Android 3.0 Honeycomb To Release in March[Rumor]

The new Honeycomb release rumor comes from Taiwanese newspaper Digitimes. In the middle of a story about upcoming tablet PCs, Digitimes nonchalantly mentions a launch date for Android 3.0, which many people believe will be Honeycomb's official version number.

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FCC: We didn't impose stricter net neutrality regulations on wireless because Android is open

FCC's major net neutrality decision today, but the Commission hasn't actually released the full text of the order yet, specific reasons the FCC gives for regulating wireless broadband more lightly than wireline is the release of Android.

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CIA Launches WTF against Wikileaks

The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short.

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Sony Launches Qriocity Music Unlimited Streaming subscription service

Sony today announced the launch of "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity", a new, cloud-based, digital music service which gives music lovers access at any time to millions of songs from major labels including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music as well as leading independent labels and major publishers worldwide.

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Apple iPhoto 11 Gets Email Options

Apple has quietly sent out an update for iPhoto 11 application in the iLife 11 suite. Apple's own photo organizing, editing and sharing program iPhoto 11 let users share photos via email and post them directly on Facebook.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops hits billion in 6 weeks

Call of Duty: Black Ops behemoth continues to crush its way through records. The latest one is the bragging right of being the fastest game to have reached the $1 billion sales mark. Black Ops took just under six weeks to generate this magnitude of revenue.

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Red Hat With Eucalyptus To Offers Cloud Services

Eucalyptus Systems has struck a partnership with Red Hat that should ultimately ease the deployment of Eucalyptus private cloud platform on Red Hat software.

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Android tablets will Capture 39% Market Share by 2012 says Piper Jaffray

The iPad may have a lock on the tablet market for the moment, but by 2012 Android tablets will have nearly caught up, and trail iPads by only five percent. So says a Piper Jaffray analyst.

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Julian Assange turns on both his enemies and allies

Julian Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, today launched a wide ranging series of attacks on both his enemies and allies as he defended his public and private conduct.

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About.me is Now an AOL Property

About.me provides users with tools to create colorful profile pages that connect to and pull in content from their social media sites which is an competitor Flavors.me. The startup began letting users reserve their names and pages in September and only officially opened its doors on December 16. Today, however, About.me is now an AOL property.

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Nexus One Running Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Android 2.3 Gingerbread has been awaited for quite sometime and the final release has seen many run it on emulators.This One Gets hands on a Nexus One running Gingerbread with Market access.

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Android 2.3 Gingerbread Source code Released

Google has finally released the source code for Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Now manufacturers will finally be able to work on those 2.3 updates that a lot of you have been waiting for your Android devices.

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NeoKylin Linux OS To Challenge Windows in China

The developers of two operating systems used in China are teaming up to build a domestic OS brand that could challenge Microsoft's dominant Windows platform.

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AT&T buys Qualcomm's FLO TV spectrum for $1.9 Billion

AT&T and Qualcomm Incorporated announced today that AT&T has agreed to purchase spectrum licenses in the Lower 700 MHz frequency band from Qualcomm for $1.925 billion. The move will bolster AT&T's ability to provide an advanced 4G mobile broadband experience for its customers in the years ahead.

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HTC Aria Android 2.2 Update Rolling Out

The HTC Aria Android 2.2 update is beginning to roll out. Unfortunately it's not for those of you on the AT&T network in the US. Instead, the HTC support page in Southeast Asia mentions that Android 2.2 is being pushed out over in that region in the form of build 2.37.708.5.

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How to Root Google Nexus S

After managing to unlock the bootloader, some hackers have now managed to get full root access on the Google Nexus S, only a few hours after its public launch.

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How to Unlock Bootloader On Google Nexus S

It hasn’t even been a day since Google Nexus S hit the Best Buy’s shelves in US and it’s bootloader has already been unlocked. For those who don’t know, unlocking the bootloader allows you to go into custom recovery mode so you can install custom ROMs like Cyanogen Mod etc.

