LG Windows Phone 7 Joins HTC Mondrian in Leak [Unlike the HTC Mondrian, the Unnamed LG WP7 Handset Comes with a QWERTY Keyboard]

The HTC Mondrian is probably the first HTC Windows Phone 7 to start selling later this fall but it’s not the only device that will run Microsoft’s latest mobile platform and give the new iPhone a run for its money. We now have one more important WP7 handset that got leaked and this time around it’s an unnamed device coming from LG

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LG Windows Phone 7 Joins HTC Mondrian in Leak [Unlike the HTC Mondrian, the Unnamed LG WP7 Handset Comes with a QWERTY Keyboard]

Daily Dispatch: Web users unknowingly leaving fingerprints; Amazon to release Kindle app for Android

Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.

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Google Android VoIP Video Chat Coming Soon? [Google Purchased Global IP Solutions, Could Bring Video Chat to Android Phones Soon]

Google made one more important purchase as the search-based giant acquired Global IP Solutions, a company that could prove to be very useful later down the road as Google will probably use it to bring its own VoIP capabilities to Android OS, including video chat functions. (…) Read the rest of Google Android VoIP Video Chat Coming Soon? [Google Purchased Global IP Solutions, Could Bring Video Chat to Android Phones Soon] (286 words) Post by MikePayne | © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010

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Mental Note: An EEG musical instrument

Hunter Scott, a student at Georgia Tech, discovered a serial out on a Star Wars Force Trainer EEG toy, so he decided to make it into a musical instrument . When activated, the electroencephalography -driven toy plays a variety of samples depending the readings from the alpha and beta brainwaves. Mental Note is the name I gave to a project that I made for Yahoo HackU 2010.

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Mental Note: An EEG musical instrument

New iPhone 4 / 4G / HD Lost in Vietnam Gets Captured on Video [How Many iPhone 4 Prototypes Did Apple Lose in the First Place?]

Seriously, Apple, how many new iPhone prototypes did you lose in the first place? Is it more than two? We’ve seen one emerge in the USA last month and one in Vietnam last weeks but it looks like there are more to go around

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British Telecom Looking At Tablets [New Rumors Saying BT To Launch Tablet Smaller Than iPad With Cloud Services]

Tablets are the hot hand these days, and BT is now looking at offering a tablet to their customers that would tie into their fixed-line phone plan. This news comes by way of rumors, which are reporting that BT is looking at producing their own tablets. (…) Read the rest of British Telecom Looking At Tablets [New Rumors Saying BT To Launch Tablet Smaller Than iPad With Cloud Services] (193 words) Post by KevinSchram | © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010.

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MakerBot giveaway top designs printed

We announced the winners of the MAKE/MakerBot giveaway last week, and Bre has already printed out the top two designs! Here’s the MakerBot Transformer , open and closed, followed by the stereoscopic viewer . MakerBot will also be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend

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Paid PSN Rumors Start Up Again [Rumors Of "Premium" PSN At E3 Upsetting PlayStation 3 Faithful]

Sony’s been considering charging for PSN for a while now. Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai even confirmed this with Gamespot some time ago in an interview, saying that while all current PSN features will remain free, they’ll charge for premium features. That was last year, and now we may hear about these premium features at E3.

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Go very local and engage with your community, say hyperlocal entrepreneurs

The theme that emerged from the first session of the Press Gazette Local Heroes conference was the importance of engaging with your community as much as possible in order to be successful in the hyperlocal news arena, and the necessity to go as local as possible.

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Buy a Panasonic 3D plasma TV, get two free 3D Blu-ray titles

Source: Panasonic.com If you've been teetering on the edge of buying a new 3D TV and have been waiting for just the right nudge, Panasonic hopes two free 3D movies may tip the balance in its favor. As part of a new promotional offer, anyone buying a Panasonic VT25-series 3D plasma TV during the next two months can get free 3D Blu-ray versions of Fox’s Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Universal’s Coraline . Full details of the promotion, which runs through July 10, 2010, are available at Panasonic's website

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American Journey 2.0: A visit to Northwestern University

Follow the Team Bobcat Ford Fiesta caravan… Team Bobcat visits Northwestern University The members of Team Bobcat made their first stop at Northwestern University on Friday. They set up in front of the Technological Institute, giving demonstrations and showing off Caravan Track to students and interested passersby.

