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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Some cell phones combine GPS with the phone … so you can tell where you are. In Japan, new specialized phones allow you to point the phone at a landmark, and get a readout of just what you’re looking at. And yes, once again I’m wondering why the U.S. [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Well, I had to come up with a catchy title, but of course it’s not funny how many people are injured by accidental shootings every year. Password-protecting the ammo would not only keep the gun from firing, but keep stolen ammo from working in other guns.
The way to make [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
How about releasing a CD without really releasing a CD? I mean, we all rip and burn them later anyway? A gimmicky (or just plain wacky) release, the band The Residents have released a CD that consists totally of 2 blank CDs … for you to burn onto.
It [...]
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By Yan Fortin
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
If you are a blogger, the notion of running a local instance of your blog has probably entered your mind a couple of times, but unfortunately, setting everything up to make this work is often easier said then done. Since a good proportion of the blogging community uses Wordpress to publish [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Looks like they are releasing digg v3, adding categories for Science, Gaming, Entertainment, World & Business and Videos. World & Business is the only one that’s still empty. The View All of the top stories link is pretty much the same as the front page, which is to be expected until [...]
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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
There have been many studies about the effects of cellular phone use on humans. Unfortunately, for as many that say there is no effect on humans, you could, if you tried, find an equal number that say there is an effect. Today Italian researchers added another study to the [...]
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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Earlier this year Alice wrote about Cingular patenting the emoticon. But that patent only applied to the concept of using emoticon on mobile phones, not to the emoticon or smiley face itself, which was trademarked by SmileyWorld, the French company that first registered rights to the symbol decades ago. [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
First axed as part of Windows Vista in 2004, then resurrected in August 2005 as an add-on … WinFS has been axed again as Beta 2 has been cancelled.
The idea of WinFS, or Windows File Store, was to create a “sea of data” that abolishes the need for the standard [...]
