interested there is in this German iPad competitor. It’s a serious underdog compared to the Cupertino super slate, but between the Linux-based OS, USB slots, and cool grid UI it might be able to carve out a niche for itself. Engadget dug up three videos [...]
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RIM pitches BlackBerry 6 with a rocking video

Research in Motion is promoting BlackBerry 6, the next major release of its mobile operating system, with a sneak peak video that will knock your socks off. Judging by the look of it, BlackBerry 6 will be as flashy and snappy as iPhone OS or Android. The mobile operating system has been announced at the WES [...]
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TomTom focuses on connectivity with GO LIVE 1000

On Tuesday, TomTom announced the first in the next generation of navigation devices by the company. At the heart of the new TomTom GO LIVE 1000 is the ability to be connected to the latest information and updates. This means that content and downloadable applications, including third party apps, can be delivered to the GO [...]
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Google acquires Labpixies

Google has just received a big boost to its iGoogle efforts. iGoogle, as some users will certainly know, is a personalized Google start page that allows a user to create their own web desktop using gadgets for things like email, weather, games, RSS feeds and video. When iGoogle was launched in 2005 it created a new [...]
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Opera 10.52 for Mac: Multi-touch, 10x speed bump, and more

The newest Opera release for the Mac packs in a number of under-the-hood optimizations that led to a significant speed increase. It also supports multi-touch gestures on trackpads, HTML5 web videos, Growl notifications, and more. Opera 10.52 for Mac is a native Cocoa application that the developer claims runs ten times faster than the previous Mac version, Opera 10.10. It [...]
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Woman in the UK photographed 43 times by Google Street View car

Wendy Southgate, a 52-year old resident of Suffolk in the United Kingdom probably never thought walking her dog would gain her international notice. But thanks to a Google Street View Car, she can probably claim to be one of the most photographed persons on Google Street View in the world. You see as Wendy was strolling [...]
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Architect in Hong Kong converts small apartment into 24 rooms

We can all take a lesson from this guy when it comes to maximizing the use of small spaces. Gary Chang, an architect living in a small Hong Kong apartment, has come up with a ingenious way to make great use of such small living quarters. Implementing the idea of sliding walls, Chang is able to convert his [...]
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Activision sued by 38 Infinity Ward employees for unpaid royalties

If facing a lawsuit from the former Infinity Ward management team, and a continuing exodus of staff wasn’t enough for Activision to deal with, yesterday 38 Infinity Ward employees banded together and sued the publisher over unpaid royalties. Bruce Isaacs, attorney at Wyman & Isaacs LLP, and representative for the employee group known as Infinity Ward [...]
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magneto714 on "Apple Ipad over rated?"

Ipad is out. But is it really worth the money? Different thoughts for this as we can plainly see from the flame wars poppin up from this. What do you think? Is the apple Ipad the new multi-million dollar money maker for Microsoft?
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GPX58 on "Apple Ipad over rated?"

Ipad is out. But is it really worth the money? Different thoughts for this as we can plainly see from the flame wars poppin up from this. What do you think? Is the apple Ipad the new multi-million dollar money maker for Microsoft?
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boyethoward13 on "How to transfer iPod photos, music, videos and playlists to iPod on Mac OS X?"

For me to transfer files into ipod to computer, ipod to mac or ipod to itunes i used a 3rd party tool to help me copy songs in my ipod to computer as itunes blocks the ipod-to-computer transfer. Here is a review of the top 5 ipod copying softwares(mac/windows) you might find helpful, http://www.ipodtocomputer.net, make sure you try before you buy, i personally use cucusoft ipod to computer transfer for my pc.
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iPad users targeted by hackers

Security experts have warned that Apple iPad users are being targeted by cyber criminals.
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Police raid Gizmodo editor's home over iPhone leak

A technology blogger who edits the Gizmodo website which last week showed off a prototype of Apple's new generation iPhone has had his home raided by police.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars hits PlayStation Network in HD

Cartoon Network’s wildly popular Star Wars animated series, The Clone Wars, hit the PlayStation Network yesterday. The series’ episodes are available for download at the cost of $2.99 apiece in high definition, and $1.99 in standard. According to StarWars.com, and after double checking ourselves, you can access individual episodes of both the entire first season [...]
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New mobile phone input takes the touch out of touchscreen

We often take for granted the touchscreen interface and how it revolutionized mobile phones as we know them. Now the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory at the University of Tokyo is developing the next generation of mobile phone interfaces, but instead of a touchscreen the new interface is touchless. The technology works through a high frame rate camera [...]
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Digital Life: Rebooted, but definitely not reborn

The Prince of Darkness has stepped into the light for the long-delayed return of the Splinter Cell super-spy series.
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Digital Life: Play it safe with phone security apps

Pity the poor Apple employee who lost his phone in a bar last week. Except it wasn't just any mobile -- it was a super-secret prototype of the next iPhone that won't be out for months.
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Japanese mobile firms collaborate to create new mobile app platform

In a bid to cut costs Japanese mobile phone manufacturers are set to collaborate on a new mobile apps platform. NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic, and Sharp are all involved. The aim is to produce a new mobile app platform that works with both Symbian and Linux-based operating systems. It will then be used across [...]
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American college students show drug-like addiction to gadgets and media

The Internet and social media may be the equivalent of class A drugs for some. A new research study out of the University of Maryland has shown that students at least, suffer similar withdrawal symptoms to drug addicts. Although small, the experiment carried out at Maryland was quite telling. 200 students agreed to give up all [...]
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Ubisoft DRM system hacked rendering always-connected check useless

If you are one of the many gamers frustrated by the problems playing your paid-for copy of Assassin’s Creed II, then this news may bring a smile to your face. A hacker group going by the name of Skid Row has announced a crack for Ubisoft’s system allowing gamers to circumvent the always-connected DRM. Skid Row [...]
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Ubisoft delays R.U.S.E. until September

Publisher Ubisoft, and developer Eugen Systems, have decided to delay the release of RTS title R.U.S.E until September. Gamers interested in playing R.U.S.E have every right to be frustrated as this is the fourth time the game has been delayed. Posting on Facebook the R.U.S.E team explained that the delay was due to the massive amount [...]
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iPad use before naptime messes up your sleep cycle, experts say

You should think twice before picking up your iPad when tucked in bed. Experts advise against staring at smallish LCD screens before naptime in order to avoid messing up your sleep cycle. With its snazzy multitouch user interface and music, movies, e-books, and apps all at your fingertips, putting away your iPad before naptime can be quite [...]
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Google pulls Nexus One from Verizon last minute, get the Droid Incredible instead

If you have been counting down the remaining days to the Nexus One launch on the Verizon network, hold your horses – Google has pulled the handset last minute from Big Red. Their suggestion? Pre-order HTC’s Droid Incredible instead. The surprising revelation came as a side-note in a post on the official Nexus One blog: If you
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Corsair aluminum flash drive can survive at 650 feet underwater

There are rugged mobile phones and laptops, so it makes perfect sense there should also be rugged flash drives to match. That is the thinking behind the new Flash Survivor GTR USB flash drives. The drives offer what you would expect in flash drive storage (including read speeds of up to 34MB/sec and write speeds [...]
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Cops confiscate editor

Gizmodo may have gone too far with its lost iPhone story. The piece sure did set everyone’s tongue wagging, but looks like it also drew attention of the computer crime task force of the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office which dispatched cops to seize a bunch of machines belonging to Jason Chen, Gizmodo’s editor [...]
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Capcom apologizes for not including DRM notification with Final Fight: Double Impact

Capcom has issued an apology for neglecting to notify PlayStation owners that Final Fight: Double Impact requires a constant internet connection.
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Samsung USB 3.0 external drive offers 10x the speed of USB 2.0

If you are looking for an ultra fast external hard drive then you may want to take a peek at the latest addition to Samsung’s STORY Station product line. The first thing that will stand out is the new 3.5-inch hard drive, the Samsung STORY Station 3.0, uses the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface. This means the drive [...]
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Fans continue to play Halo 2 online after Microsoft officially cuts off Xbox Live support

A small group of unfathomably loyal fans are squeezing the last bit of online fun out of Halo 2 even though Microsoft officially ended support for all original Xbox titles April 15.
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Steve Wozniak spills the beans on Apple

Showing an unreleased product to a fellow Apple employee mere hours before its scheduled launch can still cost you a job. We’re not kidding. Steve Wozniak told Gizmodo that Apple fired an employee over briefly showing a 3G iPad to him on April 3, the morning of the iPad launch. The fact that Wozniak is also [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-26 more

iPad camera connection kit supports USB cameras and keyboards (video)

Apple’s accessory that lets you transfer photos and videos on your iPad supports USB keyboards, microphones, and headsets as well. The iPad camera connection kit consists of two attachments that hook up to the iPad’s 30-pin dock connector: The first has an SD card slot on the other end and the other sports a USB port. Although [...]
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Skate 3 Urban Playground Trailer

If you’re eagerly awaiting the release of Skate 3 then you’ve no doubt downloaded the demo from PSN or Xbox Live. But EA is continuing to market the game in the run-up to release. The latest promo is a new trailer entitled, “Skate 3 Urban Playground”. The core of the video is not about skateboarding, but [...]
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Tweets with a cool 8-bit vibe seen on an Apple IIe

Retro fans and long-time Apple enthusiasts will like this one. Apparently a guy has breathed new life into his Apple IIe by transforming it into a Twitter-wall machine that renders tweets in cool 8-bit retro graphics. According to a post at Make Magazine, a Twitter user “yergacheffe,” who also maintains a tech blog at atomsandelectrons.com, has [...]
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New PS3 with 45nm RSX GPU is more reliable, uses 15% less power

If you have been holding off buying a PS3 Slim console then it may be worth waiting a little bit longer. Sony, as usual, has been updating the internal hardware of its console and is about to release a new model. The good news is it comes with both power savings and improved reliability. The major [...]
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Nearly 30 years on, Sony to stop making 3.5

You may have stopped using them many years ago, but the 3.5″ floppy disc has continued to survive next to the superior USB storage devices now commonplace in our bags, on our key-rings, and available from most stores. Sony has announced that it is finally going to shut down production of its floppy disc manufacturing in [...]
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iPad theft costs victim his finger

Getting your just-out-the-Apple-store iPad stolen in a shopping mall is bad enough, but what about losing your finger in the process? That’s what happened to 59-year-old William Jordan at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center in Denver on April 15th. He had his iPad in a white Apple bag with the handle cord wrapped around his little [...]
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Two prototype iPod touch devices with cameras surface on eBay

Someone put two prototype iPod touch devices with a built-in camera on eBay this past Saturday. Hours later, the listing was taken down. The fact that those units apparently belonged to the Apple development team may have had something to do with the removal. According to 9to5Mac, two “semi-working” iPod touch devices on eBay sport a [...]
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Steve Jobs says

Fear not, looks like Mac OS X 10.7, the next major revision to the Macintosh operating system, will let us run any app we want after all, those pesky Apple bans be damned. According to 9to5Mac, Steve Jobs has dismissed a Mac App Store in 10.7 that some folks believed would force us to install and [...]
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Apple signs a gaming editor to handpick App Store games

Matt Casamassina was quite content with his games editor role at the gaming site IGN before Apple offered him a position at club Cupertino to cherry-pick the iPhone games on the App Store. The new gig at Apple includes the fancy title of Global Editorial Games Manger for the App Store, AppleInsider reported. Casamassina is scheduled [...]
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Investing in Apple instead of buying their gear would have made you rich

Here’s the thing: If you had taken the $5,700 spent on Apple’s PowerBook G3 in 1997 and invested that cash in Apple stock instead, you’d have had over $330,000 worth of shares today. Not bad, huh? Wait, there’s more… According to a very intriguing blog post by Kyle Conroy, the same goes for any Apple gadget. [...]
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AMD Phenom II X6 6-core 2.8GHz processor shipping for $222.29

Have you been eyeing up the first Intel 6-core chip and wondering how on earth you are going to save the $1,049.99 asking price? At 3.33GHz, and with 6-cores, the Core i7 980X sure is a desirable chip to have at the heart of your machine. But Intel may have a problem in the form of [...]
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boyethoward13 on "How to Make a Copy of DVD Movies on Mac OS X"

I am using an iMacsoft Mac DVD Toolkit is an integrated and easy-to-use multimedia tool to rip DVD, create DVD, and copy DVD as well as convert video for Mac users. You can download it here: http://chilidownload.com/imacsoft-mac-dvd-toolkit-details-16959.html It helps me a lot and i love using it.
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Web addiction: can this man survive two days without the internet?

This month's award for stating the bloody obvious goes to researchers in Leeds who have discovered a link between internet use and stress. The longer you spend online, they found, the higher your stress levels.
Publication date: 2010-04-26 more

Traders on "For sale: Brand New Unlocked Apple Iphone 3GS"

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Publication date: 2010-04-25 more

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IT ranks among the worst business moves ever. In 1976 Ronald Wayne decided to pull out of his friends' computer company after two weeks, fearing he could be saddled with debts if it failed.
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Hulu said to test $9.95 subscription service

There have been rumors that Hulu might be moving to a subscription service and according to the Los Angeles Times they’ll be dipping their toes in that water soon. The report states that Hulu has plans to test a $9.95 a month subscription service beginning May 24th according to sources. Since Hulu was founded back in [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Live-action Alan Wake series on Xbox Live premieres April 25

The first episode in a six-part live-action Alan Wake miniseries will launch on Xbox Live April 25.
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Could Android 2.2 be around the corner?

Those eager to see the next version of Android, codenamed Froyo, will be happy to hear that some are reporting already seeing it in the wild. According to Engadget, Android and Me reported seeing Android 2.2 devices accessing its site while another site, MobiFlip.de, actually has pictures of a HTC Magic which shows that it is running 2.2. There’s [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Enjoy 7 minutes of the StarCraft 2 single-player campaign

The video above is seven minutes of gameplay footage from StarCraft II. Be sure to watch it in 720p if you machine can handle it. The video was recorded during a press demonstration given on April 19th. You get to see an in-game mission briefing, multiple objectives, and unique single-player campaign units. Although StarCraft II has an [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

iTunes and Netflix beware, Google rolls out YouTube video rentals

Google has quietly unveiled a long-rumored rental service on YouTube, allowing you to rent movies and TV shows for 48 hours. Rental fees are processed through the Checkout payment gateway that’s also used in a number of Google’s web properties. According to ReadWriteWeb, the initial selection includes independent movies and documentaries, in addition to the Bollywood [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Woman wears Stormtrooper costume during college graduation

Ever hear the story about the woman who wore her Star Trek uniform to jury duty? Interestingly enough, I have another story to tell along that same lines, but with a different genre. Manja Peters, who is a 36 year old woman, and a student from Canterbury University in the United Kingdom, decided she wanted to [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Outlook for Mac 2011 reportedly dumber than the Windows version

Boy Genius Reports has posted an extensive screenshot gallery of the second beta of Office for Mac 2011, giving us a thorough overview of some of the new features of this big office productivity update. Besides a handful of nice-to-haves and a revamped user interface based on Ribbons, it looks like the Mac version of Outlook still requires [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Saints Row 2 apparel for Xbox Live Avatars now available

The Saints Row 2 Avatar pack is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace, THQ announced Thursday. Now you can trick out your Avatar with t-shirts and pimp canes ranging from 80 to 400 MS points.
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Warner delays Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 until 2011?

