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Feed Icon Walt Mossberg reviews the iPhone 3G, isn't that impressed (now with more David Pogue and Ed Baig!)
Filed under: Cellphones Well this was bound to happen. Ahead of schedule, Walt Mossberg has turned his official review of the new iPhone 3G, and we've got the recap. On the whole, Walt stays mostly positive about the device; he likes the form factor (which he wants to stress really hasn't changed much),… Posted 1hr 20mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Intel's Larrabee GPU based on secret Pentagon tech, sorta
The processor core at the heart of Intel's Larrabee GPU has an interesting story. It started in the private sector, went to work for the Pentagon, and will soon return to civilian life for a career in entertainment.Read More... Posted 1hr 34mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon NVCA Discovers That Most VCs Are White Males
The National Association of Venture Capitals released a demographic study today that was pretty anticlimactic. They discovered that venture capitalists in charge of investing money were white (88 percent) and male (86 percent.) But the trade organization was encouraged by the fact that 81 percent of… Posted 2hrs 14mins ago From GigaOM.
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Feed Icon Report: cable more expensive in wake of FCC franchise reform
A report says the FCC's new video franchising rules—designed to make it easy for AT&T and Verizon to deploy their video services—hurt community TV and don't lower cable costs. Funny... AT&T and Verizon said that more competition would lead to lower cable prices.Read More... Posted 2hrs 39mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon ASUS UK helps us sort out the Eee PC lineup, forgets to help
Filed under: Laptops Alright, raise your hand if the deluge of minor new Eee PC models like yesterday's random launch of a 16GB 900 has you totally befuddled. Yeah, that's what we thought -- and apparently what ASUS UK thinks, too, because a new chart listing all the various Eee configurations is up… Posted 3hrs 2mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Breaking the law: one-third of US residents rip DVDs
A third of consumers have made copies of DVDs in the last six months, according to new survey results from the US and UK. This number is up from a year ago, but a majority of these users say they only copy their own DVDs for personal use.Read More... Posted 3hrs 44mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon Flixwagon’s Mobile Broadcasting Now Publicly Available
Mobile streaming service provider Flixwagon has added an array of new features in coincidence with its launch into public availability. Among the new features, users can now register and download the client software through Nokia Symbian Series 60 mobile browsers. Before broadcasting, users can specify… Posted 3hrs 52mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Nokia's Haptikos tactile feedback tech revealed in patent application
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds It's been a while since we've heard anything about Nokia's Haptikos tactile touch screen technology, but with the unearthing of some juicy patent details, we finally know what's going on here. Basically, the tech uses layers under the touchscreen to allow control of… Posted 3hrs 59mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon US iPhone 3G gets unboxed and handled
Filed under: Cellphones Continuing this day of iPhone 3G impropriety, the Boy Genius has somehow secured himself a brand-spanking-new iPhone 3G, and has unboxed it for all the world to see. First off, our condolences to the AT&T or Apple employee who will probably lose their job over this one, and… Posted 4hrs 38mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Apparently You People Don’t Really Care About Twitter Downtime
Michael once wrote that Twitter may not have to worry about uptime any more, explaining, “I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me.” And, a few months and countless hours of downtime later, it looks like most of you feel the same way. The early adopters may have migrated to Friendfeed,… Posted 4hrs 43mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon 20K Reasons To Stay In Your Basement, If You’re a Flash Developer
Attention Flash game developers- It’s hard making money in your field these days, right? Actually, making money in any field these days seems to be quite difficult. But if you are a Flash developer and you’re focused in on games then why not enter into the Meez Inside Avatar Games Contest?… Posted 4hrs 44mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon British Regulators Prescribe More Fiber for ISPs
While we laggards in the U.S. are still celebrating the FCC decision to (finally!) up the classification of broadband speeds to a lazy 768 kilobytes per second (but, hey, that’s up from 200 kilobytes per second) and lamenting our coming bandwidth caps, the Brits are prepping for a broadband boom.… Posted 5hrs 17mins ago From GigaOM.
