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RIM Announces Blackberry PlayBook

Beautiful isn’t it? The new Blackberry PlayBook is RIM’s foray into the growing tablet market. And on paper, it looks like it might give Apple a run for their money. It runs on a new BlackBerry Tablet OS for an optimized tablet experience like how iPad does it. Nothing like Android’s sloppy implementation. It comes packed [...]

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9 Minutes of Samsung Galaxy Tab Video Goodness

Check out the 9 minutes live video demo of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab below. Time will tell whether it will really shake things up for Apple in the tablet market. But so far, it’s looking great!

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Kindle for Android Adds Highlighting, Notes, and Voice Search

The Kindle app for Android is now updated with new features to make it on par with its iPhone counterpart. Features include: Add, edit or delete notes and highlights Search inside the book for words or phrases Search using voice Choose to lock the screen orientation in either landscape or portrait Look up words on Wikipedia and Dictionary.com Get Kindle for [...]

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World’s First: Panasonic HD 3D Camcorder

Dreaming of making your very own Avatar 3D movie? Here’s an elegant solution for you: Panasonic’s fully-integrated Full HD 3D camcorder. Conventional 3D camcorder rigs are built from two off-the-shelf broadcast camcorders, while Panasonic’s solution has two lenses built into it, making it an extremely simple setup. But only if you got $21,000 to spare. Here’s [...]

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MusicDNA: Successor of the MP3?

Here’s yet another new music file format with an attempt to dethrone the king of music file format, MP3. It is developed by BACH Technology, and they named it, MusicDNA. The new music file format offers the ability to push additional content to music owners, such as lyrics, news updates, videos, and images. And it is [...]

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ATMs Hacked Using MP3 Player

Maxwell Parsons, 41, was the central figure in a gang who used a rather interesting device to hack into ATMs: MP3 player. Parsons and his gang members would use a MP3 player to record the noise, which is actually data, transmitted from free-standing ATMs. This is done by unplugging the phone line running from the machine [...]

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Netflix Coming to Nintendo Wii Soon

Joining PS3 and Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii console will finally gain Netflix’s streaming video service as well. It is available free of charge to Netflix subscribers with unlimited plans, starting at a low $8.99 per month. But you will need a free software disc from Netflix in order to get the streaming working, unlike the [...]

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Massive Adoption of Windows 7 by Gamers

According to Steam’s recent hardware survey, gamers are ditching their trusty Windows XP and flocking to the new kid, Windows 7. The statistics show a total increase of 2.47% for Windows 7, which includes both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions, while Windows XP is seeing a sharp decrease of 3.2%. Which means, 23% of Steam gamers [...]

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Online Companies Offer New Reverse Phone Lookup Service

A very interesting and useful development in search technology has recently surfaced in the form of reverse phone lookups. This service functions in a way similar to a search engine in that it looks for information matching what you entered in the search field, but unlike these search engines, reverse number lookups only search specialized [...]

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Canon 50D & 18-200mm Announced

The announcement of the Canon EOS 50D isn’t surprising for those who have been watching the rumors. Looking for a good reason to upgrade? Here are the new goodies: Canon 50D vs Canon 40D 15-megapixel vs 10.1-megapixel DIGIC 4 vs DIGIC III ISO 100-12800 vs ISO 100-3200 Noise reduction: Four levels vs On/Off Auto lighting optimizer: Four levels vs On/Off New AF [...]

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