Fans of the Batman: Arkham Asylum games, of which there were many, may have been looking forward to the sequel coming out later this year. But it looks as though the game won’t be arriving until 2011 now. CVG has been speaking to a senior retail source in the UK who has informed the site that [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Lufthansa offers to fly the lost iPhone dude to Munich

Gray Powell – Apple’s engineer who lost an iPhone HD prototype that Gizmodo bought and leaked to the whole world – has become an overnight sensation and something of a web celebrity. Suddenly, everybody and their mom knows Powell by name is and wants to friend him on Facebook. The fact that the lost iPhone story involves a [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

23andMe drops DNA tests from $499 to $99 for DNA Day

Back in May of 2009 I reviewed a website called GeneTree which is a bit like a version of Facebook, but you link up with people based on how close they match your DNA according to tests offered by the website. Links can then be used to help expand and create your family tree. Another website called 23andMe [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Quick Play: Beat Hazard for PC

Beat Hazard is sort of like playing Asteroids while someone shoots fireworks into your face. It takes the idea of a twin-stick shooter and then goes completely over-the-top with the particle effects. The result is an extended explosion on your monitor, while you destroy asteroids and avoid bullet-hell. There are upgrades you can gather, an experience [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Father creates Speaks4Me allowing autistic son to communicate

Steven Lodge is a father of a severely autistic 11-year-old son called Callum. Callum is non-verbal, but his family wanted to find away for him to communicate easily and effectively. So Steven set to work developing a system that would allow for communication through a device Callum could interact with using his hands. The result [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Review: After Burner Climax on Xbox 360

My last experience of playing After Burner was when I used to go to the local arcade as a teenager. After Burner stood out due to the cabinet it used, and was always more expensive to play than the other, standard cabinet games. After Burner Climax was developed for the arcade by Sega’s AM-2 team in [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

iPhone OS 4 lets you swipe to archive Gmail messages

Even though the iPhone’s built-in Mail app is pretty effective, it has a few notable shortcomings, like the lack of universal inbox or support for Gmail’s archive feature. While Apple told us that iPhone OS 4 will fix the former, we didn’t know that the software supports the Gmail Archive feature as well. According to the [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

iFixit turns website into wiki for repair manuals

Back in December, we reported that iFixit announced that it was offering its repair manuals under the Creative Commons license. The Creative Commons license will allow people to share and adapt the repair guides for their own use. To make the repair guides even easier to find, the iFixit website has been redesigned into a wiki for repair [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Just Cause 2 packs extra heat this spring with two new DLC packs

Two new add-on packs for Just Cause 2 will be available April 29 and May 25, Square Enix London Studios announced Friday.
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

App rejections coming to your desktop with a rumored Mac app bazaar in OS X 10.7

All the criticism of Apple’s moral policing and app rejections could pale in comparison to a rumored Mac software bazaar that a developer believes will make an appearance in Mac OS X 10.7, the next major revision of the Macintosh operating system. Before you scroll down to the comment section, let me point out that other [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Games and a web browser come to NOOK with latest update

NOOK owners will get some significant new features and abilities thanks to the latest software update. Version 1.3 improves the performance of the device including faster e-book opening and page turns, but significant enhancements include new in-store capabilities, improved Wi-Fi functionality, a beta web browser and the ability to access games. These new abilities can [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-24 more

Text of secret ACTA talks released

A full text of the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) has been released for the first time, although information on specific country’s positions on the previously secret text is still not known.
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

iPhone captures 72pc of Japan smartphone market

Apple’s iPhone shipments to Japan more than doubled in the past year, capturing 72pc of the country’s smartphone market, a research firm said.
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

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Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Apple hits back at Adobe in Flash row

It's the latest exchange in an increasingly bitter war of words between the two companies, which have been at loggerheads over Apple's perceived efforts to undermine the supremacy of Adobe's Flash technology.
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Microsoft tops list of most social network usage by employees

Which companies have the top social network usage by employees? That’s the question NetProspex, a business contact management company, tried to answer with its Social Report. The report includes a ranking of companies based on overall social network and Twitter usage. The report also identifies the percentage of social network membership among employees with a [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

T-Mobile USA to carry first Android-powered Garmin smartphone

T-Mobile USA has announced that it will be the exclusive carrier of the first Android-powered smartphone by Garmin. Garmin, whose well known for producing GPS devices, first announced its entry into the mobile phone market back in 2008 with the introduction of the nüvifone. The new smartphone called Garminfone is marketed as being an Android-powered [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Latest Google Chrome ad focuses on extensions

Google has released a new advert on YouTube for its Chrome browser. This time the focus is on the new extensions system and the additional functionality on offer. The search giant has seen fit to focus on what it must believe are some of the most popular extension requests. We see references to receiving Twitter updates [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Nokia sales chief says digital cameras to become obsolete

(Image courtesy of cellanr on Flickr) When choosing a device to capture images with there are three distinct categories: use the camera on your phone, buy a cheap point-and-shoot camera, or spend a little (or a lot) more and get a professional grade camera. Although they might be the choices at the moment, Nokia’s sales chief says [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Artist creates self-portrait of herself from Cat 5 cables

I’m not an art critic, nor do I pretend to be one. But when it comes to imaginative uses of computer technology for the sake of art, I often take notice. Take for example this provocative piece of modern art created by Kasey McMahon. Called “Connected,”  it is apparently a self-portrait sculpture of the artist using steel as the underlying frame, which [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Next James Bond film faces indefinite hold

Secret Agent James Bond has faced many deadly challenges in his career as a Double-O working for MI6. From Goldfinger and Odd Job to S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and Blofeld, James has survived them all, and with a bit of style in the process. But could the demise of James Bond come from an assassin that even he [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Google starts taking photographs in store for Google Places

This week Google has launched Google Places, which allows businesses to manage their presence on Google. To supplement the newly named service Google is also taking its cameras inside public venues. Soon, as well as being able to see the street and the front of the store you want to go to, Google will be offering [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

ARM chief responds to Apple acquisition rumors

Earlier today we reported about speculation among stock traders that Apple was pursuing an acquisition of chip design company ARM. The news sent ARM’s stock price sky high, but there was little evidence to back it up. Now ARM chief executive Warren East has weighed in with his view. And as far as he’s concerned there [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Steampunk fantasy title

German studio Spellbound Entertainment AG has officially announced its new fantasy title Ravensdale, a fast paced action game in a unique "steam powered" setting. The company hopes to release Ravensdale in 2012 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
Publication date: 2010-04-23 more

Apple considering ARM acquisition?

ARM, the chip designer that has its processors in the majority of mobile devices currently on the market, may be about to become an Apple hardware exclusive. Traders in London’s financial sector were speculating yesterday on news that Apple was pursuing a buyout of the company. In so doing, ARM’s low power, performance chip designs would [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Hacker gets Android running on iPhone

David Wong, also known by his hacker name planetbeing, has managed to hack the iPhone allowing the smartphone to run Android. The video above shows you the whole process from dual-booting the iPhone using OpeniBoot right through to launching and using the Android OS. Although Wong admits a number of Android-specific drivers are missing, he demonstrates [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Microsoft rumored to be in talks regarding new Xbox Live television channel

Microsoft might be planning to launch a new television channel on Xbox Live, Edge reports. If the rumor is true, Microsoft has been in discussions with former News Corporation president Peter Chernin about the possibility.
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

McAfee update cripples Windows XP machines worldwide

McAfee is having to deal with the fallout today as an antivirus definition update it released has managed to cripple Windows XP SP3 machines of both consumer and corporate users. So how did McAfee manage to take down Windows XP with a single update? By re-classifying Svchost.exe as a malicious file known as the virus W32/Wercorl.a. [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Steam running on a Mac (video)

Last month Valve confirmed the rumors that it was developing a version of the Steam client for Mac gamers. Along with it will come Mac versions of popular games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series. Portal 2 is also promised a simultaneous release on PC and Mac. Valve [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Halo: Reach to come in Standard, Limited, and Legendary editions

You may have already made your mind up to buy Halo: Reach when it is released on Xbox 360 later this year. But you also have another decision to make: which edition do you buy? Bungie and Microsoft have decided to offer 3 editions of the game carrying the names Standard, Limited, and Legendary. Details of [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Olympus E-PL1 tilt-shifting video samples

We’ve covered the Olympus E-PL1 a few times here at Geek.com. I’ve mentioned how it shoots 720p video and how it has filter effects, including one for tilt-shifting. You probably didn’t guess that the two can be combined. That’s right, the $599 E-PL1 consumer camera can mimic the effect of a much more expensive camera [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Robot challenges human to a Place Kicking Contest

Robots are better than humans in just about any endeavor. But don’t tell that to San Francisco 49er kicker, Joe Nedney. Nedney was recently invited to put his foot against the might of a robot named Ziggy in order to commemorate the upcoming international robot event, Robogames, in San Mateo, California. The challenge was to see [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Facebook teams up with Microsoft Docs

Facebook Docs, a collaboration between the social-networking site and Microsoft, will allow Facebook users to create Microsoft Office documents online and share them across the web via Facebook.
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Adobe admits defeat in Apple row

Adobe said it will 'no longer be investing' in technology designed to bring Flash-based applications to the iPhone.
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Facebook

Facebook has replaced its Facebook Connect platform with a new set of social plugins which will dramatically expand its presence across the web.
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Reviewed: Amazon Kindle

As an unabashed bookworm I have to admit I was initially dismissive of e-book readers, from the Amazon Kindle to the Sony Reader. A library full of books says something about the man, or so I thought. Well, (a) I hardly ever read the same book twice and (b) books can create a lot of clutter. And since most of us search for the information we want these days, surely reading off a screen is not a big deal?
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

The future of search is destined to be in the eye of the beholder

Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Web pioneer: new media will help save traditional media

As Ireland's first ISP with Ireland Online and the first online advertiser in 1996, Colm Grealy of Digital Reach Group believes the onset of the iPad and quick response codes herald a strong future for traditional media
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

'There are three billion new capitalists - the world's economy has changed forever'

Ex-Intel CEO Craig Barrett says Ireland needs to invest in skills and infrastructure to have a future
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Warner Bros. acquires online gaming studio Turbine

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has this week acquired the largest privately-owned online gaming company Turbine. Turbine has a rich history of creating MMO games and technology since the company was formed in 1994. Games it has created include Asheron’s Call, Lord of the Rings Online, and Dungeons & Dragons Online. The company also has an [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Google aiming for 100% water recycling at data centers

Google is pushing ahead with making its data centers more efficient and less reliant on external sources such as power from the grid. As well as researching and funding the development of renewable energy sources, Google is now starting to push for 100% recycled water at its data centers. Data center cooling systems can require a [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Introducing Docs: Microsoft Office meets Facebook

Adamant to preserve its Office empire, Microsoft has teamed up with Facebook on a new social productivity tool that takes the online office concept to the next level. Put simply, the new collaboration suite lets you create, edit, and share documents with your Facebook friends. Google should be worried, indeed. The service is available at the [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

WD Photos lets you remotely access photos on your Western Digital NAS

Western Digital has a cool new app for the iPhone and iPod touch that lets you remotely access photos on your My Book World Edition or WD ShareSpace network storage. Aptly named WD Photos, this app allows you to log in to your remote drive on your iPhone or iPod touch and effortlessly browse up to [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Apple approves app from Pulitzer Prize artist after rejecting it

It’s not everyday that Apple asks the owner of an app to resubmit it after rejecting it for inclusion in the app store. Yet, that’s exactly what Apple did with Mark Fiore’s iPhone cartoon application. Apple reconsidered its stance on the app after Fiore won the Pulitzer Prize for his work and news of his apps [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Winscape virtual windows let you change the outside view from inside your home

Want a cool way to enjoy many different outdoor views from your home without having to move around the country? There is a DIY project out there called Winscape that can give homeowners a virtual way to look at the world around them. The trick? Making a couple plasma screen televisions appear to look like [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Check out LandingPad, an eye-candy showcase of beautiful iPad app design

Ever since Apple first unveiled the iPad in January, we have been constantly drooling over its eye-candy interface that stems from five times the iPhone’s pixel count and a bigger screen. While we marvelled at Apple’s own iBooks app with its high-quality wooden bookshelf graphics and other apps that Apple specifically designed for the iPad, third-party [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Valve announces April 22 release for Left 4 Dead 2 DLC

The first add-on to Valve's co-op zombie thriller, Left 4 Dead 2, will be released April 22, exclusively for the Xbox 360 and PC. Dubbed "The Passing," the DLC will cost 560 MS Points for the Xbox 360 and be free to download on the PC.
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Square Enix releases Chaos Rings RPG on iPhone

Square Enix has released the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad exclusive RPG Chaos Rings on the App Store. Described as an RPG with a “classic game system” while taking full advantage of the touchscreen interface on the Apple handsets. This is a fully-3D game consisting of four gameplay scenarios, and four story arcs the player must complete to reveal [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-22 more

Two new iPhone adverts air: Backpack and Doglover

Apple has posted two new iPhone commercials that follow a well-known template designed around a cherry-picked selection of the App Store software accompanied by a catchy tune. The first commercial, dubbed Doglover, shows off a couple of apps that help you find a pet and take it with you to the nearby parks. The accompanying female [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Capcom announces Okami sequel, Okamiden, for the Nintendo DS

Capcom has officially announced a DS sequel to the critically-acclaimed Wii game Okami. Titled Okamiden, the picturesque action-adventure will be available in North America sometime in 2011.
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Hewlett Packard now offers 3D Desktop Printing

Hewlett-Packard Printers has now moved into the realm of 3D and thankfully you won’t need special glasses to use their new product. This is because I’m referring to the new HP Designjet 3D, which is a desktop printer, however unlike most printers that come to mind, this one is capable of creating small three dimensional [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

The Yeti is the world

Let’s say, for example, you are a Podcaster, YouTube submitter, or Internet DJ and you are wanting to get serious about the audio quality of your hobby.  Basically, you are wanting a really good USB computer microphone, so your golden voice doesn’t sound horrible, like you are talking into a tin can with string. If that [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Penny Arcade accepting scholarship applications until May 30

Current students with over a 3.3 GPA at accredited U.S. colleges or universities have the opportunity to apply for a $10,000 scholarship from Penny Arcade. Applications will be accepted until the end of the month.
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Quick Review: Rooms: The Main Building for Nintendo DS

If you’ve played with a sliding puzzle toy before, then you have a pretty good idea what Rooms: The Main Building is all about. This game takes that simple mechanic and adds some videogame-y elements to it, making for a simple puzzle game. The end result is something along the lines of Professor Layton, less [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Bionic Commando Rearmed creators launch new studio, Might & Delight

The developers behind Bionic Commando Rearmed have formed their own studio called Might & Delight after departing from now-closed Swedish company Grin. The Bionic Commando remake for XBLA and PSN sold more than 130,000 copies during its first week.
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Gizmodo exposes the iPhone HD

Having bought a prototype iPhone HD, apparently lost in a Redwood City bar, for an alleged $5,000 and exposing Apple’s closely-kept secret to the world, and then returning the stolen property to its rightful owner, Gizmodo made a huge splash. The net result – nearly five million page views on a single article and big headlines [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Google offers greater transparency into government requests for content removal

Google has taken a step toward greater transparency when it comes to the requests it receives from governments to remove content or provide user data. As Google points out in its blog, many of these requests are legitimate including those which ask for the removal of child pornography related content and user data for people who [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Adobe throws in the towel on Flash for iPhone

Mike Chambers, Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, has confirmed that development of Flash for iPhone is dead. In a posting on his personal blog Mike refers to the now infamous 3.3.1 iPhone developer program license clause and said: Essentially, this has the effect of restricting applications built with a number [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