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How to solve Windows 7 memory allocation problems

Avoid closing time with PC Advisor’s Helproom QUESTION When browsing the web on my brand-new Windows 7 laptop I get warnings that the memory is running low and that I should close some programs. On Startup a Performance Options window appears

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India: Hindustan Times launches free iPhone app

The Indian English language daily, Hindustan Times , has just launched an iPhone news app, and claims to be the first Indian newspaper to do so, reported afaqs ! While the number of iPhone users in India does not represent a substantial number, the application “will primarily target iPhone users or non-resident Indians in the West.” The app will be offered for free and without advertisements, but HT does hope it will be able to embed ads on the news app, monetizing the application in the future.

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Bicycle Fetish Day in NYC this Saturday

The City Reliquary in Brooklyn, NY, is throwing a bicycle block party with the Bicycle Fetish Day in Williamsburg: IT’S A BLOCK PARTY FOR YOUR BICYCLE! The Sixth Annual Bicycle Fetish Day takes place on Havemeyer Street between Grand & Hope Sts. “Best of…” Bicycle Contests, “Goldsprints” Stationary Races, Alley Cat Race, Advocacy Groups, Info tables, and Artists and MORE!! With a BBQ grill and more, you couldn’t miss this yearly celebration of all things bicycle. Bring Your Bikes! Show ‘em off!! We’ve Got Prizes!!! Contests include: Best VINTAGE Bike, Best Shiny Bike, Best Family Bike, Best Mutant Bike, Best, BMX, Best WORST Bike, Best in Show and much more! Win great bike prizes donated by: Outlier Tailored Performance, Velo Brooklyn Bushwick Bike Shop, Affinity Cycles, including TWO FREE BIKES from TREK and NYCBikes! Performances by: Heels on Wheels, Lucky Chops Brass Band, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, plus DJ Stacher & Dirtyfinger on the turntables all afternoon! AFTERPARTY @ 6PM at the City Reliquary with Brooklyn Beers for sale

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XStreamHD: New satellite movie service launch postponed until July

After more stuttering starts than a high-performance sports car with water in its gas tank, a new satellite video-on-demand service called XStreamHD says it will finally launch this July, offering subscribers “Blu-ray-quality” 1080p video and up to 7.1 channels of lossless audio. I initially wrote about XStreamHD in January, 2008, when the service was expected to become operational by the end of the year.

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Lib Dems want aspects of Digital Economy Act repealed

Party wants disconnection for illegal downloaders scrapped The Liberal Democrats are expected to urge the coalition government to remove the website blocking and disconnection for repeat illegal downloaders clauses from the Digital Economy Act.

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"Ball of Light" light graffiti

While it’s true enough that light graffiti has been here, and there, and back again, the work of Australian photographer Denis Smith still manages to amaze. How do you suppose he does it? [via Dude Craft ] More: HOW TO – stop motion light painting Solar powered light-graffiti projector Light graffiti Make “light” graffiti with a disposable camera Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Photography | Digg this!

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Four journalists banned from Gitmo coverage appeal ban

Four journalists who have been banned from covering Military Commissions in Guantanamo Bay for publishing the name of an interrogator are appealing the Pentagon order on grounds that their ban was “illegal and unconstitutional,” reports McClatchyDC .

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NYT asks: has search engine optimization gone too far?

Writing for The New York Times , David Carr set out to make a point about the effect search engine optimization (SEO) has had upon the newspaper industry using a provocative headline ‘ Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline .’

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Sony PS3 And Xbox 360 Red Dead Redemption Games

With days to go until the release of Red Dead Redemption for the Sony PS3 and Xbox 360, we thought it would be the ideal time to review Roundup. This epic of the West has taken the gaming world by storm, even before its release date of May 21st – So what’s special about this game? Game Informer 9.75/10 gave this new game, but other evidence has also reached this score – those who do not deserve it

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