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LG introduces 3 new phones for Verizon

04 Sep 2010

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LG)
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LG)
The next phone on the list is the LG Decoy, which we mentioned in an earlier rumor about the phone’s release. As you’ll recall, the Decoy is the first ever phone to have a stowaway Bluetooth headset integrated into the back of the device. The Decoy is a slider phone, and will also [...]

Panasonic spruces up compact megazooms

29 Aug 2010

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Panasonic)
On Sale Now: $299.99 View the latest prices for Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 (Black)
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5
On Sale Now: $399.99 View the latest prices for Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 (Blue)
Panasonic follows up last year’s compact megazoom Lumix DMC-TZ3 with two models. The DMC-TZ4 and DMC-TZ5 have similar feature sets, which include an optically stabilized 28mm-280mm 10x [...]

Seitz scanning camera offers 160 megapixels

24 Aug 2010

It can be purchased with a tablet PC to operate it, too. That’s doubtless handy, because a single high-resolution file is 307MB in raw format, the company said.

The 6×17 Digital employs a digital scanning back made by Dalsa. Scanning cameras employ a linear light sensor detector similar to that used in flatbed scanners; it moves [...]

A ‘hot’ new gadget from Loft in Japan

21 Aug 2010

I was wandering the Loft department store at Shinsaibashi in Osaka, Japan, last week when I found a display surrounding this video. Give it a watch and see if you can tell what it’s advertising…

$16 pens at Osaka's Shinsaibashi branch of Loft.
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Sinobyte)
Well, did you get it? From the Pen Spinning Association Japan comes the Penz’Gear [...]

Red BlackBerry Pearl Flip now available at T-Mobil

21 Aug 2010

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T-Mobile)
A short, but sweet, news bulletin for BlackBerry fans: on Wednesday, T-Mobile announced the immediate availability of the red RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 smartphone. It joins the black version, which has been on sale since October 13. You can get either colors for $149.99 with a two-year contract. The Pearl Flip is [...]

Formula One design vet creating eco-smart city car

21 Aug 2010

The styles from Europe this year are decidedly green and small.

Designer Gordon Murray, best known for his work on Formula One racing
cars, detailed on Monday a new city car design called the T.25 that is aimed at reducing congestion and lowering pollution.

The planned T.25 in green compared with (going left to right) a VW Golf, [...]

HP beats analyst estimates

21 Aug 2010

Strong sales in emerging markets boosted Hewlett-Packard’s second-quarter earnings to $2.2 billion, or 87 cents a share, up 24 percent from a year earlier.

Revenue for the quarter rose 11 percent to $28.3 billion, the company said Tuesday.
Those figures beat analyst estimates of earnings per share of 85 cents and revenue of $28.1 [...]

eBay opens up its Selling Manager tool to outside

21 Aug 2010

I suspect that a heck of a lot more money will then start changing hands. Good times….
eBay’s new program is only in its nascent stages of development. But the company says its pro sellers that already use advanced selling features in Selling Manager will be able to find and subscribe to third-party tools the same [...]

Twiddla takes home SXSW award despite sluggish per

20 Aug 2010

In any case, Twiddla’s packing a lot of features that might attract users of premium paid collaborative services such as ConceptShare and Octopz who are seeking a very simple way to get feedback on Web design or photography. It could also easily replace WebEx for a large number of people who use the tool simply [...]

What’s interesting is what we say it is. Really

20 Aug 2010

Sometimes I jump at the story. Most of the time I say no. When I turn them down, however, I do it with a sense of regret. Did I just let the next Salesforce.com slip away? I’ll never know until it’s too late.

But I wonder whether history’s not repeating itself–with a twist. Bear [...]