The new Facebook app for Palm webOS 1.2 is now live

Palm has beaten its self-imposed schedule and brought the updated Facebook app to webOS ahead of the original schedule. As Geek reported yesterday, the new Facebook app for webOS-powered devices – like the Pre and Pixi- is enhanced with webOS notifications, a new operating system capability allowing third-party apps to notify you of important events, no matter what you [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

YouTube live-streaming IPL cricket semi-finals

From time to time YouTube live streams important events. Today–right now in fact–they are streaming the Indian Premier League cricket semi-finals. It’s the Mumbai Indians against the Bangalore Royal Challengers… and you can watch it live. The page has gathered about 110,000 comments, so you can bet you won’t be the only person watching. Up until [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Blizzard bans 320,000 Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts

Blizzard has announced that 320,000 Warcraft III and Diablo II accounts have recently been banned. The reason is down to violations of the Battle.net Terms of Use. Posting on the Battle.net forums Blizzard did not state specifically what caused so many bans, but did remind players what not to do: We would like all players to remember [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Ford SYNC equipped vehicles to control mobile apps through AppLink

Ford has announced that it will soon offer downloadable software for use with its SYNC-equipped vehicles which will allow Android and BlackBerry users to control smartphone apps with voice and vehicle controls. The program called SYNC AppLink will first be available for use on the 2011 Fiesta. The first applications to be compatible with SYNC AppLink will include [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

50 free TuneUp Gold accounts up for grabs today

TuneUp is today announcing the launch of TuneUp for Windows Media Player as well as updating the iTunes version to allow for automatic posting of top 5 songs, albums, and artists to Facebook and Twitter. As well as the new versions, TuneUp is launching Tuniver.se. It’s a new portal where music lovers can get detailed artist [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Peppermint: a mobile, cloud-focused Linux distro

While most newcomers to Linux will choose a distribution like Ubuntu, Suse, or Fedora, there’s a host of other distros out there to choose from. One thing most have in common is quite a large download package if you choose the ISO solution (which most newcomers will). A CD ISO comes in at over 600MB [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Just what are those

Apple said yesterday that new “extraordinary” products are coming in 2010, giving us all a tasty food for thought. Steve Jobs himself dropped a vague hint in a statement accompanying Apple’s second fiscal quarter earnings. Here’s that quote: We’ve launched our revolutionary new iPad and users are loving it, and we have several more extraordinary products [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Microsoft offers to fix your PC

Microsoft has launched a new self-repair service for computers. Called Fix It the new product is based on similar features online and in Windows 7, but extends them to all machines from Windows XP upwards.
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Facebook shuts Lite site

Facebook has closed down Facebook Lite, the site designed to make it easier for people with poor internet access to use the social networking site
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Apple profits soar on sales of iPhone

Profits at Apple jumped 69pc in the first three months of the year as consumers across the world continue to fall in love with the iPhone.
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Google and YouTube to open their own pop-culture blog

There’s already dozens if not hundreds if not thousands of blogs dedicated to sorting through the millions of cat videos on YouTube and highlighting the best, but if a rumor reported by Valleywag is anything to go by, Google feels like they are the best qualified to help good YouTube videos go viral: YouTube is [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Windows Phone 7 Series to accommodate low-cost handsets in the emerging market

One of the big ways that Microsoft has changed its mobile operating system strategy in the wake of the successes of iPhone and Android devices is by taking more rigid control of exactly what sort of devices will be allowed to run Windows Phone 7 Series. No longer will any device manufacturer be able [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Nintendo 3DS launch expected in October

Gaming website CVG has it on good authority that the Nintendo 3DS is going to launch in October this year. The official launch announcement is expected at E3 giving Nintendo ample time to build up some market buzz before October rolls around. The news has come as a bit of a surprise to a number of publishers [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Nook to get software update after some consumers report freezing

When consumers go out to purchase an electronic product like an e-reader, jubilant joy can sometimes turn into crushing sadness and furious anger if that device experiences glitches right out of the box. Sadly, for some customers that purchased the Barnes and Noble (B&N) Nook e-reader, they experienced this kind of heartache when the screen on [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Synaptics brings multitouch support to Linux netbook touchpads

If you want multitouch on your netbook, up until now, you needed to use Windows 7 if you have a Synaptics touchpad. That’s just changed, though: Synaptics has just introduced the Synaptics Gesture Suite Linux, a driver suite that gives multitouch support to a large number of Linux distros including Fedora, Millos Linpus, Red Flag, [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

HP Slate:

A tech site that has apparently gotten hold of HP’s hyped up tablet isn’t impressed at all, claiming that the HP Slate is just a Windows 7 netbook that looks like a tablet. According to a Spanish site Conecti.ca, HP Slate may not be an iPad killer you’ve been clamoring for. The publication put the device, [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Jetyo HDV-T900 camcorder features dual banks of solar panels

We’re always interested in seeing gadgets go greener. It’s not just out of environmental consciousness, although anything that can reduce emissions and waste in consumer electronics will get a big thumbs up from me: it also has to do with sheer efficiency. We’re constantly bumping up at the limits of battery tech with our gadgets. [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Eric Schmidt says Google Chrome OS netbooks will cost the same as regular netbooks

Google CEO and Steve Jobs coffee buddy Eric Schmidt has just revealed new details about Chrome OS and Chrome OS running netbooks: in particular, the price tags you should expect to be slapped on the hardware, Don’t expect the prices for Chrome OS netbooks to be wildly out of whack with the equivalent hardware running Windows [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-21 more

Steve Jobs: Want porn? Go Android!

According to TechCrunch, Apple fan and customer Matthew Browing sent a message to Steve Jobs’ public email address last week to express a “philosophical issue” he was starting to have with Apple and their moral policing. He specifically mentioned Apple’s removal of Mark Fiore’s comic software on the grounds of being political satire and the lack [...]
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Panasonic announces release date for new Viera Skype webcams

High-definition television manufacturers leap at the chance to add new features to the same old displays in the hopes that customers will be tempted to upgrade over a trifle (3D, anyone?) but one of the things I really liked coming out of CES this year was the volume of display manufacturers talking about integrating Skype [...]
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Pokemon Batteries

It may seem like this is happening about a decade too late, but Pokemon is now heading to batteries courtesy of Maxell. Four and eight packs of the zinc-alloy anti-leak batteries sporting images of Thunder Pokémon Raikou and Pocket Monster Electivire will be gracing store counters from May 25th. There’s no word on pricing, but we [...]
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Facebook shuts down Facebook Lite, its would-be Twitter killer

Facebook has killed Facebook Lite, its barebone web interface designed for the people plagued with slow Internet connections. The unfortunate announcement came in a brief post on the company’s own Facebook fan page: Thanks to everyone who tried out Facebook Lite. We’re no longer supporting it, but learned a lot from the test of a slimmed-down [...]
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Lucasfilm says a Blu-ray Star Wars Set is coming

There is good news from the Lucasfilm camp if you have been waiting to take your Blu-ray Player to a place, “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.” At the recent C2E2 Comic Convention in Chicago,  a discussion panel that included Lucasfilm’s Director of Content Management and Chief of Fan Relations, Steve Sansweet, [...]
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Lego robot plays Tetris unaided

National Robotics Week 2010 has just ended, and one of the robots finished in time to celebrate it had just one purpose: to play Tetris. It’s called the Tetris-Bot and was created by Branislov Kisacanin using NXT Lego, a TI DSP board running AI and vision algorithms, and a webcam. The robot is made out of [...]
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AAPL earnings: Apple stuns again, sells more iPhones than in the holiday quarter

Apple posted financial results at the end of trading today for its second fiscal quarter ended March 27, 2010. The Californian firm reported $13.50 billion in quarterly revenues, a 48.67 percent annual increase over the $9.08 billion in revenues reported in the year-ago quarter. The result, however, didn’t top the previous quarter that saw Apple rake in [...]
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Socie announces sPad A11 development platform for tablet manufacturers

Despite the fact that Apple’s tablet was strongly rumored for months before its January 27th unveiling, it seems like almost every manufacturer was caught with their pants down by the iPad. The only companies out there which have tablets on the horizon are HP with the Slate, Dell with the Mini 7 and Mini 10, [...]
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Kraken Goggles will bring steampunk to your IMAX 3D experience

In many ways, paying a few bucks extra to sit in a gigantic IMAX theater and watch a 3D movie while wearing a pair of cheap and ridiculously gauche Buddy Holly glasses seems like paying a couple bucks extra to look stupid in the dark. If 3Ds going to become the next big thing in the [...]
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Thrifty Watch Phone is cheap enough to let you play Dick Tracy

The Dick Tracy watch has been the dream of gadget lovers since the days of Chester Gould and pwesprint. Part radio, part television, part mobile phone, gadget companies have even tried to give us what they want, but the results are decidedly lackluster: ugly pieces with SIM cards in their guts that can barely handle [...]
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Frozenbyte offers free Trine DLC plus temporary 75% price cut on the complete game, exclusively on Steam

A new DLC level is now available on Steam for Frozenbyte's action-platformer Trine. Titled "Path to New Dawn," the DLC is free for download on Steam and will be released for other PC distributions soon. To celebrate the release of the free level, users can purchase Trine for 75% its original sale price on Steam through April 26.
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Palm webOS gets a new Facebook app with notifications next week

Palm wrote on its Facebook page that owners of webOS-powered devices, like the Palm Pre and Pixi, can download the new Facebook app next week. The company boasted plenty of “great enhancements.” Unfortunately, in a post on the app’s Facebook fan page the team has shared little details about possible new features beyond stating the following: Facebook [...]
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Digital Life: Up in the air with Rico and the mile-high lapdancing club...

Abandoning the jet you hijacked on the ground earlier, you plunge out the door and skydive toward the beautiful tropical paradise 2,000 feet below. Half-way down you spot a pair of floating zeppelins and launch your grappling hook to reel yourself on board. Incredibly, it turns out to be an airborne lapdancing club.
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Digital life: Competition time

Grizzled superspy Sam Fisher is back with a bang in Splinter Cell Conviction on Xbox 360 and PC and we have prizes to give away to celebrate.
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Digital Life: The 3D tweet-lover's phone

Scientists might call it separation anxiety -- the cold sweat that breaks out when you realise you've left your mobile behind. Maybe you're the sort who can't bear to be out of touch with your friends, who brings the phone into the toilet . . . y'know, just in case.
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My shock when my friend gave up Facebook

An email arrived from my friend Lisa the other day. It was short and to the point. "Hello everyone," it read. "I am giving Facebook a break for a while and have deleted my account. See you all in the real world."
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Google hackers were after password system

The attack on Google servers that provoked the company’s withdrawal from China was a concerted attempt to hack into the system upon which Google bases all its passwords, the New York Times has reported.
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Apple orders Gizmodo return iPhone 4G

The technology website paid $5,000 for the device, which was dropped by Gray Powell, an Apple software engineer, in a bar in Redwood, California, near Apple's Cupertino headquarters.
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Hong Kong gets 1 Gbps broadband service for $26 a month

Last month we reported on the FCC’s “ambitious” national broadband plan which includes the goal of providing 100 Mbps download and 50 Mbps upload speeds to 100 million U.S. homes. Sounds like a lofty goal doesn’t it? Not when you consider what the folks living in Hong Kong have today. Residents there now have access to [...]
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Microsoft launches Fix it Windows diagnostic tool

Microsoft has launched a new, free diagnostic tool to help Windows users more easily fix some of the most common problems faced through updating, or adding new hardware and software. It is called Fix it and is available as a download from Microsoft Fix it Center Online. Fix it is meant to offer users a mix [...]
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RunKeeper is now available on Android

Classified as a lifestyle and fitness app, RunKeeper for Android lets you track the time, distance, speed, pace, calories, and path on a map – great for both the active types and occasional joggers. The app plots your route and logs your progress by utilizing the GPS sensor on your device. RunKeeper, LLC, the developer behind [...]
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Apple says it

If you’re in the market for a 3G version of the iPad, you’re be delighted to learn that Apple is apparently gearing up to begin shipping the device in the US on Friday, May 7. According to ZDNet, this pretty credible piece of information has come directly from Apple whose online store now reports the [...]
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Marusys

The iPhone’s a pretty content rich device as it is, open to all sorts of streaming media apps as well as sucking in content from your iTunes library, but you can just never have enough stuff to watch, can you? Not according to Marusys, you can’t. They’ve just added two new set-top boxes to their [...]
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Ping concept garment automatically Tweets and Facebooks when you put it on

It’s hard to imagine something that could make Foursquare more obnoxious. If you’re anything like me, after all, your Twitter and Facebook accounts are positively congested with Foursquare check-in updates, But imagine if you never had to pull your phone out of your pocket to check-in on Foursqure. Imagine if your clothes checked-in for you. [...]
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Electro-wetting technology will bring color and video to e-readers

E-ink panels are really good for reading and battery life, but the trade-offs are slow refresh rate and color support that maxes out at monochrome. It’s sad: a Kindle might go for weeks without a charge and be easiest on the eyes, but it’s just never going to compete with the iPad in the eyes [...]
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NEC announces 3D all-in-one PC for the Japanese market

Ever since James Cameron unleashed a bunch of blue-skinned, cat-like Native Americans on IMAX screens across the country, 3D’s been everywhere, and no one’s embraced it more than Japanese electronic manufacturers, who see 3D as the carrot to entice consumers to upgrade their dearest gadgets at a hefty premium. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but NEC seems to [...]
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Vision Research

In film, there’s good slow motion and bad slow motion. Bad slow motion is probably the more ubiquitous: you see it all the time on television. Essentially, it’s done by frame doubling a normally shot loop of video. In other words, if something was shot at thirty frames per second, each frame is shown twice so [...]
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Indie game Frozen Synapse pre-orders available today

In case you haven’t heard of it, Frozen Synapse is a indie game from a small UK-based team. It’s a tactical game, sort of what I’d imagine a 2D, overhead, turn-based version of Counter-Strike to be like. If you have having problems picturing that, check this out: If you are interested (I know I am) the [...]
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Sharp updates NetWalker to be Linux tablet

In August last year Sharp introduced a new device it referred to as an ultra-compact netbook. It was named the NetWalker, and went to market in September. The spec of the NetWalker included a 5-inch display, Freescale 800MHz processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB storage, and Ubuntu Linux OS. Weighing in at 409 grams and rated at 10 [...]
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Starcraft II will be an adults-only game in South Korea

For the last twelve years, one game and one game only has dominated the gaming charts in South Korea: Starcraft. Blizzard’s 1998 RTS isn’t just popular: it’s a phenomenon that has launched several professional gaming leagues, at least two gaming channels and the celebrity of several of the country’s best zerg rushers… most of whom [...]
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Panasonic prices their Lumix G2 and G10 Micro Four Third digicams

After a month of anticipation and head scratching, Panasonic has finally announced the pricing for their recently unveiled Lumix G2 and G10 digital cameras. But first… the specs! Like the G1 before it, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 is a Micro Four Thirds camera, but unlike the G1, it features a flip-out, articulated touchscreen preview display. This [...]
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Facebook to share more of your data with web sites, are you concerned?

