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Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Google Adding Direct Phone Support for Nexus One Customers
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The initial reviews of the Nexus One device were largely positive but one area where Google certainly faced issues was customer support. Unlike most other companies in the hardware business, Google doesn’t offer any phone support for Android / Nexus One. Customers can either report problems on public forums or, for more specific issues, ...
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AFP - The number of young Internet addicts in China soared to 24 million last year as the world's largest web population exploded, according to a survey carried by state media Wednesday.
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CEO Jason Kilar says a free version of Hulu will always exist but that the company is considering premium pricing.
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PC World - Apple released version 3.1.3 of the iPhone operating system (OS) on Tuesday, much to jailbreakers dismay. The update, which is available now via iTunes, fixes a number of known bugs, patches known security issues, and improves various iPhone features. However, despite the good news for the majority of regular iPhone owners, the upgrade ...
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TouchMouse Controls Your Computer's Mouse and Keyboard via iPhone or iPod touch
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iPhone/iPod touch: TouchMouse is a free application for the iPhone/iPod touch that, when paired with its accompanying control software on your Mac or Windows computer, turns your touchscreen into a mouse and keyboard. Once you download the software to your iPhone or iPod touch and pair it with the server software—Logitech has versions of ...
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BackOff Shortens Long iPhone and iPod touch Sync Sessions
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iPhone/iPod touch: If you carry a ton of stuff around on your iPhone or iPod touch, you know syncing it can take forever. BackOff turns off iTunes' automatic backup process so you can sync faster. Okay, before you go galloping off to download this slick free utility, let's go over the most important point one more time. BackOff prevents iTunes ...
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp sales dropped 16 percent in January as the automaker reeled from a massive recall and rivals Ford Motor Co and General Motors Corp surged past it in the U.S. market.
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Gas Pedal Woes Put Brakes On Toyota Sales
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Toyota Motor Corp. reported a 16 percent drop in U.S. sales in January after a massive recall and temporary sales halt kept prospective buyers from the showroom floors. Ford, General Motors and Nissan may have benefited from Toyota's woes, with each posting strong gains.
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U.S. Transportation Chief: Toyota Slow On Safety
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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says Toyota was slow to realize safety problems with its gas pedals that has led to the recall of millions of popular Toyota brands. LaHood told The Associated Press that Toyota was "a little safety deaf" and that federal safety officials needed to "wake them up" to the seriousness of the pedal problems.
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Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...
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3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...
 
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Filed under: News , Blogging , Google , Freeware Love it or hate it, Blogger was the tool that really brought blogging into the mainstream. Once upon a time, the only way to have your blog hosted on your own domain was to use Blogger as the content management system, but then have it use FTP to push HTML pages to your web host. Fast forward to ...
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Sumavisos Clasificados
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A search engine for cars, jobs and properties. View classified ads in Latin America and Brazil, add value (compare prices, link with Wikipedia pages and relate companies with their LinkedIn profiles, etc) and republish them. Date Updated: 2010-02-02 Developer: runa Tags: argentina , brazil , chile , classifieds , mexico , shopping APIs: DBpedia ,
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Google Focused Research Awards
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On Tuesday February 2nd, we announced the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards. These awards are for research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community.
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Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action
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As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...
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Google: Rupert Murdoch can block us if he wants to
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Google has clarified that it will not index publishers against their wishes, in response to Rupert Murdoch's threat to block the search engine from his newspapers’ websites.
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So it's the penultimate round of this On-Screen Geek-Off Tournament of ours, and we're down to two inevitable nail-biters after a series of increasingly close calls last week. We've got Ghostbusters , The Goonies , Back to the Future and Ferris Bueller's Day Off represented, but at the cost of beloved characters from Real Genius , Wayne's World ,
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The Geek Beat: Celebrate the Geek: 2010 Edition
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February dawns with a lot of intriguing little news bites about The Green Lantern , First Avenger: Captain America , and how your favorite characters may be mangled by odd story choices. Last year , I described this very same week as one where "everything is taking a breather before Watchmen , Wolverine , and all the madness that will follow the ...
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All-in-one suite to completely protect, maintain and manage your PC – Hard Disk Manager (HDM) provides you with all of the tools you need to manage today’s hard drives, including partitioning, backup, cloning, defrag, hard drive disposal, system management and system recovery. This comprehensive package of functionality is accessible ...
The case involves a Utah company, Myriad Genetics, and the University of Utah Research Foundation, which in 1994 isolated the DNA sequence for the BRCA1 and later the BRCA2 genes, mutations of which can greatly increase a woman's chance of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Myriad sells a test for the genes.
Just as the game prepares to hit stores next week, a new trailer (above) for Dante's Inferno has leaked, revealing information about upcoming downloadable content plans. Destructoid reports that the "Trials of St. Lucia" pack will include a co-op mode and content creation. The trailer mentions that users can rate both the trials and user-created ...
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Dante's Inferno DLC details leaked: Mission maker, co-op
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Dante's Inferno just sprung a massive leak, and now it's squirted news juice all over our clean white shirts! A poster at NeoGAF has revealed a load of downloadable content details for Visceral's upcoming game. The package will be called "Trials of St. Lucia" and the offerings are surprisingly good.
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The 1929 race involved 20 female pilots, including Thaden, Amelia Earhart and Pancho Barnes, flying for nine days from Santa Monica to Cleveland. The race was won by Thaden, who penned the 1938 book "High, Wide and Frightened."
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Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.
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Engadget turned off comments. Pussies, I love my commenters. The more insane the better.
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Engadget editor: Why I turned off comments
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Gearhead megasite Engadget, which attracts millions of readers every month, sometimes millions in a single day, disabled comments on its posts this morning in response to a barrage of what the site’s editor called “trollish” comments in the wake of Engadget’s extensive iPad-related coverage last week.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pitched job-creation plans to recession-weary Americans on Tuesday while his advisers urged Congress to take further measures to rein in the record budget deficit.
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Obama to meet Dalai Lama despite Chinese warnings
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BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama still plans to meet the Dalai Lama, the White House said on Tuesday, despite China's warning that such a meeting would hurt ties already strained by U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
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Activist Crisscrosses U.S. Doing 'Jobs Most Americans Won't Do'
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President Obama recently announced plans to spend nearly $100 billion in 2011 solely on job creation. The proposed budget is aimed at reducing the nation's employment rate of 10 percent. But in a new book, labor activist Gabriel Thompson explores the current job market and takes a look at some of the least-desired jobs that always seem available. ...
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Change is good for American Idol, according to Danny Gokey. While many fans are dreading Simon Cowell's impending exit, the Season 8 third-place finisher tells TVGuide.com that playing musical judging chairs is necessary for the aging Fox juggernaut. "I think in order for Idol to stay alive, they need to reinvent the wheel," he says. "He is ...
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A half century ago the Mercury Seven embodied America's space future. Now it's the merchant seven space companies for hire.
PC World - Motorola's venture arm said it invested an undisclosed sum in Scanbuy, a company that offers mobile barcode products and services.
According to a report by an industry group, Americans drank more liquor in 2009 but turned to cheaper brands. They also drank more at home and less in pricier bars and restaurants in an effort to save money.
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