i-Got Control iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad Universal Remote [i-Got Control Comes With 40,000+ IR Codes, Free App Will Also Learn IR Code of…

We’ve seen a fair few universal remote add-ons for the iPhone and iPod Touch ( New Potato Technologies’ FLIPR , L5 Technology’s L5 Remote and, of course, the Power A iPhone Universal Remote Case being the most notable) and now we have another in the form of the i-Got Control Universal Remote which will work with the iPhone, iPod Touch and, when you eventually get it (assuming you ever wanted one), the Apple iPad tablet, thanks to being iPad-Ready. The i-Got Control iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad Universal Remote, which comes in the form of both hardware, namely a IRB1 accessory which connects to your device’s 30-pin dock connector, and a free i-Got-Control App, which is set to be offered via the App Store, is said to come complete with over 40,000 IR codes for consumer electronic devices already stored and, should you have a device that isn’t in the App’s database, there’s no need to worry as you’ll have the option of adding it thanks to ‘i-Got-Control’s user-friendly learning capabilities’.

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The first 4G cellphone?

Rumors of cell phones that run on the 4G network , which promises much faster downloads and uploads than today’s speediest networks, have been floating around for more than a year. Yet no phone maker or carrier has produced a 4G cellphone . That includes Sprint , the first and only carrier to actually have a 4G network in place.

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How Google Crunches All That Data [Memory Forever]

How Google Crunches All That Data [Memory Forever] If data centers are the brains of an information company, then Google is one of the brainiest there is. Though always evolving, it is, fundamentally, in the business of knowing everything.

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Microsoft Employees Hide Their iPhones Around Ballmer [Sources Say 10% Of Microsoft Employees Are Avid iPhone Users, Hide Their Phones When Executives…

It’s not really a shock that some of the the hi-tech geeks who work for Microsoft would enjoy the iPhone over the (usually) dreadful Windows Mobile devices. But, as it turns out, they’re forced to hide their iPhones from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Very few employees will use an iPhone openly, some disguise them in “old” smartphone cases (Palm Treo 680, anybody?).

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Incandescent bulb production left in the dark

Call Greenpeace , they’ll want to hear this. Today marked the end of 120 years of mass-produced incandescent bulbs for Toshiba. They had planned to stop manufacturing a year from now, but seems the timetable got moved up in favor of those more efficient LED bulbs

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Japanese scientists build world’s fastest scanner

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 21:15:00 Device scans a 200 page book in one minute Japanese scientists has been demonstrating a scanner that uses revolutionary chip technology to scan a 200 page book in just a minute….

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Windows Phone 7 Gets Leaked & It’s Still Coming from LG [Leaked LG WP7S Smartphone Looks Like the HTC HD2… Only Meaner & Better; We Like…

You know I’ll tell you to grab a huge chunk of salt for this one, boys and girls, since the handset in the picture here looks too good to be true. The device is said to be one of LG’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series handsets and this time around we’re not talking about the LG Panther which we’ve already seen. Today we have a HTC HD2-like device here and I think that’s the best description/comparison I can make for you right now

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Daily Dispatch: Single-region MobileNavigator for $30; Could cosmic radiation be affecting Toyotas?

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 Nexus One Heading to Sprint, Officially [Sprint to Launch CDMA Google Nexus One Android Smartphone before Verizon Wireless; We're in Awe!]

I’m happy to officially announce you that the Google Nexus One is the first Android handset that has caught the attention of the all the major carriers in the USA. That’s right, Sprint has joined everyone else and not only has it done so but it also officially announced its own CDMA Google Nexus One through a regular old-school press release. T-Mobile is the first carrier of the Big Four that started selling Google’s phone and then it was quickly followed by Verizon, at least on paper

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Lil Wayne Has a Perfectly Good Reason Why He’s Not in Yuma Right Now

Lil Wayne’s nine days into his sentence at Rikers, but just ’cause he’s locked down doesn’t mean he can’t still be getting into trouble with the law: A Superior Court Judge in Yuma, Arizona, has issued a bench warrant for his arrest after Wayne missed a court hearing (you know, on account of that whole being in jail in another state thing). The proceeding is related to a 2008 arrest at a border checkpoint near Yuma, where Wayne was found with cocaine, Ecstasy, and a handgun, and later charged with possession of a narcotic drug for sale, possession of dangerous drugs, misconduct involving weapons, and possession of drug paraphernalia (whew!)

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4G-enabled HTC Supersonic To Launch This Week? [Reports Have Sprint Unveiling HTC’s Supersonic As Their First 4G WiMax Smartphone With 4.3-inch OLED…

American telcom carrier Sprint-Nextel has been struggling lately, despite having the only live 4G network in the United States.