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Feed Icon Sharp-branded Willcom D4 MID gets examined, shown off on video
Filed under: Handhelds Willcom's Atom-based D4 MID has been out and about for a little while now, but the folks at Direct From Japan have now thankfully gotten their hands on a Sharp-branded version of the device and offered up some of their initial impressions by way of UMPC Portal, along with a video.… Posted 5hrs 22mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon VMWare Drops 25% Of Market Cap; CEO Out
Stock in virtualization provider VMWare today dropped almost 25%, as growth expectations were lowered and founding CEO Diane Greene was replaced by the board. Prior to today, VMWare was the fourth largest software company in the world, with a market cap of over $20B. They have slipped down the list… Posted 5hrs 38mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Spiraling bandwidth demands spur undersea cable deployment
Food and fuel costs may be skyrocketing, but there's no sign yet that either expense is limiting worldwide demand for bandwidth, which is on track to grow by 50 percent or so between 2007 and 2008. International telecoms continue to lay cable across the globe, but if things continue as they are, demand… Posted 5hrs 54mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon Getty Images Begins Licensing Flickr Photos
Getty Images, one of the world’s largest media licensing companies, has partnered with Flickr to add a broader selection of pictures to its online catalog. Getty will hand-pick a number of Flickr members to participate in the program, with a goal of acquiring thousands of images in the next few… Posted 6hrs ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Skooba's TSA-approved bag -- for real this time
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Laptops Okay, third time's the charm -- here it is, a pre-production picture of the Skooba Checkthrough TSA-approved bag, direct from Skooba's CEO, Michael Hess. Michael got in touch after our last post to say that the Checkthrough will indeed be a multi-pocketed bag and… Posted 6hrs ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Gemei ups the PMP / gaming ante with the X760+
Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio, Portable Video Finally we can toss out that old, boring Gemei X760 we've been fooling around with, and step up to some legitimate action. That's right, the X760+ is on the scene, and that + isn't just for show. The new iteration of the Chinese-made PMP / game playing… Posted 6hrs 50mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Google Launches Virtual World Called Lively
Well, this sucks for Second Life. Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today. Worlds can… Posted 7hrs 5mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon MSI finally ships the Wind
Filed under: Laptops After weeks upon weeks of painstaking delays (okay, so maybe that's a stretch... maybe), MSI has finally started shipping the Wind to US customers. As you very well know, these buggers have been showing up everywhere across the pond, but we've just received word that Fry's, NewEgg,… Posted 7hrs 13mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Samsung’s Use Your Instinct Haiku Contest
Just got word from Samsung that we’re good to go on our “Use Your Instinct” Haiku contest. Every week we’ll be giving away a cool Samsung phone culminating in the Samsung Instinct! We begin our contest this week gunning for the M520. The haiku should focus on hearing and must… Posted 7hrs 19mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Pasen iTouch LE demo video does it again: makes us scream in apathy
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Oh Pasen, how you entertain us so! In the company's latest update to the familiarly designed iTouch, the iTouch LE includes a new, faster JZ4732 chipset that they say allows the unit to play 30FPS, unconverted video with less strain on the battery. With 4GB… Posted 7hrs 44mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon ASUS looks to clear out Eee PC 900s with $100 rebate
Filed under: LaptopsASUS's newest, Atom-based 900 series Eee PCs may be fast approaching availability, but it looks like the company is still doing its best to get as many plain old Celeron-based Eee PC 900s out the door as possible, with it now offering up a $100 rebate on the already low-priced laptop.… Posted 8hrs 13mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon FISA vote looms: hopes, hate focused on Bingaman amendment
The Senate is scheduled to vote on the FISA bill tomorrow, but an amendment proposed by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) has the administration threatening a veto.Read More... Posted 8hrs 14mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon Imagekind Acquired By CafePress For $15-20 Million
