1. Google launches Nexus One phone support  permalink

Google launches Nexus One phone support
Steven Musil / CNET News

Customers suffering shipping and technical issues with the new Android phone now have more resources than online support forums.

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Google initiates phone support line for Nexus One owners,  48NEXUS Google reduces its Nexus One termination fee   —  IDG News Service - Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One, meaning it will now cost users less to cancel service on the smartphone.

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Google initiates phone support line for Nexus One owners,  48NEXUS Google Customer Service Number Now Live   —  After taking quite a beating in the blogosphere after the initial launch of the Nexus One, Google has officially launched phone support. That’s right; 888-48-NEXUS (63987) will get you customer service from Google, open daily from 7AM to 10PM EST. That’s right, from Google. Read those words, stop, close your mouth and let the wow factor hit ...

2. Google Gmail press conference  permalink

Google Gmail press conference
Josh Lowensohn / Web Crawler

We're heading to the Googleplex to find out what's happening to Gmail. Earlier reports have pointed to Google taking on Twitter. Tune in to find out if that's true.

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Google Gmail press conference Google, Gmail, Relevance Filtering & the Future of Social Media   —  �Is the Social Media world about to change on�Tuesday? Probably not, but all eyes will be on Mountain View tomorrow when Google announces their latest venture into the social sphere , reportedly a social add-on to Gmail. Let me begin by saying that I know absolutely nothing about what Google has up its sleeve, but let's speculate.� Why?� Because ...

Tonie van Ringelestijn / B R I G H T
Google Gmail press conference Google komt met Twitter-killer   —  Google-gebruikers kunnen straks ook statusupdates publiceren. Wordt Google een echte rivaal voor Twitter en Facebook? Google gaat volgens tal van mediaberichten deze week een dienst presenteren die mensen met een Google-account statusupdates laat publiceren, net als met Twitter en Facebook kan. Het is al langer mogelijk een statusupdate te ...

3. Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat  permalink

Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat
JENNA WORTHAM / NYT

Foursquare, the hip social network whose software is on the phones of many young urbanites, is branching out.

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Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat   —  Foursquare, the hip social network whose software is on the phones of many young urbanites, is branching out.

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Google Maps making recommendations Foursquare Steps Up its Location-Based Content With Zagat, HBO Deals   —  Conscious of the advancing, diversifying competition to its location-based gaming/info services, Foursquare is not sitting on it's laurels : It's announcing new partnerships with some big-name media companies to add content to its system. First up is a deal with Zagat, which'll add some named-quality reviews to Foursquare and act as a ...

4. Anjal: GNOME's Evolution for Netbooks  permalink

Anjal: GNOME's Evolution for Netbooks
Linuxtoday.com

"One unforeseen benefit of the rise of netbooks is the rethinking of desktop interfaces. Compared to workstations, netbooks have smaller screens and less memory, and developers generally assume that users do less demanding tasks on them. As a result, developers are starting to redesign interfaces to function better within these constraints.

5. Free Trial  permalink

Free Trial
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To get a fully functional copy of Aperture 3 for your Mac, enter your name and email address below. You’ll receive an email with a link to download Aperture 3 and a serial number for activation. The free trial will expire 30 days after you open the application for the first time.

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Apple Aperture 3 gets official Apple Releases Aperture 3   —  CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple® today introduced Aperture™ 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software, with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto® '09, Aperture 3 makes it even easier ...

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Apple Aperture 3 gets official Apple unveils Aperture 3 raw workflow software   —  Apple has unveiled Aperture 3, the latest version of its raw-conversion and photo management software. It promises faster organization of large number of images and offers over 200 new features. Changes include a new Faces and Places option that enables Face detection and geotagging, an improved slideshow feature that combines photos and HD ...

6. Apple To Upgrade MacBook Pros Tuesday Ahead Of Macworld Conference?  permalink

Apple To Upgrade MacBook Pros Tuesday Ahead Of Macworld Conference?
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Apple may finally announce a new MacBook Pro lineup tomorrow, perhaps including new, faster Intel chips, as the Macworld conference gets underway in San Francisco.

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Apple Store is down: MacBook Pro refresh expected Macworld Expo 2010 Caters to Apple Fans — Without Apple   —  Like a Star Trek convention minus Leonard Nimoy, Macworld Conference and Expo 2010 kicks off Tuesday at San Francisco’s Moscone Center with no official presence from Apple. Though the event will lack a Steve Jobs keynote and won’t have an Apple product introduction to generate buzz, 250 vendors will be showcasing Apple-related ...