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LG "B" New Android Handset Comes out

LG is planning on taking Android very seriously in 2011 -- seriously enough to have something even sexier than the 2X up its sleeve.Looks like that sexiness could be delivered in the form of a device codenamed "B," shots of which have been delivered to Phandroid in a direct comparison with the iPhone 4 and the Galaxy S -- two handsets we're sure LG would love to embarrass.

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How to Change your DNS in Mac OS X

If you want to change your DNS in Mac OS X,the more reliable OpenDNS or Google DNS had no problems. Here’s how to set it up on your Mac OS X computer.

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How Google's Cr-48 laptop Can be helped by Ubuntu Linux

Google's Chrome OS-based Cr-48 notebook computer may be in just a select set of hands so far, but it's been generating plenty of media attention.What's been particularly interesting, though, is that while the world awaits the arrival of official Chrome OS notebooks, a number of enterprising technophiles have already found a way to add Linux to these early devices.

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PlayStation Launching Android and iPhone Apps

Sony is set to launch free iPhone and Android apps for Playstation in the very near future, likely in early 2011.
According to the company, the first versions of the apps will come to the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands, with more countries expected soon.

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New Facebook Features and Pages

Facebook accidentally went live with a handful of prototype features earlier today, including a site-wide yet short-lived overhaul of Pages.

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MetroPCS launches 4G LTE network in New York City, Boston and Sacramento

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MetroPCS has expanded its 4G reach to three major metropolitan areas: New York City, Boston and Sacramento.

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SEGA Dreamcast Emulator Coming to Android

The Sega Dreamcast Emulator is still in the early stages of development but the videos below reveal a little of the game play you can expect once the app is released.Sega Dreamcast Emulator is currently under development for the Android OS.It helps you in a little retro gaming on your Android Smartphone.

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Apple Tells Mac App Store Developers To Submit Apps By December 31st

Apple has officially announced the launch date for the Mac App Store as January the 6th.Apple began accepting app submissions from developers for the Mac App Store at the start of November, and Apple has just told its developers that they need to get their applications submitted to the Mac App Store by December the 31st if they want their apps to appear at launch.

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Apple's Spiral UI to Replace Cover Flow UI

Apple has already shown a glimpse of the mechanics behind their new spiral interface but a new patent now opens up the spiral interface and goes into a lot more detail, even suggesting that the new UI might replace the existing Cover Flow.

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Google 1Gbps Fiber Network Delayed

The search engine revealed it February it planned to trial the service, which will offers speeds "100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today" in a small number of US locations, with the service available to between 50,000 to 500,000 people.

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Nimbuzz Offers HD calls on iPhone,ipod and Android

Nimbuzz announced HD voice calls on Google Android phones, their blog post declared the same for the iPhone, iPod Touch as well as the iPad. HD calls are basically VoIP calls in higher quality than what the Nimbuzz app has been catering to since long. 

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Apple Mac App Store Coming January 6

Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS® X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing and updating Mac apps easier than ever.

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Microsoft Adds H.264 Video Support to Firefox

Microsoft has created a Firefox plug-in that will tap into Windows 7’s native H.264 support, allowing Firefox 3.6 and the 4.0 betas to play H.264 encoded video.

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Google App Inventor Now Open to Public

Google's famous penchant for keeping things in beta doesn't seem to have changed lately, as the company's App Inventor for Android is still keeping its Greek lettering, but at least access has now been opened up for everyone to enjoy. The switch from private to public beta isn't the most significant thing in the world -- up until now you just had to ask for an invite to get one -- but we're sure amateur Android coders and experimenters will appreciate not having to go through that extra step. The App Inventor's sitting in Google Labs right this minute, waiting for you to magic up  a finely crafted solution to modern living of your own. Hit the source link to get your mouse pointer dirty.

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Google TV gets Android remote control

Google TV has been something of a damp squib to date, with networks blocking the service and a lukewarm response to the current generation of hardware. Now to be put off, Google is rolling out a bunch of new features today.

