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Lego Loses Battle to Trademark Brick

September 15th, 2010 link to (permalink)

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The Lego brick is one of the most iconic products in the toy industry--not iconic enough, however, for the company to score the trademark rights to the design. Not in the European Union, at least. A Luxembourg-based judge upheld a 2008 ruling, which struck down Lego's trademark claims.

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A VHS Skin For Your Notebook, iPhone, & Blackberry

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Nothing says radical like a pile of VHS taps, each with a carefully written label detailing someone’s collection of Cheers episodes. $15 for the cell phone skins and $20 for the notebook one.

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3M intros pair of pico projectors for business users

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3M on Wednesday introduced two new pocket projectors with the MP160 and MP180. Either sports 30 lumens of brightness and can produce 800x600 pictures. The portable devices are also said to provide a record-setting two hours of operation from a single battery charge despite their miniscule sizes....

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Joojoo maker accused of planning to split away for months

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TechCrunch today said it had found evidence that Fusion Garage's decision to break its partnership for the CrunchPad and sell it as the Joojoo was a deliberate "conspiracy" to exploit its partner's work.

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Just A Palm Tungsten C Running Android 2.1, That’s All

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Why not breathe new life into an older device like the Palm Tungsten C with a bit of tasty Android? I guess I should note that this install lacks WiFi, Bluetooth, audio, and internal storage as the release is booting from an SD card.

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Hack Turns $170 Photos and Apps Viewer Into a Tablet

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If you haven’t heard of the Insignia Infocast, a photos and apps viewer billed as an “internet media display,” it may be time to give this device a second look. The Infocast has enough hardware chops and an Linux-based operating system to transform it into a kind of a tablet.

Skyhook sues Google for monopolizing Android geolocation

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Skyhook on Wednesday sued Google for allegedly abusing its control over Android to exclude competitors for geolocation services.

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Olive Media puts out lower cost music server

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Olive Media, known for its music servers such as the $2,000 4HD music server, has just announced its most affordable product, the $1,000 O3HD. The new HD music server has a much smaller internal hard drive, expected to be 512GB rather than the 4 HD's 2TB of built-in storage.

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MSI Launches Latest N450GTS Cyclone Series Graphics Card

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City of Industry, CA – September 13, 2010 – MSI, the world’s renowned graphics card and motherboard manufacturer, today officially launched the N450GTS Cyclone series of graphics cards, which are equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 GPU.

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Corsair Announces New Line of Power Supply Units

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Fremont, California — September 14, 2010 — Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the Corsair Gaming Series™ Power Supplies. These PSUs are an ideal price-performance solution for building or upgrading a gaming PC.

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OCZ Technology Announces Next Generation Ultra-Low and Extreme-Low Voltage DDR3 Memory Kits

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SAN JOSE, CA—September 14, 2010—OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ, a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) and memory modules for computing devices and systems, unveils new Ultra-Low Voltage (ULV) and Extreme-Low Voltage (ELV) high-speed DDR3 desktop memory, providing...

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Shure ships three new high-end earphones

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Shure has released three new pairs of high-end, sound-isolating in-ear headphones, including the single-driver SE315, dual-driver SE425 and triple-driver SE535. The latter two were introduced at this year's CES.

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ASUS Unveils New Notebooks and PCs at Pepcom

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As the title might suggest to you, PEPCOM is happening tonight. And, while it’s one way to get people to meet and greet, it’s primarily just another avenue for companies to show off and announce new pieces of technology.

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Rumor: Left 4 Dead on the Mac by October 5?

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Left 4 Dead is the last promised Valve title to see release on Steam for Mac, and yet we haven't heard anything about an official release date. Valve was moving along pretty well for a while there, releasing games for our platform every Wednesday.

Exclusive US Preview at Hand-Eye Supply: September 23, 2010

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Core77's Hand-Eye Supply is happy to invite you to our first reception: the US debut of the Plumen Light Bulb, the world's first designer energy saving bulb.

LG making Windows Phone 7 device with WiMAX for Sprint?

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A posting on WebOSWorld has maintained that an LG handset that runs on Windows Phone 7 has been spotted that may reach Sprint's 4G network. The device would supposedly run on Sprint's WiMAX and would be the first non-Android phone to support the faster mobile speeds....

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iPad’s Orientation Lock Switch Repurposed To Mute In iOS 4.2

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This isn’t exactly headline news, but I think it’s interesting. Apple has, in a rather rare show of hardware mutability, changed the behavior of the orientation lock switch on the iPad.

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Study: Nearly Three-Quarters of Adults Support Violent Video Game Ban

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Are video games too violent? Yes, says pretty much every grownup, ever, apparently. This is according to a new study commissioned by Common Sense Media, a parent watchdog group.

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Behind the OnStar Announcement: Facebook Outsells Safety

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With OnStar's "Responsible Connectivity" announcement Tuesday that it's enhancing mobile phone links and possibly adding Facebook and text messaging hooks, there's a tacit admission that the old OnStar model - sell safety for $15 a month, sell safety, navigation, and operator services for $30 -...

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Sony PlayStation 3 Could be Backwards Compatible Again, Thanks to Peripheral

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It’s no secret that the original versions of the PlayStation 3 from Sony were backwards compatible. You could enjoy plenty of PlayStation 2 titles, right from your shiny new next generation console, without actually having to own a PS2.

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Angry Birds introducing Mighty Eagle, costs real money to skip levels

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If you're an Angry Birds player like me, you've hit a couple of levels you've had to play ten or more times before finally being able to progress. Curse those speedy yellow birds! Give me more bombers!

Google Music may tout cloud locker for $25 a year

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Google Music may depend on an online-based locker, not subscriptions, as the cornerstone of its service, insiders said today. Label contacts said Google's initial proposal would charge a flat $25 per year to put any music a customer owns in cloud storage that they could then stream or download.

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Context Aware Computing Will Make Gadgets Smarter, Says Intel

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Small handheld devices that never go to sleep combined with low power sensors could signal a new class of “context aware” gadgets that are more like personal companions.

DIY: Add LED Backlighting To Your LCD Monitor Or HDTV

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It’s relatively easy to find a dead LCD these days even without diving into a dumpster. Most of the time all that’s wrong is the backlighting mechanism went out, too, leaving a perfectly good LCD behind. So why not rip out that old CCFL and replace it with a swanky LED strip.

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Notion Ink Adam Passes Through the FCC Ahead of Schedule

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The last we heard about Notion Ink’s Android-based iPad-killing tablet, the company had begun to sift out developers for its proprietary application digital storefront. Codenamed Genesis, it got plenty of people excited for what was to come.

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Report: Foxconn making 1.5 iPhones per second

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137,000 iPhones per day. That's how many manufacturer Foxconn is reportedly making these days, its chairman tells the press. That's an amazing figure adding up to 50 million iPhones every single year, even as Apple struggles to keep enough hardware in stock.

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