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Apple Store is down: MacBook Pro refresh expected Best Buy clearing current MacBook Pros from inventory?   —  A possibly last-minute slip hints that Apple may be close to updating the MacBook Pro line. One Best Buy employee notes that all MacBook Pro models have been deleted from the company's inventory system, preventing them from ordering new models. The systems can still be found but are listed as "deleted."...

7. AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops  permalink

AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops
Arstechnica.com

SAN FRANCISCO—The "Llano" processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU—instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an "application processor unit," or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11- ...

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AMD Fusion CPU/GPU combo to fight Intel in notebooks NVIDIA Optimus automates graphics switching, promises the best of both worlds   —  We've always thought switchable graphics made a lot of sense on laptops, and NVIDIA's new Optimus tech looks like it's going to bring it mainstream in a serious way -- there's no more manually toggling between the powerful discrete GPU and the power-saving integrated chip. More than just automatically switching off the discrete GPU when the ...

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AMD Fusion CPU/GPU combo to fight Intel in notebooks NVIDIA Optimus achieves goal of seamless GPU transition   —  After the NVIDIA Optimus teaser was posted in early January, there was some speculation about what it was, but we now have first-hand information: NVIDIA Optimus is an architecture for multi-GPU computers (typically integrated + discrete) that allows the operating system to seamlessly switch between integrated and discrete graphics. The goal is ...

8. Findings: Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome  permalink

Findings: Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome
JOHN TIERNEY / NYT

A University of Pennsylvania study found that readers of news in print and online had more exalted tastes than might be expected.

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Secrets of The New York Times' Most-Emailed List, Revealed People prefer e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes   —  New York Times They also like to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics, according to two University of Pennsylvania researchers. "Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list," writes John Tierney .

9. Morningstar acquires footnoted!  permalink

Morningstar acquires footnoted!
Michelle Leder / Footnoted.org

For the past 6 1/2 years, we’ve written frequently about various mergers and acquisitions. Today, we have some M&A news of our own: Morningstar (MORN) has acquired footnoted.org. You can download the official press release here, but I wanted to personally share with you why I’m so excited about this deal and why I think [...]

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Morningstar Buys Footnoted.org News Archive   —  About Morningstar, Inc.

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Morningstar Buys Footnoted.org Morningstar acquires Footnoted for undisclosed sum   —  Footnoted.org || Morningstar release Michelle Leder , who founded Footnoted.org in 2003, goes over SEC filings to find information buried in the fine print, such as evidence of aggressive accounting and excessive compensation. || Read the release . || See Footnoted items that have been posted on Romenesko.

10. Sony Bravia TV sports built-in Blu-ray player  permalink

Sony Bravia TV sports built-in Blu-ray player
Ubergizmo

Still don't have a Blu-ray player in your living room? Why not kill two birds with one stone if you're thinking of upgrading your current standard definition TV to one of those newfangled HDTVs? Sony has just the thing with their latest Bravia TV which will come in 32" and 40" sizes, known as the KDL-32EX40B and KDL-40EX40B. As it is under the ...

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Sony Bravia Blu-Ray HDTV Touch Viva portable media player   —  The Touch Viva portable media player is no iPod, but it comes with a 4.3" touchscreen display at 800 x 480 resolution alongside 720p video playback for those who are into High Definition (HD) video. Apart from that, H.264 encoding is also supported alongside AVI, RM, RMVB, MP4, MOV, VOB, DAT, FLV, 3GP and other major video formats. There is no ...

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Sony Bravia Blu-Ray HDTV Limited edition Prime Note Cresion NA Yu-Pon netbook   —  The Prime Note Cresion NA Yu-Pon netbook is certainly an interesting piece of consumer electronics to have - after all, it is the first one in the market that comes with a built-in Blu-ray drive. Inside, you won't find it too different from other netbooks of its class (apart from the aforementioned Blu-ray drive, of course), sporting an Intel ...

11. Atlona© 2003-2010  permalink

Atlona© 2003-2010
Www.atlona.com

The Atlona AT-HDVieW is designed to take video and audio signal from PC or Laptop and upscale it to digital HDMI output of wide-range HDTV and PC resolutions, up to 1080p. The AT-HDVieW is a plug and play device, it will automatically sense the native resolution of the display and scale the computer's output to match it. The converter will ...

