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Cleveland approves $2.5 million for RFID recycling bins, a hopefully rare fine
With regards to trash can technology, there's little question the United Kingdom is on top, what with the bomb-proof and RFID-laden bins denizens were subjected to for years. Still, the u. s. has trialed traceable cans for your time now, and the town of Cleveland, Ohio's just decided to lead them to ...
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FCC approves Verizon femtocell unit
The folks over at the FCC have approved Verizon’s Airave femtocell unit from Samsung which is tipped to be released sometime in the second quarter of the year initially, which means they’re already late. Hopefully there will be a concrete release date…
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Audi Cam Allows You To See Your Mechanic At Work
Are you always suspicious of the quality of work from the mechanics that service your precious automobile? Well, if you own an Audi in the UK, you’ll be able to keep a closer eye on them, thanks to the implementation of the Audi Cam. With this program…
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Want to QQ on Blizzard’s message board? Better get ready to use your real name!
Kudos to Blizzard for putting an end to Anonymous Cowards everywhere. Well, at least on their own official forums. Starting with the release of StarCraft II in a few weeks, Blizzard WILL DEMAND~! you use your real name to participate in the forums. Oh sure, you’ll also be able to have your in-game character’s name displayed alongside your real name, but don’t let that fool you: accountability has finally reached the world of message boards.
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Canon Wonder Camera spotted at the Shanghai World Expo
At the Shanghai World Expo, Canon revealed to the world its plans for the future, calling their device the Wonder Camera which merges both stills and video capability into a single device. This model comes with an extremely high-speed focus that not o…
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PS3 Slim now comes in white with 320GB hard drive
The Sony PS3 Slim has just gotten a new color, and where else but Japan will it be launched first. Of course, apart from the virginal color, Japan will no longer offer 120GB and 250GB hard drives in their PS3s, as the minimum spec now stands at 160GB,…
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Mazda to build a life-size Scalextric track that features real cars at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
Attending the Goodwood Festival of Speed at West Sussex this weekend? No, me neither. To bad too because Mazda is apparently construction an automated full-size Scalextric track that will feature full-size Mazda cars. Hopefully none of them will fly off the track when rounding the bends like my slot cars always did.
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Sony BIOS update targets faulty VAIOs
Recent news of Sony’s recall of over half a million of their VAIO laptops have resulted in a new BIOS update being released, hoping to fix this issue in their VPCF11 and VPCCW2 series. Hopefully the BIOS update will fix the fault in the integrated tem…
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PayPal horror story: Man develops Web site for MMA fighter, who then stiffs him & threatens to sue
I’m not sure if this is an anti-PayPal story or an anti-bully story, but here we go. A guy on Reddit, cerebellum of the Internet, was contracted to build a Web site for an MMA fighter. Not like a big name UFC guy or anything, but a small-time guy, Steve Gavin, whose last fight was in February, 2009, according to Sherdog. So the Web developer builds the fighter a site, then the fighter pays via PayPal. So far, so good. But lo! Then the fighter cancels the payment (while keeping it) by claiming to PayPal that it was an unauthorized payment. Now the fighter has pocketed the Web developer’s money while keeping the site.
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Hulu Plus for PlayStation Plus subscribers to cost $10 monthly
PlayStation 3 owners who want to access Hulu’s streaming video content straight from the console itself might have to fork out more than $10 monthly, since it requires a PlayStation Plus account as well. This was discovered after source code on Hulu’s…
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 software update
Sony Ericsson is now offering software updates for their Xperia X10 across selected markets, and if you happen to own said smartphone with an update arriving Over The Air (OTA), a message in the notification bar will appear, letting you choose to conn…
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Microsoft kills off KIN phones
It isn’t even three months since the Microsoft KIN phones were announced, and now we have official confirmation that this line of cloud phones will be killed off in the manner where it will not be released in Europe, considering how poor sales in the …
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