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US Ranked 25th in the Internet connection speed,South Korea Tops

The U.S. ranks 25th in the world in average Internet connection speeds, and nearly half of all U.S. residents' Internet connections fall below the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's minimum definition of broadband, at 4 megabits per second download, according to a new report.

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LG announces Tegra 2 dual-core Optimus 2X with Android, 4-inch display, 1080p video recording

LG Electronics today unveiled the LG Optimus 2X, the world's first smartphone with a dual-core processor. Along with more powerful multimedia features, the LG Optimus 2X's high-performance Tegra 2 processor makes for faster, smoother web browsing and applications and lets users multitask with virtually no screen lag.

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Google Buys Mobile Payment Company Zetawire

Google has acquired a company called Zetawire. This particular company focuses on mobile payments although little is known about the company.

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Chrome 9 with Accelerated Graphics

Microsoft, Mozilla and Google are racing to be the first to release a production-quality browser with hardware-accelerated graphics.  The race is nearing the end and it currently looks like Google might be the first to production.

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Adam Tablet from Notion Ink Pre-Order Starts

Notion Ink's Adam tablet, the famous Apple iPad rival that was shown last year, is now available for pre-order from the official website. The comparison of Adam with iPad won't stop even when the tablet is available widely. The official Notion Ink website - http://www.notionink.com/order.php hosts four different Adam tablet variants ranging from $375.33 (Rs.16,970 approx.) to $550 (Rs. 24,860 approx). The pre-orders are open to all.

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Google Adwords Now has 1 Million Customers

Google’s main source of income, Adwords, is ten years old this year. To celebrate, the company is set to send over one million of its customers this rather impressive video.

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Microsoft to Preview Windows 8 at CES?

At next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will demonstrate a number of new Windows-run tablets and possibly even an early version of the next generation Windows 8 operating system, according to reports.

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Dell Streak Android Update Coming This Week

Google recently announced the latest version of their mobile OS, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but many Android owners are still waiting for updates to the version of the OS.

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Gawker hackers release file with FTP, author & reader usernames/passwords

Gawker has released Gawker Media is under siege at the moment, fighting off attacks from a group of attackers that have been able to compromise the entire database of Gawker Media’s web properties.
Sensitive information has been exposed, including staff conversations, their private passwords used within the network and passwords also used by people who have registered to comment.

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Gawker Media Hacked and Here is the Proof

The Gawker Media organization’s social media accounts  had been compromised. While Twitter specifically appears to have been fixed.We have been in touch, personally, with the a member of the party responsible for the attack and it appears that the compromised information goes far beyond just a simple Twitter account.

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Gawker ,Gizmodo,Lifehacker sites Hacked

The tweets posted to the Gizmodo Twitter account,Gawker Media’s portfolio of web properties may have been hacked, the messages suggesting 1.5 million usernames and passwords have been compromised as a result.

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Apple Removes jailbreak detection in iOS

Six months after introducing the feature, Apple has disabled its inbuilt jailbreak detection API inside its iOS operating system and  removed  the feature from iOS.

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Over 2 Million LG Optimus One Units Sold In 2 months

LG’s Optimus One line became the fastest selling mobile device in company history after reaching the one million units sold mark in 40 days.Just 25 days later, the device has hit yet another milestone as the company just announced that the affordable Froyo device has now surpassed 2 million devices sold.

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New Version of Foursquare APIv2

Foursquare is taking the training wheels off a much-enhanced version of its API and making it publicly available to developers today.

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Android Market Client To Get an Update

Android-powered devices will soon see a revamped Android Market that delivers a more slick and sophisticated way to discover and purchase apps.

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Motorola Gets a New Logo

After the Moto's big Christmas in London,we have uncovered one of the unknowns: Motorola is switching to a new brand identity from the start of the new year.

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Apple Promotional Codes Now For All

Apple has today announced that its promotional codes, that were only redeemable in the US, are now valid Worldwide. Allowing iTunes users outside the US to now take advantage of developer promotional codes on purchases.