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12. Texas Instruments delivers industry�s first quad-radio single chip  permalink

Texas Instruments delivers industry�s first quad-radio single chip
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TI raises the bar with WiLink™ 7.0 solution, integrating WLAN, GPS, Bluetooth® and FM transmit/receive technologies on a true single-chip DALLAS (February 9, 2010) /PRNewswire/ — Demonstrating its leadership in the wireless connectivity market, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today unveiled its WiLink™ 7.0 ...

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Texas Instruments Announces WiLink 7 Combo Chip   —  Today Texas Instruments introduced the WiLink 7, a new Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, FM radio combination on a single chip. The Wi-Fi support includes the new Wi-Fi Direct standard, the Bluetooth includes the Bluetooth 3.0+HS standard, and the FM radio ... (follow link to read)

13. Producers: Final Fantasy XIII will 'resurrect' Japanese game industry  permalink

Producers: Final Fantasy XIII will 'resurrect' Japanese game industry
JC Fletcher / Joystiq

Final Fantasy XIII may not be out in North America and Europe yet, but the development team is in full "victory lap" mode in Japan. At least, that's how it seemed when noted industry figure Jem Alexander interviewed producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama for the European PlayStation Blog . Asked about the state of the Japanese ...

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Producers: Final Fantasy XIII will 'resurrect' Japanese game industry There Will Never Be Another Final Fantasy Game Like FFXIII   —  Final Fantasy XIII has been in development for over five years, has involved hundreds of staff and has cost the publisher a ton of money. So you can see why there'll never be another Final Fantasy game like it! Speaking with Sony on the official European PlayStation blog, the game's producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama have said:

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Producers: Final Fantasy XIII will 'resurrect' Japanese game industry Games on Demand: Street Fighter IV and Halo Wars   —  The following Xbox 360 game are now ready for direct download from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace : Content: STREET FIGHTER IV Price: Check pricing for your region Availability: North America and Asia Dash Text: (Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB) This game supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Download the ...

14. ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 Graphics Brings a Big Visual Experience to Small Form Factor PCs  permalink

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The newest addition to the AMD graphics family strengthens the world's only complete line-up of award-winning DirectX® 11 capable graphics cards, delivering exceptional HD multimedia and gaming performance at a mainstream price

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ATI Radeon HD 5570 launched, reviewed: $80 low-profile DirectX 11 ATI Radeon HD 5570: Reasonable Gaming Performance For $80?   —  AMD rounds out its DirectX 11-capable lineup with an entry-level gaming card sporting all of the Radeon HD 5000-series' value-adds. Does the Radeon HD 5570 represent the perfect combination of low-price, gaming performance, and features? DirectX - Radeon - ATI Technologies - Advanced Micro Devices - Zune HD

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ATI Radeon HD 5570 launched, reviewed: $80 low-profile DirectX 11 ATI Radeon HD 5570 gives DX11 to small form factor PCs   —  AMD this morning launched its second new video chipset in just a matter of days and this time targeted a comparatively untapped mini PC category. The Radeon HD 5570 is a major step up in performance from the 5450 with 400 stream processors versus 80 but still occupies a single card slot and is relatively short, making it ideal for small form ...

15. NVIDIA Optimus Technology Delivers Perfect Balance Of Notebook Performance And Battery Life  permalink

NVIDIA Optimus Technology Delivers Perfect Balance Of Notebook Performance And Battery Life
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Feb. 9, 2010— NVIDIA Corp., today announced NVIDIA® Optimus™ technology, a breakthrough for notebook PCs that chooses the best graphics processor for running a given application and automatically routes the workload to either an NVIDIA discrete GPU or Intel integrated graphics – delivering great performance while ...

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NVIDIA drops Optimus automatic graphics switching on notebook world German firm claims huge boost in Android app performance, battery life with new virtual machine   —  At the core of Anrdoid lies a little bundle of code known as the Dalvik virtual machine, a runtime environment for Java apps that's specifically optimized for hardware with limited memory and processor power -- you know, the kind of situation you find in your average smartphone. The relative success of the Android Market suggests that Dalvik's ...

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NVIDIA drops Optimus automatic graphics switching on notebook world Nvidia Optimus: More Than Meets The Eye   —  Nvidia's new Optimus technology is primed to transform switchable graphics in laptops, netbooks and the second generation Ion platform. Trust us, for your next laptop upgrade this is looking like a must have technology.

16. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate  permalink

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate
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The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is available to MSDN subscribers on Monday, February 8th, with general availability on February 10th.

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Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 Release Candidate released   —  Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate Visual Studio 2010 is an integrated development environment that simplifies the entire development lifecycle, from design to deployment. Release Candidate Highlights MSDN Subscribers: Download the Release Candidate The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) is ...

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 hits Release Candidate SmallestDotNet Update - Now with .NET 4 support and an includable JavaScript API   —  A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable" you'll often get a link to a 200 meg download. That download is the complete offline thing ...

17. Ferrari Racing Pack exclusive to Need for Speed: Shift on 360  permalink

Ferrari Racing Pack exclusive to Need for Speed: Shift on 360
Justin McElroy / Joystiq

After a seven year absence, the Ferrari brand is returning to Need for Speed , albeit in an anti-climatic comeback for true Ferrari fans like ourselves. First, the facts: On February 16, those who own Need for Speed: Shift on 360 will be able to get 10 cars from the venerable manufacturer for 800 points ($10) -- we've got the full list for you ...

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Ferrari Racing Pack exclusive to Need for Speed: Shift on 360 Gallery: Need for Speed: Shift   —  Read more...

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News: NFS: Shift adding Ferraris next week   —  Car maker back after seven years. EA and Ferrari are best friends again, which means that after seven long years, shiny red sports cars are returning to Need for Speed. Owners of the Xbox 360 version of NFS: Shift can, from 16th February, download 10 sleek Ferraris. The Ferrari Racing Pack will cost 800 Microsoft Points (£6.80/€9.60) and also ...

18. Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight  permalink

Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight
MOTOKO RICH / NYT

Publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.

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Our approach to maximizing advertising revenue for online publishers   —  All website owners need to pay for the costs of creating content and making it available online. Whether delivering entertainment, products, news, services, social networking or opinions, they need to pay their way by selling advertising or charging their users. Website owners, or "online publishers," span the range from individual bloggers to ...

19. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to be present Holiday 2010  permalink

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to be present Holiday 2010
Ludwig Kietzmann / Joystiq

Or, it'll be a Holiday 2010 present , depending on how heavily you drop those hints and how desirable you find Ghost Recon: Future Soldier 's "cutting-edge technology, prototype high-tech weaponry, and state-of-the-art single-player and multiplayer modes." Developed by the GRAW veterans at Ubisoft Paris, Future Soldier promises to "go beyond the ...

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to be present Holiday 2010 Ubisoft: EndWar sequel on hold   —  The news, as presented in EndWar voice-command style: -- VG247 , report, EndWar sequel , halted. -- Ubisoft, elaborate, "on the backburner." -- Joystiq, clarify, "on the backburner?" *END TRANSMISSION* Ubisoft: EndWar sequel on hold originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | ...

Luke Plunkett / Kotaku
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier to be present Holiday 2010 Ubisoft Unveils New Ghost Recon Title   —  Ubisoft Paris announced this morning that it's working on a new entry in the Ghost Recon series, titled Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. And yes, you've heard that name before . It'll feature both singleplayer and multiplayer modes, while the publisher also promises beta access to anyone buying Splinter Cell Conviction on the Xbox 360 later this year.

20. Some Good News, and Some Bad News, About Adobe Flash 10.1  permalink

Some Good News, and Some Bad News, About Adobe Flash 10.1
Matt buchanan / Gizmodo

The good news first: Adobe's promising Flash 10.1 is going to hit smartphones—Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile —and desktops in the "first half" of this year, a slightly less squishy date. And it'll come over the air. The bad part? Well it's bad for Android, anyway: You're gonna need Android 2.1. At least. Because it provides some ...

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Update on Flash love for your mobile device Adobe limits Flash for Android to 2.1, criticizes Apple   —  Adobe today provided a disappointment for some Android users as it revealed that Flash 10.1 will only be available for phones running Android 2.1 or later. Showing it off in a demo (viewable below), the developer new OS is necessary due to certain software-level access but effectively shuts out the majority of Android phones, most of which are ...

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Update on Flash love for your mobile device Mimio Studio 6 debuts for Mac and Linux systems   —  Mimio has announced that its Studio 6 software is now available for both Mac and Linux systems. The program is designed for the teaching industry, providing tools for creating interactive lesson content such as recordable dry-erase whiteboard notes that can be saved for later use. Teachers can also use drag-and-drop input to create animated ...