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  • Walmart launching own pre-paid cell plans

    Walmart launching own pre-paid cell plans

    Look out Virgin Mobile and Cricket, Walmart is coming for you. The infamous retailer announced today that they are launching their own no-contract cellular service on the 18th, called Straight Talk.

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  • HTC unveils the Tattoo

    HTC unveils the Tattoo

    HTC’s naming conventions are kind of funny. I was almost hoping that after the Hero they’d call this the HTC Ninjastar or the HTC Hobo, but sadly it ended up being the Tattoo. The Tattoo runs the Sense UI, which is great++ and it has a 3.2 megapixel camera, 3.5mm headset jack, and MicroSD memory [...]

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  • New pen scans invisible codes in texts and pics, then plays back related audio

    New pen scans invisible codes in texts and pics, then plays back related audio

    A company called Apollo Japan has developed the so-called Speakun [JP], a pen-shaped device that's able to read invisible codes printed on paper and then plays back pre-recorded sounds. Users first have to scan special, dot-shaped codes (0.04mm in diameter) that are associated with pictures or texts on a piece of paper.

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