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Current MacBook Pro SKU given mark of death in Best Buy database?

We’ll confess to not being leading the field of study in Best Buy-ology, but here comes a new quiz for us care of a tipster who sent TUAW a screenshot of the stock screen that shows what looks to be the current MacBook Pro SKU with status: deleted. What that means is no new orders [...]

Nokia Nuron spotted again, connection to 5230 cemented?

Dear Nokia fan clinging on to all hope that the 5230 and Nuron were two separate entities, whereby you’d have even more Espoo devices to look forward to: you’re wrong. TmoNews has picked up what’s purported to be another internal T-Mobile documentation for the 5230 Nuron. Like the previously-rumored leak, it’s said to be going [...]

1080p, 5.1 surround sound coming to Netflix Watch Instantly in 2010? Update: No, yes (and closed captioning)

Netflix Watch Instantly fans could be due for a big upgrade, as CNET has heard the company will roll out 1080p and 5.1 surround sound later that year. No word on timing or any other details, but that could mean its moving to version 3 of Microsoft’s Silverlight streaming platform with its additional tweaks for [...]

JXD V3 handheld is confused, confusing and altogether interesting

We won’t front — there’s little chance we’d actually use JXD’s V3 handheld, but it’s not for lack of interest. that here PMP / game player hybrid isn’t apt to leave the shores of Asia, but for those in that neck of the woods, that unit offers up emulators for a slew of game consoles, [...]

NVIDIA pursuing external graphics accelerators for laptops?

It’s not everyday that we can say there’s external laptop GPU love in the air, but right on the heels the appearance of the Gigabyte M1405 with its GeForce GT220 dock, NVIDIA is expressing interest in external laptop GPUs as well. Manager of notebook GPUs Rene Haas told X-bit Labs that he thinks external graphics [...]

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Sony Develops World’s First Millimeter-wave Wireless Intra-Connection Technology for high speed wireless notes transfer inside electronic products

Sony today announced the development of millimeter-wave wireless intra-connection technology that realizes high speed wireless details transfer inside electronic products such as television sets. By replacing physical circuitry in electronics products with high speed wireless connections, that new details transfer technology reduces the number of wired connections and minimizes IC use, to simplify the IC [...]

Toshiba breakthrough technology achieves low voltage operation of System LSI

Toshiba has developed a breakthrough technology that achieves low voltage operation of System LSI, opening the way to reduced capability consumption in digital products. The technology secures successful operation of static random access memories (SRAM) at low voltage with an improved circuit design that optimizes voltage control of the bit line and word line. The [...]

Top Samsung and LG executives watch Avatar in an effort to evaluate the film’s 3D technology

Top executives from Samsung and LG have flocked to local theatres to watch Avatar in an effort to evaluate the film’s 3D technology and prepare for competition in the burgeoning 3D TV market. LG Group Chairman Koo Bon-moo, along with high ranking executives from the group’s affiliates, attended a screening in downtown Seoul last week. [...]

Sanyo Denki Sanups PV Monitor can remotely monitor the conditions of photovoltaic ability systems

Sanyo Denki Sanups PV Monitor eliminates the need of having monitoring personnel at photovoltaic capability system installation sites such as mega solar capability generation stations. It can display the quantity of capability generated and a potential trend graph in real-time. When trouble occurs with the PV inverter an e-mail is automatically sent. Conversely, when a [...]

Korean researchers for the first instance extracted hematopoietic stem cells that could help treat leukemia from fatty tissue

Korean researchers have for the first date extracted hematopoietic stem cells that could help treat leukemia from fatty tissue. According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Korea, the discovery was made by a research team led by Koh Gou-young, a biologist at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Leukemia affects hematopoietic [...]

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Virtualizing a Supercomputer

bridges writes “The V3VEE project has announced the release of version 1.2 of the Palacios virtual machine monitor following the successful evaluating of Palacios on 4096 nodes of the Sandia Red Storm supercomputer, the 17th-fastest in the world. The added overhead of virtualization is often a show-stopper, but the researchers observed less than 5% overhead [...]

Study Says OOXML Unsuitable For Norwegian Government

angry tapir writes “Microsoft’s XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). The agency wants to start a debate by the report as part of its work on standards in the Norwegian government. (As [...]

Virus-Detecting “Lab On a Chip” Developed At BYU

natharward writes “A new development in nano-level diagnostic tests has been applied as a lab on a chip that successfully screened viruses entirely by their size. The chip’s traps are size-specific, which means even tiny concentrations of viruses or other particles won’t escape detection. For medicine, that development is promising for future lab diagnostics that [...]

New Material Transforms Car Bodies Into Batteries

MikeChino writes “As battery manufacturers race to produce more efficient lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, some scientists are looking to construct the cars themselves a ability source. Researchers are currently developing a new auto body material that can store and release electrical energy like a battery. Once perfected, scientists hope the substance will replace standard [...]

Google Shooting For Smartphone Universal Translator

nikki4 writes to tell us that in giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is aiming for new translator software that will supply instant translation of foreign languages. “The company has already created an robotic system for translating text on computers, which is being honed by scanning [...]

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Apple blocks GPS targeted ads, Tapulous launches Riddim Ribbon, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 headed to iPhone

Apple has reportedly blocked developers from using GPS to target ads based on a users location. Apple blocked the devs from using its Core Location framework.

Tapulous has launched a new game for the iPhone called Riddim Ribbon. Tapulous is the company behind the popular TapTap Revenge games on the iPhone.
One of the most iconic characters [...]

