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Apple Going After GetJar For Using App Store Name

GetJar Android

Last week we heard that Apple were denied an injunction against Amazon for Amazon using the term App Store for their mobile application download service for Android, of course this isn’t the end of the matter and a court

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Sony To Stop Shipping MiniDisc Walkman

Sony MiniDisc

Hardly a year after the cassette playing Walkman was finally consigned to oblivion, news has broken out the same fate will be shared by the MiniDisc. In case the MiniDisc never made a difference in your life, don’t fret.

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NASA Shuttle Atlantis Embarks On Final Historic Mission

Shuttle Atlantis

Cape Canaveral, 11:29 am. A sizable congregation of onlookers were transfixed by the poetic ascension of the last manned shuttle flight. Half an hour short of most employee’s lunch breaks yesterday, the space shuttle Atlantis began its mission to

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New Spray Could Eradicate Germs Completely

Bacteria 02

Our consumer society shares a special relationship with germs. The invisible microorganisms are the arch-villain for many a product, be it bathing soap to hand sanitizers. Somehow, germs are pure evil—and they are. But this is too much of

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Secrets Of Soviet Space Shuttle Program Revealed By Cosmonaut

Soviet Buran

What’s that? Soviet space shuttles were supposed t deliver nuclear missiles? This from an ISS veteran and cosmonaut who shares the straight dope on the late USSR’s impressive shuttle effort, the Buran. Cursory research indicates that the Buran was

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U.S. Navy Begins Harnessing Bacteria Power

Navy Fuelcell 02

As if further proof of how viable bacteria are is necessary. Bacteria are the true masters of this world. If they weren’t, then how come so many varieties of consumer products claim they can exterminate them? Anyway, this particular

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Ambient TV Electromagnetic Energy Scavenged To Power Devices

scavenged energy

A team at the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been developing a new type of technology which combines sensors and antennas that can be created on paper using inkjet technology to scavenge energy to power small electronic

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Panasonic Demos Android Based eBook Tablet In Japan

Panasonic Android eBook Tablet

Panasonic has shown off an Android based eBook tablet at the e-Book expo in Tokyo, and it features a 7 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1,024 pixels by 600 pixels. The Panasonic eBook comes with a dual

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Asus Eee Pad Slider Delayed To The Autumn

Asus Eee Pad Slider

The last thing we heard about the new Asus Eee Pad Slider was that it would go on sale in August, and now it looks like it has been delayed until later in the year and will go on

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YouTube Unveils Its New Cosmic Panda Experience

YouTube Cosmic Panda

Google are always experimenting with new innovations within their products and this week they have rolled out a new YouTube experiment called the Cosmic Panada. The new update named Cosmic Panada has been created to help make your YouTube experience a little

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc Hits The US

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc has been available in Europe for a while now, and Sony Ericsson has just released it in the US, it is available SIM free for $599.99 and it comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The

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BlueAnt Launches Embrace Wired Headphones

BlueAnt Embrace

BlueAnt makes some really cool Bluetooth gear that needs no wires for making calls and for listening to music. I always think of wireless Bluetooth gear when I hear the company name. BlueAnt makes some wired headphones too and

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