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BEST BUY   |  2 comments

Meet mIQ: BestBuy's Free Clone of Apple's Mobile Me

Apple's MobileMe is variously reviled and applauded in different corners of the Net, but it's hard to argue that it provides a pretty comprehensive service. So comprehensive that Best Buy has just cloned it--and made it available for ...READ»

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GOOGLE   |  Comment

Google Embeds Bigger Ads Into Smartphones

If you use Google AdSense to monetize your site, you'll now be able to run large, fancy ads when people visit your site from an iPhone, Pre, or another large-screen smartphone. According to TechCrunch, the new JavaScript ad modules ...READ»

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CD   |  Comment

Hot and Heavy CD Makin'

It seems like just yesterday when burning a CD could score big points with the ladies. These days, Philips is still helpin' a brother out -- but now it's with LED-powered, super-efficient $40 lightbulbs that last 25 years. The ...READ»

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PALM   |  9 comments

Is Palm Driving Developers Underground?

An angry rant by a prominent developer describes Palm's app store as developer hell: fees, paperwork, and a PayPal account are required. But as counter-rants have pointed out, Palm is letting unofficial app stores thrive. Is Palm ...READ»

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SMARTPHONE   |  Comment

Duke Researchers Use Photo-Acoustic "Fingerprints" to Locate Mobile Phones Indoors

Computer engineers have come up with a way to use smartphones' microphones, cameras, and accelerometers, to identify a person's location in the end all and be all of indoor mazes: the shopping mall.READ»

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SMARTPHONE   |  Comment

The Age-Old Tradition of Smartphone Hookups

It was way back in 2006 when Palm showed us how to beam our love to strangers using the quaintly unconnected Palm V. But since then, a whole litany of apps have made the quest for strange much more direct. Match.com has had success ...READ»

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Apple's App Store Blasts Past Two Billion Downloads

In April Apple announced that a billion apps had been downloaded from its iTunes App Store. Now, 14 months since the Store's launch, the folks at Cupertino have revealed that another billion apps have zipped over the ...READ»

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Samsung's 12-Megapixel Digital Camera Also Makes Phone Calls

Back in February, rumors of a 12-megapixel Samsung smartphone surfaced. I was totally down on the device, worried about how badly the idea could go wrong. Now the SCH-W880's surfaced, and it appears to have allayed nearly all my ...READ»

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Nokia Concept Smartphone UI Puts the 'Friend' in User-Friendly

So your smartphone is a very neat bit of tech, serving up your cellphone, portable gaming and MP3 needs...but have you ever wondered if it could be designed to be more friendly?CIID students Kevin Cannon and Tobias Toft definitely ...READ»

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IPHONE   |  2 comments

AT&T Turns on iPhone MMS; World Yawns

Today AT&T turns on multimedia picture messaging for American iPhones. The long-awaited feature will bring AT&T customers up to par with European iPhoners, who have had MMS since approximately the dawn of time, and ...READ»

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