Imagekind, the art site that describes itself as “a hybrid art gallery, photo-sharing service and a print-on-demand service” has been acquired by CafePress for $15-$20 million in cash and stock, according to VentureBeat. The site, which was launched two years ago, allows artists to upload… Posted 8hrs 32mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Mindset Six50 solar electric concept is light, green, and a bit homely
Filed under: Transportation As the big auto manufacturers scramble to come up with fuel-efficient alternatives for us gas addicts, smaller companies are swooping in with both concepts and production models. In the latter category, we have Mindset AG with the solar electric Six50 concept you see here.… Posted 8hrs 42mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Microsoft tells EU court €899 million fine too steep
In the latest installment of the Microsoft-European Union dispute, Microsoft has told a European Union court that a €899 million ($1.36 billion) is too high. The software giant has put together six points for why it thinks the fine should be lowered or canceled completely.Read More... Posted 8hrs 49mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon Virtualize This: VMware CEO Out, Stock Tanks, Big Revenue Miss
Wow…this came as a complete and total surprise. VMware has announced that Diane Greene, president and CEO of the hot virtualization company is leaving and will be replaced by Paul Maritz, whose company, Pi Corp., was acquired by EMC Corp. back in February. I am flummoxed by this move since VMware… Posted 9hrs 2mins ago From GigaOM.
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Feed Icon Samsung unveils Aura and Eclipse Montevina-based laptops
Filed under: Laptops Montevina-based laptops are slowly but surely starting to trickle out, and Samsung's the latest to joint the party with a new Aura machine and the entirely new Eclipse line. The new R510 Aura sports a 15.4-inch screen, 2.53GHz T9400 Core 2 Duo on Montevina's 1066MHz bus with integrated… Posted 9hrs 11mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Mio gets official with Knight Rider GPS unit
Filed under: GPS Mio has understandably not been very shy about showing off its new Knight Rider-themed GPS unit, but the company has now finally gotten its official business out of the way and provided all the details on the device's US launch. In case you somehow managed to miss it, the device itself… Posted 9hrs 38mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon IBM And Second Life Announce Interoperability, But Bridging Virtual Worlds Is the Wrong Answer
Virtual worlds like Second Life have a silo issue—they are virtual worlds unto themselves. Today, Linden Lab (which operates Second Life) and IBM announced that they have successfully bridged two virtual worlds, with avatars from Second Life successfully “teleporting” to an entirely different… Posted 9hrs 42mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Microsoft Launches Hosted Exchange Deals
Microsoft has announced this morning the availability of hosted Exchange, Sharepoint, collaboration and communication as part of the Microsoft Online suite. The hosted platform is a direct competitor to the Google App platform, which is currently available either for free or for as little as $50 per… Posted 10hrs 4mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Sprint's Treo 800w manual goes online, all 436 spellbinding pages of it
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Very rarely does a Palm handset go fully under the radar all the way through to the official announcement (if ever?), and now that we have a user's manual, we can pretty much declare the impending Treo 800w fully, completely, and utterly scooped. This is definitely… Posted 10hrs 6mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Syntax-Brillian waves the white flag, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home EntertainmentSo yeah, apparently that whole attempt to "streamline operations" back in April didn't go over so well, as Syntax-Brillian -- you know, that firm neck deep in panel partnerships and responsible for Olevia HDTVs -- has just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.… Posted 10hrs 19mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon TomTom's two-way HD Traffic GPS unit clears the FCC
Filed under: Gaming TomTom's two-way, Dash-like HD Traffic GPS device has been helping European drivers help each other for some time now, and it looks like it could now possibly be headed to the US as well, although that's still not quite a sure thing. It has cleared one of the major hurdles on that… Posted 10hrs 30mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Google slams Bell Canada: open Internet is "extraordinary"
