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Apple’s mobile partner in China announces its own iPhone rival

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The parent company of China Unicom, Apple's sole partner for carrying the iPhone in China, revealed plans on Monday to release its own mobile computing platform. Dubbed "Wophone", the platform will compete directly with Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

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How Steve Jobs missed knighthood in 2009

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has received a number of accolades over the years, but now The Telegraph is reporting that he missed out on an honor that Bill Gates received way back in 2005 — an honorary knighthood.

How I learned to love the Google-bomb

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Sally Adee, features editor Hell hath no fury. Last month, a scorned woman uploaded a picture of her ex-boyfriend to a website that lets users add humorous captions to pictures (much like this one).

Get Ready to Control Laptops with Your Eyeballs

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It’s said the eyes are the windows to your soul, but as it turns out, they’re also integrated input devices. Or at least that’s the idea behind Tobii’s eye-controlled laptop concept.

MobileNotifier for iOS Embarrasses Apple’s Poor Effort

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Peter Hajas’ MobileNotifier is what iOS notifications should be Notifications on iOS suck. Peter Hajas’ MobileNotifier hack fixes them, and fixes them good.

USB Light-Up Alien Collectible

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If you’re a fan of the movie Alien (or the sequels like Aliens and Alien 3), you’ll want to get your hands on this USB Light-Up Alien Collectible. It’s a mini version of the Alien from the movie that stands just over 9 inches tall.

GoToMyPC For iPad Now Available

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For as corny as the radio commercials are, GoToMyPC is definitely a hit in the business world. It's simple, clean, and gets to the point. That spells success in the business world, where red tape and clutter are more the rule than the exception.

Stay Cool With Expensive Honeywell Prestige Thermostat System

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Thermostats are common enough and everybody has one. So how does a company go about reinventing a ubiquitous piece of hardware? For Honeywell it’s easy; develop a three part system that keeps your house temperature under control even when you’re on vacation.(...

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Interactive billboards which can recognize and take names of the passers

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IBM’s research team is working on a billboard technology that will automatically identify the customers and would show trailers of their choice. The billboard would be an advanced digital advertising screens that shares some resemblance with the screen in the Hollywood film Minority Report.

Verizon Takes Cloud-Based Unified Communications To The Mobile

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Come to think of it, "Unified Communications" is a catchphrase that never really took off with consumers. Maybe more so in the business realm, but as for regular joes? Video calling, texting and Twitter pretty much stole the thunder. But these days, the cloud is making a comeback.

Mozilla Changing Firefox Updates To Be Fast And Furious

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Mozilla has announced today that it will be changing the way it updates its new version Firefox, following the faster update pattern by Google for its Chrome browser. Rather than holding back smaller Firefox updates until a major release is ready to launch. (...

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The Solar Pegasus Is Darn Weird And Pretty Ridiculous

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The idea itself is pretty neat. How do you make a toy of the mythical flying horse, well, fly? Perhaps using technology developed for robot hummingbirds could work, but that would be too expensive. Solar power, then?(...

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MountMe Freedom iPad Holder Complete With Handy Suction Cups

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MountMe has just launched its new line of iPad holders that allows you to attach your Apple device to nearly any flat surface using four suction cups positioned on the rear of their Freedom iPad holder.The MountMe Freedom iPad holder also comes with a number of other attachments allowing you to...

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Intel Closes Deal To Acquire McAfee

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Intel has now completed its acquisition of McAfee for $7.68 billion which Intel first announced in August 2010. The acquisition was an all-cash deal and is the biggest of its kind Intel has ever made in its 42 year history. (...

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Danger Sidekick service shuttered on May 31: T-Mobile wants to sell you a new phone

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T-Mobile’s promise to “work on the next chapter of our storied Sidekick franchise” is seemingly Sidekick in name only, with the news today that Microsoft is shutting down the Danger Service that powers traditional Sidekick devices.

On Video Confirmation: RIM Rep Says QNX to Run Android Apps

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Loose lips sink ships, they say, it appears that the loose lips of a RIM representative have confirm the rumors that have been going around of late. BlackBerry's QNX platform, which will run its PlayBook tablet and future smartphones, will run Android apps as well.

LG Optimus 2X Coming To Europe This Month

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The LG Optimus 2X went on sale in Japan back in January, and LG has just dropped us an email to let us know that the new Optimus 2X will go on sale in Europe this month.(...)Read the rest of LG Optimus 2X Coming To Europe This Month (142 words)© Roland Hutchinson for Geeky Gadgets, 2011.

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Bendable power management can be possible with graphene nanosheets

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South Korean scientists have concluded a form of bendable power sources running on graphene nanosheets. It a highly flexible material which can be rolled or molded into a wearable device. So a user can carry the electronic devices with him wherever he would like to and he can even wear them.

Microsoft Kinect sales outstrip sales expectations in 2010

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iSuppli has reported that Microsoftís Xbox 360 Kinect accessory exceeded Microsoftís sales expectations for 2010. Microsoftís initial sales forecast for the motion-sensing accessory to ship five million Kinect units.

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Motorola Xoom WiFi UK Price Revealed

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It looks like we now have some confirmed pricing of the WiFi version of the Motorola Xoom here in the UK, as UK retailer PC World has now listed the WiFi Xoom for £449.99.(...)Read the rest of Motorola Xoom WiFi UK Price Revealed (228 words)© Roland Hutchinson for Geeky Gadgets, 2011.

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Cute Electronic Piggy Bank Munches on Credit cards

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Arduino and iPhone-based Piggy Bank by Wang Chao, Maggie Kuo and Jordi Parra This little piggy bank is an electronic monster whose wild mood swings can only be appeased by a credit card.

Ex-Apple manager admits $2m conspiracy

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A former Apple employee who worked on the iPhone has admitted he accepted bribes from Asian suppliers and leaked confidential information, in a conspiracy believed to have cost the company more than $2m.

Intel’s $7.68bn McAfee purchase complete: “entirely new” security system promised

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Intel has completed its acquisition of McAfee, promising “the first fruits” of the strategic partnership later in 2011.

The Pentax K-r Gets Yet Another Special Edition (In Japan)

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I don’t know what it is about Pentax and special editions, but today the company announced [JP] yet another one, for the K-r. This time, Pentax inked a licensing deal with Tokyo-based San-X to use their star cartoon character, super-cute bear Rilakkuma, in a special version of the camera.

Prepaid iPhone in the works? Tim Cook’s comments paraphrased and interpreted

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Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, recently spoke with Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi about Apple's possible plans to introduce cheaper or prepaid iPhones. While Sacconaghi didn't give any exact quotes, he paraphrased a few of Cook's thoughts.

Motorola Sues TiVo For Infringing On DVR Patents

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Nothing like a little courtroom drama (or "litigation," as they call it) to get the watercooler talk started, right? Motorola Mobility has just sued TiVo (yeah, TiVo!) for doing the unthinkable: infringing its patents for digital video recorders (DVRs). Ouch.

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