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Nokia C6 is actually a 5230-ish landscape slider?

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:38:00 +0000

We hate to turn your entire world — nay, your very belief system — on its end, but it’s at least conceivable here that the so-called Nokia Mystic with the portrait QWERTY keyboard may not be the upcoming C6 after all. Instead, Tom’s Guide is submitting this bright white exhibit as the device lucky enough to wear the C6 name, a phone that looks a whole hell of a lot like a 5230 with a QWERTY slider tacked on for good measure.

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Valve’s Gabe Newell shares his thoughts on DRM

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:30:00 +0000

At this year’s Game Developer’s Choice Awards, Vavle’s Gabe Newell won the Pioneer Award, and he used the opportunity to share a slide show with the crowd of developers, press, and business people. His message? DRM is not good for business

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Nissan gets 56K pre-orders for Leaf EV, challenges Tesla

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:22:32 +0000

Nissan says it has more than 56,000 pre-orders for the Leaf, its fully-electric model set to be released to the mass market in 2012. Just last November, the Nissan-led Electrification Coalition lobbied the U.S.

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Pike Research: Energy managment market still largely unexplored

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:15:23 +0000

Despite everything the U.S.

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Playcast Media nabs support from big name publishers, aims to bring STB gaming to US

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:15:00 +0000

GDC is winding down here in San Francisco, but Playcast Media is hoping to snag its 15 minutes by announcing new partnerships with Atari, Capcom, Codemasters and THQ (to name a few) for use in its “console-free games-on-demand” service. ‘Course, streaming games in through a set-top-box is nothing new , but few operators in the States offer such a thing with any real substance behind it.

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Use DynDNS for better success with Back To My Mac

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Filed under: MobileMe Many folks were excited when Apple announced Back to My Mac as part of MobileMe . Being able to remotely access your Mac from anywhere sounded like magic.

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German student shows off camera-based input on an iPhone

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:49:00 +0000

Using a camera as an input device is hardly a new idea — even on a mobile device — but most examples so far have been to enable functionality not possible on a touchscreen. As Master’s student Daniel Bierwirth has shown in the video after the break, however, a phone on a camera can also be used as an alternative input method for features like scrolling or zooming, potentially allowing for easier interaction on devices with smaller screens. Bierwirth also takes the idea one step further, and sees the system eventually including a second camera that’s worn by a person, which would be able to detect when your hands are near the phone and allow for a range of other gestures.

Win XP needs some TLC to use next-gen hard drives

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:21:00 +0000

Solid state drives may be the fast-moving wave of the future in PC storage, but the technology for bigger and better magnetic media keeps on trucking.

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Facebook turns out to be a pretty good friend to Foursquare, Hitwise data shows

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:00:45 +0000

Facebook may not turn out to be so much of a Foursquare killer. In fact, the world’s largest social network drives the largest share of the location-based game’s web traffic , accounting for 33 percent of all upstream visits last week, according to web research firm Hitwise

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"Overwhelming" demand limiting iPad in-store pickup

technews — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Retail , Apple , iPad According to MacDailyNews , shoppers who placed iPad pre-orders this morning are being told by Apple Store employees that demand could affect their plans for in-store pickup. It seems that several customers ordered iPads this morning, opting for at-home delivery. For whatever reason, they later changed their minds and opted for in-store pickup.

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