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  • Flipboard Brings More Social Media to Latest Edition of Its Popular Magazine

    Posted on December 16, 2010 | No Comments
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  • CORRECTING AND REPLACING PHOTO Easily Access Your New iPod touch with Protective Belkin Cases

    Posted on September 2, 2010 | No Comments
    PLAYA VISTA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Please replace the photo with the accompanying corrected photo. The release reads: EASILY ACCESS YOUR NEW IPOD TOUCH WITH PROTECTIVE...

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  • Easily Access Your New iPod touch with Protective Belkin Cases

    Posted on September 2, 2010 | No Comments
    PLAYA VISTA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Belkin launches stylish new cases for the iPod touch that make it easier to access and use your iPod. ...

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  • Photos and videos: CrunchGear visits Japan’s biggest Otaku party (CGM Night)

    Photos and videos: CrunchGear visits Japan’s biggest Otaku party (CGM Night)

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Japan's most famous Otaku culture blogger Danny Choo invited video games/anime/manga/Cosplay/figures/maid cafe fanatics from all over the country last weekend, and about 200 showed up at Digital Hollywood University for the eighth "CGM Night" (here's my report on the last one). The idea is to bring Otaku and geeks out of their rooms and socialize among people of their kind. Needless to say, I was one of them (I live in Tokyo).

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  • Pre-ordered your iPhone 4 at Radio Shack? Sucks to be you – UPDATE

    Pre-ordered your iPhone 4 at Radio Shack? Sucks to be you – UPDATE

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    We're getting reports from some folks who tried to work around the massive fail-up during last week's pre-order fiasco and pre-order from Radio Shack, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart. The reports aren't good. It seems that most stores will not have them in stock tomorrow and that you should probably check with your pre-order store before you head down. One reader, DW, writes:
    Hello, I just wanted to let you guys know that I spoke with the Manager of the RadioShack store that I pre-ordered my iPhone from and he let me know that none of the customers who pre-ordered an iPhone 4 would be getting one from his store tomorrow (Thursday).

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  • iFixit mercilessly pulls apart an iPhone 4

    iFixit mercilessly pulls apart an iPhone 4

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Ah, iFixit, if there's anyone more adept at being the first to dissect the latest toys, I've not met them. The latest gadget on their operating table is none other than the most lusted after device in the entire world: the iPhone 4. Yes, most people are still waiting to even touch the device, and here it is splayed open for all the world to see.

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  • Video gallery: Hitachi’s humanoid robot EMIEW2 in action

    Video gallery: Hitachi’s humanoid robot EMIEW2 in action

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Hitachi has recently shown a new version of its humanoid robot EMIEW2 (Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Workmate2), which can scoot around on broken ground (the robot handles bumps that are up to 1.5cm high), recognize and distinguish between different human voices and converse with people.

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  • Apple randomly canceling some iPhone pre-orders? Update: AT&T pre-orders too?

    Apple randomly canceling some iPhone pre-orders? Update: AT&T pre-orders too?

    Posted on June 19, 2010 | No Comments
    We haven't verified exactly what's going on here, but we've gotten several tips tonight from people who've received an iPhone 4 pre-order cancellation email from Apple saying that their order couldn't be authorized. That sounds like an AT&T authorization problem to us, and given the the litany of problems that Apple and AT&T had all week dealing with the huge number of pre-orders, we can't say we're too surprised to hear that the chaos continues. Here's the email:
    Dear Customer,

    We were unable to complete the authorization process for your iPhone order. As a result, we had to cancel your iPhone order. To complete the purchase of your iPhone, please visit an Apple Retail Store or an AT&T company-owned retail store.

    We apologize for this inconvenience.

    Sincerely,
    Apple Online Store Team
    Uh, yeah. We're obviously looking into the situation, and we'll let you know what we find out.

