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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
A little over a month ago Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a Yahoo! deal still “makes sense,” but that same afternoon, a Microsoft press release quashed any speculation by saying there were “no discussions between the companies.”
A report in the Sunday edition of the Times Online is set to re-ignite that speculation.
The [...]

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Think of it as the new generation of Polaroid’s instant camera (which met its demise earlier this year). The xiao TIP-521 digital camera, made by toy company TOMY (makes you wonder if they think this is a serious device or a toy) is set to launch in stores in Japan on [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Apple’s Black Friday event is still some time away in the U.S., but as it spreads across the world we can see that Kaufman analyst Shawn Wu’s prediction of up to 15% discounts from Apple ain’t gonna happen.
No, a peek at the Australian Apple Store, for example, gives us a hint of [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Black Friday, Black Friday, Black Friday. That and Cyber Monday, that’s all we hear right now. Some people are really prepared, others needs some help. If you are in the latter category, Retrevo, which bills itself as the site that “matches people and electronics” has two guides to help [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Blockbuster on Tuesday announced its own Video-on-Demand set-top box, joining arch-rival Netflix, which has been pushing VOD for some time now, with the $100 Roku set-top box as well as the Xbox 360, Samsung BD-P2500, Samsung BD-P2550, and LG BD300.
Blockbuster is teaming with 2Wire and using its recently introduced MediaPoint player. [...]

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Both the iPod Touch 2G and iPhone 3G use the same CPU, but apparently the second generation iPod Touch is clocking its quite a bit faster, according to a report. While observing empirical evidence that the iPod Touch 2G was running games quite a bit faster than the iPhone 3G, Handheld Games [...]

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Lesson learned, or rather lesson(s) learned, by Tina Sherman and her husband Philip, of Arkansas:

Don’t send nude photos of yourself to your husband or boyfriend.
If you are sent nude photos, don’t leave ‘em on your cell phone.
If you do leave ‘em on your cell phone, at least password-lock the darn thing.

On the [...]

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Here’s a perfect example of why some want Barack Obama to give up his Blackberry. Whether or not you agree with that “demand,” hacks like this are a concern.
Verizon Wireless informed President-Elect Obama’s transition team on Wednesday of employees hacking into an Obama cell phone account, and Verizon Wireless President and [...]