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How Will Parks and Recreation Hide Amy Poehler’s Pregnancy?

The news today that Amy Poehler and Will Arnett are expecting their second child poses some questions for the one-camera sitcom: How are they going to deal with Leslie Knope’s baby bump? It’s a particularly sticky issue for Parks , which features way more outdoor and full-body shots than, say, How I Met Your Mother , which dealt with the simultaneous pregnancies of its two female leads, Cobie Smulders and Alyson Hanigan, with a mixture of humor (Hanigan holding a basketball in front of her stomach, other characters noticing at the end of an episode that they haven’t seen her character in days) and the show’s easy settings (at least a quarter of each episode takes place in a bar booth). In the past, shows would either write a character’s pregnancy into the series, or awkwardly try to hide it and in most cases fail miserably (see Julia Louis Dreyfus on Seinfeld — you could practically see the baby kick )

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Winait CB130BT Digital Camera Is Less Than An Inch Thick [Cheap Digital Camera Is Only 13.5mm Thick, Costs $25, No SD Card Slot]

If that big and bulky Digital SLR around your neck is a real pain, we suggest you try the Winait CD130BT digital camera. It’s a surprisingly thin and cheap digital camera. As you can imagine, it the photo quality isn’t anything to write home about (the photo sensor is actually less than 1-megapixel) but it can record video and it’s thin, very thin.

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AT&T goes green on St. Patrick’s Day

AT&T announced that in May it will begin selling a replacement phone charger it claims will be more efficient than other cell-phone chargers sold today. Called the Zero, the charger automatically detects when a phone is not plugged into it, and cuts off the power supply from the wall socket to save energy—something few electronics chargers do

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New Mac Drivers for Samsung, Brother Printers

In case you’re looking for updated printer drivers for your Samsung or Brother printer–and you’re a Mac user–there’s good news from Apple, reports Philip Michaels of Macworld.com . Apple has released Samsung printer drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 and Brother printer drivers for Mac OS X v10.6.

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Digits Live Show: Google Moves Against Apple

Google will be selling the Nexus One with AT&T, but the non-contracted $529 phone will make it a hard sell. It’s the latest in a larger battle between the two companies, as Stacey Delo, Niraj Sheth and Peter Kafka discuss on Digits Live Show. Plus, Katie Boehret reports on the Xobni Mobile app for BlackBerry

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Google Exiting China Sucks Just As Much As Censorship Does [Google]

Google Exiting China Sucks Just As Much As Censorship Does [Google] It’s too easy to pat Google on the back for taking such a firm stance against China . The two behemoths’ fingers are twitching by their sides, ready to whip their pistols out

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T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ XT Now Available [T-Mobile CLIQ XT Yours for $130 Based on 2 Year Contract]

By way of a brief heads up, and following up from advising you at the beginning of the month that the Motorola CLIQ XT was set to launch on T-Mobile , we can now confirm that the T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ XT has just become available. Those looking to avail themselves of a CLIQ XT via T-Mobile can expect to fork out $129.99 for the Android 1.5 handset, based signing up for a two year contract, so you’ll hardly be up to the minute in terms of the Android OS if you opt for the VLIQ XT – that said, an OS upgrade is widely expected soon. And, for those as yet unacquainted with what the Motorola CLIQ XT brings to the table in terms of specifications and features, here’s the low-down: 2G Network : GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 3G Network : HSDPA 1700 / 2100 / 900 (3G  HSDPA 7.2 Mbps) Announced : 2010, February Exp

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Shuttle X50V2 All-In-One PC On Its Way To Market [Shuttle's Barebone Tablet-Style Desktop Should Arrive At $399 Each]

Shuttle has priced and shipped the latest iteration of the X50 line of all-in-one PCs for the US market.  The Shuttle X50V2, first revealed at CES 2010 in January , is on its way to stores in the US for $399. The Shuttle X50V2 all-in-one pc features a 15.6-inch touchscreen display, a pinetrail-powered dual core Intel Atom D510 processor at 1.66GHz and up to 4GB DDRII RAM.  It has since added legacy parallel and serial ports to a wide range of standard connectivity like USB, headphone, microphone, LAN, etc. It features a simple design with the display and webcam facing the front and a carry handle on its top– all combining to weigh just 8 pounds.  It is passively cooled, meaning there is no internal fan system and no resulting noise when in use.

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Old robot learns new trick, becomes musician

Here’s a fun thing to do with an older robot that you aren’t sure what to do with: turn it into a musical instrument ! Using a motor to make music is nothing new, however this approach by LMR user RobotFreak is nice because you can try it without building any new hardware.

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