    Update: We're hearing that some people are getting cancellations from AT&T, as well -- curiouser and curiouser.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Apple randomly canceling some iPhone pre-orders? Update: AT&T pre-orders too? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Still Really Want An iPhone 4? Find $5,000, Head To eBay

    Still Really Want An iPhone 4? Find $5,000, Head To eBay

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    As you may have heard, Apple completely blew through its pre-order launch day iPhone 4s in less than a day (and that was despite major technical issues with the ordering process). It has now blown through the second wave (due in early July) as well. The current shipping estimate if you order right now is July 14. Ugh. But if you absolutely want one at or around launch day, the Internet, as always, provides an option. Scanning eBay right now, there are roughly 400 iPhone 4s for sale (between the 16 GB and 32 GB models). Sure, the device isn't out yet, but people are willing to part with the device as soon as they get it on June 24. The question is: how much do you have to pay to get them to part with it? Currently, the cheapest ones are going for $550 -- and that's the $199 16 GB model. The cheapest 32 GB model? $799 -- a full $500 over the $299 retail price.

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  • Droid Incredible saves browser screenshots to internal memory, turns into a privacy nightmare?

    Droid Incredible saves browser screenshots to internal memory, turns into a privacy nightmare?

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    June must be the month when privacy issues leave their hibernation and return to trouble our fragile minds. First we had Flash going loco, then AT&T's airwaves exploded with iPad users' email addresses, iPhone 4 pre-orders started sending people to the wrong account, and now this. Boy Genius Report has come across a rather worrying "feature" of the HTC Sense bookmarking widget on the Incredible, which takes sporadic screenshots of your browsing sessions. That wouldn't be so bothersome in itself, but try to remove said pictures, and you find where the problem lies. Ending the browsing session, deleting your history, and even a full reset to factory settings failed to eviscerate the indiscreet imagery. You have to manually discover their location and delete them by hand. Considering the high likelihood of Incredibles being sold and resold for years to come, this could turn the phone into a little cache of treasure for the proactive identity thief. And since it's a Sense issue, it might be affecting other HTC handsets as well. Wunderbar.

    Droid Incredible saves browser screenshots to internal memory, turns into a privacy nightmare? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Apple: Sorry about all the failed iPhone 4 pre-orders, but we definitely had a good day

    Apple: Sorry about all the failed iPhone 4 pre-orders, but we definitely had a good day

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Apple just released a tiny little message about its 600,000 pre-orders. First, it crowed that it got 600,000 pre-orders and then it apologized for, um, sucking the life out of the economy while people at work kept pressing the “Continue” button over and over again in a Skinner-esque effort to make the damn site work. [...]

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  • Lesson Not Learned: AT&T locks down the HTC Aria’s app selection

    Lesson Not Learned: AT&T locks down the HTC Aria’s app selection

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Almost immediately after AT&T launched their first Android phone, the Motorola Backflip, folks noticed something weird: the option to install applications from third-party, non-Google-approved sources had been removed. People around the Internets — including yours truly — were a bit appalled. The freedom to do whatever the hell you please sans any sort of hand [...]

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  • The CHOBI CAM WP is a cute, waterproof, and (very) small camera

    The CHOBI CAM WP is a cute, waterproof, and (very) small camera

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    It's cute, it's as small as an eraser, it's light, and it's waterproof: Tokyo-based accessory maker Japan Trust Technology is offering the CHOBi CAM WP, a digital camera that's actually not waterproof by itself but comes with a special case that makes it possible to take it up to 20m underwater without any problems (IP68).

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  • Video: HTC EVO 4G vs Razors, Pennys, and Screws

    Video: HTC EVO 4G vs Razors, Pennys, and Screws

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    So, for one reason or another, you've gotta send your HTC EVO 4G in to Sprint for an exchange. What do you do? A) Wrap the EVO in the finest cloth you can find, ushering it gently into its shipping crate, or B) Attack its screen with razor blades, pennies, and screws and film the whole thing for the sake of science/entertainment. You can probably guess where this is going. (Hint: We probably wouldn't write a post about it if you went with option A.)

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