Google weighs in on Bell Canada's P2P throttling system, blasting the company's approach and the sad state of the ISP market. Not surprisingly, other incumbent ISPs don't think Bell's solution is too bad, and one even cops to some P2P throttling of its own.Read More... Posted 10hrs 34mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon iPhone 3G breaks cover, shows up in Swiss store display
Filed under: Cellphones You probably saw this one coming, but with that massive slew of countries and partners Apple has wrangled for the new iPhone launch, that July 11th street date was bound to be neglected. So here you have it, courtesy of the french blog Gadget O'Mac, an iPhone 3G on display in… Posted 10hrs 49mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon PhysX on ATI effort gets helping hand from NVIDIA
Filed under: GamingEran Badit of NGOHQ.com has already made some considerable progress getting PhysX to run on AMD hardware, and it looks like he's now getting a helping hand from a somewhat unexpected source, with NVIDIA itself reportedly giving the project its blessing. Apparently, NVIDIA has even… Posted 10hrs 52mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon JS-Kit Acquires Commenting System Provider HaloScan
JS-Kit, a provider of Javascript comments, ratings, and poll widgets for blogs, has announced their acquisition of HaloScan, one of the largest hosted comments service providers. This announcement is also coordinated with the launch of several major features. Financial terms were not disclosed. HaloScan… Posted 11hrs 4mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon IBM makes web accessibility for blind users a social effort
Users who are visually impaired are well aware that the web could use a lot of improvements when it comes to accessibility. IBM is hoping to change that, though, with its Social Accessibility Project that lets disabled users and volunteers work together to make the web more surf-able without having… Posted 11hrs 9mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon Acer rolls out the Aspire X1200 home theater-friendly mini PC for $450
Filed under: Desktops, Home Entertainment Always wanted to install a little computer into your home theater but none of the available options are cutting it, what with all the giant media files and HD displays you're rolling? Enter Acer's Aspire X1200, which for $450 includes on-board NVIDIA GeForce… Posted 11hrs 15mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Google Tops Reputation Survey in U.S.; No. 2 Worldwide. Do You Agree? Vote In The TechCrunch Reputation Poll.
Which Companies Do You Trust Or Admire The Most? ( surveys) Who do you trust more, Google or Toyota? The answer might depend on where you live. In its annual corporate reputation survey of 60,000 people worldwide, the Reputation Institute finds that Google scores highest in the U.S., but is No. 2 worldwide… Posted 11hrs 37mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon With Summize, Twitter to Buy a Clue
The big buzz of the evening is that Twitter, a San Francisco-based startup that allows anyone to post short (up to 140 characters) messages to its platform and thus broadcast them to one or many using different media such as web and mobile, is about to acquire Summize, a Potomac Falls, Va.-based startup… Posted 11hrs 38mins ago From GigaOM.
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Feed Icon The Wii Keyboard -- just exactly what the name suggests
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals Next time you sit down to write your Great American Novel, perhaps you should consider tapping the opus out on your Wii with Logic 3's weird and somewhat awful -- though excellently named -- Wii Keyboard. There's not much meat on these bones -- it's simply an add-on… Posted 11hrs 40mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon First iPhone 3G caught in the wild, unboxed and handled
Filed under: Cellphones If you're a prospective iPhone 3G buyer, get ready to make a mess of your keyboard, desk, and any nearby objects that may be hit by spittle flying out of your mouth. Some lucky, lucky Portuguese man or woman has already had the pleasure of cracking open the box and booting up… Posted 11hrs 42mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon First artificial DNA a step towards biological computers
Researchers have created the world's first artificial DNA strand, with hopes it will be used in DNA computing and nanotechnology.Read More... Posted 11hrs 42mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon GupShup, a Twitter-Like Service, Gets $10 Million
SMSGupShup, an SMS-based group messaging/microblogging service from Webaroo, is close to announcing that it has raised $10 million in new capital from Helion Ventures and Charles River Ventures. News of pending deal was first reported by some blogs in India. In its original form, Webaroo — a… Posted 11hrs 44mins ago From GigaOM.
