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Nokia announced that its E72 business smartphone and 5800 Navigation Edition touch screen smartphone are now available online and in select retail outlets. The QWERTY-equipped E72 includes built-in corporate e-mail support for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, plus 10 personal e-mail ...
Mobile
Nokia
QWERTY
IBM
Best Buy
Virgin Galactic has taken the wraps off the first of five long-awaited SpaceShipTwo spacecrafts. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson were on hand to christen the spacecraft with the customary bashing of champagne bottles, National Geographic ...
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Richard Branson
Yes, you can travel easily with a 27-inch iMac, thanks to the just-announced CaseCruzer carrying case made for that model. CaseCruzer specializes in indestructible padded cases for a variety of computers. This iMac model holds the LCD screen in an upright position, and is both airtight and ...
Hardware
iMac
Apple
I didn't think anyone could improve on of my top favorite childhood toys: Hasbro 's Lite-Brite . I'll hold onto my nostalgia, but the Lite-Brite-like Hi-Tec Art Sketch Art ($49.99 direct, ages 8 and up; more LEDs and Artwires available) is a pretty cool toy in its own right. The Sketch Art ...
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Foxit Software said Tuesday that it has singed an agreement with Barnes & Noble to allow Foxit's eSlick e-reader to tap into B&N's online bookstore and its eReader format.
The new Foxit e-bookstore, at www.eslickbooks.com , allows eSlick customers to buy and download over 60,000 ...
Software
Boxee hosted an event Monday night at a club in Brooklyn, where the social entertainment platform joined forces with D-Link for the "Boxee Box" Internet-connected set-top box. The "Boxee Box" has an odd, "sunken cube" shape, just shorter than a soda can, which Boxee executives said was ...
Online
The CrunchPad drama continued Monday, with the chief of Fusion Garage calling Michael Arrington's claim on the device "ludicrous" and introducing its own 12.1-inch tablet, which has been re-branded as the JooJoo.
Fusion Garage will start taking pre-orders for the $499 device on Friday at ...
Online
Hulu
Gmail
Tech-lovers should thank Holland America for giving us a way to avoid all that sun and water on vacation, and do something we really enjoy. The company has installed Microsoft Surface units on the ms Veendam and is currently installing them on the ms Rotterdam. Three other liners--the ms ...
Gaming
Microsoft
Tetris
A group of MIT students won DARPA's $40,000 Network Challenge by being the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, red, 8-foot weather balloons at 10 fixed locations across the continental U.S. The team accomplished the goal in just less than nine hours, sorting through tons of ...
Online
A Hearst-backed startup is readying an e-reading service platform that will debut in 2010.
Skiff, formerly known as FirstPaper, will deliver magazine and newspaper content to e-readers, smartphones, and netbooks using Sprint's 3G network. Skiff says its interface will preserve newspaper ...
Mobile
Sprint
Netscape
Finally, the perfect gift for that hard-to-buy-for Rainn Wilson fan on your list. Toshiba, GQ Magazine , and four "men of innovation" have combined their considerable talents to create unique limited-edition laptops , four for each celebrity, which are being auctioned off on eBay. Who are ...
Hardware
Toshiba
Laptops
Toshiba Satellite
I've been trekking around with the Case Logic SLR Suspension System backpack ( $134.99 direct ) for about a month now, and it's a great choice for photographers. It features a nifty "SLR Suspension System," an elastic strap that grips and suspends your SLR, as opposed to having its ...
Gadgets
Case Logic
Low-cost, in-car navigation systems may finally be on the horizon. Mazda unveiled a $500 nav option for the 2010 Mazda 3 sedan a while back, and Suzuki is also selling a ( very poorly integrated ) one. Now Nissan is planning to make available a $400 option for the Sentra, and possibly other ...
Mobile
Bluetooth
iPod
iPhone
So, about the CrunchPad... Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar "Chandra" Rathakrishnan, Michael Arrington's one-time partner in the now-defunct CrunchPad project, is finally getting ready to address claims that he was behind the death of the device. Rathakrishnan will be speaking with reporters next ...
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Fans of the go-anywhere ContourHD wearable video camera have a whole lot of things to add to their wish lists. The company just announced four new accessories that let them bring the extreme sport camera into new situations. The Waterproof Case ($39.99) lets ContourHD and ContourHD1080p ...
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Musicians, if you record on your computer and also play live shows, you need a microphone that can go anywhere. That's why Samson released the Q2U, which is both a USB mic and a standard XLR mic. Plug it into a computer or anywhere else that mics are used. When you're recording, you'll ...
Other
On the heels of awarding $3.4 billion in broadband grants earlier this week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday awarded an additional $12.9 million intended to improve education and graduation rates at community colleges. This latest round of grants is part of the Gates ...
Software
Bill Gates
Make it two in a row for clean diesels: The Audi A3 TDI was honored Thursday as Green Car of the Year by Green Car Journal. Last year's winner was the Volkswagen Jetti TDI, also a clean diesel. The Audi won in no small part because the diesel version gets 42 mpg highway, 50% better than the ...
Other
Honda
Toyota
Motorola has invested an undisclosed sum into Sensitive Object, a multi-touch company, in a move that could signal a new generation of interfaces for the troubled cell phone maker, according to InformationWeek . Sensitive Object's interface differs from today's capacitive and older resistive ...
Mobile
Motorola
Android
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Astronomers have discovered a new kind of cosmic
explosion that seems to have originated from an exceptionally...
massive star--one that's over 200 times the size of our own sun, according to Space.com . Scientists first discovered SN2007bi, the ...
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Massive Star Explosion Breaks Records
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