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Nokia's N96 Now Official, Quad-Band and WCDMA

Nokia's N96 Now Official, Quad-Band and WCDMA

After much leaking of information, Nokia's N96 slider cellphone is now official. It's a quad-band, US 3G-enabled (WCDMA) phone with a 2.8-inch screen, 16GB of built-in memory, a 5-megapixel Carl-Zeiss Tessar lens, A-GPS and 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi. The media-player functions of the phone get their own dedi

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Sun Java Runtime Environment 6.0 Update 14

Java software allows you to run applications called "applets" that are written in the Java programming language. These applets allow you to have a much richer experience online than simply interacting with static HTML pages. Java Plug-in technology, included as part of the Java 2 Runtime Environm

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Firefox 3.7 Theme Makes Your Browser Look Awesome

Firefox 3.7 Theme Makes Your Browser Look Awesome

Windows only: Mozilla released their version 3.7 theme mockups only a few days ago, but you don't have to wait for the 3.7 release to enjoy them—a motivated user already created a lookalike theme that you can install now. (Click the image above for a closer look.) Installing this theme isn't q

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New Treatment Filters Bacteria From the Bloodstream with an Electromagnet

New Treatment Filters Bacteria From the Bloodstream with an Electromagnet

This may sound like something out of Iron Man, but it's very real. Don Ingber has developed a machine that uses an electromagnet to suck sepsis-causing bacteria out of the blood. In lab tests, Ingber's team mixed donor blood with the fungus Candida albicans, a common cause of sepsis, and added plast

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Intel Big on 32nm Westmere Processors for Consumers in 2010

Intel Big on 32nm Westmere Processors for Consumers in 2010

At today's San Francisco event, Intel mostly discussed what we know about the upcoming Westmere processor, but revealed they're scrapping the next dual-core 45nm processors, in favor of 32nm Westmere chips in early 2010. The first Westmere chips will be the dual-core Clarkdale and Annendale pr

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New Method of Writing Hard Drives Could Yield 1TB Per Inch Density

New Method of Writing Hard Drives Could Yield 1TB Per Inch Density

Current hard disk drives are up against their ceiling: a few hundred GB per inch. But a combination of two unique writing methods could lead to new HDDs that pack ten times as much data in the same space. A new paper in the journal Nature Photonics outlines the process, which combines TAR (th

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Batteries That Last 10 Years Developed By Hitachi

Doubling the Li-Ion battery life from 5 years, Hitachi reckons its new technology which extends the life of batteries will also cost less too—thanks to reducing the amount of cobalt used. Hitachi hopes to get them onto the production line in the next year. [Akihabara News]

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Sony Ericsson Begins Shipping the Xperia X8

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Sony Ericsson has finally gotten around to shipping yet another pedestrian offering, this time the Xperia X8. Much in the same vein as the X10 Mini, this handset features 1.6 and a custom SE interface. There is, naturally, a promised update to (…)

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This Is Sony’s $1399 Google TV-Powered Internet TV & Sony’s Google TV Blu-ray Player Is 400 Bucks

This Is Sony's 99 Google TV-Powered Internet TV

This Is Sony's 99 Google TV-Powered Internet TV

Sony's Google TV Blu-ray Player Is 400 Bucks

We’re live at ’s TV press conference, where we’re seeing the “world’s first HDTV powered by TV” (and its gnarly remote). Not bad at all, $1400 for the 46-inch model, available this weekend. Updated.

Check out our first impressions. We like!

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Sony Intros 16.41MP Camera Capable of 1080p HD Video, Showing Up in Phones Next Year

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If you thought the 14MP found in the Altek Leo was impressive, wait until you get a load of this 16.41MP bad boy just dropped. The Exmore R-based CMOS sensor will be hitting handsets starting next year and will be sure to do(…)

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Here’s Android 2.1 Running on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

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I know 2.2 is out, and I know you’d rather have that over 2.1 (bigger numbers means better, duh), but those who hang on for dear life to their Ericsson Xperia X10s can at least be happy knowing that SE’s moving closer(…)

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New Bloggie Touch Does Full HD Recording, 12.8 Megapixel Stills

New Bloggie Touch Does Full HD Recording, 12.8 Megapixel Stills

Sony’s upgrading its chunky little Bloggie personal camcorder into a full-blown device, with the Bloggie Touch—a sleek little option for recording Full video and capturing 12.8 still shots.

The biggest change to new Bloggie is the addition of a 3″ touchscreen, which has(…)

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