The 400+ million people-strong social networking leader is thought to be developing new ways to allow greater interactivity between its members on sites around the web that use Facebook’s services. The move should increase Facebook’s presence, but is also expected to raise valid privacy concerns. It’s unclear at this stage what kind of controls, if any, users [...]
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JOBO brings two new geotaggers to your DSLR

If you’ve got an older camera that isn’t equipped with a GPS unit, you could do worse than shoving JOBO’s new GPS geotaggers into your camera hot-shoe: the photoGPS2 and photoGPS 4 will comfortably tag all of your snaps with the exact coordinates they were taken, allowing you to browse photos by location in software [...]
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Ireland adopts

It’s been in vogue lately for special interests group to push for a “three strikes and you’re out” rule when it comes to broadband users being caught pirating media over the internet. ACTA, for example, strongly endorses such a step, and the French government tried to push exactly those measures through last year. Now Ireland [...]
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Sprint has a case that makes your iPad 4G

Those of you withholding your iPad purchase until the 3G version is out in May–have you thought about the issues with AT&T’s 3G coverage that so many iPhone users have complained about? There’s also the question of sluggish data speeds in congested metropolitan markets like the New York City and the Bay area. That’s why AT&T [...]
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Google considers dropping HTTP requirement in Chrome for URLs

OSNews is reporting that Google recently made a change to the developer’s version of Chrome, their desktop browser, that many developers aren’t on board with due to reported bugs. Google has decided to omit the “http://” you see at the beginning of a URL in the address bar in an attempt to make browsing easier [...]
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ThinkPad L series arrives, right in time for Earth Day

If you didn’t already feel that Lenovo’s ThinkPad lineup was muddled enough, get ready for an all new line: the L series. The new L412 and L512 are “designed for business, government, and education customers” and in addition to affordable pricing they will be some of the greenest computers available today. Details from the release: Choices of [...]
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Facebook denies new button can track web history

Facebook is denying claims that its new content-sharing button will allow it to serve advertising based on its users’ web history.
Publication date: 2010-04-19 more

'For me, online gaming is a healthy, fun pastime'

Online journalist Cian O'Sullivan (27) from Waterford is an avid gamer and active member of the Irish Gaming Association. And despite hysteria over addiction, he argues online gaming is healthy -- not harmful.
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Are you a virtual addict?

If you identify with any of the following five scenarios, it could be time to log off and look for help, says addiction expert Colin O'Driscoll of Forest Rehabilitation Centre.
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Caught in the web

We use it for such innocuous everyday things as paying bills and chatting with friends, but an Irish expert has warned that the internet can be as addictive as crack. And more of us could be virtual junkies than we think.
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Apple considering a move to AMD processors?

Apple Insider is reporting that Apple is currently in “advanced discussions” with chip-maker AMD, who could possibly be Apple’s next CPU provider. This would be a major coup for AMD and a huge change for Apple, who has been using Intel processors in their desktops, workstations, and notebooks since shifting away from the PowerPC. Apple Insider [...]
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GCal gets integrated with GMail

Google has just made it much easier to organize events over GMail. Google Calendar, or GCal, has now been integrated into GMail’s compose email screen. Here’s what you do. Underneath the Subject header, next to where you have the “Attach a file” prompt is a new option: “Insert: Invitation.” Just click that, fill out the form, [...]
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New line of LCD and LED HDTVs are endorsed by your favorite superheroes

The television you see above isn’t just the HDTV installed in Avengers mansion, it’s the HDTV I would have gnawed an arm off for as a pimply, comic obsessed teenager. I can only weep at my own lack of arrested development now as I see it: I could never buy something this outlandish, but boy, [...]
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Sony rejects calls for PS3 refunds over removal of

In a recent update, Sony removed the Install Other OS feature from the PlayStation 3 Fat, pretty much in a knee-jerk response to recent successes by the hacking community in getting pirated games to run on the PS3 through the feature. It was a bad move, screwing over many scientists and researchers who use daisy [...]
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Dell Streak 7 and 10-Inch Tablets Unveiled

Even when it was first announced before the iPad’s unveiling, the Dell Streak seemed like an awfully small little tablet. In fact, at only 5-inches, it seemed more like an overgrown Android smartphone without a cellular modem than anything else. That said, it was always unlikely that Dell would sit on its laurels and not [...]
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Amazon to begin charging sales tax on Kindle books

When Apple announced the iPad and its iBooks e-reading platform, Amazon almost overnight lost the war in establishing a set price for e-books on the Kindle marketplace. Overnight, the price of many books rose several dollars from the traditional $9.99. But it’s not going to end there: Kindle books are about to get a bit [...]
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Sony Vaio laptop design to be outsourced to external design shops

For years, Sony’s Vaio series of laptops were the most well designed notebooks out there. Apple’s stolen a bit of their thunder, and other competitors have caught up, but if you want an attractive laptop with an amazing design, the upper-tier Vaios are some of the best looking and most solid notebooks to this day. That [...]
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Octopus steals recording camera, becomes director then star

Above is a simply fantastic video shot off the coast of New Zealand. A crafty (and rather large) octopus grabed a diver’s camera while it was recording and swam away with it. The result was the first octopus-directed video that I’ve seen on YouTube, though there was editing in post that comes in the way [...]
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G-Mate Gun Overload Magnetic Gaming Gun promises realistic Modern Warfare 2 rifle

If you’ve played a game like Modern Warfare 2, Far Cry 2 or Bad Company 2, you’ve probably imagined what it would be like to play the game with a sophisticated and realistic machine gun controller. Well, here it is, or so the developers claim: the G-Mate Gun Overload, a magnetic, dynamic shooting gun that [...]
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The GSM BodyTrace is the world

The Withings Body Scale is an interesting update on one of the more reluctantly owned and passively loathed gadgets residing in our bathrooms: every time you step on it, it uploads your current weight to Twitter. Depending on how much you like peer pressure and transparency as applied to your obesity, it’s Twitter functionality is [...]
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Nikon rumored to be preparing three new DSLRs, including possible D3000 and D90 replacements

We love a good camera rumor here at Geek, and the latest scuttlebutt is a doozy: according to Nikon Rumors, Nikon is planing on imminently launching a trifecta of sexy new DSLRs. Here’s what we no: though details on the new cameras are scarce, it sounds like one of the cameras will be a new entry-level [...]
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Latest BenQ monitors promise ridiculous 12,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio

Whenever a display manufacturer comes along boasting about a ridiculous static contrast ratio, we get suspicious. Contrast ratio is important, just like megapixels are, but just like megapixels, companies exaggerate their importance… especially when we’re talking dynamic contrast ratio. Higher contrast ratio doesn
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GameStation EULA collects 7,500 souls from unsuspecting customers

Like all of us, you probably click through EULAs without reading them. It’s understandable: no one’s going to read twenty pages of purposely obtuse legalese just to install iTunes. But if an April Fool’s Day joke plays by British retailer GameStation is anything to go by, maybe you should read the fine print more carefully: [...]
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The Doxie portable scanner tries to make scanning sexy again

No matter who you are, you probably have a scanner collecting dust somewhere. They are one of the least sexy and most ignored of office gadgets. But Doxie, a really cute, lightweight and portable paper scanner might just bring the sex appeal back into boring old document scanning.
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Apple reconsiders rejection of Pulitzer prize winning artist

If you are a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist it seems you may carry some weight when it comes to getting an iPhone app through Apple’s App Store. Wired is reporting that when political cartoonist Mark Fiore initially submitted his iPhone application (and he yet to win the Pulitzer) Apple rejected his app. Their reason? The [...]
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A-DATA NH01 is first USB 3.0 2.5

With the USB 3.0 standard starting to promulgate in earnest, we’re starting to see the first accessories begin to trickle out, but what we have yet to see is a USB 3.0 capable 2.5 inch portable hard drive. We need them: after all, USB 3.0’s 3.2GBps transfer rate is most useful when copying files from [...]
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AT&T blocks vacations confirming an iPhone launch in June

A few days ago we reported on a rumor that an announcement regarding a new iPhone is believed to be scheduled to occur on June 22nd. Some believe the announcement may include an iPhone 4.0 model compatible with the Verizon Wireless network. Based on a report by Boy Genius, there seems to be some substantiation to the fact that one [...]
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Grace App digitizes picture books for autistic children

When you think of an iPhone app it’s easy to think of games or business tools, but one mother of an autistic child thought of another kind of app which would help her daughter communicate. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Lisa Domican created an iPhone app to help her 10-year old daughter Grace Domican [...]
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Google finally adds social sharing to its browser toolbar

Some folks think that Google has been neglecting its toolbar extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer lately, arguing that the software lacks a comprehensive sharing feature. Sure thing, Google Toolbar has been able to send URLs to Gmail from its inception, but you were never able to send a link directly to popular social networks like [...]
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Purr: Kitten plays a virtual piano on iPad

If YouTube is any indication, there’s definitely something about cats and geeks. Simply put, people are crazy about sharing their kitten videos online. And just as you think you’ve seen it all, another adorable video comes along that will make you feel better the instant you see it. If you’re in the market for an iPad [...]
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Microsoft in 'sexting' row over Kin advert

A video for new 'social' handsets shows teenagers exchanging 'explicit' pictures through their mobile phones.
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Sony to launch 3DTV in June

Sony 3D TVs will be available in the UK and Ireland from June, the company has announced. Pre-orders are being taken now, and Sony is also offering blu-ray players and 3D movies and videogames.
Publication date: 2010-04-16 more

Google misses some estimates on costs of new markets

Google, owner of the world’s most popular Internet search engine, reported profit that missed some analysts’ estimates, underscoring the cost of pursuing growth in new markets.
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Microsoft studies claims of child labour abuse at Chinese supplier

The computing giant Microsoft is investigating claims that Chinese factory staff are working in sweatshop conditions to make its products.
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Next-gen iPad 'to feature camera'

Apple is hiring an iPad camera engineer, sparking rumours that future models could feature an integrated camera
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FLO TV to offer mobile DVR feature

FLO TV has made its mark by providing mobile television across the company’s own nationwide multicast network. The service, which is available via mobile handsets and the FLO TV Personal Television, has announced new enhancements to its service that will allow viewers to do more than just watch live television. Now subscribers will be able to interact [...]
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Direct2Drive Spring Sale Week 1 up to 88% off games

This week digital download gaming service Direct2Drive has kicked off a Spring Sale promotion. Each week for the next four weeks a selection of games will be offered at vastly reduced prices. We are in Week 1, and these are the games you can get for as much as 88% off the normal asking price: DiRT 2 [...]
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Microsoft will not patch Windows XP if rootkit is present

Microsoft has taken a pretty controversial decision with its latest round of security patches. Windows XP users who have a system infected with a rootkit will not be able to install the update. It may be controversial, but Microsoft has made the decision with good reason. In February a similar kernel patch release caused some Windows [...]
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Intel demo MeeGo 1.0 at IDF 2010

Intel has used the Intel Developer Forum currently being held in Beijing to show of MeeGo 1.0. As you may or may not know, MeeGo is a collaboration between Nokia and Intel to create a new open-source, Linux operating system aimed at netbooks, smartphones, and other connected devices. Intel was originally developing its own OS [...]
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HP offices raided in Moscow due to bribe allegations

PC manufacturer HP has had its offices in Moscow raided by government officials. The reason for the raid is allegations that HP executives have been offering bribes in return for securing lucrative government IT contracts. The scale of the bribes is thought to be in the region of $11 million. The allegations are actually 7 years [...]
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Capture some mind-blowing 3D images with the Holga 120 camera

When it comes to choosing a camera the features you look at usually include megapixel rating, how portable and light it is, whether you want a point-and-shoot, or something a bit more professional, and of course the price. But there is a new feature for you to consider now too: 3D. If taking 3D images interests [...]
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FSF attends iPad launch with warning sign

Warning: You are entering the Apple Restricted Zone. Please leave your free software, urge to share, and right to control your software at the door. This sign was put up at the iPad launch earlier this month by the FSF, who apparently takes issue with Apple’s walled-garden approach. There are no reports on how many people [...]
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Trend Micro offers Titanium Internet Security for netbooks

Running a standard desktop security suite on a netbook computer can have a detrimental effect on the performance of the hardware. These portable devices just don’t have the power to run such software like a desktop PC can. Some security vendors have realized this and released netbook-specific security suites. The latest is Trend Micro which has [...]
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Fireball lights up the Midwestern sky

CNN is reporting that a giant fireball was visible in the night sky across a number of states in the Midwest yesterday. It was moving from west to east and visible for about 15 minutes the news organization reports. It ultimately broke up and disappeared, but not before people reported hearing sonic booms in the [...]
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TVLogic LUM-560W LCD is 2160p Behemoth

High definition goes above 1080p, Virginia. While Blu-Ray offers pixel perfect clarity and amazing crispness on top of the line sets hooked up to Blu-Ray players, it’s hardly the upper spectrum of visual fidelity. Ask the RED guys, who offer cameras that film in glorious 4K x 2K, or 2160p. Wait a decade and that’s [...]
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SA7 earbuds can withstand 14,000Gs

You know how it is: you’re making your patrol in the Afghani combat zone, listening to “War Pigs” when all of a sudden you feel a bullet in your ear. How annoying. Or you’re strapped into the space shuttle, zooming up into the sky, when all of a sudden your ear buds are crushed in [...]
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Will Apple hunt down German WePad tablet over the

The news that Apple asked several developers to refrain from using the “Pad” term in their apps’ names because they own that trademark had quite a lot of our readers crying foul and arguing that no company should be allowed to trademark such a generic term. That said, we wonder if Apple’s legal sharks are [...]
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Microsoft Research experiments with finger and pen touch interface

Touchscreen devices are becoming the norm for gadgets like smartphones, and the iPad is just the start of a consumer fascination with touch tablets. But each device currently makes a choice as to what touch input method to favor: finger or pen. Microsoft Research is experimenting with combining both to increase functionality and improve user [...]
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RIAA and MPAA want spyware on every computer, border searches of iPods

Think the RIAA can’t get nuttier than suing grannies for tens of thousands of dollars for Beyonce songs they never downloaded? Think again. The RIAA and MPAA have just submitted a plan to the Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement, describing a few minor little things they want the government to start mandating. What are they? First, [...]
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5,500 hentai pirates afflicted by blackmailing malware

If you’re a nefarious otaku who likes to download Hentai games, or anime, from Japanese file sharing sites, better make sure that Norton’s running: a new type of malware is targeting Japanese file sharing service Winni which published the infected’s net history on a public web site, then blackmails users for the details’ removal. The virus [...]
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Silverlight 4 update now available for download

Silverlight 4 has arrived. The announcement came as part of the global unveiling of Microsoft’s latest and greatest development tools earlier this week, including Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. After five months of development, the Redmond giant said, Silverlight 4 is now available for broad consumption. Billed as the software to “light up the [...]
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HTC thinking about its own mobile OS

If the mobile operating system market wasn’t crowded enough with Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows Phone, RIM’s BlackBerry, Symbian and Palm’s WebOS, now another company is considering jumping in. Ironically, the company in question already produces smartphones which run on Android and Windows Mobile. Bloomberg is reporting that HTC is now studying whether it should have [...]
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Google launches new tweet archive and Twitter Follow Finder

Google first announced a deal with Twitter to integrate tweets into search results back in October. These tweets became accessible in December through Google’s real-time search results which include a dynamic stream of real-time content not only from Twitter, but from FriendFeed, MySpace and Buzz. This week Google announced another way to explore archived [...]
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Belaward on "RipCode Enables Clientless Adobe Flash Video on Apple iPad"

M4V Converter is a professional software which can convert m4v files to avi, mov, vob, mpeg, flv, mp4, mov, mp3, etc with highest sound and image quality, which is known as the best M4V Converter to convert M4V files to any other video and audio formats.
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Belaward on "Paragon NTFS for Mac 6.5 is free for today ($39.95 worth)"

M4V Converter is a professional software which can convert m4v files to avi, mov, vob, mpeg, flv, mp4, mov, mp3, etc with highest sound and image quality, which is known as the best M4V Converter to convert M4V files to any other video and audio formats.
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Twitter launching 'official' Android app

Twitter has confirmed that it will be launching an 'official' Twitter application for Google Android devices.
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Steve Jobs is entrepreneur teenagers most admire

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple, is the entrepreneur most admired by teenagers, according to a new survey.
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Appointing a Government CIO or internet tsar would help deliver the digital economy

ANYONE can see how the internet economy is going to dominate the future of commerce. In many ways, it already does. Many of us cannot conceive of any other way of buying plane tickets, renewing car tax or booking a hotel room.
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Digital healthcare could deliver economic stimulus

Why would you urge nations like Ireland - known for its healthcare bottlenecks - to target an emerging market for digital healthcare opportunities?
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Reviewed: the Apple iPad

I'VE read scores of reviews, rants and love poems about the Apple iPad, but believe me, all of your initial preconceptions dissolve once you get to hold the device in your hands.
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Can the Apple iTunes business model ever be emulated?

