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Palm Launch in-browser SDK

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Palm have launched a new in-browser SDK called Ares pitch that allows you to create apps for the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi with out a lot of coding knowledge. The service uses drag and drop features where you can place buttons, boxes and other types of functions on to the screen.

www.gadgetvenue.com

French court finds Google guilty over book rights

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A court in Paris has ruled on Friday that Google is guilty of infringing copyrights by publishing French books online.

www.electronista.com

Weaponized strollers aren’t for sale… yet?

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Do you have a baby? If so, do you also happen to live in a post-apocalyptic neighborhood? I bet it’s tough to wield a machine gun with one hand while pushing a stroller with the other, huh? You may be the perfect candidate for a weaponized stroller.

www.crunchgear.com

Insurgents Tap Into Predator Drone Feeds With $26 Software

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Iraqi insurgents were able to tap into raw satellite feeds of live video shot by U.S. Predator drones using $26 Russian software. Drones are unmanned planes controlled from afar by U.S. military officials.

www.gearlog.com

Garden of eden

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Garden of eden is a set of furniture for the garden. The hanging chair can be placed in a tree or ve..(more...

www.likecool.com

Archos 9 Tablet Will Start Shipping This Month

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Introduced last June, Archos 9 tablet pc will be shipped starting this month. Arrive with a 9 inch 1024 x 600 resistive touchscreen display and 16 mm thick, Archos 9’s weight is only grams. Archos 9 runs on Windows 7 Starter OS and powered by a 1.1GHz Atom Z515 processor and 1GB of RAM.

www.lifeatmost.com

One beeellion spam messages

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Project Honeypot has announced that they’ve collected one billion spam messages since they started in 2004. They have a pretty remarkable rundown of the trends for spammers in the last couple of years, including a look at the volume of product spam (V1AGRA, etc) versus fraud spam (419, etc).

www.crunchgear.com

Dual USB port charger is tiny, cheap

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This might make a good last-minute stocking stuffer, although I’m not sure if it’ll get to you in time. It’s a little USB power plug with not one, but two (!!!) USB ports. Looks like a dynamite travel accessory. It’s got a five-volt output pushing 1000 milli-amps to each port.

www.crunchgear.com

iRex DR800SG ebook reader “experience unexpected delays”; no news on a release date

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What with the battle between the Kindle and the nook, we’d forgotten all about the iRex DR800SG.

www.slashgear.com

David Schultze’s Philco PC concept

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ID'er David Schultze, of Pasadena-based SchultzeWORKS design studio, goes back to the future for his Philco PC concept, inspired by a 1950s Philco Predicta television set and the steampunk movement; the former can be seen in the sweet shape of the screen, the latter is referenced in the...

Archos 9 dumps Win7 for Google Chromium OS

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Windows 7 Starter Edition wouldn’t be our first choice of OS for the Archos 9 PC Tablet – after all, it lacks the handwriting functionality you’ll find in other versions – but at least it recognizes the touchscreen.

www.slashgear.com

“Cinch” your desktop windows into place

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Filed under: Software, ProductivityCinch is a new Mac utility from Irradiated Software. It helps keep your desktop windows organized by snapping them into predefined sizes and locations when you hold them near an edge of your screen.

Notion Ink intros Android smartbook with Pixel Qi display

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Notion Ink is promising to bring a new, thus far unnamed smartbook that runs on Android and is the first to use a Pixel Qi transflective display.

www.electronista.com

Alessi’s knives slice their way to Design Plus Award victory

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Some people take their cheese seriously, and it is for them that Alessi has produced the La Via Lattea ("Milky Way") knife collection.

Amazon set to release Kindle app for BlackBerry

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Section: Gadgets / Other, ebooks Amazon appears to be close to releasing their long awaited Kindle app for the BlackBerry smartphone. The Kindle page on their site now lists the app as “Coming Soon.”

www.gadgetell.com

AdMob Breaks iPhone Ownership Down by Country

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Who owns the world's 78 million iPhone and iPod touches? The US, mostly, according to a recent breakdown by Google-owned mobile advertising company, AdMob. Roughly half of those units sold reside in the US. The UK is in a distant second with eight percent, followed by France, Canada, and Germany.

www.gearlog.com

Nokia Hackerbox makes geeks work for their N900 [Video]

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Nokia’s product strategy may not meet with universal approval, but they can certainly teach most of us a thing or two about wrapping presents. Mint Digital’s Utku found a strange black box waiting for him at the office today, unmarked aside from a Nokia logo and a miniUSB port.

www.slashgear.com

Google close to buying Yelp for $500 million?

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Google is deep in talks to acquire Yelp, more than one source claimed late Thursday. The local business location and reviewing site is deemed "very likely" to sell itself for over $500 million based both on its valuation and its heavy Internet traffic....

www.electronista.com

Stanza v2.0: The iPhone’s Best E-Reader Just Got Better

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Stanza, the iPhone e-book reader so good that Amazon bought it, has just released v2.0, and it improves on 1.x in almost every way. Stanza was the first good e-book reading application for the iPhone, and this release keeps it at the top of the bunch.

Cyber Quad VTOL Drone

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This flying object is built by an Australian company called Cyber Technology and is capable of vertical take off and landing. The Cyber Quad as it’s called has four ducted fans to provide lift to fly it around as an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.

www.gadgetvenue.com

Ingenuity meets period design in the Homemade Steampunk Camera

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Though Steampunking is in vogue currently, there aren’t too many steampunked items around that are truly homemade. Howard Boys has done just that and has put together a classic homemade camera. For this, he has used a Compur shutter and a Taylor Hobson Cooke Cinema Lens.

www.gizmowatch.com

Sprint BlackBerry Curve 8530 arrives for $50

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Sprint’s latest BlackBerry, the Curve 8530, has finally gone on sale. Announced as heading to the network back in November, we now know the Sprint Curve 8530 is priced at $49.99 after the usual mail-in rebate; that gets you a full QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad and a 2-megapixel camera.

www.slashgear.com

Apple Tablet makes second video showing: still fake, still impressive

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It’s Friday and perilously close to the holidays, so we reckon we’re allowed to kick back and watch a little more Apple Tablet concept footage.

www.slashgear.com

Quicken Essentials for Mac available for pre-order

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, SoftwareQuicken Essentials for Mac available if finally available for pre-order. Too little, too late if you ask me. Its taken three years to get this next version of Quicken for Mac out the door. In that time, worthy alternatives have risen, like iBank and Mint.com.

Sony Alpha 3D DSLR Camera

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There is a big push at the moment on 3D TV’s with a number of manufacturers showing interest in the technology. Sony isn’t stopping at just 3D TV along with peripherals such as Blu-Ray players and PS3’s though.

www.gadgetvenue.com

CrunchDeals: Peek Pronto 50% off for 24 hours thanks to BlackBerry outage

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In an effort to appeal to the nerd rage caused by the recent BlackBerry outage, Peek is offering 50% off the Peek Pronto for the next 24 hours. Use discount code BBOUTAGE5 at checkout.

www.crunchgear.com

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