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Sanyo’s rugged Taho phone coming to Sprint

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Sprint just announced it will bring the rugged Sanyo Taho handset to its stores. Built by Kyocera, the handset sports a two-megapixel camera with a flash and video recording function housed in a shell that's resistant to dust, shock and vibration.

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Meizu ships 2nd-gen iPhone clone on Christmas, 2.3 later

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Meizu's chief Jack Wong today said his company's M9 smartphone would ship in China on Christmas day. The Android phone widely considered to be an iPhone clone should reach Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenzhen at the same time and will expand to other cities and countries later.

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Sprint Plans 4G Tablet For 2011

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Sprint has quietly announced plans for a 4G tablet to be released some time in 2011. In an interview cited but not quoted at Forbes, Paget Alves, Sprint’s President of Business Markets, said that they were planning to expand their 4G and tablet portfolio and embrace more operating systems than...

Apple iTunes: 90 second song previews now available (on select songs)

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Section: Apple, Audio, Web, Online Music/Video It looks like those promised 90 second song previews are now live in iTunes. Of course, that is not for every song. To begin with, this is (at least for now) only available in the US.

Snapstick iPhone App Lets You Snap the Internet to Your TV [Video]

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The iPhone can be used in a lot of different ways, outside of the standard things that Apple let out of the labs.

Toshiba power outage may hurt flash supply; Apple said safe

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Toshiba today said it had a power outage at its Yokkaichi plant that could affect flash memory supply. The failure at 5:21AM yesterday stopped production and won't be fixed until sometime Friday.

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The Top Holiday Games

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With just two weeks until Christmas, it's time to start finishing up that holiday shopping. Over the past several days, we've been highlighting the top games for the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PS3, and PC. I've you've got a gamer on your holiday list, we've got the roundup for you.

Windows Phone 7 Transparent Lock Screen (video)

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If you are the owner of a Windows Phone 7 mobile phone and you haven’t enabled the Windows Phone 7 transparent lock screen your really missing out a fantastic time saver. The creation of a transparent lock screen was first discovered by WP7 developer Keyboardp.

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Smugglers Try To Sneak $143,000 Worth Of iPads From China Into… China

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Fourteen women were caught smuggling a total of 88 Pads and 340 iPhones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen. The women had the devices strapped to their bodies.

Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone Gets Benchmarked on Video

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Despite the fact that Sony may have denied the PlayStation phone in the past, it’s obviously a real thing, and it’s coming. With rumors suggesting that the device could launch as early as March, 2011, it’s easy to start hoping that the device gets leaked more and more.

iPad deals: QVC offers iPad bundle at a nice price

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Shopping channel QVC, of all places, has a pretty good iPad deal going on right now. It's offering up Apple's magical and revolutionary device (in a 16GB Wi-Fi version) along with a ton of accessories for US $749.

iPad already matches Linux in web market share; will represent 2.3% of total net traffic in 2011

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In an interesting Chitika research note, the internet advertising firm says the iPad is currently making up 0.83% of all internet traffic. When Chitika says "all internet traffic" they mean the 100,000+ sites they serve ads to.

RIM renames WES to BlackBerry World, expands focus

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Last week's rumor of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion renaming its annual developer conference has proven true. The Wireless Enterprise Symposium is now called BlackBerry World, or, as RIM puts it, WES is now part of the broader BlackBerry World event.

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Daily Gift: Electronic Music Synthesizer Shirt

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If you didn't find what you were looking for in PCMag's roundup of the best gifts for music lovers, we found another great product that will surely make any music geek smile. The Electronic Music Synthesizer Shirt from ThinkGeek puts a real playable music synthesizer on your shirt.

Toshiba Power Outage Stops Flash Memory Supply

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Toshiba sent out a news bit today saying that their Yokkaichi plant is in the midst of a power outage and that this failure (at 5:21AM yesterday) could affect flash memory supply.

Parallels weirds us out with this Eminem/Avatar Mac parody

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A warning: The video after the break is one of the weirdest things we've ever seen promoting the Mac OS. Sure, it's from Parallels, and sure, the virtualization software guys know how to sell a switch over to the Mac.

LaCie ships external Slim Blu-ray writer

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LaCie on Thursday announced it is now shipping its LaCie Slim Blu-ray external drive. USB 2.0-powered, the drive is meant to act as a notebook companion and lets them write to blank single- (25GB) and dual-layer (50GB) Blu-ray discs. It can also read and write to single- and dual-layer DVDs....

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Nortel patent sale may see Apple, Google snap up 3G, 4G tech

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A patent selloff by struggling Canadian tech firm Nortel Networks could see Apple, Google or RIM buy patents that tip the balance in their favor, a leak asserted on Thursday.

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iPad deals: Apple Store refurbs drop prices

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Dealmac pointed out yesterday that Apple has cut the prices on several refurbished models of the iPad. The Apple Store warns in red print that this is a Special Limited Time Price, which means now is the time to spread the news among your friends.

This Chinese Knock-Off Looks Like A Bizarro Magic Mouse

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If you’re familiar with Superman, you probably know about his twin from the Bizarro world, where everything is backwards and Superman has a kind of angled, misshapen face. That seems to be the perfect analogy for comparing Apple’s sleek Magic Mouse with this Eastern Times DS-2375.

Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 7 push notification limitations

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Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile A few days ago we began hearing of limitations on the amount of push capable apps that could be used at any one time on a Windows Phone 7 handset. And well, it turns out that the limit is indeed correct and has been confirmed by Microsoft.

Space Tourism on the Cheap, Send Your Photo Into Orbit for $4.95

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Who want's to go to space!? Me too! Too bad the cost of experiencing even a few minutes of spaciness via the new breed of space tourism companies is prohibitively expensive for most of us.

Portable Hand-Powered Paper Shredder

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This is probably not the first hand-cranked paper shredder you have come across, but’s it most likely the smallest one you have seen so far. The tiny document slicer is easy to bring along and requires not batteries whatsoever.

Apple Products to No Longer Be Sold at Costco Membership Warehouse

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Ruh roh! It appears that because of reasons surrounding the facts that while Costco has carried iPods and iTunes cards from their retail locations for quite a while now, Apple has never allowed them to sell Apple items on their webpage (like other retailers can) and Costco didn’t gain...

Now Go Home And Get Your Cole Haan Shinebox

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Looking for a good way to put down the high roller in your life? Get him a shinebox, so whenever he gets out of line, you can pull a Billy Batts, though hopefully without all the stabbing. Seriously though, this is a nice-looking accessory for anyone who cares about their leather.