CONSUMERS wanting a one-stop shop for digital entertainment need look no further than iTunes.
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A healthy start for Aviva's iPhone app

THE Irish wing of insurance company Aviva has taken the plunge into the iPhone app market, launching "Health Mate" to support their health insurance division.
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Nintendo wins appeal against Anascape, saving itself from pending sales ban on controllers

Nintendo has just won the appeal against Anascape, overturning the verdict the Eastern Texas District Court declared in 2008. Had the appeal not succeeded, Nintendo would have been forced to cease sales of the Gamecube controller, wireless Wavebird controller, and the Classic Controller due to patent infringement.
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EA launches free-to-play Lord of Ultima next week

The Ultima franchise has returned as a free-to-play online game. Created by German studio EA Phenomic, the browser-based MMORTS Lord of Ultima is set to launch on April 20, EA announced earlier this week.
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The $0.69 iPad stand from Office Depot

The iPad may be seen as cheap at $499, but if you want to add a keyboard dock ($69), basic stand ($29), and case ($39), the costs soon mount up. Andrew DeVigal was looking for an iPad stand solution, but didn’t want to pay the high prices official solutions cost. So he started looking around. His [...]
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International iPad launch pushed back a month due to U.S. demand

If you don’t live in the U.S. and want an iPad, you probably watched the first launch with envy. Other markets were expecting to see the iPad become available at the end of April, but that is no longer the case. Apple has released the following advisory on its website: Although we have delivered more than 500,000 [...]
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OCZ introduce 1TB SSD for $4,000

OCZ seem to be blazing their own path in the SSD market at the moment. Only a few days ago the company announced two new performance SSDs carrying the names Vertex 2 and Agility 2. With storage of up to 200GB and read/write speeds of 285/275MB/s, both drives would be a great solution if you [...]
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Intel planning dual-core Atom update for netbooks

Intel’s Atom processor is no powerhouse, but inside a netbook with a 10″ screen it can handle web surfing, general office-like duties, and give you 5-8 hours of productivity between charges. The single-core version of the chip seen in most netbooks does struggle if you want to do anything more than basic everyday tasks, though. A [...]
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EU to Telecoms companies: Try charging Google and we

Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Earlier this week it was reported that three European telecoms companies were about to put pressure on Google to start paying to use their networks. The rationale was that because Google services use up so much bandwidth it was only fair they help pay to maintain and upgrade the [...]
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Reviews not great for Google

Google has just updated its mobile app with iPad support, but users are already complaining, claiming that the rushed-out software lacks polish and is full of bugs and user interface issues. The updated app surfaced on the App Store late Monday. Google Mobile App version 0.5.0.3644 is now a universal binary, meaning that a single 4.2MB [...]
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Wideload Games

Wideload Games' Disney Guilty Party for the Wii is scheduled to release in North America on July 27.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! scheduled for spring release on XBLA

The ever-popular dueling card game, Yu-Gi-Oh!, is making its Xbox debut on the Xbox LIVE Arcade, Konami announced Tuesday.
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X-COM game in development at 2K Games

2K Games has confirmed that it is developing a new game in the classic X-COM series. Better yet, development is being handled by 2K Marin which is best known for developing the Bioshock games. The original X-COM game was released in 1994 under the name X-COM: UFO Defense in the U.S., and was the first of [...]
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Apple releases patch for graphics issues on your new MacBook Pro

If you have been waiting patiently for Apple to upgrade the aging hardware on its Pro notebooks, you are no doubt delighted with the all-new Core i5/Core i7 MacBook Pro lineup. However, some fans who’ve purchased a shiny new MacBook Pro almost suffered a cardiac arrest discovering that the latest and greatest hardware runs their [...]
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Another Verizon iPhone rumor: Could be announced June 22nd

Hopefully Verizon Wireless will be getting a version of the iPhone soon. After all, the notion of a Verizon iPhone has been getting lots of free publicity lately thanks to rumors and speculation. Now MacDaily News is reporting on a rumor that a next-generation iPhone for Verizon may be announced on June 22nd. Some evidence suggesting the rumor [...]
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Collaboration between NASA and GM to send human-like robot to ISS

There is no doubt that robots have been a big help with humans in regards to solo space exploration. Just take for example the twin Martian robotic rovers, Discovery and Opportunity that have provided Earth with tons of data regarding the red planet. Soon, though, a robot will be enlisted that is hoped will eventually [...]
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Look cool while going up or down stairs with LED Stair Lights

Want to save a little energy while looking awesome going up and down the stairs in your home? Then considering installing some LED Stair Lights like those demonstrated in the following video. As you can see, the LEDs on the stairs are activated whenever someone activates a sensor at the top or the bottom of the [...]
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Dual-core netbook CPUs on the way from Intel

Despite recent advances today’s netbooks are still underpowered. Sure, they are fine if you don’t do anything more than browse the web, but if you want to multi-task while playing some music or you need to do something like a basic file conversion, things can grind to a painful halt. While Intel’s Atom has had dual-core offerings [...]
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MacBook Pro

We noted yesterday that Apple’s new Core i5/Core i7 MacBook Pro notebooks featured Nvidia GeForce 330M graphics as well as on-the-fly switchable graphics technology. The logical assumption to take from that was that Apple was utilizing Nvidia’s Optimus, a smart switchable graphics solution that the company has been working on. As it turns out, that’s [...]
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Facebook Fans bring $3.60 of value each to advertisers

Many companies have latched on to the idea of using social networks for marketing. One method of marketing on Facebook is to create pages based on a product, brand or company in order to solicit fans. The only question has been what is the value of each fan? Vitrue, a social media management company, has attempted [...]
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Capcom classics Final Fight and Magic Sword available on XBLA and PSN

A pair of remastered Capcom classics has just landed on the Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network. Dubbed Final Fight: Double Impact, the full package includes the beat'em up Final Fight and side-scroller Magic Sword.
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lonegunmen007 on "RipCode Enables Clientless Adobe Flash Video on Apple iPad"

From Slashdot: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/04/14/0127225/Flash-Comes-To-the-iPad-Via-RipCode?art_pos=7 "Texas-based company RipCode has announced a new 'clientless Flash video codec' that will allow Flash content to be streamed on Apple's iPad. This would include sites like Hulu and YouTube, assuming the respective companies don't find a way to block it. According to RipCode's press release, the TransAct Transcoder V6 captures the iPad's request for Flash content and converts it into a special format that the device accepts and plays. This is all done without a local client or user intervention. 'RipCode's Transactional Transcoding platform enables an alternate and immediate solution to this issue, opening up video content to users without requiring the content hoster to move to HTML5 or pre-transcode entire video libraries from Flash to an iPad-accepted container format. By transcoding the content "in the cloud," it is essentially analogous to a network-based Flash to MP4 or MPEG-TS video adaption layer.'" RipCode http://www.ripcode.com/news/newsRelease.php?id=42
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Twitter to launch 'promoted tweets' in a bid to make money

Twitter is launching "promoted tweets" this evening, which will eventually see branded messages appear in user’s feeds from the likes of Virgin and Starbucks and marks the first official commercialisation of the site.
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Adobe 'to sue Apple' over Flash row

Adobe is allegedly set to sue Apple over changes in its iPhone software development kit, as the row over the lack of Flash support on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad escalates.
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iPad worldwide launch delayed by a month

Apple has delayed the international launch of the iPad by a month because of "surprisingly strong US demand" for the touch screen device.
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Facebook under fire over 'panic button'

FACEBOOK has come under attack from top police officers for refusing to adopt a "panic button", which would allow victims of online sexual grooming to report their concerns directly to the authorities.
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Intel beats forecasts for Q2 with sales of $10.2bn

INTEL, the world's biggest chipmaker with a major plant in Leixlip, forecast second-quarter sales that topped analysts' predictions, indicating that demand for personal computers remains strong.
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Zynga confirms work on newest social game, FrontierVille

The masters behind the famed Facebook applications FarmVille and Mafia Wars has confirmed production on yet another social game.
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Intel Core i5 and i7 MacBook Pros now available

They’ve certainly been a long time coming (supposedly due an industry-wide Arrendale CPU shortage), but Core i5 and Core i7 MacBook Pros have finally made their way to the Apple Store… along with a couple refreshed 13-inch MacBook Pros. The new 13-inchers are respectable non-Arrendale updates, packing Core 2 Duo processors running at 2.4 and 2.66GHz, [...]
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Seagate and Paramount ship 21 movies with FreeAgent Go drives

Paramount Digital Entertainment and Seagate have teamed up to start offering movies with new portable hard drives. The collaboration will see 500GB FreeAgent Go portable hard drives ship with 21 DVD-quality movies preloaded on the disk taking up 50GB of drive space. One of those films, Star Trek (2009) will be unlocked and available to watch [...]
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Lionhead steams up Fable III co-operative play with

Lionhead Studios plans to spice up Fable III's cooperative multiplayer mode with a new steamy feature: the ability to get "intimate" online.
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NSFW: Happy Finish Net Hate video

We have to make it very clear that this video is not safe to watch anywhere profanity is frowned upon. If you have headphones put them on and get ready for some heavy swearing. If you’ve ever wondered where all these offensive comments come from on videos, forums, and blog posts, don’t look to individual site [...]
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BitTorrent users beware: copyright malware targeting you

A new piece of malware is targeting BitTorrent users in an attempt to extract money from them under the guise of a copyright infringement settlement. Machines are being infected with the malware which searches a user’s system to see if they have any .torrent files present. A copyright violation alert is then loaded and the computer [...]
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Axon Logic teases Apple with a $500 Hackintosh slate that runs Mac apps

If that iPad modification on the MSI Wind U100 got your juices flowing and you’re a bit of a Hackintosh fan, Axon Logic’s new tablet will have you covered. With Intel’s fully-fledged Core 2 Duo processor, three USB ports, and a webcam, this $500 slate beats the iPad in terms of pure horse power. As if [...]
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Lenovo delaying Skylight launch to better compete with iPad

Digitimes is reporting that Lenovo has decided to delay the launch of its Snapdragon-powered netbook/smartbook called Skylight by 3 months. The reason? Lenovo has realized it needs to update the feature set of the Skylight now the iPad is a known quantity. As you may remember, details about the Skylight surfaced in January. It looks to [...]
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Review: Alienware M11x notebook

Alienware very successfully refreshed their notebook lineup in 2009 with the M17x and the M15x. These systems performed well, had an interesting look to them, and were a hit with gamers. Reviews were positive across the board. Then earlier this year Alienware threw gamers a serious surprise–a small, almost netbook-sized gaming computer. This was not [...]
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Alienware M11x photo and video gallery

If you haven’t gotten a chance to use Alienware’s M11x 11-inch gaming notebook, then here is you chance to become acquainted with the system. Above there is image of the system and below are a few select videos from the coverage of the M11x on our YouTube channel. Don’t miss our full M11x review.
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Steve Jobs: Apps cannot have

Wrote an app for the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad? Great, just make sure you don’t use the “Pad” term in its name before submitting to Apple because you’ll be shown the door. According to 9to5Mac, many developers are finding out the hard way that Apple trademarked the “Pad” term. Jesse Waites, the brains behind the [...]
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iPad raises questions about laptop display options

Over the past few years we’ve seen the laptop industry go completely widescreen. At one time the industry was 4:3 but then, after a quick stop at 16:10, manufacturers moved on to the now-standard 16:9 size. Consumers tend to prefer the widescreen layout–it makes computers shorter, give room for full-sized keyboards, and it makes screens [...]
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Star Wars never smelled so good with the Bacon AT-AT

Mmm. Who ever thought that the great evil Galactic Empire could smell so delicious? That would be so true if they had rebel crushing walking vehicles covered in salty, smoky, pork goodness. Unfortunately, Emperor Palpatine opted for heavy armor instead of bacon during the design meetings, so I guess we will never know. Or will we? This bacon [...]
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John McCain is back with a new mock campaign advert from his opponent J.D. Hayworth

The “Maverick” John McCain, who ran for the President during 2008 election, has a new tongue-in-cheek ad on YouTube that he hopes will help him win the US Senate seat in the Arizona GOP primary. A mock campaign advertisement appeared on Senator McCain’s official YouTube channel. The commercial takes aim at McCain’s opponent J.D.Hayworth, ridiculing his poorly-worded [...]
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Intel reports Android running on Atom powered smartphones

ComputerWorld reports that Intel has a goal of enabling all mobile operating systems for use with Atom microprocessor-based phones. The latest OS to benefit is Android. The article states that Renee James, a general manager of Intel’s software and services group, stated during the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing that the company has Android running [...]
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Facebook redesigns Safety Center

Safety has become a focus for Facebook after reports of sex offenders and criminals using the social network. To that end, the company announced a new redesigned Safety Center which it says will offer resources for parents, educators, teens and even members of law enforcement. The Safety Center was redesigned with feedback from Facebook’s Safety Advisory [...]
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SlideHD offers widescreen viewing to Flip Video line

The Flip Video product line has a new addition that puts video into sharper focus with a new form factor to boot. The Flip SlideHD, allows consumers to capture up to 4 hours of HD video or view up to 12 hours of content, including photos, thanks to the device’s 16GB of memory. Watching video [...]
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Splinter Cell: Conviction has a freezing problem on 360

If you have already picked up your copy of Splinter Cell: Conviction, and opted for the Xbox 360 version, be warned that there is a bug. When you get to the second level the game can freeze requiring a reboot. The freezing seems to be linked to being connected to Xbox Live, and getting the SC:Conviction [...]
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Adobe preparing to sue Apple over Flash blocking?

