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Phones will cannibalize dedicated camera sales

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Cellphone cameras are on the verge of taking away significant sales of dedicated cameras for the first time, iSuppli said in a new estimate today.

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PC World study: AT&T network has undergone “drastic makeover”

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Filed under: iPhone According to AT&T’s commercials, they provide both “a better 3G experience” as well as “the nation’s fastest 3G network.”

Herzog & de Meuron’s VitraHaus showroom

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Arch Daily's got some great photos, diagrams and renderings up of VitraHaus, Vitra's Herzog & de Meuron-designed campus showroom that resembles a series of individual houses, ripped from their foundations and stacked chaotically by some Modernist giant: ...

IPad Keyboard Dock Has Mystery Blank Key

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Like all Apple keyboards, the iPad keyboard dock has a row of useful buttons along the top row, controlling such things as music playback and screen brightness. The iPad has these, plus a dedicated home button, a key to start a photo slideshow and a search key.

Neonode zForce Pad multitouch platform eyes 5-13 inch MIDs/Tablets

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Neonode may not have made the splash they hoped for with their cellphone range, but they seem to be on something of a roll with their touchscreen platform.

Apple iPad PowerVR SGX graphics confirmed

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Apple have quietly confirmed that their iPad tablet is based on the same type of PowerVR SGX graphics hardware as the iPhone 3GS and current-gen iPod touch.

Yahoo and Twitter Partnership

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After their partnership with social networking website Facebook last December Yahoo has now created a similar partnership with Twitter and tweets have already started showing in Yahoo.

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Google under antitrust investigation by EU, talks of monopoly

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The European Union is readying a new antitrust probe that will set sights on Google, upon complaints over the tech giant’s business tactics from three European internet companies; vertical search site Foundem, legal search engine Ejustice.fr, and Ciao.de, the German-based subsidiary of Microsoft.

Genius Outs A New Wired Keyboard In Europe

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Genius has come out with a new wired keyboard ‘LuxeMate i200′ for the European market. Coming in piano-black finish, this compact keyboard features soft-touch keys, 12 multimedia keys for accessing the web and media, and has USB connectivity.

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Upcoming FSL F718 Windows XP-powered MID

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Chinese gadget manufacturer will release the new F718 Mobile Internet Device (MID) in the Chinese market very soon.

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Nikon CoolPix L22 Digital Camera

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Nikon release a new L Series compact camera. It’s Nikon CoolPix L22 which can capture beautiful images with easy an fun. The Nikon L22 digital camera featuring 12M pixel image sensor, 3.6x zoom Nikkoe lens for creative compositional freedom, and 3.0-inch bright LCD screen.

Google, carriers respond to FCC’s ETF inquiry

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Google as well as all four major US carriers have today responded to the FCC’s inquiry into early termination fees (ETFs). The search firm is the strongest objector and argues that it doesn’t belong in an investigation associated with carriers.

HTC Desire, Legend due to reach AT&T, Sprint?

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HTC's just-launched Android 2.1 phones should reach AT&T and Sprint soon, a slip this afternoon suggests. The Desire is now expected to reach AT&T largely intact and may only be changed in color or finish. If authentic, the BGR source would put this phone in shops by May or June....

TUAW Interview: Freeverse CEO Ian Lynch Smith on the Ngmoco purchase

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Filed under: iPhoneWe were all pretty gobsmacked last night with the news that iPhone gaming developer Ngmoco had purchased longtime Mac game developer Freeverse, so we went hunting for answers.

Apple earns 5.5 percent total market share in France

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Filed under: Apple Corporate, Retail, Apple FinancialApple had a great holiday sales quarter in the US and now research firm Gartner is reporting similar good news from Europe.

Planespotters arrested in India

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Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a room overlooking an airport runway so you can note the planes arriving and taking off in your special notebook. Two Britons, Stephen Hampton and Steven Ayres, were released on bail after being coaught with binoculars and radios.

PocketGear acquires Handango

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On Tuesday, PocketGear announced it has acquired Handango, thus creating the largest cross-platform, open-source application store in the world.

TSA orders some full body scanners, to be delivered some time

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L3 Communications has been awarded a $165 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration for the indefinite delivery of an indefinite number of their ProVision millimeter wave security scanners.

HTC Desire headed for AT&T, Sprint picks up Legend (as Hero2)?

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HTC seemed pretty confident that the HTC Desire and HTC Legend weren’t US-bound when we talked to them at Mobile World Congress. But hey, things change — right?

Acer already backtracking on e-reader plans

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Acer is reconsidering its plans to launch an e-book reader, company chairman Wang Jeng-tang stated later on Monday. The company had already given signals that it would unveil a 6-inch reader by June and even has a prototype but is now hesitant as it's not convinced the market is ready.

NVIDIA quietly adds low-end GeForce 300 cards

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NVIDIA has added new entry-level GeForce 300 cards to its lineup without any fanfare, probably because it's an OEM-only offering.

Toy Fair 2010: Hasbro Toy Previews

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Hasbro consistently comes up with charming and play-worthy tech toys, and this year at Toy Fair was no exception. Iron Man 2 will be showing up in theaters this May, and the character lends himself to techie toys so well.

Is the Nexus One’s display inferior to the iPhone’s?

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Well – not entirely. After all, it’s bright, responsive, and has a much higher resolution.

HTC Legend passes through FCC with GSM support

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A recently dug up FCC filing has revealed that the HTC Legend smartphone is approved for use in the US and has GSM network support. Historically, handsets that appear in such a fashion go on sale a few weeks later.

Digital Effects Guitars Pedal based on a PIC 16F877a Microcontroller

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Colin Merkel sent in his cool PIC 16F877a Microcontroller based Digital Effects Guitars Pedal. I don’t play myself but I can imagine how fun this pedal would be to jam with. Colin has provided the schematic and code so that you can also build your own if you’re musically inclined.

5 tips for switchers

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Filed under: Switchers, Tips and tricks Every now and then I'll have an "I never knew about that" moment as I come across a setting or nuance in Mac OS X that I never realized existed. Take, for instance, character viewer, which allows you to display a variety of characters in your document.

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