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Feed Icon Breaking: Apple Pulls iPhone 3G in Canadian Apple Stores
From CrunchGear: This “Apple hates Rogers” story is heating up! Now it looks like Apple won’t sell the iPhone 3G at its Canadian retail stores, leaving Rogers (and Fido, its partner is crime) flapping in the wind. You can feel the annoyance in Apple’s voice in this quote: We have nothing… Posted 11hrs 45mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Engadget HD reviews JVC's Everio HD40 HD camcorder
Filed under: Digital Cameras Finished digging through the gallery of hands-on shots, have you? If you've been hankering for a review of JVC's especially capacious GZ-HD40, Engadget HD has the goods. Head on over for the full spill.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments… Posted 12hrs 3mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Canon's EOS Rebel XS DSLR gets official, a price tag
Filed under: Digital Cameras We've already seen and heard a handful concerning Canon's new entry-level DSLR, but now the company has finally given us some hard facts and figures to tear into like the rabid animals we are. The camera -- which ships in August -- will clock in at $699.99, and comes bundled… Posted 12hrs 30mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Eee box gets price and package details
Filed under: Desktops We know pretty much everything about Asus' Atom-powered Eee Box -- we even have a bevvy of pretty pictures -- but as of yet we didn't know exactly how much the little bugger was going to cost. Fret not, for we now can tell you that the Wii-like computer will cost £199 ($392)… Posted 12hrs 32mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon TSheets Lets You Clock-in To Work From Your iPhone
TSheets, a web enabled timeclock tracker, has just introduced an iPhone web app version of its site. The web application allows users to clock in or out of work from a remote location, and also gives professionals a handy way to keep track of their billable hours. The app itself is very basic, amounting… Posted 12hrs 34mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Wizard escape pack: too late for MacGyver, too conceptual for Bauer
Filed under: Wearables Nah, the Wizard isn't a reality just yet, but we can certainly envision this taking up its fair share of shelf space in the not-too-distant future. Dreamed up by the vivid imaginations at HJC Design, this emergency parachute pack would theoretically provide an "automated public… Posted 13hrs 18mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon ScanLife: Barcode Scanning for the 21st Century and Beyond
In the grand tradition of UPC codes and CueCat, ScanBuy/ScanLife is attempting to barcode the world. Their mission: to allow companies and individuals to place small barcodes on their publications that are readable by over 70 phone models including an upcoming application for the iPhone. The 2d barcodes… Posted 13hrs 42mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon ST-2 shooting simulator keeps your aim sharp
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets And you thought using the HIPerSpace wall for GTA IV was overkill. Marksman Training Systems' ST-2 shooting simulator is touted as the "first simulator for shotgun and rifle shooting designed specifically for demanding users such as shooting instructors," and considering that… Posted 13hrs 42mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Skooba makes with the pictures of TSA-friendly bags (update: not really)
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Laptops The TSA got a lot of frequent travelers fairly excited a couple months ago when it announced that it was soliciting bag manufacturers for "checkpoint-friendly" designs that would allow laptop owners to leave their machines safely tucked away as they passed through… Posted 14hrs 3mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon ReiserFS fading into obscurity as maker leads cops to corpse
Linux filesystem developer Hans Reiser has revealed the location of his wife's corpse to law enforcement officials. Meanwhile, development on his namesake filesystem appears to be grinding to a halt.Read More... Posted 14hrs 9mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon ReiserFS Creator, Open Source Programmer Leads Police to Wife’s Body
Hans Reiser, creator of ReiserFS, an popular alternative filesystem, led Oakland, CA police to his murdered wife’s body yesterday afternoon. Nina Reiser disappeared on September 3, 2006 and no murder weapon or body were found. Reiser’s case lasted six months and it is believed that he brought… Posted 14hrs 20mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Drobo (second-gen) mini-review
