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The Daily Slash: April 29th 2010

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14 years ago

Today, for all intents and purposes, was a big day. Maybe not as big as yesterday, but it’s pretty close. Especially if you consider the two cancellations, with the HP Slate getting tossed to the side, along with Microsoft’s Courier digital journal.

www.slashgear.com

Maingear VYBE Limited Edition Gaming PC

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Maingear has announced its new limited edition gaming PC namely the Maingear VYBE. You can customize this PC to suit your gaming needs.

www.techfresh.net/maingear-vybe-limited-editi

Weight2Go Travel Scale Concept

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Let’s check out the Weight2Go travel scale concept, which is specially designed to weigh items on a daily basis regardless of where you are.

www.techfresh.net/weight2go-travel-scale-conc

Apple now the largest American phone maker

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Apple has overtaken Motorola to become the single largest American phone manufacturer, according to the companies' own estimates. Motorola's drop to 8.5 million phones shipped this winter was enough for Apple, with 8.75 million iPhones, to claim the title.

www.electronista.com

Storm Outs Annihilator Max Gaming Edition Desktop PC

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Another powerful gaming desktop has just been launched by Storm Japan. Dubbed as the Annihilator Max Gaming Edition, the machine boasts a 3.33GHz Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, an Intel X58 Express Chipset, a 1GB GeForce GTX 470 graphics card, a 6GB RAM, an 80GB SSD for OS, a 1TB...

www.techfresh.net/storm-outs-annihilator-max-

HP Windows 7 Tablet Gets Canceled, We Hope for webOS Tablet Instead

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Apparently tonight is not a good night for tablet devices. Though, if you were to ask a few people, it may still continue to be a very good couple of days for Hewlett-Packard. After the announcement that HP had bought Palm, suggestions of an HP Slate with webOS started coming left and right.

www.slashgear.com

Super Talent VSSD Unveiled

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Super Talent has recently introduced its latest affordable solid state drive (SSD) known as the Super Talent VSSD.

www.techfresh.net/super-talent-vssd-unveiled/

James Cameron helping design 3D camera for new Mars rover

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Awesome. So this January, it seems that Cameron found time in between money-counting sessions to pitch NASA about putting a 3D camera on the Curiosity Mars rover, set for a 2011 launch. Incredibly, they went for it.

www.crunchgear.com

Another Low-Profile Graphics Card From HIS

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HIS is getting ready to launch another low-profile graphics card to its range in the form of the Radeon HD 5550.

www.techfresh.net/another-low-profile-graphic

Microsoft Courier Not Heading Into Production

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Here’s some remarkably bad news. It seems that the Microsoft Courier, the dual-screen digital journal with Tegra 2 inside, has been scrapped.

www.slashgear.com

Shanghai Corporate Pavilion’s Lights Are Controlled by the People Inside

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How do you make a huge pavilion awesome? You create the building out of recycled CD cases. So, what can you do to make that better? You attach a huge LED array onto the outside of that said pavilion, and you make it just about as bright as is probably necessary.

www.slashgear.com

Apple iPad 3G get CoPilot Live HD

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CoPilot Live is already available for the Apple iPhone. Now it is coming to the Apple iPad 3G and will be renamed to CoPilot Live HD.

www.gadgetvenue.com

Palm acquired by HP

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Palm has been saved, purchased by HP for $1.2 billion, which was a premium on the stock price. This is a good deal for both companies. Palm was in serious trouble, with its new Pre and Pixi smartphones not selling very well, and its stock price tanking.

www.gizmosforgeeks.com

Sony sued for pulling multi-OS support on PS3

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Sony has been sued this week for removing the Linux install option from the first-generation PS3 in its latest firmware update. The class-action lawsuit filed on Tuesday argued that Sony broke its sales contract by taking out an advertised feature.

www.electronista.com

SK Telecom hurt by cuts to keep up with iPhone

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South Korean carrier SK Telecom has reported lackluster financial performance for the first quarter of the year, with net profits rising only 1.6 percent from a year earlier, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

www.electronista.com

Nikon patents strange LCD screen

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Patents are always so much fun, and such a source of random speculation. Take for example this new LCD display from Nikon. What could it be? Is it for a DLSR? Maybe for video? No one knows, and of course Nikon isn’t talking, but it’s interesting to put your best guess out there.

www.crunchgear.com

Adobe CEO rejects Jobs complaints as ‘smokescreen’

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Steve Jobs' latest complaints about Adobe and Flash are groundless, suggests Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Narayen argues for instance that Adobe content is indeed open, as it is available on multiple platforms and can be formatted for multiple devices.

www.electronista.com

Found Footage: Jon Stewart scolds Apple over the Gizmodo stolen iPhone fracas

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Filed under: Found FootageLeave it to Jon Stewart to put things into perspective. In this segment from The Daily Show, Jon satirically cops to being an Apple user since the 80s and takes Apple to task for stealing the evil empire crown from Microsoft in their handling of the Gizmodo lost iPhone...

Adobe releases Flash Player “Gala” preview with H.264 video hardware decoding for Mac OS X 10.6.3

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Filed under: Software Apple and Adobe may be at each others' throats, but that won't stop the software from going out.

uCorder is a wearable mini camcorder & webcam

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It may or may not take off, but life-blogging is the next wave of personal tech trends. One such device to help you do this is the uCorder Wearable Camcorder/Webcam. It’s a lightweight 3.5″ thumbdrive-sized stick that you can clip to your clothing or wear around your neck.

www.gizmosforgeeks.com

LG GW990 reduced to concept, won’t be made

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LG dashed hopes in an unusual fashion today by claiming the GW990 was just a concept device. Although it was scheduld for the fall at CES, the electronics giant now claims that it was never going to be a production device and won't be made. The apparent change of heart hasn't been explained....

www.electronista.com

Rogers near launching Quench, Liquid e, social plans

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Rogers today through a series of hints showed it was on the verge of launching not just new smartphones but new plans to match. Both an article for the company's in-house URMagazine and a leak have shown that the Canadian carrier is finally nearing the launch of the Acer Liquid e.

www.electronista.com

Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2010 Finalists announced

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[images courtesy Barefoot College, first entrant listed below] Buckminster Fuller would be proud. The annual challenge held in his name is not some pie-in-the-sky design competition where the slickest rendering wins; instead the Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks "workable solution[s] to one of...

Self-leveling Acadalus tripod head keeps your horizons straight

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A good tripod head can cost you several thousand dollars, but this one isn’t just hand-made and high-quality. It’s freaking robotic.

www.crunchgear.com

Report: Microsoft Ditches Plans for Courier Tablet

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Microsoft has reportedly canceled plans for its Courier tablet, Gizmodo reports. Microsoft told employees working on the tablet that the project is dead, Gizmodo said. The Courier was never officially announced - Gizmodo first broke the news about the possible device in September.

www.gearlog.com

Apple passes Motorola, now the largest US phone maker

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Filed under: iPhoneIn some incredible news, Apple has passed Motorola to become the largest phone maker in the US. According to Forbes, Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones in the first quarter, while Motorola sold 8.5 million of their various mobile devices.

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