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Ryan Block / Engadget:
iUnlock released: the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software — It looks like the battle's officially over between iPhoneSIMfree and the numerous unique groups of open source hackers trying to software SIM unlock the iPhone. As we've been following in our previous post on the topic …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:Exclusive: iPhone Free Software Unlock Confirmed (Death Star Explodes)
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Palm Launches Treo 500v on Windows Mobile 6 for Vodafone Customers — Mobile High Speed 3G/UMTS Internet Access and Multiple Forms of Communication Combined in One Compact Handset — Palm Europe Ltd today announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 500v smartphone which combines multiple forms …
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Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
Palm Announces Treo 500V With WM6 — Ooooh! Palm has officially come out and announced the Treo 500V on Vodafone. Available next month, the device features Windows Mobile 6 and has 3G/UMTS for fast web browsing and, well, IMing and watching your Slingbox.
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Dan Ackerman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Microsoft sneaks 1GB of memory into new laptop mouse — Microsoft has a handful of new laptop mice the company wants you to know about this morning. And while Microsoft isn't usually the first brand name that springs to mind when you think of computer hardware (software's another story) …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Microsoft unleashes 2 LifeCams and 3 Mice, we've got the hands-on to prove it
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Journalism.org:
THE LATEST NEWS HEADLINES—YOUR VOTE COUNTS — If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like? How would citizens make up a front page differently than professional news people? — If a new crop of user-news sites …
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students) — Starting in 59 minutes, 35 seconds, Microsoft will begin offering Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for students for the amazing price of just sixty dollars. This special offer for students only represents a $620 discount off the retail price of $680, a 91% savings.
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BBC:
Phone cancer doubts remain — The long-term cancer risk of mobile phone use cannot be ruled out, experts have concluded. — A major six-year research programme found a "hint" of a higher cancer risk. — But the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MTHRP) …
Business Wire:
Idearc Media Acquires LocalSearch.com URL; Makes Strategic Investment in AmericanTowns.com — DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Idearc Media Corp., home to Superpages.com® and publisher of the Verizon® Yellow Pages, has acquired the LocalSearch.com URL and made a strategic investment in AmericanTowns.com …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hulu Makes First Acquisition; Chinese Video Startup To Form Backbone Of New Service — We haven't heard much about Bejing-based startup Mojiti before this week. They popped up in the TechCrunch Forums in January and are notable because the founder, Eric Feng, was previously at Microsoft Research Asia.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google secures GoogleDrive.com and updates name servers — Google already owns GDrive.com, but it's unlikely that will be the final name of the service. Like Gmail is technically "Google Mail", the real name for GDrive will likely be "Google Drive". So that got me wondering about the domain "GoogleDrive.com".
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Report: MMORPGs revenues to explode over next few years — The online gaming space is growing. While some analysts are saying that games with strong online components make more money than games without, the "Online Games: Global Market Forecast" report by Strategy Analytics goes further …
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Coda Toolbar and the Three Pixel Conundrum — (Which, by the way, would make a great band name.) — The toolbar in Coda — it doesn't seem so special, does it? In fact, you might not have even noticed that it's any different than any other toolbar on the Mac. But oh, my friend, you would be ever so wrong.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Who Needs Hackers? — NOTHING was moving. International travelers flying into Los Angeles International Airport — more than 17,000 of them — were stuck on planes for hours one day in mid-August after computers for the United States Customs and Border Protection agency went down and stayed down for nine hours.
Ian Morris / Crave: The gadget blog:
Say hello to CH-DVD and a 51GB HD DVD — It's all go in the HD DVD camp at the moment. Still on a high from the Paramount/Dreamworks deal, we're now hearing that HD DVD will soon have a 51GB, triple-layer disc on the way. The significance of a 51GB capacity is that it exceeds the current Blu-ray maximum by 1GB.
