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Mozilla Messaging opens shop

Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, announced Monday that it has begun operations. Mozilla Messaging will initially work towards developing Thunderbird 3,...
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Kiddie MP3 player released

Calgary-based Peapod Toys has released a children's MP3 player called the SweetPea3. It's a fully-functional, yet remarkably simply music device that plays 256MB of MP3 or WMA audio. The SweetPea3 is battery...
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Computer-free online dating

In this day and age finding love has become a more-than complicated issue for some. Long work hours, an overall sense of independence amongst young people and a 24-hour technological world, are some of the cau...
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Sony’s beautiful new Cyber-Shot T300

Sony's hot new 10.1-megapixel Cyber-shot DSC-T300 digital camera is extremely compact and stylish, yet it has a massive screen and plenty of talent. The camera features new iSCN mode, where the camera automa...
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Case mod of the year?

It's Friday afternoon. It's been a long week. Here's one of those email forwards that was too hilarious to ignore. After going through a virus attack, losing a hard drive, fighting off hackers, u...
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New iPhone and iPod touch models!

Apple announced Tuesday that they are adding new models of the iPhone and iPod touch with double the storage capacity. The iPod touch now comes in a 32GB model for $499, joining the 16GB model for $399 and t...
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Liquid fuel cell cell phones? Wait a sec…

Sci Fi Channel's DVICE has a popular article up about liquid-filled fuel cell cell phones. We let Matt react... I'm honestly not sure what to make of this. I'm highly tempted to say people are confused an...
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One year to digital-only television

(ARA) - An important change is coming in the way television works and it could affect you. It's called the "digital television transition" and it will be a seismic shift in the American television bro...
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Our take on the MacBook Air

There's been a lot of talk about Apple's latest laptop the MacBook Air, and a lot of this talk seems to be by people who aren't quite clear on the concept and target market segment. First announced in the middl...
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VOI…Keyboard?

Ok, so maybe you can't have Skype on your PSP just yet. Are you going to let that get you down? Hell no. Especially when you can easily make free Skype calls from the privacy, security and solitude of your o...
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Roxio rocks the Staedtler

Anyone who has ever gone to a professional sporting event for the sole purpose of seeking autographs can tell you that the Staedtler marker is the best. It will just about write on glass without smudging, and t...
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Pretty new Pentaxes

Pentax Imaging announced today two new digital SLR camera models hoping to make photogs and every college girl who takes a photography class drool. The new Pentax K20D digital SLR camera will feature 14.6 me...
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German-engineered, uh, cube coming

High-end (they say "distinctive") audio manufacturer Sonoro is storming into the American market with the release of the "cubo" line. The product will come in two flavors -- "cubo elements" and "cubo fusion....
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$14,000 bed offers sights and sounds

Nevada-based furniture designer Alberto Frias LLC has released a space age bed called the "Transport," and it looks like it can travel across galaxies. The Transport Bed includes an audio/visual system based...
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MySpace page sends fake XP update

McAfee Avert Labs announced Friday a Trojan horse attack disguised as a Microsoft update on a particular MySpace profile. Attackers send friend requests to the victim MySpace users. Clicking on the person's...
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“The iPhone of golf GPS technology”

California-based uPlay is launching a new handheld golf GPS rangefinder with advanced graphics and capabilities they are billing as "the iPhone of golf GPS technology." Now if that's not a hell of a statemen...
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Creative launches upconverting iPod dock

Creative announced Monday the new Xdock HD, which will upconvert iPod-resolution video to 720p or 1080i and upconverts music to their X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity technology. The Xdock HD can also play video on an H...