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  • Samsung Galaxy S taking UK pre-orders, Vodafone promises June 15 delivery

    Samsung Galaxy S taking UK pre-orders, Vodafone promises June 15 delivery

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Were you looking forward to purchasing a 16GB smartphone with unique screen technology and an app-centric OS this month? Great, because the Galaxy S pre-order has now gone live in the UK, offering a delivery only four days away from now and prices that are pretty much par for the superphone course. If you want the Super AMOLED machine for free, minimum monthly cost will be steep, starting out at £35 ($51) a pop over 24 months or £40 ($58) over 18 lunar cycles. Both those deals furnish you with 900 minutes of talk time, unlimited texts, and 1GB of 3G data, but the latter works out to be the better value as it tallies up to £720 ($1,045) in total investment over the full term. Then again, most of what Vodafone has on tap compares favorably to the madness O2 is asking iPhone 4 buyers to pony up.

    Samsung Galaxy S taking UK pre-orders, Vodafone promises June 15 delivery originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Free coffee at Barnes and Noble

    Free coffee at Barnes and Noble

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
    Let's face facts: today's all about the iPhone. (Yes, we're already there, waiting in line.) Non-iPhone stories will be few and far between. Even the following story has an iPhone connection—it's madness! Right then. Barnes and Noble has a begun a clever little promotion to get you into their stores (and hopefully buying their books): free coffee. Who doesn't like coffee, and free coffee at that?

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  • Nintendo 3DS to be available this October instead of early next year?

    Nintendo 3DS to be available this October instead of early next year?

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Nintendo might be fast-tracking its upcoming 3DS. Apparently one UK video game industry source stated to CVG that the 3D gaming system will launch this coming October, well before the 2011 date we previously heard. The goal here is to get the system to market prior to the Christmas shopping madness.

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  • Symantec: 51 percent of all malware ever was detected in 2009

    Symantec: 51 percent of all malware ever was detected in 2009

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    It is an absolute miracle that I have never had a virus, trojan, or other form of computer bug on this PC. I mean, if we're to believe Symantec, then fully 51 percent of the viruses, trojans, and every other form of computer malware ever was spotted in 2009. That means that from 2008 going back to when Symantec first started keeping track of such things, all of those years only make up 49 percent of the viruses and so forth, while 2009 on its own accounts for 51 percent. That's pure madness.

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  • Call of Duty: Black Ops, now rumored: Developed by Treyarch, set between World War II and today

    Call of Duty: Black Ops, now rumored: Developed by Treyarch, set between World War II and today

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    So what to make of this latest Call of Duty rumor? The seventh game in the series will be named Call of Duty: Black Ops, and will take place between the end of World War II and the present day. It won't necessarily "be" a Vietnam War game, but will have missions that take place all over the world. Remember: it's being developed by Treyarch (i.e. not Infinity Ward), the same dudes who developed Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: World at War.

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  • This amazing photo of Earth cost only $750 to take

    This amazing photo of Earth cost only $750 to take

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Hello, Earth! Can you believe that this photo was taken by a man who attached a digital camera to a balloon? Madness. There’s actually not too much involved here. You take a helium-filled, high-altitude balloon, strap a digital camera to it, and off you go. The camera goes up (that’s 22 miles above the surface of [...]

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  • Should we even bother going after cyber-criminals?

    Should we even bother going after cyber-criminals?

    Posted on March 5, 2010 | No Comments
    At what point do you stop trying to track and prosecute cyber-criminals? Obviously, you can't let criminals run around willy-nilly, but when you look at the resources involved in bringing those guys to justice—and are you really nabbing the right guys in the first place?—it's worth at least talking about. Is fighting cyber-crime about as futile as fighting the war on drugs?

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  • The madness continues: Paris airport installs full-body scanning machines

    The madness continues: Paris airport installs full-body scanning machines

    Posted on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Another international airport has adopted those full-body scanners that have proven to be so controversial. Paris' Charles de Gaulle has installed the machine on a three-month trial basis.

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  • BioShock 2 DRM madness: Once again, publishers make pirating a game more attractive than buying it legitimately

    BioShock 2 DRM madness: Once again, publishers make pirating a game more attractive than buying it legitimately

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Looks like we have ourselves yet another DRM-related controversy for your amusement. The star this time is BioShock 2, the upcoming FPS developed by various 2K studios. The usual suspects abound: SecurROM, limited installations, and Games for Windows Live.

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  • Off To CES We Go!

    Off To CES We Go!

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Another year, another CES. Each year brings bigger, badder gadgets, and each year we put our nose-to-the-grindstone in hopes of bringing you guys the best coverage yet. We’re kicking things up a few notches this year; we’ve got more happy faces from the CrunchGear and MobileCrunch team roaming the halls of the Las Vegas Convention [...]

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  • Because of the recession, y’all watched a lot of TV this year

    Because of the recession, y’all watched a lot of TV this year

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    The Media Democracy Survey tries to ascertain America's entertainment habits. It comes out every year, and this year's edition just went live. As you might image, the terrible economy played a major role in the way Americans went about their business this past year. In fact, it turns out that Americans now watch (well, watched in the past year) an average of 18 hours of TV per week, which is up from 16 hours from last year. And this is TV on TV, not Hulu or anything like that.

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  • The end of exclusivity leading to big iPhone sales in Europe

    The end of exclusivity leading to big iPhone sales in Europe

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Go figure, right? You get a relatively hot phone out onto more carriers, and just like that, sales increase. It ain't rocket science, buster. As AT&T grins happily while enjoying a death grip on Apple's cash cow here in the States, things are a lot more wide open for consumers across the pond. In both France and the UK, the iPhone has been given the all-clear to be sold on multiple carriers, and according to research from Bernstein, the "widening of the distribution has boosted Apple's value market share to 32 percent in the latest quarter from 21 percent just three months earlier." The notes also mention that Apple's increase is coming at the expense of RIM, with over 600,000 iPhone handsets being sold during Q3 2009 in France alone. The point to all this madness? Oh, not much -- just to tell Sir Jobs that he can count on quite a bit more dough should he decide to sell this elusive "iPhone" device on Verizon in the US of A.

    The end of exclusivity leading to big iPhone sales in Europe originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • USB-powered Alien figure with illuminated tongue

    USB-powered Alien figure with illuminated tongue

    Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
    The Japanese madness for all things USB continues. Today I can give you an Alien figure that you can connect to your computer's USB port. It then sticks out its nasty tongue at random times, backlit by a spooky red LED. Apart from that, the thing isn't good for much else

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  • Mamiya announces two new DSLR cameras

    Mamiya announces two new DSLR cameras

    Posted on October 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Mamiya announced two new DSLR cameras today, the DM22 and DM28. Pushing the megapixel wall again, DM22 is 22 megapixel, and the DM28 is, you guessed it, a 28 megapixel. Both cameras use the stock Mamiya lenses so if you are already a Mamiya shooter, you're set.

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  • Picture frame does motion-activated snow flurries

    Picture frame does motion-activated snow flurries

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
    frameThis here is a photo frame that contains a proximity sensor. When you walk past the frame, it'll activate a flurry of swirling snowflakes. So whichever 4x6 photo is housed inside the frame will take on the appearance of a wintery wonderland. All for just $25.

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