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The new doodle from Google marks the 57th anniversary of the day the first patent was made on the bar code.
Granted to American inventors Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver three years after it was filed, patent number 2,612,994 was for a pattern of concentric circles, rather than the set [...]
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WASHINGTON - US TELECOM giant AT&T said on Tuesday that Apple iPhone owners would be allowed to use Internet voice calling on its wireless network, paving the way for services such as Skype.
‘Today’s decision was made after evaluating our customers’ expectations and use of the device compared to dozens of others [...]
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WASHINGTON - US TELECOM giant AT&T said on Tuesday that Apple iPhone owners would be allowed to use Internet voice calling on its wireless network, paving the way for services such as Skype.
‘Today’s decision was made after evaluating our customers’ expectations and use of the device compared to dozens of others [...]
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AT&T may finally see its first Android phone, if some newly published rumors are to be believed. Dell is currently working with the carrier on launching a new Android-powered device, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal and other publications. If true, it would be AT&T’s first venture into Android territory, [...]
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Consumers won’t see a “Qualcomm Inside” sticker on new Windows Mobile phones, but the chip supplier is playing a big role in powering the first crop of phones based on Microsoft’s new operating system.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday, the first phones to carry the Windows Phone brand and run the Windows [...]
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Sony’s just started a laptop-oriented event in NYC, but we just got our hands on
what look like unpublished web pages for the new VAIO X and VAIO CW and an updated VAIO L machines. All of ‘em now run
Windows 7, of course, but the big news is apparent confirmation that the [...]
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At this point, you’ve probably assumed that there’s simply no way any company can produce yet another iPhone or iPod dock that’s significantly different from the legions of alternatives already out. And you’re wrong. So wrong. In an effort to milk that Made for iPod / iPhone partnership for all it’s [...]
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Anyone living within North America can now fill their iPod with tracks purchased from the iTunes Store, as Apple has launched the store in Mexico. Mexican residents will now be able to purchase music from the four major labels and hundreds of indie labels, take advantage of features like “Complete My [...]
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No sooner had we written about reports that Sony would be dropping its 80GB PS3 in Japan on August 9, that two more
PS3-related news items surfaced.
A Belgian blog, RTLinfo, is reporting that Sony will soon be lowering the price on the European version of the PS3 from 399 euros to 299 [...]
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This just in: Netflix appears to be set to launch Watch Instantly for some new devices—namely, the Nintendo Wii console and the little handheld platform from Apple. The source of this rumor is “an industry executive familiar with Netflix’s plans” who spoke on (we assume) the condition of anonymity to Multichannel [...]
