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Walmart confirms Xbox with $100 gift card, more

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Yesterday's leak of Walmart offering several sales on consumer electronics products has been confirmed today by the big-box electronics retailer. The one-day deals are slated to start on Saturday, November 7th at 8AM.

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Wii can’t ‘deliver the cinematic experience’ needed for Modern Warfare 2

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Poor Wii owners (I’m one of them). There will be no Modern Warfare 2 for us. In a recent interview, Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling explained that the Wii’s relatively underpowered innards in comparison to the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 make it impossible to replicate “the cinematic experience”...

Alvaro Puentes

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By photographer Alvaro Puentes.

The bomb detector that may or may not be hocus pocus

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Let’s move onto something a little more serious for a moment. There’s a device that the New York Times highlighted yesterday called the ADE 651. It’s a small, hand-held explosives detector, or so claims the company behind it, the UK-based ATSC.

Nokia X3 Phone Get FCC’s Approval

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Nokia X3 the affordable music phone from Nokia which was announced last September is finally get approval from FCC. Nokia X3 is a slider music phone with a 2.2 inch QVGA display and dedicated music keys along with stereo speakers and stereo FM radio and a 3.5 mm headset jack.

Envy 14 tips up in HP’s system

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A support page on HP's website indicates that a third Envy notebook, the Envy 14, may be on the horizon. If so, the notebook would slot in between the Intel Core 2 Duo-powered Envy 13 and the Core i7-packing Envy 15 as it would, presumably, be equipped with a 14-inch screen size.

Microsoft cuts 800 extra jobs

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Microsoft today confirmed late rumors and said it has cut 800 additional jobs. The positions are spread across many of the company's divisions and are above and beyond the 5,000 cuts planned at the start of the year.

Motorola Droid Review

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If you can predict a device’s success by site stats then we’d say the Verizon DROID by Motorola is going to be a hit.

Sony offers 1,000 ringtones for iPhone for 20 bucks. Pass.

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, iPhoneLet's file this under 'really bad ideas done poorly.' Sony would like to sell you 1,000 ringtones, sound effects, and comedy voices on a data DVD that's just oh so ready to import into iTunes.

Holy smokes: Fatale: Exploring Salome edition

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Logging into PayPal for the first time in months this morning, I sent Tale of Tales $7 of my completely unearned money. It was $7 well spent. I bought Fatale: Exploring Salome, and I guess you can call it a game, but it’s not some mindless Halo or Madden nonsense.

Motorola Droid $560 Without Contract

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So you're excited about the upcoming Motorola Droid, but you're a bit of a rolling stone when it comes to settling down with wireless carrier contracts. The Android-based handset finally got an official month-to-month contract price, by way of the official Verizon Android Twitter account.

N64 emulator for jailbroken iPhones on the way?

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Filed under: Gaming, Software, iPhone, iPod touchThere's an exciting announcement at All Tech Related this week that has us saying, "We can't wait!"

Apple Veteran Ken Segall Shares How He Thought Different

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Say hello to Ken Segall. “Who?” You know, Ken Segall, Apple’s veteran creative director who came up with the name “iMac” and drew up the Think Different ad campaign.

Verizon to sell the Droid to New Yorkers extra, extra early

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So you've lurked the blogs, watched the unboxing, and read the coverage, and you just know: you want your Droid. You already know that most Verizon Stores are opening the doors a bit early at 7 AM to get your your fix - but what if you want it even earlier?

Reminder: Bits ‘N Pieces, TONIGHT!

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Just a quick reminder that Bits 'N Pieces, an exhibition about the conception and consumption of 'post-digital' design, opens tonight at Material ConneXion in NYC. Descriptions of the participants and their projects can be found at our blog post earlier this month.

Traveler’s gift: Moshi mini alarm clock

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Section: Gadgets / Other, Household, Lifestyle If you travel for business then you agonize over one gadget in every single hotel room: the alarm clock. Many seem straight out of 1976 with peculiar buzzer/sound settings, incorrect time and who knows if it works. Enter Moshi mini, the...

Ask TUAW: Arranging icons on the iPhone, installing Windows on a Mac, Airport networks and more

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Filed under: Wireless, Features, Airport, iMac, iTunes, Ask TUAW, Snow LeopardWelcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column.

Verizon upping cancel fees for smartphone owners

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Wireless provider Verizon is poised to double its Early Termination Fee (ETF) for contracts associated with smartphone devices.

New York state sues Intel for antitrust violations

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New York state's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo today filed a lawsuit against Intel that accuses the company of antitrust abuse.

Global Telcos Agree on LTE Voice and SMS Standards

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This one is big: numerous big telecoms around the world have finally agreed on a standard for voice and SMS communication over upcoming LTE 4G networks.Dubbed One Voice, the new initiative defines an optimal set of existing 3GPP-specified functions for designing compatible LTE devices.

Motorola Droid Customers Will Get Tickets to Secret Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show?

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Not only will customers be getting their hands on their shiny new Droid phones on Friday, but Motorola is also throwing in a bonus.

eStarling Releases Touchscreen Wireless N Frame

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Today's digital photo frames can do everything--except come down in price. Witness the just-released eStarling 802.11n Touchscreen Connected Frame. As the name says, it offers 802.11n connectivity, so you can load picture faster than ever.

Knock Lock – Unlock a Door with a Secret Knock

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Piezoelectric elements can be used to make sound or detect sound. Steve Hoefer has made a Knock Lock, which is a device that can listen to knocks on the door. If the sequence of knocks is the same as the recorded knock sequence it unlocks the deadbolt on the door.

Electrobite bizarre battery-powered trilobite [Video]

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Bizarre, metal and electrically powered, if you thought the Cupcake Cars were too cutesy then The Electrobite might be just up your street.

The Droid will be available this Friday from Verizon

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Many of Verizon Wireless Stores will open early Friday (Nov. 6) to give customers the earliest opportunity to purchase the DROID by Motorola on its first day of sale. Some stores will open at 7 a.m. and others at 8 a.m. Customers should check local stores for their opening hours.