Although the iPad has been topping the news charts for the past couple of weeks, so has the debacle with Adobe over a lack of Flash on Apple devices. With the iPhone it was a case of Flash being too slow and buggy. With the iPad the same case was pleaded, but Apple went one step [...]
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If Star Wars Characters were Feudal Japanese Art

Imagine if the mythic saga of Star Wars took place a little closer to our home and only a few hundred years ago rather than proclaimed setting in the films, ” Long ago in a galaxy far, far away.” What do I mean by that? Let’s say, for example, the epic battle between the light and dark [...]
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Microsoft launches Kin social phones

Kin makes it easy to share photos and messages within social network.
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Google Apps take on Microsoft Office

With just a couple of months to go before Microsoft launches its Office 2010 suite of business applications, Google has updated its own Apps suite.
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Twitter's clever strategy

Trouble, it seems, is brewing in the Twitterverse. The microblogging site has ruffled the feathers of a developer community that has done so much to ensure its success.
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Digital Life: The world

We meet in an anonymous office block amid a mazy industrial park. My contact slides the package across the desk and quietly leaves the room.
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Digital Life: Apple give us a taste of what

Apple previewed the next generation of its iPhone software last week — at last delivering full multitasking, better email handling and the iBooks e-reader app first seen in the iPad.
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Game On: Red Steel 2 will put you to the sword

Red Steel 2
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Amazon refunds PS3 owners

A PlayStation 3 owner has received a rebate from Amazon after a software update from Sony prevented users from installing other operating systems on the console.
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Irish entrepreneur sells phone art venture to work for giant Google

A TECHNOLOGY company co-founded by a young Irish graduate has been snapped up by internet giant Google as it continues to expand its repertoire of services for consumers.
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Faulty USB drives means Splinter Cell: Conviction CE now only $69.99

If you decided to buy the Collector’s Edition of Splinter Cell: Conviction then you probably expected to pay $79.99 on release. That price has now been dropped to $69.99 due to a fault with the included USB drive. One of the additional items exclusive to the Collector’s Edition of the game is a USB stick containing [...]
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Ex-IW execs form Respawn Entertainment

It seems we’ll finally see some sort of closure about the Infinity Ward/Activision mess: Ex-Infinity Ward leads Jason West and Vince Zampella, who recently signed with Creative Artists Agency, have partnered with Electronic Arts to form Respawn Entertainment. EA and Respawn have yet to announce any titles or development platforms since it’s so early in the [...]
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Adobe Creative Suite 5 officially unveiled

Today Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 was officially uncloaked, with all its details available and some deeper coverage going live as well. We already heard a bit about CS5 previously, such as it’s incredible content-aware fill, but today designers around the world learned everything else they want to know. PC Pro seems to be the first out [...]
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Open media player Songbird drops Linux support

Songbird is an open media player for Windows, Linux, Mac, and mobile platforms. But that is about to change as the development team has decided to take the difficult decision of dropping Linux support. In a post on the Songbird blog developer Georges Auberger explained: After careful consideration, we
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Microsoft to launch two phones today dubbed Kin One and Kin Two

The rumor mill is abuzz about two Microsoft phones expected to launch later today on the Verizon network. Formerly known as the project “Pink,” the two Microsoft devices are expected to be marketed under the “Kin” umbrella brand. According to phoneArena.com, Verizon’s sales system reveals two new Microsoft devices, the MSONE and MSTWO. A closer inspection of [...]
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Visual search startup Plink acquired by Google

Google has acquired UK-based “visual search” company Plink, just four months after the company’s public launch. Plink’s free mobile application, PlinkArt, allows users to identify a work of art simply by taking a snapshot with their phone camera (a similar concept to the mobile music-identification service Shazam, but with images instead of audio). Plink’s founders, Mark Cummins [...]
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Conan O

Since his departure from The Tonight Show on NBC, Conan O’Brien has been using the Internet to stay in touch with fans via his Twitter account. O’Brien, nicknamed “CoCo” after an appearance by Tom Hanks on The Tonight Show, used the Twitter account to share thoughts and provide updates about his live performance tour called the Legally Prohibited from [...]
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Palm is looking for a savior

A sharp drop in sales and terrible loss of mindshare both took a serious toll on Palm’s fortunes, prompting the leadership to find a buyer, Bloomberg reported Monday. The credible publication quoted “three people familiar with the situation” who claim that: Palm, Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, is seeking bids for the company as early [...]
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Google previews an all-new Docs version

Google is previewing a revamped Google Docs version that promises snappier performance, redesigned document and spreadsheet editors with real-time collaborative editing, and a new standalone drawings editor that supports real-time collaboration. Those advancements are a result of the rebuilt Docs infrastructure that lets Google develop and launch new features at a more rapid pace. Jonathan Rochelle, [...]
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Steam welcomes new version of 2K

The Misadventures of P. B. Winterbottom is ready to puzzle players once more with the announcement of its re-release for Windows PC through Steam, 2K Play stated in a press release on Thursday. Initially released for the Xbox LIVE Arcade in August 2009, the Steam version will be available on April 20.
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iBatt: iPhone case, charger, and cradle all-in-one

If you are a heavy user of your iPhone then it’s safe to assume you have a case for protection, and some form of portable charger. Japanese manufacturer Hanwha has decided to cater for such users by combining a case and a secondary battery, but also add in a cradle too. The result is called the [...]
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Proof that old people get the iPad

Apple’s legendary ease of use married to touch simplicity is bound to be a hit with our senior citizens who lack the patience necessary to deal with the geekiness of Mac or Windows. When Steve Jobs showed up last week in front of the journalists invited to Apple’s Town Hall campus in Cupertino to preview iPhone [...]
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Best Buy confirms NOOK coming to stores April 18th

Last week we reported that Engadget had a rumor that Best Buy would soon offer Barnes & Noble’s e-reader, NOOK, for sale. Best Buy has now confirmed they will offer the NOOK beginning April 18th.  As Best Buy put it, the date is “just in time for Mother
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MacBook Pro supplies dry up, new models land Tuesday?

All findings indicate that Cupertino is gearing up to launch the new MacBook Pro hardware tomorrow, re-engineered around Intel’s latest notebook chips. AppleInsider has learned that the Mac maker has put MacBook Pro orders in its retail stores on hold. The notebook stock is apparently running “dangerously low.” Eleven stores at press time were allegedly unable [...]
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Opera

We’ve reported a lot about Opera Software’s success with their Opera Mini mobile browser. What hasn’t been in the news recently is the growth in Opera’s browser for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. The browser-maker states that it now has the same number of mobile users as desktop users according to current metrics. Opera currently boasts [...]
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Google rumored to go after Apple

While the iPad basks in the spotlight, Apple’s ex-pal Google could spoil the party with a tablet of its own, rumored to run a variant of the Android software normally found in smartphones. According to a Sunday report by the New York Times, Google will once more step on Apple’s toe with a rumored e-reader “designed to [...]
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BlackBerrys to integrate with car systems thanks to QNX acquisition

Back in March we reported that Nokia and Alpine had teamed up to enable Nokia phones to seamlessly integrate with car infotainment systems. Now Research In Motion (RIM) has taking steps to ensure its BlackBerry smartphones will have the same ability. RIM has announced its intention to acquire QNX Software Systems from Harman International. QNX [...]
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iPhone OS 4 supports linked contacts

iPhone OS 4.0, the next major update to the iPhone operating system, due this summer, will sport a new feature that will let users link multiple contacts under a unified contact pane. AppleInsider first reported on this finding, discovered by developers who had the opportunity to test a build of iPhone OS 4.0 released after the [...]
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Unbelievable: Apple approves Opera Mini for the iPhone!

We can’t believe it either, but it’s official – the Opera Mini app will be live on the App Store in the next 24 hours. If you doubt our reporting, check out what Opera Software wrote in a press release: Opera today announced its popular mobile browser, Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod [...]
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South Korea launches online curfew to help put end to video game addiction among youth

South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism implemented a pair of policies on Sunday, blocking under-aged access to online computer games after midnight in an attempt to fight video game addiction among minors.
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tokyoico on "Transferring Jailbreak games from iTunes?"

Hej all Sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm new to this.. Is it possible to transfer jailbreak games from iTunes to a non-jailbroken phone? (i had a jailbroken iphone, downloaded games, sync'd them into iTunes, now have a new iphone with 3.1.3 which i believe can't be jailbroken? and want to put the games on it..) Thanks in advance alex
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Palm 'for sale'

Palm, maker of the Pre range of smartphones, is seeking bids for the company, according to reports
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Bono set for multi-million pound Palm windfall

U2’s Bono looks set to collect a multi-million pound windfall from the sale of Palm, the beleagured smartphone maker.
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Music to the ears of audiophiles

The London Symphony Orchestra's decision to release lossless recordings of classical concerts underlines the desire for better-quality digital music
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Apple to blossom into 3D with glasses patent

WHEN patent number 20100079356 was published on the US Patent and Trademark Office website at the beginning of this month, it was assumed that it was an April Fool joke.
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iPhone OS 4.0 won

Apple has removed the “Rate on Delete” feature from iPhone OS 4.0 following developer complaints that the system unfairly skews the ratings downwards. Apple’s recently previewed iPhone OS 4.0 will not require users to rate apps before deleting them, MacRumors has learned. Although Apple made no mention of the change at the iPhone OS 4.0 unveiling [...]
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Google ups the number of Picasa albums tenfold

Heavy Picasa users will love that they can now store up to 10,000 albums per account, a tenfold increase over the previous maximum of 1,000 albums. Evan Tsang and Tammy McLeod, Google’s software engineers, explained in a company blog post that the increase came as a result of  heavy photo sharing and posting on the Buzz [...]
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Apple removes Google and Yahoo! branding from iPhone OS 4.0 search

Pundits suspect this subtle change is part of a broader effort on Apple’s part to gradually remove Google branding from all parts of the iPhone OS 4.0 software. In reality, though, it’s a simple cosmetic tweak for the sake of user friendliness. You may never notice it, but you’ll be hitting the “Search” key to submit [...]
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Apple could launch new hardware and software at NAB 2010

Apple will be showing off some new products at the NAB show this coming week. According to an Apple page at Eventbrite, Apple will be introducing both hardware and software updates at the show. Here’s what the invitations says: Please join Apple for an update on their latest hardware and software products. Lunch will be provided [...]
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Gmail gets nested labels and message sneak peek

Google has added two new experimental Gmai features this past Thursday that let you organize labels in a folder-like fashion and sneak peek inside messages without opening them. Nested labels allow users to better organize a bunch of labels attached to their message. Manu Cornet, Google’s software engineer explained how the nested labels feature works in [...]
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RIM building an 8.9-inch BlackBerry tablet for your car?

A new report has alleged that Research in Motion is building an 8.9-inch tablet-like “niche” product in limited quantities, expected for sale before Christmas. We should warn you that the authenticity of this report cannot be established. According to a RIM fan site called CrackBerry, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., also known as Foxconn, has [...]
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You can now route Google Voice calls straight to voicemail

Although many people like Google Voice for its efficiency, simplicity, and the ability to link a bunch of cellphone and landline numbers to a single Google Voice number, this smart telephony service can be a real pain if you’re in a middle of something and would like to deal with those pesky incoming calls at [...]
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iPad-ready sites all but ready

The sites on Apple’s “iPad-ready” list are all but ready for the device. While CNN, NYT, People, and others do play Flash-less videos inline the iPad’s Safari browser, just a layer deeper ugly cracks show up. When Geek reported on a list of iPad-ready sites, we thought Apple’s boss Steve Jobs somehow persuaded the biggest names on [...]
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Firefox Lorentz beta is out, resistant to plugin crashes

Mozilla fans can download and sample a future Firefox release, currently in beta, that keeps the browser stable when a plugin crashes or freezes. Mozilla has announced plans to update its rendering platform called Gecko with the ability to run plugins separately of the main browser process. The open-source organization has invited fans to preview a beta [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-10 more

Sword & Sworcery EP iPhone game is looking super cool

The gaming scene has had a fair bit of buzz about the upcoming release of the iPhone adventure game, Sword & Sworcery EP. The game is from the SuperBrothers (Craig Adams) who have been detailing the release extensively, as well as Jim Guthrie and Capybara Games (who made Clash of Heroes for the DS). From what I [...]
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Man creates street legal Battlestar Galactica Viper

Holy frak Starbuck! Just take a look at this sweet Earth-bound ride. Dean Shorey, a master ride mechanic for Seabreeze Amusement Park in New York, is such a fan of the original Battlestar Galactica series that he decided to take his metalwork and auto restoration skills to create this street legal Viper from an old Postal Jeep. Now [...]
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Ubisoft: always-connected DRM will improve and be on all future PC games

Ubisoft is adamant that its new always-connected DRM is the way forward. Despite anger from gamers who couldn’t play Assassin’s Creed II, the publisher/developer is set to continue using such DRM on all its future PC game releases. A spokesperson for the company said: Most forthcoming Ubisoft PC titles will use our online services platform. As with [...]
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Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter confirmed for XBLA and available for pre-order on Steam

Majesco has finally confirmed that Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, a remake of Croteam’s first-person shooter of the same name sans “HD,” will hit the Xbox LIVE Arcade and the PC later this year. In addition to a new graphics engine, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter includes an all-new survival mode for single and [...]
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Google Suggest for search comes to mobile

Google has once again kicked their mobile search up a notch. This time, the company has announced the inclusion of Google Suggest in mobile search. Google Suggest is where the search engine tries to figure out what you are looking for while you are typing. This allows information to be displayed without having to wait [...]
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Viewsonic launch VEB620 and VEB625 e-book readers

Viewsonic has used The Gadget Show Live 2010 currently running in the UK to launch two new e-book readers on the market. Both the VEB620 and VEB625 are monochrome e-readers sporting a 6-inch E-Ink display, font size control, and zooming. The VEB625 is the more feature-rich model and includes WiFi and touchscreen capabilities. Both models have [...]
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Modern Warfare: Frozen Crossing fan-fiction video is worth a watch

This fan-made video inspired by Modern Warfare 2 has already racked up over 500K views, so you know it’s pretty good. I have no idea how it was done for a reported $209.42, but the results are impressive. The YouTube notes: An unofficial tribute to one of our favorite game franchises of all time: Call of [...]
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Warhammer Online subscribers accidentally charged 22 times in one month

Mythic is more than a little bit embarrassed and sorry today. The Warhammer Online forums have been set alight with angry players who found multiple subscription charges pulled from their bank accounts. In the worst cases some 22 payments were taken, with one household having 27 payments logged across two accounts. Seeing between $500 and $700 [...]
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New DISH Network DVR is SlingLoaded

Back in September 2007 we reported that Echostar, now operating as DISH Network Corporation, purchased Sling Media. Sling Media manufactures the Slingbox which allows consumers to connect a video and audio source to an Internet-connected box to enable the ability to watch television while online via a computer or handheld device. Considering DISH Network provides television set boxes [...]
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Video calling discovered in iPhone OS 4.0

The updated iPhone OS 4.0 software hides a new processes sitting in the background and awaiting video calls, a source alleged. According to a tip sent to the Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), the just-announced iPhone OS 4.0 sports a suspicious new process suggesting that the software is prepared to handle video calling: Close TUAW reader AW sent us [...]
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A photographer

Josh Root over at our sister site Photo.net has put up what he classes as a “short-term hands on” review of the iPad. But it actually turns out to be a quite in-depth look at Apple’s tablet. As well as looking at the good and bad stuff, he also covers what the iPad is, and what [...]
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AT&T re-positioning itself as a lifestyle company

The carrier wants to be perceived as a consumer and lifestyle company rather than a telecom firm. A nationwide re-branding campaign has kicked off today, with AT&T’s rollover minutes being part of the makeover, too. The initiative is being described with the “Rethink Possible” slogan, presumably to indicate the carrier’s readiness to let go any aspect [...]
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Google Earth leads professor to rare hominid ancestor

Well, Google can put another feather in its cap. That’s because Google Earth is being credited with helping to find a rare hominid fossil in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa.The discovery includes two partial hominid skeletons which are said to be in “remarkable condition”. The skeletons are dated to be [...]
Publication date: 2010-04-09 more

Amazon pays partial refund for PS3 sale due to OtherOS feature removal

When Sony removed the OtherOS feature from the PS3 Fat users were angry, but some pointed out that the machine was no longer fit for purpose. As a feature the PS3 originally shipped with had now been removed, Sony may actually be breaking some consumer laws. One PS3 owner decided to put that to the test [...]
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30 million cellphones to be disconnected across Mexico this weekend

In a bid to cut crime and drug trafficking the government of Mexico is about to take drastic action with regards to cellphones. This weekend any cellphone that has not been registered to an individual will be disconnected and rendered useless. The only problem is, despite repeated calls from the government for people to register [...]
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Firefox 3.6.4 to bring stability boost with out-of-process plug-ins

If you are a regular Firefox user one of the annoyances you have to put up with is a crash taking down your entire browser. Whether you have two or twenty tabs open, if something crashes in one of those tabs Firefox shuts down completely. Mozilla manages crashes quite well, however, and a restart usually restores [...]
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Apple is now selling an average 1.4 iPads per store each hour

Steve Jobs said Apple sold nearly half a million iPads in five days, amounting to an average hourly rate of 1.4 iPad units per each of the nearly 900 retail spots that are currently carrying the device. The sales update came during the iPhone OS 4.0 event held Thursday, April 8, at Apple’s Town Hall campus [...]
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B&N

Our friends at Engadget have confidential informants that law enforcement officials would be impressed with. We reported yesterday that Engadget had proof that Amazon’s Kindle was coming to Target in an effort to get the reader in brick-and-mortar stores. I inferred that the move was probably Amazon’s attempt to level the playing field against Barnes & [...]
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12 year old spends nearly $1400 on Farmville

One of Facebook’s more popular gaming apps is called FarmVille. This free farming simulation game allows users to build and tend their own virtual farm with provided tools or with the investment of real cash. Players can buy Farmville Cash or Coins to purchase additional items for their farm. While on the surface FarmVille is pretty harmless [...]
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2010 World Expo

The 2010 World Expo is next month in Shanghai and it’s looking like it’s going to be home to some legitimately awesome structures. The Seed Cathedral, which is part of the UK Pavilion is looking especially interesting, thanks in no part to its incredible intricacy. The 6,000 square meter pavilion is covered with 60,000 clear acrylic [...]
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Alienware M11x refresh already on the way?

