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  • Best Buy iPhone inventory details leak

    Best Buy iPhone inventory details leak

    Looks like Best Buy's inventory details for the iPhone 4 launch have leaked out, and -- if you were one of the many unlucky iPhone luvahs that were unable to place a pre-order last week -- you may want to plan your June 24th around the details. The skinny of it is that most stores are receiving anywhere between 20 and 70 phones.

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  • Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 clears for landing at AT&T

    Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 clears for landing at AT&T

    When the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 was announced in November, my major concern was whether it was coming to the U.S., when it was coming and if it would be subsidized by a carrier. The good news is that it looks like the X10 will be hitting AT&T's shores this Spring.

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  • The Halloween Costume Contest Vote-Off Begins!

    The Halloween Costume Contest Vote-Off Begins!

    Happy post-Halloween! Thanks for sending in your costumes and thanks, most of you, for following the rules. That said, I’m proud to show you the 11 best costumes in this line-up, as judged by all of us at CG. I added one extra because we just couldn’t bear to choose between the various Iron Men [...]

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  • Help Wired Pimp Our Kegerator, Win Free Beer

    Help Wired Pimp Our Kegerator, Win Free Beer

    Wired.com is building a kegerator at our San Francisco office, and we need your help to pimp it out, Wired style. We’re going to pit our machine, which we affectionately call Beer Robot, against two store-bought models we have in house for review. While we think Beer Robot will give the others a run for their [...]

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  • Bing Mobile concept screenshots surface, looks to be a simple rebadging

    Bing Mobile concept screenshots surface, looks to be a simple rebadging

    Microsoft just launched Bing a few weeks ago with lots of fanfare and media coverage. Already the service has gained market share, but it seems that Microsoft is ready to be in the mobile field as well. But, unlike the Internet site which received an extreme makeover, the mobile client might simply be a rebadging if these screenshots are true. These screenshots come from an April-build of the Bing mobile app. (Kumo was the codename for Bing, btw) It should look familiar as, well, it's basically Live Search. That's not all bad though. Live Search isn't a bad app. In fact it had voice search and location-based services a while before Google's app did.

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