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Amazon announces better battery life and native PDF support for the Kindle

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Amazon announced some major changes to their Kindle e-book reader today. Specifically, it stated that they’ve worked out a way to increase battery life by 85%.

HP iPAQ Glisten reaches AT&T with AMOLED screen

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AT&T returned to carrying HP smartphones today through the iPAQ Glisten (link active soon). In addition to being HP's first Windows Mobile 6.5 device, it's also the first smartphone for AT&T and HP to include a relatively color rich AMOLED touchscreen.

Some Palm Pre Profiles Get Lost in the Cloud

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Several Palm Pre customers have reported major problems with their handset’s online backup system, resulting in the loss of phone numbers, calendar events, memos and other data. The issue stems from corrupted backups, according to Pre enthusiast blog PreCentral.

Razer intros Imperator mouse for right-handed gamers

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Razer on Tuesday introduced its latest gaming mouse, the Imperator. Designed specifically to give comfort to right-handed users, the ergonomic mouse's design is optimized for both palm and fingertip gamers.

Hands On, Kid Tested: Disney Princess Headphones Jr. for Kids

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Up to this point, I had never let my two young children listen to music through headphones. Maybe it's because their hard-of-hearing daddy is paying for all the hundreds of hours he spent rocking out with his Walkman and, later, iPod, cranked to 11.

Datel files lawsuit against Microsoft to ‘restore competition’ re: memory cards

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Another Xbox 360 lawsuit? Oh, yes! Datel, which makes all sorts of video game accessories, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft because it “has taken steps to render inoperable the competing Datel memory card for no visible purpose other than to have that market entirely to themselves.”

Sneak Peek: ColorSchemer Studio 2, pick your palette

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Filed under: Software, Cool toolsAs part of my trade, I work a lot with colors. ColorSchemer Studio has long been a valuable tool in my toolkit for picking out color schemes based on solid color theory.

Something about Web scams, and the sites that still support them

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Truth be told, I have no idea why I’m about to write this post, other than the fact that it’s in my little writing queue. You can’t fight City Hall.

Palm phones face serious backup failures

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Owners of Palm's newer phones have encountered a flaw in its online backup system that has wiped out contacts and calendars.

Use a fuel cell to see how drunk you are this holiday season

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Worried that Uncle John might be hitting the Night Train a little too hard this holiday season? Well, now you can keep a closer eye on him, and avoid that lawsuit when he crashes into that parked cop car. Sure, breathalyzer technology has been around for years. So have portable versions.

LG New Chocolate Christmas Edition gets 8MP camera

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LG recently announced it will soon release a special Christmas Edition of its already available BL40 New Chocolate handset in its home market of South Korea.

ASUS Eee PC 1005HR surfaces in video unboxing

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A new Eee PC from ASUS, the 1005HR, will be released soon, as this unboxing video reveals. The main feature of this Eee PC is a high-resolution 10-inch display with a 1366x768 resolution, significantly higher than the usual 1024x600 resolution found in netbooks of this size and the first such...

Tekken 6 update should improve online playability

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You’ll find that opinions vary with respect to Tekken 6’s netcode. I didn’t run into too many problems, but others certainly have. What are you going to do, right? Come November 26, you can, I don’t know, apply the update that will hopefully clear up some of those glitches.

HP launches the HP iPAQ Glisten on AT&T

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AT&T and HP today announced the upcoming availability of the new HP iPAQ Glisten, a feature-rich 3G world phone that meets the increasing demands of modern mobile professionals.

Sony Ericsson working on successor to XPERIA Pureness

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The designer XPERIA Pureness handset from Sony Ericsson will get a successor, according to the original's designer, Daniel Mauritzson. While the original's mission was to keep it simple, the Pureness 2 will be even more so, Mauritzson says.

Chillingo officially launches Crystal SDK for iPhone game developers

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Filed under: Gaming, Odds and ends, Freeware, iPhone, SDK Chillingo recently announced that it would be launching Crystal SDK, a service joining the increasingly crowded social network market for iPhone games.

Hands On, Kid Tested: Astro Boy Deluxe Light Up Action Figure

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Astro Boy captured the hearts and imagination of children in the 1950s when he was first introduced in a manga (Japanese comics) series, then a television show in Japan.

LaCie LaCinema Classic HD: 1TB, 1080p HD and DLNA

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LaCie seem to be going back and filling in any blanks in their mediaplayer line-up right now, neatly slotting the LaCinema Classic HD into the range.

Dell Ships Mini 3i Phone to China Mobile, Tips Specs

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Dell said Monday that it has begun shipping its Mini 3i phone to China Mobile, and released some of the specs of the new smartphone.

Datel sues Microsoft for locking out Max Memory cards

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UK-based Datel on Monday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft because the software giant made it impossible for Xbox 360 gamers to use third-party memory cards for the gaming console, including Datel's Max Memory cards.

Brilliant Strata pot helps raise a tree indoors before returning to the environment

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Designer Kazuyo Shimada spent three years traveling the world and surfing before eventually settling back in Japan and founding Dessence, an architecture and design firm. The surfer's love of nature can be seen in his Strata flower pot, which is made from sand and biomass.

Captain Kirk missing scene from JJ’s Star Trek

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William Shatner did have a part in the new Star Trek as it turns out. It wasn’t a major role like Leonard Nimoy’s, but rather a recording that Nimoy’s Spock would give to the younger Spock at the end of the film. It obviously never made the film but I somewhat wish it had.

Kindle Gets Huge Battery Boost, PDF Upgrade, for Free

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Amazon disclosed Tuesday that owners of its Kindle e-reader will receive a free firmware update that will increase the battery life by a whopping 85 percent and add PDF capabilities, all for free.Users won't have to download or manually update the Kindle, Amazon said; instead, it will be delivered...

Kindle 2 gets native PDFs, 85% longer battery life

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Amazon today gave its regular-size Kindle a lift through a firmware upgrade. It now has the same native PDF support as the larger Kindle DX and no longer needs a conversion through e-mail.

RIM and Motorola sued by Klausner Technologies for patent infringement

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Patent infringement suits are certainly nothing new in the technology industry. Over the last year, these sorts of suits are increasingly filed in a court in East Texas because the judge has a history of siding with the patent holders.

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