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HTC expects holiday sales to drop 15%

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HTC this week warned that it should see a significant drop in its fall sales. The company expects its fall sales to sink 15 percent compared to the same season a year ago.

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Verizon to test passing on RIAA notices

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The RIAA confirmed late Thursday that Verizon has agreed to test notices of alleged copyright infringement to its subscribers. Each notice, which is relayed to Verizon first, will alert downloaders that they're believed to have pirated material and that the act is illegal.

Testing finds Windows XP better for netbook battery life than Windows 7

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Somebody should tell Doug “netbook” Aamoth that Windows 7 seems to be a battery hog. The fine folks at Laptop magazine have put three different netbooks to the test, determining their respective battery life under both Windows XP and Windows 7. Looks like Windows XP is the winner.

Facebook Cufflinks Ask You To “F Me”

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There’s a certain type of man that wears cufflinks. Don Draper, for example, wears cufflinks. But he’s also a fictional character set in the 1960s. In the real world, these days, it’s usually the well-off that wear them.

Sal Soghoian talks Automator use in education

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Filed under: Software, AppleScriptTotal Apps has published a nice guest post from Sal Soghoian, Apple's Production Manager for Automator, intended for teachers.

Wii regains lead as PS3 outpaces Xbox 360

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While Sony's PS3 has outsold Microsoft's Xbox 360 in October after the introduction of the lower-priced $300 slim PS3, Nintendo's Wii is back to the top of the sales charts, according to data collected by NPD.

BrailleNote Apex makes it easier to take notes with Braille QWERTY keyboard

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This is the BrailleNote Apex. It’s a device that the blind/visually impaired (I’m not sure which term is the more acceptable one) can use to, as the name and photo implies, take notes. It runs Windows CE 6, which this type of device usually runs, and, is aimed at students and the like.

Hey, Premium Notebooks or Netbooks, Get the Basics Right!

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I wrote this column on the Nokia Booklet 3G which is, in my opinion, the most luxurious looking netbook on the market. And for its $600 ($299 with a pretty expensive 2 year AT&T contract) it sure as heck should be.

ICD Vega 15-inch Touchscreen Tablet

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ICD has proudly introduced the ICD Vega, which is a new Google Android 2.0-powered touchscreen tablet.

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Whoa! AT&T has had enough of the Verizon slams

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Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhoneAT&T is clearly not going to take it anymore. Today, they blasted back at Verizon for the nasty ads about AT&T coverage.

Intel takes on antitrust expert as general counsel

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Intel today addressed its ongoing legal troubles with word that it has hired Douglas Melamed as both its new senior VP and general counsel.

CrunchGear wants to kiss you this Holiday

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We at CrunchGear love you. Yes you. Not anyone else reading this. Listen. We’re going to give you free stuff from November 15 until December 20. It’s going to be so amazingly great you won’t even believe it. Here’s what’s going to happen.

Eye-Fi goes FTP

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The Eye-Fi card is famous for being a cool, fun way to upload, inadvertently, images of you and your friends naked or on the toilet. Now, however, you can upload those naked photos to your local FTP/FTPS server.

T-Mobile Samsung Behold II launches on November 18

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T-Mobile and Samsung today announced that they will begin sale on the Samsung Behold II starting on November 18th at all T-Mobile retailers across the United States.

Vega Tablet Beats Apple and Crunchpad

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The Vega, from Converged Devices, wants to be the mythical Apple Tablet, and at first it looks as if it really could be a great alternative to that still non-existent machine, not least because it is actually real.

Chrome OS to release next week?

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Google's Chrome OS could be available to try in as little as a week's time if a rumor proves true. A promised early version is now said by TechCrunch to be arriving sometime next week.

YouTube 1080p HD Coming Soon

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Google [GOOG] have officially announced that their YouTube service will soon start accepting uploads of 1080p HD video content.

Walky- The iPhone Controlled Robot

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How cool would it be to control your favourite robot toy with finger gestures on your iPhone? Yuta Sugiura and his colleagues at the Keio University have developed a new control system for robots called ‘Walky’ that lets you control various robots with your iPhone.

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NTT Hikari iFrame Android slate arrives in Japan 2010

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Room in your heart (and on your end-table) for another Android tablet? Non-Japanese geeks need not apply, but sometime between April and September next year NTT will push out this 7-inch touchscreen Android slate.

Sleepbox, A Tiny, One-Person Hotel

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Sleep customs vary across the world. Here in Spain we take long multi-hour lunch breaks and sleep awhile. It’s common to see old men snoozing in the public library in the afternoon. Back in England, you can never sleep on the job, even if you are rendered useless by fatigue.

Analyst ‘confirms’ BlackBerry touch slider, new browsers

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RIM's rumored BlackBerry 9900 and WebKit-based browser gained corroborating evidence today with a research note from Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu.

1979 LEGO minifig patent

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LEGO minifig patent from 1979! [via @grantimahara] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this!

Kids building a pinhole camera no longer impressive; Columbia’s Computer Vision Lab raises the bar

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The act of loading film into an SLR, or even just changing the lens, makes you more intimate with the object; by popping it open you see all this delicate stuff inside that looks like you shouldn't spill coffee on it.

GameStop details in-store DLC service, to be launched in 2010

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It seems the Internet doesn’t like GameStop too much, so I’m not sure how this story will be received. The retailer announced at a conference in New York yesterday that it will launch some sort of in-store DLC service next year.

It’s about time: TomTom submits updated nav app to Apple

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Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, iPhoneVery welcome news for owners of the TomTom iPhone nav app [iTunes link for U.S. version]; the company has announced a free update that includes many of the features that people were craving.

Qualcomm ships FLO TV Personal TV

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Qualcomm's FLO TV Personal Television is now available in stores and online. The device as expected provides subscription over-the-air TV from a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen that the company now adds is oleophobic (oil-resistant).

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