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AT&T blocks sideloading: HTC Inspire 4G will only be able to have Android Market apps installed

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Section: Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile As evidence of the above image it looks like AT&T has once again found it in their heart to limit what users are able to do with their phones.

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Halo: Combat Evolved HD Re-Make Unofficially Set For November 15

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Flickr’d It looks like there will be a Halo: Combat Evolved re-make after all. So says mighty Joystiq. It’ll be available on November 15, 2011, 10 years to the day after the game’s original release for the Xbox. Oh, happy day! What can we expect with this re-make?

Sylvia’s Maker Show: Super simple screenprinting

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Ever wanted to design your own cool t-shirt, or maybe wanted to put your awesome doodle on a bunch of different stuff like birthday cards, jackets or your backpack? Today we’ll show you how you can do all of that with super simple screen printing! Let's go!

Watching The Big Game? Keep An Eye On @202friends While You’re At It

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The Big Game is this Sunday (remember: Madden already told us the winner), and our amigos at Sirius XM‘s Ron & Fez Show have a little Twitter contest that may interest you. Like all their Twitter contests it’s pretty easy to play. Step One: follow @202friends on Twitter.

Mitsubishi puts out curved, wrap-around OLED display

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At the ISE show in Amsterdam this week, Mitsubishi showed off a curved Diamond Vision OLED display. The prototype TV has an extra-wide 1920x256 resolution, a pixel pitch of 3mm and an 80-degree horizontal and vertical viewing angle.

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MSI Clarifies Response to Intel Chipset Issue

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Earlier this week, following Intel's news of a Sandy Bridge P67 chipset bug, MSI released its own statement noting that it was "working closely with Intel to minimize the inconvenience to customers and retail stores with regard to related issues," and recommending that "end users who want to return...

Layered Nintendo 3DS design explained

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In an interview with Yui Ehara, a Nintendo research engineer, the design of the upcoming Nintendo 3DS gaming console was described. Compared to the DS Lite, an emphasis was placed on making the console easier to open while remaining strong enough not to crack.

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iOS 4.3 may drop February 14 at 1PM Eastern

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Fresh rumors on Friday asserted that Apple might push iOS 4.3 on Valentine's Day. The update would follow Apple's usual mid-day update schedule and have the firmware live at 1PM Eastern on February 14. MacStories didn't mention whether there would be any changes from beta 3....

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Bendable Android display concept is cool, still a concept

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This may look like just about the coolest Android device to date, but it's easy to look cool when you're just designing a totally conceptual piece of technology.

Gravely Ill Teenager Has Robot Surrogate To Go To School For Him

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Don’t we all wish we had the same privilege back in our high school daze? (We mean “days.”) But there’s nothing funny or lighthearted about Vgo, the robot stand in for a gravely ill teenager from Texas whose immune system is so weak, he can’t leave the house.Vgo is a...

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Hilarious Flowchart Explores Your Employment Opportunities In Star Wars

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Still unemployed? Bummer. At least your current redundancy leaves you a lot of spare time, which is perfect for this new flowchart that cropped up recently. If you can’t find a job in today’s global economy, greener pastures are to be had in a galaxy far, far, away.

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Drug Cartels Selling Counterfeit Microsoft Software

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Nobody likes drug cartels. Even the people who love drugs have no trouble admitting that the cartels are crazy, blood-thirsty murder-faces. No one wants to support these people. But you may be, if you’re purchasing counterfeit software from the wrong shady street vendor.

Giving Tree Charging Station Concept Design

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Designers have caught our attention again with another simple and elegant concept. Dubbed the Giving Tree, this cute multi-connector charging station in the abstract form of a tree bears fruits of iPhones ready to be plucked once batteries fully ripen.

Prison Inmates Make $1 Million Selling Apple Gear Bought with Stolen Credit Cards

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If there's anything about the prison system that's undeniably true, it's that most prisoners emerge from it knowing how to be better criminals than they went in. Whether they opt to commit more crimes is a different matter entirely.

12-Year-Old Discovers Dirty Word On Candy Heart

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Candy hearts, weirdly, are just as much subject to whims of popular culture as everything else. As the Valentine's Day market has exploded, companies producing these chalky tasting novelties have struggled to maintain relevance in a sea of Justin Bieber holiday cards.

The Top 5 Super Bowl Commercials Already Out

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There isn’t anything quite like Super Bowl commercials. For many of you, it’s the best part of the game. So we thought we’d show you ahead of time some of our favorites that have already come out.

Burn the Rope 1.2 Bursting Up iPhone Soon

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If playing with fire is your thing then a safer alternative might be to play the popular iPhone game, Burn the Rope. Feeding the fire to burn as much rope as possible is the aim of the game.

Dell Streak 7 Android Tablet Hands-On Preview

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Dell's Streak 7 tablet is the highly anticipated big brother of Dell's 5-inch tablet, the Streak 5 that came out in September of 2010.

Emily Rothschild’s Medical Locket and Brass Pill Case

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We've written about Emily Rothschild's medical objects before including her Medical Nameplates and pill-popping carafe and glassware set and we're excited to see that she continues to think about aesthetic and functionality issues surrounding, "personal medical experiences and the objects that...

Nokia Bubbles launches apps directly from the lock screen

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Nokia wrapped up its week by by putting up a beta interface concept that could make apps much faster than on any other platform. Nokia Bubbles puts key apps in its namesake bubbles on a Symbian phone's lock screen; users drag apps to activation points to launch them.

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AT&T Rewarding Loyalty With Free Microcell

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AT&T has recently been sending out emails to some of its customers offering free microcells as rewards for staying loyal customers. Could this be another attempt to thwart the mass exodus they fear with the already record setting sales that is the Verizon iPhone 4 pre-order numbers?

Motorola Super Bowl ad pokes fun at Apple users

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The Super Bowl means elaborate and expensive TV ads. I think there's a football game, too. This year, Motorola will poke fun at iPhone users with a commercial for the Xoom that features homogenous, mindless drones who all look alike and use the same chuck of hardware.

Motorola Super Bowl ad shows Apple users as Orwellian drones

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Motorola today sent out a segment of its teased Super Bowl ad that revealed its strongly anti-Apple rhetoric. The 15 second snippet (below) sent to Engadget portrays iPhone and iPad users as Orwellian proletarians, all wearing the same white hoodies and white earbuds.

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Palm Pre 2 from Verizon on February 17th?

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Looks like the Palm Pre 2 is going to be available in less than two weeks, if you believe an internal product page from a third party retailer. This would be great a couple months ago, but the first webOS 2 device seems a little late to the party.

AT&T Offers New Trade-In Program For Old Phones

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Were you thinking of switching to Verizon with all this hype about them now having the iPhone 4 minus the spotty service plus unlimited data plan? Well, not so fast because AT&T is pulling out all the stops to keep you–well kinda.

Planning a Super Bowl party? Check out these apps

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With the countdown to the Super Bowl underway, TUAW is here to highlight some apps that will help smooth out your party planning. Apple helped as well, releasing its own list of Super Bowl party apps.

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