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Apple secure Psystar permanent injunction; Rebel EFI hack app sold “at its peril”

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Apple have secured a permanent injunction against clone-Mac manufacturer Psystar, which means the copycat vendor must stop selling hardware running OS X by December 31st 2009.

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Audio-Technica launches new noise-cancelling headphones

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Audio-Technica announced a new pair of active noise canceling headphones today; the ATH-ANC1 QuietPoint. Designed to absorb 85% of ambient noise, the new headphones are intended for use in airplanes or while traveling.

Audio-Technica’s New Noise Cancelling Headphones

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Audio-Technica has recently unveiled a new pair of headphones for the mass market. Dubbed as the ATH-ANC1 QuietPoint, these headphones utilize the company’s active noise-cancelling technology, which employs miniature built-in microphones to detect environmental noise and apply a corresponding…

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Gestural Computing Breakthrough Turns LCD Into a Big Sensor

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Smart students at MIT have figured out how to turn a typical LCD into a low-cost, 3-D gestural computing system. Users can touch the screen to activate controls on the display but as soon as they lift their finger off the screen, the system can interpret their gestures in the third dimension, too.

194 Geeky Christmas Tree Ornaments

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If you want to get something different to hang on your Christmas tree this year then take a look at Walyou’s guide to Geeky Christmas Tree ornaments. In total there are 194 listed showing various themes like Star Wars, Video Games as well as a bunch of weird trees. Full details at Walyou.

Google Nexus One Photos

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BGR managed to get hold of a couple of Google Nexus One photo’s. The first seen above and below shows the profile vs that of a T-Mobile G1. As can be seen, the Nexus one is very thin. Some things to note here is that the G1 does have a physical keyboard though that does add a little bulk.

Because of the recession, y’all watched a lot of TV this year

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The Media Democracy Survey tries to ascertain America’s entertainment habits. It comes out every year, and this year’s edition just went live. As you might image, the terrible economy played a major role in the way Americans went about their business this past year.

LaCie intros most compact 2.5-inch hard drive

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LaCie recently and quietly outed its latest portable hard drive, the 2.5-inch Rikiki. It is said to be one of the smallest drives of its types on the market, with its name being slang for "tiny" in French.

Chunghwa intros largest projected capacitive touch panel

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Taiwan's Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) showed off what it is calling the largest projected capacitive touch panel with its 21.5-inch display.

CheherryPal Launch $99 Netbook Called Africa

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CherryPal have launched a new netbook called Africa. The real interesting thing here is that they are selling it for $99. For the $99 you get a 7 inch screen along with a 400 MHz processor, 256MB of RAM and 2GB of storage.

Video: IntoDream, the portable DreamCast, explained

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This is the IntoDream, a homemade, portable DreamCast. It’s a bit of a Frankenstein’s monster of sorts, being part DreamCast, part PSone, and part N64.

Nokia, Samsung invest in Swype’s texting method

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Swype, a Seattle-based company that has developed a new, faster way of texting on touchscreen devices, has just secured a second round of funding from Nokia, Samsung and an older investor, Benaroya Capital.

Palm plans a second CES keynote

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Palm this afternoon sent an invite to Electronista and other members of the press to attend a keynote on January 7th, the first official day of CES. The company has provided no clues as to what it's expected to release other than "new" developments.

Airlock automatically locks and unlocks your Mac using your iPhone or iPod touch

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Filed under: Odds and ends I work in a busy office. Occasionally a coworker will call or knock on my door and ask for my help with something, and the two of us will go to wherever I am needed. Most of them time I get back to my office and realize that I have left my MacBook Pro unlocked.

HDBaseT Alliance to bring uncompressed HD over Ethernet

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LG, Samsung, Sony Pictures and Valens Semiconductor have partnered to launch the HDBaseT Alliance in order to create a new standard that would allow users to send uncompressed HD videos throughout their homes using their Ethernet cables.

DECAF, the anti-Microsoft COFEE, now available

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You sorta knew this was going to happen. Microsoft COFEE, a highly secretive forensics tool used by law enforcement, leaked onto the Internet several weeks ago.

New nanowires could lead to smaller devices

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Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Purdue University and IBM have succeeded in growing silicon-germanium semiconducting nanowires that could result in the next generation of ever-smaller electronic devices.

WIND to launch with BlackBerry Bold 9700

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The newcomer to the Canadian cellular business, WIND, today revealed that its first phone will be the BlackBerry Bold 9700.

Canon Rebel XT survives 3000-foot drop

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It wasn’t long ago I posted about the weather-resistant qualities of the 7D. I wonder, though, if you drop an entry-level DSLR and a pro one from half a mile in the air, do they stand an equal chance of surviving?

Dragon Age: Origins coming to Mac as a digital download December 21st

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Filed under: Gaming, Software, Odds and ends Gamepro's got the news that Electronic Arts is fast-tracking Dragon Age: Origins for release on the Mac -- they're now saying that it'll be out as a download as soon as next week, on December 21st.

Google, not HTC, files for Nexus One trademark

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Google was discovered today as having quietly filed for a trademark for its Nexus One phone. The application, submitted on December 10th, confirms that at least one variant of the Android device will be attached to the company's own name rather than badged by its creator HTC.

Warpia wireless USB PC-to-TV solution

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You spent all your Christmas money on a terrific new HDTV, but then you realize that all the movies you’ve downloaded are stored on your PC. You don’t want to run cables from your PC to your new HDTV, but you really want to enjoy watching those moves on your big screen. What to do?

LaCie launches “most compact” 2.5 inch external drive

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Section: Computers, Hardware The amount of storage available on laptop-sized 2.5 inch drives seem to be continually increasing to almost ridiculous amounts given the size. With those increases in storage we’ve also seen a great decrease in the cost per gigabyte. The only way to...

Meet the $99 Computer, the Cherrypal Africa

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Cherrypal surprised most of the technology industry on Tuesday by announcing the CherryPal Africa, a $99 computer.Cherrypal has begun taking orders for the device on its Web site, where the small computer is described as "small, slow, sufficient"."

Developers now can use private API for screen capture on iPhone, says Apple

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Filed under: iPhone, App Store, SDK, iPod touch, Jailbreak/pwnageAs Apple seems to be lightening up and accepting more applications using private APIs (including Ustream and others that stream video from the iPhone 3G), word comes that the review team is now officially allowing the...