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Shock Study: Energy Drinks May Not Be The Healthiest Things To Give To Children

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Flickr’d Bad news for those of you in the audience who love energy drinks, particularly those of you with children or younger siblings. Well, and if you make a habit of giving energy drinks to said youngsters.

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Motorola Xoom $1200 Best Buy Pre-Order Page Pulled

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Best Buy had published an ad on their site for taking pre-orders on the Motorola Xoom listing it at $1200. This seemed way over-priced, double that of an entry-level iPad, and much more than the anticipated but already hefty $800 price point. However, today, it seems that Best Buy has pulled the ad.

Windows Phone 7 Major Update To Include Multitasking And IE9

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Microsoft just announced at the MWC today what lies ahead for Windows Phone 7. Several new features are scheduled for an update due out in the first two weeks of March while several other major features should be updated by the second half of this year.

Acer Iconia Tab A100 hands-on

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Earlier we reported from MWC 2011 with a hands-on of the Acer Iconia Tab A500. Well, now we have a hands-on with its little brother, the A100. Again, unlike the Iconia Smart, which is more of a phone and tablet hybrid, the A100 focuses on being a full tablet but smaller with a 7-inch display.

Off the Burning Platform and into the Holding Pattern? WP7 not Ready

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After all of the excitement surrounding Nokia’s move to abandon Symbian (the burning platform) and move to Windows Phone 7, there might be a long wait before it actually appears on Nokia’s phones.

A Week In A Factory-Customized $27k Scion xB

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A Scion xB just found our driveway. I know what you’re thinking: it’s a boy-racer box-car. Well, you’d be right, but from first impression it’s actually pretty fun to drive.

CUPP Computing hybrid demo at WMC 2011

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Honeycomb, ChromeOS or Ubuntu for ARM running on separate ARM CPU on any computer.. me wants!

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Hands-On: A Plastic Toy With a Gorgeous Screen

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BARCELONA — The expect deluge of tablets has started with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, a big-screen version of the seven-inch Galaxy Tab which has sold about two million units.

Intel 310 Series 80GB mSATA SSD Review

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As tablets, portable media players, and even ultra-thin notebooks keep shrinking in size, so too will the components they're built around. This is where Intel's new 310 Series SSDs come into play.

Interview with Pattie Moore, proponent of Universal Design

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SmartPlanet's got an interview up with Pattie Moore, one of the mothers of Universal Design. Most of us that have gone through ID programs learned that way back in 1979, when product design was a lot less enlightened as a field than it is now, Moore began disguising herself as an elderly woman and...

Video: The Titanium Leica M9 Gets Unboxed

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I’m genuinely surprised that the $32,000 Titanium Leica M9 ships in a cardboard box. I’d expect nothing less than a titanium crate and a Jack Bauer wannabe.

Intel Shipping XMM 6260 HSPA+ modem, Introduces LTE XMM 7060

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Intel announced on Monday that it will begin shipping the XMM 6260 platform to key partners. The plaform supports HSPA+ networks with download speeds up to 21Mbps and upload speeds up to 11.5Mbps. The platform is said to use less power than competitor’s products (especially ARM).

Valentine’s Day iPhone apps for the woman who bore your children

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You love her. You admire her. You have given her the gift of children. (For the purposes of this post, they will be considered a gift. A loving gift. A blessing, even.) You share a home, a past, and a future. It's Valentine's Day.

Hands-On With Samsung’s Five-Inch iPod Touch Rival

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BARCELON -– Amidst the fuss about Samsung’s new ten-inch Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy S 2 cellphone, an even more interesting product has gotten somewhat lost: A five-inch Wi-Fi-only mini-tablet, called the Galaxy S Wi-Fi 5.0. The thin little media-player is somewhere between the already...

Is Apple Finally Releasing an iPhone Nano?

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Apple might be preparing a smaller, less-expensive version of the iPhone for release this year, according to multiple media outlets.

Texas Instruments OMAP4 Gesture Recognition

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Texas Instruments was showing gesture recognition back at MWC 2010, but with OMAP4 the system has really come of age.

SG Comics Presents: Survivor Mobile OS

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Mobile/tablet OS platforms are duking it out for survival as platform updates, new product launches, dubious alliances and speculations continue to brew.

Portal 2 Now Available For Pre-Order

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Valve has released the details surrounding pre-ordering Portal 2. The game is available for pre-order right now on Steam (and other retailers), and if you pre-order the game they’ll knock $5 off the price, bringing it down to $45.

Verizon data limitations not unique to iPhone

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There's a video up at 9to5 Mac which demonstrates how iPhones on Verizon and AT&T handle conference calling differently. Specifically, the CDMA-based Verizon phone is unable to jump between calls like the AT&T iPhone can. The user began by placing a call on both phones.

Sonim shows latest XP3300 Force with 24 hour talk time

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Sonim has brought its latest ultra-rugged handset to the Mobile World Congress show in Spain with the XP3300 Force. While the exterior is the same tried and tested design shared by others in the lineup, it differs by offering talk time that ranges between 20 and 24 hours.

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Hands on: Samsung Galaxy S 4G for T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network

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A significant portion of the Mobile World Congress unveilings were geared for international releases or European launches, but Samsung also brought one of its forthcoming Galaxy S variants that will be headed to T-Mobile.

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Debunked: Amazon book listings suggest Mac OS X Lion ship date

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TUAW readers know from past articles that Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is expected to ship sometime this summer -- Apple told us that during the Back to the Mac event on October 20, 2010.

TI’s Prototype USB Pico Projector Is Tiny And Potentially Awesome

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I’ve reviewed a few pico projectors, and one of their main limitations seems to be input type. That is to say, there are too many input types, since they’re meant to accommodate a variety of devices.

Deloitte: Text Messaging Still Far More Popular Than Mobile Twitter, Other Social Networks

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Don't tell Twitter's Dick Costolo, but it seems everyday users are completely content with the ability to SMS their friends. So says a recent Deloitte study, which found that 90 percent of smartphone users send at least one text message per day.

Netflix Available on Boxee Box at Long Last

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To show its love on this special Valentine's Day, Boxee Box announced it will now allow Netflix streaming in the US and Canada.

Netflix Available Now On Boxee Box

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As if to give us a lovely Valentine’s Day present, Boxee has gifted us with news that they now support Netflix on their set-up box, the Boxee Box. Owners can start streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix once they update the software.

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