Android Market cracks 20,000 apps
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Google's Android Market has passed the 20,000 app mark after just over a year, according to stats tracking the mobile store for AndroLib.
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The hard drive platter wallet will show your true color and hold your credit cards
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The duct tape wallet has officially been replaced as the geekest wallet you can make yourself. Although, I must say, it’s probably a whole lot more comfortable to carry around in your back pocket then two hard drive platters.
Nexus One bits: The FCC appearance and boot screen animation
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Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, Mobile While we have certainly seen quite a bit of the Android-based Nexus One over the past few days there is one important item that has to happen before it will reach the hands of the public—stop by and get a certification from the FCC.
Memo pad
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Advertising Agency: JWT Hong Kong Executive Creative Director: Steven Lee Creative Directors: Kwong ..(more...
Broadcom BCM2763 1080p-capable media processor and Persona IP DVR chipset launched
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Broadcom have outed a number of new chips, including a new 1080p-capable multimedia processor and an IP platform intended to add 3D graphics and multimedia capabilities to DVRs and set-top boxes.
Warrior Epic MMO releases iPhone tie-in
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Filed under: Gaming, iPhoneThis is an interesting trend: Warrior Epic, an MMO game by True Games, has announced that they've released an iPhone app [iTunes link] version for free, featuring "a small portion of the strategy, role-playing and battles found in the online MMORPG," kind of like a taster...
64GB iPhones and 128GB iPod Touches on the Way?
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Toshiba has just announced the availability of a new embedded NAND flash memory chip, which can hold up to 64GB of data. These are the chips that sit inside the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Nintendo files “Zii” trademark in Japan, blocks Creative
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Nintendo raised speculation late Monday by quietly filing for a trademark on the name "Zii" in Japan. The name rights would cover both video games as well as other electronic devices and appears intended to block Creative from using the Zii name on devices in the country, such as the Zii Egg...
ViewSonic Viewbook VNB102 is Released
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Viewsonic Viewbook VNB102, a 10.1 inch netbook which was introduced last September is finally rolled out. Will be available starting on December 18th, VNB102 will has a $400 price tag.
Google Android App Market Hits 20,000 Apps
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It looks like Google’s [Goog] Android Market has hit a new milestone having 20,000 applications in the Android Market, just five months after it reached the 10,000 application mark.
Creativity burst with LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0
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Very encouraging and useful toy (if we can name it like this). New LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kit is a lot of inspiration packed in one single box. Get your mind and creativity unpacked. Worthy gadget for any family – it never was so exciting to create something unique.
Easy to spy with new EyeClops Night Vision Infrared Stealth Goggles V2
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Discover another great gadget that can be cool Christmas present for your kids or nephews. These goggles are great present for active kids for their endless games on backyard, countryside, to protect country, hunt aliens or to do their favorite spy and military work.
Airport Security Puts Three Bullets Through MacBook, Hard Drive Survives
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US citizen Lily Sussman took a vacation in Israel, to visit extended family there and see the sights — all the usual tourist things. On the way in, though, the security forces got rather serious.
Google Nexus One shows off the skinny vs T-Mo G1
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The floodgates are open and the Google Nexus One leaked images are beginning to pick up pace. The BGR shares two new shots, and while the picture after the cut does show the Android 2.1 smartphone’s lusciously colorful 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen in action, we’re more entranced by this...
Sprint launches desktop WiMAX modem
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Wireless provider Sprint is now offering a 4G desktop modem, the CPEi25150 from Motorola. The device uses the WiMAX network to deliver Internet speeds that can be up to ten times faster than current 3G networks, or just under two times as fast in the worst case scenario; as a fixed modem it's meant...
Fancy North Face jackets with built-in iPod controls~!
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The North Face makes good stuff, right? (I don’t know, I’m a Rocawear man myself.) Well just in time for winter’s icy grip are two new jackets that feature technology-related accouterments, the Hustle Audio Jacket for men and the Femphonic Audio Jacket for women. What do they do?
The Wurstkoffer
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The Wurstkoffer is a sausage briefcase which holds 19 different types of German sausage, Cool!
Intel Core i7-980X Extreme detailed; headed to 2010 Mac Pro?
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Details of Intel’s upcoming 6-core/12-thread Xeon (Gulftown) processor – and the CPU tipped to appear in the upcoming Apple Mac Pro refresh – have leaked, and while original predictions were that the hexacore chip would be branded the Core i9, it now seems that it will slot into...
Leaked details of Intel’s Core i7-980X Processor
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Filed under: Apple Corporate, Hardware, Rumors, Mac Pro You'd think we were on the verge of an old-school Macworld Expo Keynote with all the rumors about this morning. Chinese site PCOnline.com.cn has spilled the beans on Intel's forthcoming Core i7-980x Processor.
Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X2 delayed to January
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Sony Ericsson today said it would delay the launch of the XPERIA X2 to the first week of January. It blames the setback on problems integrating the customized Windows Mobile 6.5 platform with carrier-specific apps.
Countdown to the New Year, Google style
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Section: Web, Google Just in case you happened to be looking for a geeky way to countdown to the New Year, you may want to head on over to Google.com and hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Yup, Google has once again given us a little easter egg of sorts.
Google Announce URL Shortening Service
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Google [GOOG] have announced a new service this morning that is capable of shortening URL’s. The service is called Google URL Shortener and is designed for those who like to share links on websites such as Twitter.com where you are restricted to the amount of characters you can tweet.
Vodafone Nokia N900 confirmed for January UK launch
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In the UK, jonesing for an Nokia N900 but can’t afford the sticker price of an unlocked handset? Hold tight until January 2010, and you’ll be able to pick one up from Vodafone UK; the carrier has added the N900 to its “coming soon” page.
Oregon Scientific’s Solar-powered Thermometer
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The Oregon Scientific RMR802 Solar-Powered Thermometer is an ultra-thin temperature station that displays both indoor and outdoor temperature, in addition to maintaining accurate time via the radio-controlled clock display.
Better MultiMediaCards: Toshiba announces world’s first 64GB embedded NAND flash memory module
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Toshiba has announced today the launch of the world’s first 64GB NAND chips that are fully compatible with the so-called e-MMC standard (embedded MultiMediaCard) established last year.