If a certain forum posting it to be believed then Alienware’s new M11x portable gaming computer already has its first update pending. Poster “Darkhan” on NotebookReview’s forums said that the system will be getting new Intel processors and Nvidia’s Optimus graphics switching technology in a future release. The new release is tentatively being called the M11x [...]
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iPhone OS 4.0 boasts digital zoom, in-recording focus

When the iPhone OS 4.0 is released this summer, users will finally get camera features that have been a norm on other cellphones for years, like digital zoom. Steve Jobs briefly mentioned capabilities of the new Camera app when talking up a bunch of other nice-to-haves provided in iPhone OS 4.0: We’ve added a 5x digital [...]
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Super Talent offer Value SSD range from $65

If you want proof that the cost of solid state drives is coming down look no further than Super Talent. The storage specialist has just introduced a new range of Value SSD drives with prices starting at $65. The Value SSD is capable of read speeds up to 152MB/sec, and write speeds of 97MB/sec for the [...]
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iPhone OS 4.0 steals Faces and Places from the iPad

The Photos app in iPhone OS 4.0 has been enhanced with the ability to group photos by date, people, and places, just like on the iPad. As we’re scavenging through little bits and pieces of information that came at the iPhone OS 4.0 event that took place at Apple’s Town Hall campus on Thursday, April 8, we’re [...]
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OCZ launches super fast Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSD

While Super Talent may be aiming for the lower end of the market with its Value SSD range, OCZ is going in completely the opposite direction with its latest 2.5″ performance drives. Announcing the OCZ Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSD. While we are used to seeing performance SSD achieve 250MB/s reads and 170MB/s writes, these [...]
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Your iPhone can

Multitasking, the killer feature of iPhone OS 4.0, is only supported on the iPad, iPhone 3GS and third-generation iPod touch. Is Apple leveraging this  feature to force those with older iPhones to upgrade? As you know, iPhone OS 4.0 has finally enabled multitasking in third-party apps, a major advancement that has erased Android’s biggest advantage over [...]
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Apple unveils new iPhone operating system

Apple will add multi-tasking, mobile advertising and an ebook reader to its hugely successful iPhone when it releases the fourth version of the phone's operating system later this year.
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Digitimes: 5 to 7-inch iPad expected in early 2011

With the iPad launch still fresh in our memories Digitimes is reporting that Apple already has plans to release a smaller version of the tablet device early next year. According to Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo component manufacturers are already preparing for the device. It will sport a display of between 5 and 7 inches, [...]
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Transformers: War for Cybertron multiplayer details

High Moon Studios’ June release of Transformers: War for Cybertron has Transformers nerds giddy for its pre-G1 series storyline, but the release of a new multiplayer trailer proves that the Activision-published shooter has far more to offer than fiction for fans. The trailer shows off its goods at a rapid fire pace, but here’s what [...]
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Smart Devices unveil R7 7-inch color e-book reader

The iPad may be the new gadget on the block with e-reader capabilities, but that hasn’t stopped other manufacturers announcing new products. If all you want is a device that acts as an e-book reader, then you are going to have an increasing number of gadgets to choose from over the next year as manufacturers [...]
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High-resolution Halo Reach renders should be looked at

If you’re antsy for the upcoming Halo Reach beta (and let’s face it: you are) then you’ll probably find Bungie’s new set of high-resolution renders, cribbed straight from the same beta we’ll all be playing in a month, rather tantalizing. The collection of still images cover everything from characters and weapons to vehicles and assassination [...]
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Palm stock rises on Lenovo buyout rumors

We’ve all read about Palm’s troubles and dropping stock prices. That’s probably what makes the rumor reported by Electronista believable. According to the article, hedge fund investors have speculated that Lenovo may be looking to acquire mobile handset maker Palm. That speculation sent Palm stock prices soaring to a 20% gain yesterday. Lenovo has recently made an investment in [...]
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When classic video games attack New York gets destroyed

PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. We’ve all played the classics. Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Tetris, and Donkey Kong. You take the on-screen destruction for granted, but what if it really happened? The above video gives us some idea of what to expect if it happened in New York. Disappearing tube stations, cabs turning into blocks, and barrels raining down [...]
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New York gets first look at Crysis 2 trailer

Earlier Tuesday, Crytek announced on Twitter that New Yorkers would get the first look at the upcoming Crysis 2.
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iPhone OS 4.0: What to expect

Apple is due to preview iPhone OS 4.0 at 10am Pacific time and Geek is joining the rumors game with our own wish list. The Cupertino firm said on the heels of the iPad launch that it’ll be hosting a media event Thursday, April 8, to preview iPhone OS 4.0, the next major iteration of [...]
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iPhone OS 4.0 live coverage

Within mintues, select journos attending Apple’s private briefing are being given a sneak peek inside iPhone OS 4.0. Geek is bringing you a remote coverage of key announcements, as they happen. On Monday Apple scheduled an iPhone OS 4.0 media briefing for April 8th, at at its Town Hall campus in Cupertino at 9am Pacific time. [...]
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World Golf Tour

In response to the recent announcement of EA Sport’s free-to-play Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, World Golf Tour CEO YuChiang Cheng has a few choice words to say about the differences between PGA Tour Online and WGT. If you
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More iPads leave Chinese docks, arriving in the US soon

If you didn’t pre-ordered your iPad for the April 3 launch and missed purchasing the device at Apple’s or Best Buy’s retail stores, you will have to wait patiently until this coming Monday when another batch is apparently due to arrive at the US shores. According to a Mac enthusiast site 9to5Mac, some customers have received [...]
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Could Target be getting Amazon

Nobody can deny the success that Amazon has had with their Kindle e-reader. Of course, a disadvantage that Amazon has is that they have no brick-and-mortar stores to show off the capabilities of the device. That’s a fact that Barnes and Noble has taken advantage of with their stores and the launch of their e-reader called the nook. [...]
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Foursquare cracks down on false mayors

Foursquare is a social networking site that utilizes GPS-based mobile phone software to allow users to “check-in” at places around town. Doing so can lead to badges and mayorships to those who visit a place more than anyone else. The only problem has been that some people could claim mayorships from their couch. Foursquare’s latest blog [...]
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Google Maps for BlackBerry version 4 launched

Google has announced its latest update for Google Maps for the BlackBerry and as they put it “it’s a big one”. New features within version 4 include the addition of voice search, Google Buzz, personalized search suggestions and access to Google Labs to try out experimental features. Some of these features have been available in the Android version [...]
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Starcraft II Collector

If you were excited for Starcraft II’s upcoming release, prepare to become slightly more excited. A collector’s edition has been announced at $99 (instead of $59) that will get fans: a 176-page art book, a USB thumb drive loaded with the original StarCraft and its expansion pack Brood War, a behind-the-scenes DVD, a CD soundtrack, a [...]
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Mother charged with harassment after hacking into son

Parents know the importance of keeping an eye on their kids, especially when they are online, but it seems one kid believes his mother has gone too far. Arkansas-based KATV news is reporting that Denise New is charged with harassment after her 16 year old son accused her of hacking into his Facebook account, changing his password [...]
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Verizon Wireless offers phone recycling for Earth Day

April 22nd of this year marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Verizon Wireless with CWG, a recycler of mobile devices, have teamed up to give mobile users an easy way to make a small impact when it comes to helping the environment and providing support to those victims of domestic violence. Those with old mobile [...]
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Today

Apple made a bit of news today with the unveiling of the iPhone 4.0 OS. We covered it extensively, as did about a million other sites, but if you want to see the presentation by the one-and-only Steve Jobs, you now can. It’s just under 60 minutes long. Just hop over to Apple.com and you can [...]
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Pokemon Black & Pokemon White in development for Nintendo DS

As is usually the case with Pokemon games, and in fact most Nintendo products, we get them in the West several months after Japan. So while Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver (read our review) are sitting in the charts at retail over here, Japan is getting ready to receive the next Pokemon installments. Very little is known [...]
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wsblackcat on "Share All of FIFA World Cup Theme Songs(including 2010 wave flag)"

As the South Africa 2010 World Cup is just around the corner, I would like to bring you into FIFA World Cup theme songs from 1986 to 2010 to experience the familiar feeling. The Word Cup Theme Songs From 1986 to 2010 Wavin Flag 2010 The rousing Soccer Anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. Time of Our Lives 2006 This is a greate time, for Germany, for Intaly, also for zidane Boom 2002 With the tone on the summer of 2002 in Aouth Asia, an ‘ET’ said “I’m back” to all of the world La Copa De La Vida 1998 Accompanied by this familiar melody, two men in the 70s reached the top of the world together, one from Puerto Rico, the other from Juventus; one with music, the other with the football; one named Ricky Martin, the other named Zinedine Gloryland 1994 On July 17, 1994, LosAngle, Heaven was on the left, the Brazilian was dancing in lullaby, Baggio was in the right, the fallen angel turned back to God, hiding his depression, in tears. UN'ESTATE ITALIANA 1990 This World Cup had nothing, apart from <UN'ESTATE ITALIANA> A Special Kind of Hero 1986 This World Cup only belongs to one person, and his name is Diego Armando Maradona. More about FIFA world cup theme songs to iphone ringtone
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Games consoles 'under threat', says Kojima

Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, says video games of the future will not be confined to consoles.
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mrtotes on "differentiate iphone 3g and 3gs"

3GS has shiny writting on the back.
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Twitter 'could build its own client'

One of the biggest investors in microblogging service Twitter has hinted that the company might release its own mobile and desktop clients, a move that could impact third-party developers.
Publication date: 2010-04-08 more

Crystal Swing and the viral web

I'm not going to lie to you: showband-era music gives me the creeps. I dislike the cheese: the pseudo-American crooning, the tacky outfits and the incongruity of a form of music that tries to marry the appeal of swinging jazz bands of the Fifties with rural Ireland several years after big bands have fallen out of fashion in the first place.
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From butcher to chef, to entrepreneur and blogger

Blogger of the Year at the Irish Blog Awards, Pat Phelan began his working life as a butcher, then a chef. Now an entrepreneur, his company Cubic Telecom is active in 230 countries worldwide.
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'The old style of learning by rote will not suit the smart workforce of tomorrow'

THERE are few Irish adults today who don't feel a shudder run up their spine or who don't have nightmares of turning up at exams with the dreaded fear they hadn't done the study.
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Does the answer to globalised healthcare lie on the internet?

SILICON Valley entrepreneur James Currier is as immersed in the online space as you can get. He was one of the first people to harness the power of user-generated content when he co-founded Tickle.com (which was later acquired by Monster.com) in 1998, and is on the board of directors for Linden Lab's virtual world, Second Life.
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Why I'd prefer to be poked on Facebook than blog on Bebo

OMG! Just two years after it was sold for close to $1bn, social networking site Bebo looks set to log off for good following a catastrophic collapse in its membership in the face of competition from its more zeitgeisty rivals Facebook and Twitter.
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How Ed Roberts' Altair 8800 revolutionised home computing

Ed Roberts, co-founder of Micro Information and Telemetry Systems (MITS) and designer of the Altair 8800, has died at the age of 68.
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How Wikileaks shone light on world's darkest secrets

When the UK's Ministry of Defence first came across Wikileaks, staffers were stunned. "There are thousands of things on here, I literally mean thousands," one of them wrote in an internal email in November 2008.
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Google Books faces fresh lawsuit from photographers

Google's plan to create an online library of the world's books faces new delays after photographers and illustrators filed a class-action lawsuit against the project.
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Apple 4.0 update 'to introduce mobile advertising platform'

Apple could unveil its own mobile advertising platform later today, a move that would put it in direct competition with Google.
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Google, we want the iPad

The new Gmail web app for tablets mimics a two-pane interface of the iPad’s native Mail app. Simply put, it’s a remarkable display of what can be done with the power of web and HTML5. Just like with its iPhone, Apple has taken a great deal of device-specific capabilities into consideration when creating an iPad version [...]
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Rhapsody emerges as new company and drops subscription to $9.99

In February we reported that Rhapsody was going to be spun off as an independent company from parent companies MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom, and RealNetworks. According to a RealNetworks SEC filing, the spinoff was completed on March 31st which created the new company Rhapsody International. The new company has now emerged with an aggressive drop in its previous subscription [...]
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DeathSpank creator Ron Gilbert leaves Hothead

Soon after signing a high-profile publishing contract with EA to distribute DeathSpank for the XBLA and PSN, Hothead's Ron Gilbert is taking leave of the company. As Deathspank's creator, Gilbert will continue to work closely with EA and Hothead on the indie game's PR, according to his personal blog.
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AOL considers sale or shutdown of Bebo

Back in March 2008, AOL made a bold attempt to enter the social networking landscape through its acquisition of Bebo.com. Just as bold was the $850 million they paid the co-founders for it. Now the New York Times is reporting that AOL wants to sell or close the website after only two years of ownership. The news came [...]
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THQ plans $40M video game for Project Natal

THQ has a $40 million video game in store for Project Natal, says THQ’s core games VP, Danny Bilson. Bilson detailed his grand scheme as well as his doubts to CVG on Friday: I have some concepts and some ideas that use Natal in a core game in a really, really cool way… But to your other question [...]
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Foursquare possible target of Yahoo! acquisition

Foursquare is a location-based social networking service that works with a mobile app to allow users to “check-in” as they make their way to different locations throughout their day. Using the service friends can find other friends and ordinary people can become a mayor which indicates those individuals who have visited a location more than anyone [...]
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Open source, security-focused Qubes OS hits alpha

The number of high-profile operating systems is expanding. Windows, Mac OS, and Linux are the main three everyone knows about, but iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, and Android are all vying for our attention. If you look to the future then the other operating system people are interested in is Google’s Chrome OS. But there is [...]
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Star Trek Online for consoles canceled

