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NVIDIA launches GeForce 300 series cards, available as OEM only

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Without any proper intro, NVIDIA launched the GeForce 300 family cards today. The series consists of five new models, which will be available only through OEM channels.


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Google Nexus One users – go get your HTC Sense UI with Flash 10.1

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The HTC Desire was just announced last week and somebody already has gutted its software internals and ported them in a nice package for Nexus One users to use and abuse. Android 2.1 OS, HTC Sense UI eye-candy and full Flash 10.1 support are among the goodies you get if you flash your Nexus One with the custom unofficial firmware.


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MWC 2010 overview: what happened and what should have happened

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This year’s Mobile World Congress was a let down for me both as a journalist and as a user. We saw only a handful of newsworthy handsets and almost none of those was a trend-setter. If that’s all planned for the first half of 2010, well then, I would be more than sad for the direction this all is going. Sorry, guys, but someone has to say it. This MWC sucked!


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Sigh, LG not interested in making their own smartphone OS!

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Reportedly, somebody asked an LG representative whether LG will be working on a proprietary smartphone OS. The answer was no. And good for them, since the mobile market is already overcrowded with those. I really don’t know how developers manage to keep track of all those SDK tools spawning around.


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Star Craft II beta run starts today in USA, Europe will follow

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Without any warning, Blizzard Entertainment opens today the public beta testing of Start Craft II. There is no official word on how the beta keys will be given. Users stateside are supposed to be the first lucky ones to get them, Europe and Asia to follow.


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New firmware update for Nokia N900, more apps coming soon

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There is a new firmware update for the Maemo 5 running Nokia N900. It’s 16MB only, so don’t expect major changes or loads of new software. The only thing to note at this stage are a lot of new regions supported.


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SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 released, in bed with Symbian and Android

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SPB Software have a new version up for grabs of their popular SPB Mobile Shell UI. And you know what, they must’ve realized monogamy sucks. It used to be Windows Mobile ONLY. The 5.0 update now lands on Symbian and Android, comes with better graphics, performance and functionality.


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Megan Fox wants you to buy the Motorola Devour. Now!

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The Android-powered Motorola Devour, packing the MOTOBLUR UI, made its TV debut during the Super Bowl XLIV. It was promoted by no other than Megan Fox, who seems to enjoy sharing bath tub pics over Facebook. Erhh, no, we’re just kidding. But what if she did?

Go on, watch those and see what happens!

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A lot of new Windows Mobile 7 details surfaced, we still hold our breath

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PPCGeeks managed to obtains some new spicy info about the latest Microsoft mobile OS – Windows Mobile 7. Zune and Xbox integration are waiting to be unveiled at the MWC later this month.

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Tweets from outer space show breath-taking photos of the Earth

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Two weeks ago we heard about the first tweets posted from outer space. They came from the International Space Station (ISS). Since then the astronauts have been encouraged to take photos of anything interesting they see from the ISS and post it.


Mount Fuji in Japan

Here comes the first wave of worthy Earth photos, taken by the First Engineer Soichi Noguchi.

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redsn0w 0.9.2 released, jailbreaks all iPhones and iPods Touch

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iPhone Dev Team released a new version of their powerful tool for jailbreaking and customizing the iPhones and iPods Touch. It works on all devices running 3.x firmware and is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X.

iPhone jailbreak

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Apple A4 CPU: developed by ARM, assembled by Apple

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It is unclear yet if the new home-brewed Apple CPU will bring the revolutionary performance they promise, but rumors that it isn’t as much of an Apple home-brewed technology as it is made to be already started flooding the web.

At the end it might turn the Apple A4 is nothing else but a system-on-a-chip with embedded ARM Cortex A9 dual-core processor.
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Broken Sword: Director’s Cut lands on the iPhone

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One of the best quest/adventures ever made – the first Broken Sword – made its way to the iPhone. It even has some additional content giving you 20% more gameplay time.


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Avatar dethroned Titanic. It’s the new boxoffice champion!

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James Cameron managed to break his own record for best-selling movie of all time. The previous leader in this chart – Titanic, was beaten just six weeks after the official Avatar premiere.

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A Mass Effect movie would generate a tremendous amount of interest, BioWare still play it cool

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In an interview for MTV, the project director of Mass Effect 2 shared some very interesting info. While Mass Effect 2 will be released tomorrow (USA) and Friday (Europe), the interest in a motion picture based on the game universe grows rapidly.

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