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Verizon To Share Customer’s Personal Data With Affiliates, Offers Shady Opt-out Feature

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This past weekend, a report from David Weinberger, the Harvard Law School fellow and sometimes Wired contributor, warned against a potentially shady customer service move from Verizon Wireless.

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Make your PS3 actually work as a media player

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Charles Shopsin is a New York City-raised and Brooklyn-based software developer. In his spare time, he runs the Modern Mechanix blog, waits tables, and finds new ways to torture his cat. His dream girl is Jordan from the movie Real Genius. Hi! I'm Charlie and I'll be your guest blogger this week.

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New iPhone Mail app not quite there yet

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Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touchEveryone pretty much knows the weaknesses of the iPhone mail application. So it was with some excitement that we were able to try ibisMail [App Store link] from some sharp developers in Japan.

Hungy, the LED anglerfish nightlight

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Sean D Siem sculpted "Hungy", a one-of-a-kind LED nightlight in the shape of an anglerfish that he's selling on Etsy for $200. Half of the proceeds will go to the Houston Food Bank.

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Romain Jerome takes space pills

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I honestly don’t know what Romain Jerome is smoking but this Roswell-inspired watch - actually just a funky render - is a hot mess.

RIM: Disable the Storm’s auto rotating main screen, please

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I have been using a BlackBerry Storm for about a month now and have came to like the phone. While I don’t have an iPhone love affair going on, it’s a solid phone I wouldn’t not recommended. (understand?)

Sony and the Missed Opportunity of the PlayStation 3 Remote

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Danilo Campos really doesn't like the PlayStation 3 remote control. Who can blame him? Danilo Campos ndash; Proof of Sony’s indifference to my happiness: the PlayStation 3 remote control.

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Boing Boing Video (and Gadgets, and Offworld) at GDC09!

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Fellow mutants: A number of the residents of greater Boingdom (Boing Boing, Offworld, Boing Boing Gadgets, and Boing Boing Video) are heading to San Francisco from 23-27 March for the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC), and we're planning to do a comprehensive package of live and produced...

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Mental Health Monday

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It never got any better, so I decided I was taking today for me, starting with going back to bed for a number of hours after the last post. I even shut off my cell phone for most of the day, and since I turned it back on I’ve been ignoring the voicemail indicator.

Thanko sells neckband earphones with integrated MP3 player

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Tokyo-based online gadget store Thanko (they have an English site) is now selling the Sport MP3, a combination of neckband earphones and an MP3 player [JP]. And this time it’s nothing weird.

Skill up on Adobe products with free video tutorials

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Filed under: Software, EducationIt's no secret that the American economy is suffering, and many of us are experiencing the cold-water shock of abrupt career shifts and planned or unexpected part-timer-ification.

PMA 2009 : Sigma talks new zoom lenses

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Last year, Sigma unveiled a line of telephoto zoom lenses at PMA 2008 with HSM and OS (mechanical Optical Stabilizer). This year at PMA 2009, Sigma is adding length to its series of zoom lenses, ranging from 10mm to 250mm. The 18-250mm F3.5-F6.3 DC OS HSM announced two weeks prior to PMA 2009.

Facebook temporarily loses millions of photos

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Section: Web, Web 2.0, Websites Facebook has temporarily lost millions of photos hosted on the wildly popular social networking site. Many users logged on today to find many of their photos replaced with a question mark.

LG Viewty II gets stuck behind dirty glass, caught on camera

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Apparently the LG Viewty II was on display at Mobile World Congress and nobody noticed. Unfortunately absent from the convention was any sort of cloth that could be used for cleaning the glass in front of the phone.

Plate Gauntlets? That’ll be 59 gold please.

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Every notice it’s really hard to find good deals on plate armor these days? What with kevlar and carbon fiber being the next big thing in personal protection, what if you just want some old school steel to wear? One thing is for sure, steel gauntlets are a bold fashion statement.

‘Ultimate Gamer’ TV show debuts tomorrow

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Lest you think people won’t be interested in watching other people play video games on TV, don’t forget about how ridiculous the idea of watching people play poker was when it was first televised.

Remote Controls to Get a Wireless Upgrade

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Couch potatoes take note: Aiming your remote control and trying to bounce the signal off the wall is about to become a thing of the past.

Eminem loses iTunes royalty case

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Filed under: Apple Corporate, iTS, iTunesEminem's production company, FBT Productions, has been arguing that their artist is entitled to half of all royalties generated by sales of his music in the iTunes Store. Of course, Apple takes a commission before the artist receives their compensation.

Blog from your Peek

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Now in addition to SMS and email messages, Peek users are going to be able to use Wordpress from their handheld, which makes it more and more competitive with smart phone devices, but a hell of a lot cheaper on a monthly basis then most data plans.

PMA 2009 : Panasonic Tough DMC-TS1 Lumix Hands-on – Rugged compact camera

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We love to see gadget gets tested on the spot. Last week you’ve seen the Olympus Tough Styles get physically abused on video, and now we have another cool presentation from Panasonic booth at PMA 2009 showing off their first-gen rugged camera withstanding drop test, being submerge in the water, and...

Japan plans to let robots and humans work hand in hand on the moon

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Picture courtesy of NASA and TKK The Japanese government said Friday the nation should do everything it can to send a robot to the moon by 2020 followed by a human astronaut 10 years later in order to explore the moon’s natural resources.

Mimi ear switch: Not what we need right now

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Some Japenese folks invented the “ear switch,” an in-ear device that uses light to trigger switches based on your facial expressions.

Quick Look: SanDisk ImageMate USB 2.0 reader/writer

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About two weeks ago SanDisk announced their refreshed ImageMate memory card readers and most times we’d pass right by it without a second thought, but these seemed different.

This kre-8 cellphone concept is only for music buffs

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This is one of the better concepts I’ve seen ’round these parts, and I see plenty of them.

Be mad, Apple fans: RIM to sponsor U2’s upcoming tour

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Oh. Your. God. If you’re standing, sit down. If you’re sitting down, stand up, then sit down again. Huge, huge news: U2, once synonymous with Apple , has now signed a deal with Research in Motion, which will sponsor the band’s upcoming tour.

Shape-Shifting Phones, Netbooks in Your Future

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Shape-Shifting Phones, Netbooks in Your Future Imagine a smart phone that, when you pull it out of your pocket, converts to a netbook. According to a report in Information Week, this futuristic technology is closer than you think.

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