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Text Speak Was Happening B4 U Might Think [Email]
Turns out it's not just modern youths that may't be bothered writing out their words properly in communications- text speak was being used by lazy Victorian poets more than 100 years ago. 4 real. A forthcoming exhibition on the history of the English language at the British Library features excerpts from ...
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Try E-Mailing The fellow With The sector’s Longest E-Mail Address [Email]
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Some guy's e-mail address is 345 characters long. Mine's only 17 characters long. Damn, he's way bigger than me. Here's his elongated e-mail address in all its glory. The full e-mail address is: contact-admin-hello-webmaster-info-services-peter-crazy-but-oh-so-ubber-cool-english-alphabet-loverer-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@please-try-to.send-me-an-email-if-you-can-possibly-begin-to-remember-this-coz.this-is-the-longest-email-address-known-to-man-but-to-be-honest.this-is-such-a-stupidly-long-sub-domain-it-could-go-on-forever.pacraig.com It actually type of rolls off the tongue. [Laughing SquidSource
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FaceTime via Email Arrives in iOS 4.1 Beta 3 [IPhone]
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iPhone 4 owners will soon be smiling more, with a new option to initiate FaceTime conversations via email unlocked within the latest iOS beta. This may allow video speaking to other FaceTime-compatible devices, such the perhaps-impending front camera iPod. The tipoff is a new button within the Contacts app to start out a FaceTime chat through ...
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BlackBerry email, web and messaging banned in UAE due to ‘security concerns’
Seems like those regulators over inside the Middle East don\'t mess about. Following this week\'s revelation that the United Arab Emirates\' telco overseers weren\'t happy with being unable to watch how people were using their BlackBerrys, today we\'re hearing what their strategy to the difficulty will probably be: an outright ban. Internet access, email and ...
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iPod touch FaceTime calling to be based on email addresses?
We've been assuming that the next iPod touch will get in on Apple's FaceTime video-calling action, but the open question has been how calls will actually be initiated without phone numbers, and BGR's saying it has the scoop: it's going to be based on email addresses. Registering an email address with ...
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Get a Free Year of Amazon Prime If You Have a .Edu Email Address [Dealzmodo]
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Amazon's offering a rather sweet deal to students: A free year of Amazon Prime. That's a $80 value and gives you free two-day shipping among other perks. All you need to do is head over to the Amazon Student page and sign up using an email address ending in .edu. That's it. Of course, Amazon reserves the ...
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NTP awakes, sues Apple, Microsoft, Google, HTC, LG, and Motorola over wireless email patents
Remember NTP? The tiny company with a portfolio of patents on wireless email technology that wrung a $612 million settlement out of RIM in 2006 after years of litigation? Well, get ready to fall in love all over again, because the company just sued Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG, and Motorola for the same thing. ...
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Clearwire ships Spot 4G and Spot 4G+ WiMAX portable hotspots
It’s not like you couldn’t snag an Overdrive from Sprint or an IntelliGo from Time Warner Cable, but if you’re dead-set on nabbing your WiMAX gear directly from Clearwire, we’ve good splendiferous news to share. The 4G-only Spot 4G and 3G / 4G Spot 4G+…
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iPhone 4 gets outfitted with vintage SLR lens
Sure, the iPhone 4 may have a pretty great camera as far as phones go, but there’s always room for improvement — right? Continuing the great tradition of iPhones awkwardly outfitted with camera lenses, one intrepid individual has now come up with a c…
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Junaio’s augmented reality app for iPhone and Android can add cartoons to your otherwise-boring existence
As an augmented reality navigator that you want to use for finding pizza joints and friends on Foursquare and Twitter, you’ve got more polished options than Junaio’s new 2.0 release — Layar and Yelp, just to name a couple — but Junaio has at least o…
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Bloomberg estimates Xbox Live to be worth $1 billion+
Given the number of users and $50-a-year subscription fee, it’s hardly a surprise that Microsoft is pulling in a ton of cash from Xbox Live, but it looks like the service has recently crossed a significant milestone: the $1 billion mark. That’s what B…
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Nintendo’s Miyamoto says Miis could make the jump to the 3DS
Nintendo already dropped a hint that Miis could be heading to the 3DS by including some Mii-like characters in the Pilotwings demo at E3 last month, and Shigeru Miyamoto himself has now offered some further confirmation that Nintendo is at least looki…
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Walkman Outsold iPod in Japan During August [Apple]It's party time for Sony, as the planets of consumerism aligned to earn it a unprecedented win over Apple's iPod music-playing range. It's the first time Walkman has outsold Apple's music players inside the region since iPod arrived in 2001. Sony had to make a number of sacrifices with the intention to win back musical market share, though, aggressively under-cutting the cost of its rival.![A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]](http://nexgadget.com/images/A-DualBooting-Tablet-Running-Android-Sounds-Barmy-Viewsonic-Tablets_tuTo-_0.jpg)
A Dual-Booting Tablet Running Android 1.6 Sounds Barmy, Viewsonic [Tablets]After warning us last week of their impending dual-booting tablet, ViewSonic has now spilled the beans on the ViewPad 100 's specs. I don't think anyone shall be impressed by the Android 1.6 flavor, even supposing Windows 7 's also there too. I can't consider many the explanation why someone would need a dual-booting tablet, but obviously dual-booting laptops (running something like