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Apple iPad 2 Rear Facing Camera

Apple will announce in the iPad 2, one of those is it will come with two video cameras to make use of Apple’s FaceTime software

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Google gives Santa Voice Account

Google has set up a Google Voice number for Santa (855-34-SANTA) where you can leave the a voicemail.

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Mafia Wars on Android Coming This month

Ko said that Mafia Wars will be coming to Android this month. Ko, who has only been in the job one month, says he knew Zynga needed to make a move on Android quickly when he started the job and that there will be more to come from Zynga on Google’s platform.

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Android Gingerbread 2.3 On HTC WildFire

Android 2.3 Gingerbread was recently announced a couple of days ago, and it seems that the latest version of Google’s mobile OS has already been to a range of HTC smartphones.

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How to Use Google Chrome Web Store

Google announced their new Chrome Web Store , with loads of web sites and games that can be installed as applications in your browser, synced across every PC, and customized to launch the way you want them to.

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All About Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Google on Monday announced its new Nexus S phone, which runs an upgraded version of the Android operating system dubbed Gingerbread.Android 2.3 Gingerbread  mostly adds refinements to older features, such as faster text input and an improved copy-and-paste tool.

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Fring Supports Dynamic Video Quality

Fring has introduced a new technology to its services called DVQ. DVQ means Dynamic Video Quality, and by adding this service it allows for users making video calls to get the best possible video quality for the quality of connection they have at the time.

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Adesso Launches New iPad Keyboard Case called the WKB-2000CB

Adesso has a new keyboard case for the iPad called the WKB-2000CB and the thing is much like other keyboard cases on the market, the keyboard connects to the iPad with Bluetooth and it has a case that allows the angle of the iPad to be adjusted for comfort.The keyboard can be removed from the case and used with other things as well.

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Google Nexus S Phone With Gingerbread Launched

Google, Samsung and Best Buy on Monday announced the Nexus S, Google's new flagship Android phone and the first device to run Android 2.3, codenamed "Gingerbread".The new phone is a slab-style, 1-GHz smartphone like Samsung's popular Galaxy S line.

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Apple iPad 2 To launch in Feb 2011

While Apple only recently caught up with demand for the iPad, and the tablet is virtually guaranteed to be one of the most coveted gifts of 2010, the pieces appear to be falling into place to start shipping the next generation iPad.

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"China Will Lead Internet Revolution" Says Google

Google may have shutdown its China-based search engine months ago, but the U.S. company is still keen on providing new web services for users in the country.

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Indian government Gets access to BlackBerry Messenger

Research In Motion has agreed to provide the Indian government with access to BlackBerry Messenger communications on a case-by-case basis, according to a spokesman for the company in India.

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Android Occupies 50% of China Smart Phone Market

The smartphone market in China is growing at an extraordinary rate, largely thanks to Google’s Android OS. Chinese consumers purchased 8 to 10 million smartphones last quarter, up from an estimated 2 to 3 million in the same period last year. And according to Morgan Keegan analyst Tavis McCourt, the bulk of them ran Android.

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China to lead world in Technology

China now has the world's fastest supercomputer, a 2.5-petaflop system, and is completely focused on building an exascale system , possibly as early as 2016.

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WikiLeaks Cables Show a China's View On Google and Internet

The Chinese state has long shown a certain uneasiness about allowing free access to uncensored information. In light of cables sent from the American Embassy and diplomats, China’s relationship with the web with Google, and Internet.

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U.S. Phone Sales Dominated By Android Smartphones

Google's Android continues to grow faster in the U.S. than other top smartphone operating systems, including Research in Motion's BlackBerry OS and Apple's iOS, according to the latest ComScore rankings, which were released Friday.

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Nexus S camera Shows Up

The folks over at Engadget have obtained some pretty clear images and video taken with the upcoming, Gingerbread rocking device from Samsung. While the videos aren’t mind blowing, the photo from inside one of Google’s buses is pretty darn impressive for what supposedly is a 5 megapixel camera.