Filed under: Peripherals, Storage Despite its shortcomings, we were pretty into the original Drobo when it was launched about a year ago. Not only is it crazy easy to set up and get running, but being able to swap out drives and continuously expand your storage pool without completely replacing your… Posted 14hrs 28mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Data Robotics announces second-gen Drobo with FireWire 800
Filed under: Peripherals, Storage For those whose major complaint about the Drobo was its lack of FireWire 800, today's your day. The new version of the virtualized-storage device features the much requested interface (and a second port for daisy-chaining), but despite the fact that it still lacks built-in… Posted 14hrs 29mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon iPhone Jonny: world's first iPhone 3G owner (in waiting)
Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, Portable Audio, Portable Video See that guy? That's Jonny Gladwell from Auckland New Zealand. He's special no matter how you define the word. He's camped outside of Vodafone NZ right now which puts him on a path to be the world's first iPhone 3G owner. Of course, there's… Posted 14hrs 42mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Transcend doles out 7-inch T.photo 720 digiframe
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays Last September, Transcend had the bright idea of cluttering up the digital photo frame market even further with its own ho hum offering. Apparently the idea went over okay -- or the brilliant suit who decided to go for it is to prideful to admit otherwise. Either… Posted 14hrs 54mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Finger Mouse goes wireless, still swallows up your digit
Filed under: Peripherals Really, people? Are there not enough mouse choices out there to satisfy whatever your poor little palm craves? For those just dead set on bucking the trend and attempting to be more ergonomic, the newest iteration of the Finger Mouse won't disappoint. The unit arrives with a… Posted 15hrs 17mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Vivaty Brings The 3D Web to Your Browser, Starting With AIM and Facebook
Move over Second Life. The 3D Web is starting to make inroads into the plain old browser. By “plain,” I mean only Internet Explorer on Windows machines—which for now is what you need to experience Vivaty Scenes. But at least it’s a start. (Firefox support on PCs is coming in a few… Posted 16hrs 6mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Video: Tiny hands-on with Swinxs
Filed under: Gaming, Wireless When this Swinxs RFID game console arrived at the doorstep of our European annex to test, we realized our dilemma: kids, we need kids, preferably the type who won't mind being tricked into a little physical activity. Fortunately, we always have a few 3-footers lurking around… Posted 16hrs 21mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Hands on: MyYahoo 2.0 begins Yahoo's social network assault
Launching a major revamp of its MyYahoo personalized start page, Yahoo has laid the foundation for building a social networking empire. With a more open platform and third-party apps on the way, Yahoo could both cement its lead in the start page space and give MySpace and Facebook reason to stay awake… Posted 16hrs 29mins ago From Ars Technica.
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Feed Icon Turtle Beach keeps series alive with Ear Force X4 wireless headphones
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals, Portable Audio Be honest, you were terrified that Turtle Beach would leave the awesomely titled Ear Force series sitting in lurk at X3, weren't you? Thankfully, that's not the case at all, as the Ear Force X4 wireless headphones have just been revealed. Designed with… Posted 16hrs 37mins ago From Engadget.
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Feed Icon Microsoft Crosses A Line
Until today I’ve largely been a big supporter of Microsoft’s efforts to acquire Yahoo. A couple of days before Microsoft placed its initial $44.6 billion bid for the company, I told Fox Business Channel that a Microsoft merger had to happen to save Yahoo (and I certainly wasn’t the… Posted 16hrs 59mins ago From TechCrunch.
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Feed Icon Zurich Meetup - TechCrunch Euro Tour
As part of the TechCrunch Euro Tour, TechCrunch is coming to Zurich, Switzerland, on July 17th, thanks to our co-organisers there. We’ll be throwing it at the Swisscom Bluewin tower in Zurich (pictured) for the Swiss web 2.0 crowd, including start-ups, bloggers and journalists. Thanks to our co-organisers… Posted 17hrs 4mins ago From TechCrunch.
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