When Cryptic first announced it was taking over development of Star Trek Online the developer listed it as a PC and console game. The PC game has subsequently been finished and released, but there was no sign of the console versions. Last week Cryptic announced that Champions Online would not be getting a release on consoles, [...]
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Windows 7 achieves 10% market share in 5 months (Vista took 16)

If you want proof that Windows 7 greatly improves upon the disaster that was Windows Vista, look no further than the rate of uptake. The latest figures show that Windows 7 has achieved 10% market share in just 5 months. Vista did not achieve the same level of uptake for 16 months — over three-times [...]
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Turn your iPad into a bookend with the iBookend

With all that the iPad can do, and all the e-books that the Apple tablet device can potentially hold, who would have thought that the iPad could be used as a device to hold real books up? A silly as it sounds, that is what a concept designer has actually invented. Imagined by Dominic Wilcox, his [...]
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Vodafone chooses Opera Mini for developing markets

In the West we are spoilt for choice when it comes to accessing the web on the go. Netbooks, smartphones, WiFi hotspots, and relatively fast 3G networks, make web access simple and fast. In developing countries, however, where 2G is the norm, running a web browser on a handset is either a painfully slow experience [...]
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16GB WiFi iPad components cost $260, iSuppli estimates

Market research firm iSuppli has put an estimated $259.60 price tag on the components found inside Apple’s $499 WiFi iPad. As always, this figure represents just the components excluding the costs associated with research and development, marketing, packaging, distribution, sales, software licences, and more. According to their preliminary analysis, the iPad’s priciest component is by far a [...]
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Review: Olympus E-PL1 Micro Four-Thirds digital camera

We’ve already covered the new Olympus E-PL1 in a preview and a demo of the Live Guide automatic shooting, so this review is going to wrap things up into a neat little package. In case you didn’t read our previous coverage, the E-PL1 is the newest camera in Olympus’ PEN series. Previously we’ve seen the E-P1 [...]
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Swedish-made Google TV debuts in August with killer maps, apps, and more

Google TV, an Android-based solution to a set-top box and TV media integration, is coming along nicely. The first company to announce a fully featured Google TV set is a Swedish startup called People of Lava. The company will be releasing its Scandinavia TV lineup around September, available in 42″, 47″, and 55″ flavors and beginning [...]
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Video evidence of the iPhone 4.0

The iPhone 4.0 / HD – a fourth iteration of Apple’s handset that Steve Jobs allegedly called an “A+ upgrade” – could carry a front-facing camera for iChat-style videoconferencing on the go. Expected this summer in time for Apple’s annual developers conference due around June, the fourth-generation iPhone has already generated quite a lot buzz around the [...]
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Everything you

Over at Digital Home Thoughts there is an impressively in-depth review of different photo-book printing services. In this day of digital printing, it’s pretty easy to have your own book made, but it’s not that cheap and it does require a fair bit of work. Additionally, it’s difficult to differentiate between different printers as most [...]
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Printing support reportedly coming to iPhone OS 4.0

Apple may have inadvertently slipped that the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 could add direct printing support to the iPad, perhaps even the iPhone and iPod touch. The basis for this speculation is a new Apple support document alluding that printing support could be in the works, at least for Apple’s iPad-optimized iWork productivity suite. Apple wrote the [...]
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Apple suggests only the iPhone can fingerprint songs

A new iPhone commercial fools viewers into thinking that song recognition can only be done on the iPhone. In reality, the software featured in the advert exists for a number of platforms. Apple’s new commercial shows off the $5 Shazam Encore, an iPhone app that can upload a song snippet to the cloud in order to [...]
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AOL prepares to shut down Bebo

Bebo, formerly one of the largest online social networks, is to be shut down or sold by AOL, just two years after it was purchased for close to $1bn.
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Murdoch: publishers must stand up to Google

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp, said newspaper publishers should prevent search engines like Google and Microsoft’s Bing from displaying full articles for free.
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Apple to announce iPhone 4 OS

Apple’s iPhone 4.0 software will be unveiled at an event in California on Thursday, 8 April.
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Apple acknowledges iPad Wi-Fi problems

Apple has admitted that some iPad users are experiencing difficulties getting online.
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Toshiba Camileo S20, H30 and X100 1080p camcorders hit the States

While they’ve been available in Europe for awhile, Toshiba has finally seen fit to grace us Yanks with their excellent Camileo range of low-cost camcorders. It’s about time. The Camileo range was announced way back at IFA 2009, and we’ve been waiting ever since. Here’s what you’ll be seeing on big box shelves soon enough. The [...]
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Google tweaks more Buzz privacy settings

Google Buzz, the search giant’s ill-fated Facebook killer, has been plagued with various privacy related issues since it debuted three months ago. Realizing that Buzz is going nowhere, Google announced Tuesday new defaults regarding automatic following. Todd Jackson, a product manager with Google’s Gmail team, announced the latest Buzz privacy tweaks in a company blog post: Rather than [...]
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Allegro Portable Wireless Radio and Streamer makes internet radio portable

Internet radio’s a fantastic thing. Instead of listening to the local zoo crew or rap station in staticky FM, you can pipe in crystal clear, high-quality audio in any genre you want from thousands of Internet radio stations. The only problem is, if you want to listen to internet radio, you’ve got to be sitting at [...]
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ARRI

ARRI is a legendary maker of film cameras, one of the most respected companies in the business, but even they’ve got to keep up with the times: they’ve just announced their Alexa supercamera, and while its cost of $60,000 is going to put it firmly beyond most of our budgets, it’s worth drooling over all [...]
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LG Mini GD880 is Flash and Webkit capable feature phone

We don’t tend to write much about feature phones here at Geek, mostly because the likes of the Blackberry, the Pre, the iPhone and the Android operating system are the most interesting phones to talk about. That said, even we’re interested in LG’s latest feature-phone, the LG Mini GD880. It was announced back in February, [...]
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Did Rockstar get Australian gaming journalist fired?

According to news.com.au, Toby McCasker — the former deputy entertainment editor for Australian lads mag Zoo Weekly — has been let go from his position after making public an email from Rockstar, asking for more favorable coverage of Red Dead Redemption. The email in question was posted to McCasker’s Facebook account, and read: This is the biggest [...]
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NCSoft trademarks City of Heroes 2 name, MMO sequel in the works?

NCSoft, or to be more precise, Cryptic made a big splash when it released the original City of Heroes. An MMO where you could create your own super hero was clearly going to be popular, and NCSoft made sure it remained that way by making it a decent MMO too. More recently, Champions Online has been [...]
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Apple confirms iPad WiFi issue, offers solution

Soon after the launch of the iPad at the weekend users started complaining about poor WiFi connections. At the time it was thought the problem may be down to the positioning of the antenna on the back of the device, which would usually be covered up by a surface or your legs. Apple has now confirmed [...]
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Muvi Atom is a voice controlled camcorder smaller than your finger

I’ve always been a fan of Muvi’s cute and clever little camcorders… particularly in just how much functionality they manage to cram into devices smaller than your housekeys. Their previous model, the Micro DV, was the smallest camcorder available, but still wasn’t a bad little cam. The DV looks positively gargantuan compared to Muvi’s latest [...]
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Lenovo Ideapad S10-3s slims netbooks down

Lenovo’s a favorite brand for PC laptops, and they’ve really done a great job transitioning their design expertise from notebooks to netbooks with the Lenovo S10 and S12. They’ve now announced their latest update to the already lovely S10, the S10-3S, and guess what? The “S” stands for slim. Well, the second one does… I [...]
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Lenovo C200 all-in-one packs NVIDIA Ion 2

Lenovo’s been busy announcing some cheap, attractive machines with Intel Atom guts this morning. Hot off the heels of their press release for the Lenovo Ideapad S10-3S netbook, this comes sliding through the mail slot: the Lenovo C200, a gorgeous, low-cost, NVIDIA Ion 2 toting all-in-one. What’s important here is the NVIDIA Ion 2 chipset, which [...]
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Panasonic plans to push 20MP in its digital cameras by 2012

Back when digital cameras first came out, it wasn’t obvious to consumers whether a $400 Canon camera was better than a $200 Kodak one. In response to this, camera companies came up with the idea of megapixels: buy a camera with more megapixels and you’ll always be taking better images! It actually wasn’t all that disingenuous [...]
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EA launches free-to-play Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online

EA has officially launched Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online, a free-to-play golf video game accessible through a web browser.
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Apple iPad recruits Frogger and Solid Snake for the App Store

Frogger and Solid Snake might not seem like the most likely duo, but they both need your gentle touch to guide them to victory. Metal Gear Solid Touch and Frogger Pad are now available from the App Store for the Apple iPad, Konami announced in a press release Monday.
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Google I/O attendees to receive free Nexus One or Droid

If you are pre-registered and paid to go to the Google I/O conference in May expect a package through your door soon. Google has decided that you will be receiving either a Motorola Droid or Nexus One smartphone for free. Google is shipping the free smartphones before the conference because it wants everyone there to [...]
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Infinity Ward loses two more long-serving staff members

The fallout at Infinity Ward continues as two more key staff members have left the studio. Todd Alderman, an eight year veteran of the studio, and lead designer, is thought to have resigned his post. Lead software engineer, and seven year veteran Francesco Gigliotti has also joined Alderman in leaving. No official announcement has been made [...]
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The iPad takes on

If you are already an iPad fan, then watching the article with an iPad taking a ruthless beating with a baseball bat probably made you cringe a little.  If that is the case, then the video in this article is definitely going to make your gut wrench. So just be warned. On the latest edition of [...]
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WD doubles capacity of VelociRaptor performance hard drive

Western Digital has announced the arrival of new VelociRaptor hard drives. The drives will be available in 450GB and 600GB capacities and will feature 6Gb/s SATA connections. For the last few years Western Digital has held the performance crown in for SATA hard drives. Their 10,000RPM Raptor drives and then the VelociRaptor (which was still 10K [...]
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Sharp unveils new LCD technology to be used in Nintendo 3DS

A couple of weeks ago, Nintendo made a surprise announcement: the successor to their popular DS handheld would be called the 3DS and use an innovative new technique to display 3D touchscreen graphics without any glasses. At the time, there was a lot of confusion about how Nintendo might go about doing this, since 3D and [...]
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Drobo FS is part NAS, part RAID

It’s been a long time coming, but Data Robotics has finally delivered with a networked version of its popular line of redundant storage hard drive bays. Meet the Drobo FS. The Drobo FS is a RAID-like storage device aimed at the less tech savvy. It operates similarly to RAID: you push a couple hard drives in, [...]
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Econogo debuts the Yogo, the world

Although electric vehicles are the dream, it’s a sad fact that lithium-ion batteries just don’t have the capacity to really do the job just yet. Cars, after all, are power-hungry beasts, and until someone figures out how to greatly increase both the capacity and recharge times of beefy lithium-ion packs, hybrid vehicles are the best [...]
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Fresh Duke Nukem Forever footage appears on YouTube

Since 3D Realms finally closed its doors we’ve seen more footage from Duke Nukem Forever than in the previous decade. And the footage keeps coming with a new four minute video being uploaded to YouTube over the Easter break. Just like in previous videos, the footage shows a game that was very advanced and could have [...]
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Fujitsu integrate power monitoring into power strips

Monitoring the power consumption of your different electronic gadgets can be done with a simple plug-in monitoring device. But if you have an office full of PCs, or just a busy desk at home, it’s a bit tedious and time consuming to monitor each device individually and figure out where power is being wasted. Fujitsu [...]
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iPad gets installed into the dash of a truck

With the iPad recently hitting store shelves, it was only a matter of time before people thought of other applications for the new Apple portable than just using it as a tablet device. Take for example the guys over at Sound Man Car Audio that decided the iPad would look great mounted in the dashboard of [...]
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Full multitasking is the killer feature of iPhone OS 4.0, sources claim

The upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 should finally fix – and in a big way, too – the lack of multitasking as the most glaring omission of Apple’s mobile platform. This news came via a note that Kaufman Bros. released to investors earlier today. Shaw Wu, the analyst with Kaufman Bros., wrote in a note that his “checks [...]
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Enter the Hall of Meat with April 15

Both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live will see a Skate 3 demo on the same day next week, with the skateboarding sequel set to release on April 15. The demo is set to be far more substantial than expected, especially after the brevity and compact nature of the Skate 2 sampler last year. The demo [...]
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High-end CPUs compared: Nehalem EX vs Magny Cours

The Inquirer has a great post up that compares some of today’s highest performance CPUs. These are CPUs for enterprise servers and other high-end applications, but the article packs in a ton of interesting information about the latest efforts by Intel and AMD. From the article: The Nehalem EX has higher raw memory bandwidth, with four serial [...]
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SNES emulator landing on the iPad

You are probably all tired of hearing about the iPad, but this will get your attention. It’s true, someone is working on a SNES emulator for Apple’s super slate. As you surely know, the SNES is just about the greatest console of all time. Combine that with the wonder pad and you could have a lot [...]
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The iPad says it needs to cool down under too much sunlight

Early complaints from iPad users mostly focus on reported reception issues with wireless routers. On top of that, however, we’re hearing stories of other problems plaguing Apple’s inaugural multitouch tablet. Apparently, some iPads are malfunctioning when users expose them to too much direct sunlight. According to ZDNet, some overheated iPads refuse to work, greeting their users with [...]
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The iPad

The iFixit teardown wizards teamed up with the Ottawa, Ontario-based reverse engineering company Chipworks to cross-section the A4 system-on-a-chip that powers the iPad. According to both parties, the A4’s CPU die is basically a single-core ARM Cortex-A8 design. While dual-core Cortex-A8 designs based on ARM’s CPU blueprint can be found in other mobile platforms, Apple probably opted [...]
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Facebook Connect coming to iTunes?

A new rumor alleging that Facebook Connect is coming to iTunes “quite soon” could mean whole new possibilities. By authorizing iTunes to access your Facebook account, you could share iTunes Store purchases with your friends more easily and securely than before. According to TechCrunch: We’re hearing that iTunes will be implementing Facebook Connect support in the [...]
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Will network hogs run on 3G iPads?

With 3G iPad upon us, the question looms whether Apple and AT&T will cripple software like Skype and SlingPlayer that wants to carry voice and stream video over 3G cellular networks. Am I freaking out? Hardly. Skype has just updated its app with iPad support and guess what – it still lacks 3G VoIP calling. Is it [...]
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Microsoft apologizes to day-one Stimulus Package buyers

If you're one of the "lucky ones" who purchased the Stimulus Package map pack for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the first day of its release, Microsoft is sending you a consolation gift as an apology for the broken DLC.
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UK Police to be issued the e-Glove to help fight crime

Police in the UK are getting a new handheld gadget in order to help fight crime and it is called the e-Glove. This new police tool, which runs around $153, is worn on the hand and is used when suspects are being detained and searched. The e-Glove device acts as a metal detector when suspects are [...]
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Mystery flash drives and Baconian cipher hint at new Bethesda game

Late last week, a number of video game news outlets received mysterious USB flash drives in the mail. No company was identified as the sender, which is weird enough in the PR business. Even weirder: the USB flash drives were almost entirely devoid of media. Can anyone smell a viral marketing campaign yet? Of course, there’s [...]
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Blu-Ray Discs Will Now Support 128GB of Storage

Blu-Ray discs are already pretty dense: it takes a lot of space to cram an uncompressed 1080p movie on a disc. That’s not to say they can’t get denser, though. The Blu-Ray Disc Association has just announced their approval of two new specs for the Blu-Ray format: BDXL and IH-BD. The new BDXL specification applies to [...]
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