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Samsung Galaxy S Updated to Android 2.2

The Android 2.2 rollout was made official by Samsung Mobile earlier.In a statement, Samsung said, “The Android 2.2 upgrade will be available from the mid of October 2010 in the Nordic region and gradually rolled out to other European markets, Southeast Asia, the Middle East Asia, North America, Africa and rest of the world.”

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Official Sprint Epic 4G gets Android 2.2,First Phone to Get froyo in US

The official version of Android 2.2 has begun rolling out over the air for the Epic 4G after a wait that left many owners frustrated. In doing so, Sprint has beat all three of their rivals to the punch.Epic 4G becomes first Phone to get Android 2.2 in US

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Intel Threatened to Move Russian Jobs to India Says Wikileaks

Intel engaged in high-level talks with Russian officials and ultimately said it would pull research and development work from the country unless it could get around Russia's tough encryption import laws, according to a U.S. Department of State cable published by WikiLeaks.

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Ubuntu 11.04 a.k.a Natty Narwhal Alpha 1 Released

The Alpha 1 Release of Ubuntu 11.04, often known as "Natty Narwhal," is intended as a "developer snapshot" of the next major Ubuntu version, which is due in April.

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Google Confirms Chrome Event For December 7th

Google has begun sending out invitations for a Chrome event that is scheduled to take place on December 7th in San Francisco. Engadget has received an invitation for an event that apparently is going to be bringing some “exciting news about Chrome.”

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Apple iOS 4.2 Update Cripples iPad Camera Connection Kit

Among the many changes in iOS 4.2 for iPad Apple has apparently decreased the amount of power that the iPad’s USB port can emit from 100mA to 20mA. The good part about this is that your iPad’s battery will probably last longer but the downside is that Apple’s iPad Camera Connection Kit is crippled for many people.

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Playstation Phone Zeus Z1 Hands On Video

The PlayStation Phone, codenamed Zeus Z1, and this time we get a long, loving look at the entire device .
It looked like it was shot with a featurephone camera with 15x digital zoom. This one, however, is clear and to the point.

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Kinect Hack Controls the Web With Hand Gestures

Kinect hacks are pouring in left and right, but this one really grabbed our attention. A group of MIT engineers have hacked Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 to control a Windows 7 PC with open-air hand gestures.

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Android Gingerbread Interface [Video ]

Google’s Hong Kong group released this seemingly innocuous video last week, demonstrating Google Voice Search in Chinese. It went mostly unnoticed until it was realized that the device in the demo was running a build of Android  2.3 a.k.a GingerBread

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85% prefer Apple iPad Over Samsung Galaxy Tab

Samsung's Galaxy Tab just can't beat the iPad, with 85% of U.S. consumers preferring Apple's tablet to Samsung's, according to a recent consumer survey.

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America's Lead in Technology is set to Decrease

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, the only member of President Barack Obama's cabinet with a degree in a hard science, believes the U.S. is at risk of losing its leadership in technology as the nation's competitiveness deteriorates.

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Google Chrome GPU Acceleration Crash Fix

If you’re running Google Dev channel version of Chrome, you might have noticed that the latest update really broke—the problem is the GPU accelerated canvas option, but you can’t get in there to change it since it keeps crashing. Here’s how to fix it.

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83 percent of all active Googlephones Have Android 2.x

It’s the first of the month and Google has released its customary state of Android charts and this month finds that Android 2.2 Froyo is the most-used version of the platform.
Froyo is being used by 43.4% of users, while Android 2.1 now has 39.6%. This means that 83% of users are now on Eclair or higher and won’t be locked out of apps like Twitter. Not all is right in Android land though, as 16.9% are still on a version below 2.0.

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Sony PlayStation Phone With Android Gingerbread and 4-inch screen

The Shape of Sony Ericsson Playstation Phone Z1  resembles the Vivaz, well rounded corners and four buttons hard keys at the bottom of the screen 4 inches.The device was wearing a version Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

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