Patent hints at location-based social networking, appOmator makes app creating easy, Siri app debuts

A new patent has been published by Apple that outlines a way that Apple can compose social networking and video calls use location aware features. The feature would allow you to go to where a person you are talking to actually is.

A new software application for Mac computers has landed in beta style that is [...]

Sling Player gets 3G streaming, AT&T iPhone mess, Cisco voice-by-WiFi app

The Sling Player app on the iPhone has been lost one key feature for many users — 3G streaming. That lost feature has now been added back with evaluating of a new 3G streaming version of the app underway.

BusinessWeek is talking about the mess that is the AT&T network and the iPhone. The publication points [...]

OS update lands, Stanza asked to remove USB feature, manufacturer chosen for next iPhone

Apple issued a new OS update for the iPhone Tuesday that patches protection holes in the device. The new OS is version 3.1.3 and is available now.

Apple has reportedly demanded that Lexycle remove the USB feature in its Stanza iPhone app. The USB feature allows users to share books via USB.
Reports are coming in that [...]

Fourth Gen iPhone under our noses, VeriFone PAYware ships, iPhone loses market share

You probably recall that pic that turned up last week showing the iPad with an iPhone along for size comparison. Reports are now coming in that the iPhone in the pics is none other than the faraway rumored 4th generation device.

That VeriFone PAYware iPhone credit card system that turned up a while back is now [...]

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BenQ V2220 Is The Slimmest LCD In The World

BenQ certainly looks like it wants to stay ahead of the pack when it comes to display technology, and with its flagship V2220, it might just have something to fend off its rivals. The 10,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio looks flashy on paper, but most folks wouldn’t care too much about it, as the most noticeable [...]

HTC Legend spotted in the flesh

Here’s what the HTC Legend looks like in real life, thanks to the folks at Engadget who managed to snag a photo of it without all the fundamental essentials such as specifications of its innards. It does seem to point towards the Sense user interface, and the Legend certainly seems to forge a sort new [...]

Radio case mod looks interesting

Gary of Bit-tech forums has come up with the case mod you see up here, where it receives most of its inspiration from the early era of electronics during the first couple of decades in the past century. Interestingly ample, Gary managed a feat that many would not have noticed at first glance – he [...]

Inbrics MID M1 to be announced at MWC 2010

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010 which will be held at Barcelona, Spain, next week is the platform where Inbrics announces its new Android-powered MID M1 which will come with a 3.7″ AMOLED touchscreen display alongside a slide-out QWERTY keyboard just in case dealing with a virtual keyboard is just not your cup of tea. Of [...]

3M Littmann Bluetooth Stethoscope

We are pretty surprised that it took that enlarged for a stethoscope to go the way of hands-free headsets, picking up Bluetooth technology in the process. 3M ensures that happens by working with Zargis Medical, where their partnership resulted in the 3M Littmann Bluetooth Stethoscope. As the name implies, it increases the physician’s ability to [...]

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zoomMediaPlus’ zoomIt is the iPhone’s expanded overdue SD card reader

Sorry whether we’re the sort of folks to look a gift SD card reader in the mouth, but while we’re oh-so-happy that Apple finally opened up application-enabled hardware development in iPhone OS 3.0, we really wish an accessory like that had been available for the iPhone right from the start. The new zoomIt SD card [...]

PwnageTool for iPhone OS 3.1.3 released for the version obsessed

While the list of tweaks is absurdly small in the latest iPhone OS update, we know that some of you simply have to run the latest and greatest OS at all times regardless of risk. Fortunately for you, the Dev-Team has stepped to with a new version of PwnageTool (v3.1.5 for Mac OS X) that [...]

Sling says it didn’t change iPhone SlingPlayer for AT&T (Updated)

AT&T certainly made a few of us happy yesterday when it announced that the iPhone SlingPlayer app would now be allowed to run by its 3G network, but the carrier apparently embellished the facts a little when it said Sling had optimized the app to be “more bandwidth sensitive” — Sling’s John Santoro told Ars [...]

Sling says it didn’t change iPhone SlingPlayer for AT&T

AT&T certainly made a few of us happy yesterday when it announced that the iPhone SlingPlayer app would now be allowed to run by its 3G network, but the carrier apparently embellished the facts a little when it said Sling had optimized the app to be “more bandwidth sensitive” — Sling’s John Santoro told Ars [...]

DARPA-based Siri virtual assistant hits the App Store, smartphone sentience can’t be far behind (video)

It’s been well by six months since we first got wind of Siri, the DARPA-inspired smartphone app that pledged to take all the hassle out of… well… life. It’s a virtual assistant that can take care of menial tasks, things like finding restaurants, hearing reviews, and even booking tables — all with your voice. Siri [...]

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iPhone/iPod | Towers Infinite Screens

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“iPhone/iPod | Towers Infinite Screens” was posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:09:32 -0800

iPhone/iPod | Tiger Slide Puzzle Screens

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“iPhone/iPod | Tiger Slide Puzzle Screens” was posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:09:28 -0800

iPhone/iPod | ThrowingEggs Screens

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“iPhone/iPod | ThrowingEggs Screens” was posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:09:25 -0800

iPhone/iPod | uber BubbleMatch Screens

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“iPhone/iPod | uber BubbleMatch Screens” was posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:09:41 -0800

iPhone/iPod | Twister. Screens

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“iPhone/iPod | Twister. Screens” was posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:09:38 -0800

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