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Verizon starts up home phone service

February 17th, 2011 link to (permalink)

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Verizon has just launched its Home Phone Connect home-phone service that uses a wireless router. It will retain the use of a traditional home phone, however, and allow for unlimited domestic calls for $20 per month. Anyone, not just current subscribers, can sign up....

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Sprint may have no choice but to use LTE 4G

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An interview by PCWorld held with Sprint at the Mobile World Congress show reveals Sprint may make the switchover from WiMAX technology to LTE for technical reasons in addition to other, more practical ones.

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National Broadband Map shows high-speed Internet options

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The Obama administration on Thursday allowed access to the National Broadband Map it has just created. The new online service lets consumers and researchers find details on what broadband connections are available to them, how many there are and where they are.

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Sony’s Kaz Hirai: PS3 still on the same 10-year cycle as PS2

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The PlayStation 3 isn't having its cycle accelerated to roll out its sequel, Sony Computer Entertainment head Kaz Hirai said in a chat on Thursday. He put the PS3 on the same 10-year track as earlier consoles and said the current system was "not at the halfway point yet."

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DIY Projection Screen Paint Tests

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Movie theater and other high quality screens are often surfaced with tiny glass beads to provide high “screen gain,” which is a measure of the screen’s reflectivity versus a reference surface.

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Acer To Launch Windows Phone 7 Devices This Fall

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Acer is the latest to embrace Windows Phone 7 as the company says they are preparing mobile devices for release in either September or October in 2011. Pocket-lint says an Acer spokesperson confirmed the information for the Fall release.

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Google Social Search now pushes Twitter, Flickr friends

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Google on Thursday made a significant change to its Social Search to better bring in social networks. The engine now pushes videos and other content recommended by friends depending on their relevance through outside sites, such as from Twitter, Flickr or a Blogger page.

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Where Does Watson Go From Here? First Stop: Healthcare

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We all saw what Watson did last night, but now the question becomes: what now? So what that IBM created an artificial intelligence that was able to answer a few trivia questions?

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Daily Crunch: The Batman Cometh Edition

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DOTKLOK: A Clock Made Of DotsThis Phineas And Ferb CD Boombox Is For Kids And/Or DadsInterview With Halfbot Over Their App Store IP Theft Of “The Blocks Cometh”Mimoco’s Latest Puts Your Data On DC Comic ClassicsLight Strikers: Like Laser Tag But Much...

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Detroit Will Get a Robocop Statue Thanks to the Internet

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Earlier this month, a man, who describes himself as a random dude from Massachusetts and not a mountain, tweeted "@mayordavebing Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky & Robocop would kick Rocky's butt. He's a GREAT ambassador for Detroit."

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One in Three Russians Thinks Sun Revolves Around Earth

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Aristarchus of Samos suggested it in the third century BC. Nicolaus Copernicus really drove the point home about 1,800 years later. And, in case anyone still had forgotten, Sun Ra reminded us in 1965, with The Heliocentric Worlds, volumes one and two.

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Google’s Social Search Gets Updated

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Google has just announced that they have updated their social search feature, and now social search results will appear within normal search results, previously these social search results only appeared at the bottom of the page.Google has also made a number of changes to its social search and...

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Apple to use 60 percent of world touchscreen supply in 2011

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Apple is buying up touchscreen displays for the 40 million iPad tablets it intends to sell in 2011, and it has scooped up 60 percent of the global touchscreen inventory.

MagicWand Helps Aluminum Keyboard and Magic Trackpad Stick Together

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Twelve South’s MagicWand is a 16-inch strip of aluminum with a single purpose in life: to make your Apple keyboard and trackpad get along better. The Bluetooth aluminum keyboard and the Magic Trackpad slide into the c-section strip and are held together as one solid unit.

IE9 Release Candidate Reaches 2 Million Downloads

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Just one week after Microsoft unveiled its IE9 release candidate, there have already been over 2 million downloads of the new browser.

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Solowheel Will Soon Be The Next Unicycle Craze

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The latest revolution in pedestrian mobility is upon us. Like all the other single-person transports that have aspired to turn sidewalks into mini highways, we’re not sure if the Solowheel really is a revolution or destined for smashing success.

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British Ancestors Used Human Skulls as Bowls

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Say what you will about the forward march of technology, we've made some undeniably positive advances as a species--like how we don't eat our breakfast cereal out of the top of a human skull anymore.

www.gearlog.com

Redbox New Streaming Service To Compete Head-On With Netflix

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Redbox President Mitch Lowe has today confirmed that Redbox is planning to launch a new streaming media service to compete with Netflix head-on, in a report with the Los Angeles Times.During an interview with Lowe he explained that Redbox’s forthcoming digital option will be...

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Not all doctors are created equal

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We all know that a US shock tabloid is running with a story involving Steve Jobs' health and his possible ongoing treatment (no, we're not linking it).

Sony denies rumored plans to exit iTunes

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Sony is preparing to launch its Music Unlimited service in the U.S. today and has used this occasion to debunk the rumor that it was pulling out of iTunes.

Kno tablet pre-orders to ship in 60 days

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The 14-inch Kno tablet has been marred by multiple delays, but now comes news of the tablet shipping in the middle of April. CrunchGear said those who pre-ordered the tablet were notified they are shipping in 60 days, and Kno confirmed this notification.

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Apple, Cisco, Pfizer, others lobby for special tax break

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A variety of technology corporations are among those pressuring the US government to give them a preferential tax break, sources tell Fortune. Apple, Cisco, Pfizer and Duke Energy are specifically named as lobbying politicians for a tax "holiday" in regards to repatriated cash.

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Redbox confirms subscription service, may team with Amazon

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Redbox at an analyst presentation said its tentative movie streaming would follow the subscription model. In confirming the plans, President Mitch Lowe said it would follow a strategy similar to Netflix, where members would get the Internet streaming along with access to physical copies.

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How to: Turn Perfect Wooden Spheres on a Lathe

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Orlando’s Rob Hoppe provides a set of step-by-steps that will help you create wooden spheres. With this technique you only have to reposition the wood once.

blog.makezine.com

Motorola Xoom Coming to Major UK Retailers

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The Motorola Xoom is launching in the UK in the second quarter of this year. We now learn that major retailers will be selling the new Android 3.0 tablet when it launches.The retailers include PC World, Currys/Dixons as well as the Carphone Warehouse.With a quarter 2 launch scheduled, this could...

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CafePress Wants To Give You A CrunchGear iPhone 4 Case

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Happy Thursday! CafePress, makers of customized T-shirts and books and mugs and stuff, wants to give you, the fine people of CG, 100 CrunchGear iPhone 4 cases. Why? Because you guys are b to the a to the d to the a to the double snakes, that’s why.

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