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Twitter for BlackBerry gets push mentions, pull to refresh

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RIM on Tuesday gave BlackBerry beta testers a new version of Twitter with an improved UI that brought it closer to its Android and iPhone peers. The app now has optional push notifications for @mentions to ease answering users back.

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Motorola Xoom Launches Without Flash

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Motorola's Flash-free Xoom tablet at the Mobile World Congress. Photo: Charlie Sorrel Motorola’s $800 white elephant, the Xoom tablet, will ship without Adobe’s Flash browser plugin.

Urban Ears Reveals The Bagis Earbuds

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Check out these neat little earbuds from Urban Ears. These hipster buds come in eight different colors, have an inline mic and remote, and the ends snap together around your neck when not in use.

Boxee Box HD Media Player, Updated and Netflix Ready

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Free flowing bandwidth; it's an enabler. There was a time when no one had cable modems or DSL lines. Remember that? Alright, fair enough, neither do we. Regardless, having a 10Mb+ data connection to your domicile is a thing of beauty, because there's obviously so much you can do with it.

iTunes Looking To Provide Higher Quality Music Files?

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Apple is currently in discussions with record labels regarding ways to improve the quality of the song files sold on iTunes and fix the degradation of music that the digital revolution has caused.

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DIY Transformers 2 Megatron tank is utterly crazy

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All of a sudden, Batman Tumbler replicas don’t seem quite so intimidating. Chinese artist “Steel Legend” has put together an incredible, huge replica of the Megatron tank from the Transformers 2 movie, as seen on ZCool: almost five tons of hand-crafted madness.

Subscription squabbling in iOS apps rumbles ever onwards

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There have been some very sharply worded defences of Apple's new subscription payments requirements written over the last 24 hours: John Gruber: What [Readability are] pissed about is that Apple has the stronger hand. Readability needs Apple to publish an app in the App Store.

Motorola Xoom to still cost $600 on contract

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Verizon today confirmed the contract pricing for the Motorola Xoom. The device will still cost $600 on a two-year plan, or as much as a Galaxy Tab off-contract. It had already confirmed that the Xoom would cost $800 without a plan....

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Having Collected Sufficient Funds, Geohot Calls Off Donation Request

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George Hotz, the “hacker” known to the world at Geohot, had recently asked for donations for a legal defense fund. You’ll recall that Sony flipped out after Geohot made the tools available for everyday people to jailbreak their PS3, which in Sony’s mind is tantamount to piracy.

The Sims Medieval Game Arriving March 22nd (video)

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If you are a Sims fan you might already know that a new spin on the Sims genre is due to be released on March 22nd. It combines the life simulation of The Sims, takes it to a dramatic new setting, and adds features that change the way you play.

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GeoHot Appeal Raises Funds Required To Help Fight Sony’s Legal Team

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After an online appeal hacker GeoHot has now raised the required funds to help him fight his case against Sony and its legal team after he jailbroke Sony’s Playstation 3 console.The GeoHot appeal has already generated in excess of $10,000 which has been confirmed to be genuine money by his...

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Motoroloa Xoom $600 With Verizon contract, $800 Without

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Motorola Xoom spec sheet, Mobile World Congress 2011. Photo Charlie Sorrel We knew that Motorola’s Xoom tablet was going to cost $800 in its unencumbered, contract free state, but now Verizon has revealed the price for those willing to sign up for data: $600.

Pre Plus owners get webOS 2.1 on O2 Germany

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The webOS 2.1 firmware for the Pre Plus handset has now been made available for download in Germany, despite HP saying earlier this month it won't upgrade older handsets to the firmware.

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iTunes, others mulling move to 24-bit music tracks

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Apple and others are considering upgrading the audio on tracks a second time to get close to master-level audio quality, sources both public and otherwise said on Tuesday. Label heads are negotiating to bring the underlying bit depth from 16-bit to 24-bit.

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Anaheim Union High School District To Use GPS Tracking

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Ditching school used to be a lot easier. A California based school district wants to stop all hooky playing. Anaheim Union High School District will being giving students who have missed four unexcused days in a school year a GPS tracking device.

Verizon Announces Motorola Xoom Contract Pricing

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Verizon Wireless has announced the contract pricing for the Motorola Xoom tablet, the Xoom will retail for $600 on a two year data contract which will cost you $20 per month.Verizon will also sell you the Xoom without a contract for $799.99 this is the price we heard previously, and Verizon has...

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Windows Phone 7 Update Causes Problems for Samsung Users

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Yesterday, Microsoft started rolling out a small update to WP7 users around the globe. The small update was designed to update the update process, if that makes sense.

European Palm Pre Plus gets webOS 2.1 Update

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HP has released the webOS 2.1 update for Palm Pre Plus users in Germany. The update is ready to download now and can be found here.

Windows 7 SP1 Incoming Today (But It’s Primarily A Bugfix)

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A quick heads-up for the Windows 7 users in the crowd. Microsoft will publish Windows 7 SP1 later today. It’s primarily a giant bugfix (though Windows Server 2008 sees some new features), so don’t expect anything mind-blowing. Keep an eye on your Windows Update.

Amazon Adds Free Unlimited Movie Streaming for Prime Users

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Good news, Amazon Prime users. Amazon is amping up its fight against Netflix, and you're going to reap the benefit.

12TB Storage OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2

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If you are in the market for a massive amount of storage for your Mac machine or PC then OWC’s new 12 TB Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 storage solution might be worth a look.Capable of taking up to 12TB of RAID storage, the new 4 drive storage case is perfect for Mac users and is equipped with...

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Buffalo Launches USB 3.0 DriveStation Range

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Buffalo has updated its DriveStation range with two new USB 3,0 models, the Buffalo DriveStation Duo and DriveStation Quad.

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SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: February 22 2011

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Well hello there all you morning readers, haven’t seen you around for a while! We’ve been to Barcelona and back and now we’re back in the New York Groove to get you all the news you want in the tiny package you love the best – SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up!

TomTom GO 2435 and GO 2535 PNDs quietly revealed

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TomTom has quietly pushed out two new ranges of standalone touchscreen GPS units, the TomTom GO 2435 and GO 2535 lines, complete with capacitive touchscreens and new, “intuitive” voice recognition.

Rumor: iPhone 5 to land in September

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In a research note, analyst Craig Berger of FBR Capital markets makes the bold claim that the iPhone 5 will not launch until September.

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Time Machine over a network

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This week, Jude writes in and asks about using a home theater Mac mini as a Time Machine location for his MacBook Pro. We show him how to do this with some tweaking to his MacBook Pro.

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