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Sony and Global HID are coyly batting their eyelashes at each other over a memorandum of intent to jointly develop an embedded contactless smart card reader platform for laptops. The idea is to create a single reader compatible with Sony’s popular FeliCa solution in Japan as well as NFC, HID Global’s own iCLASS, and more. As a refresher, about 315 million FeliCa cards are in circulation worldwide with another 67 million FeliCa-capable mobile phones in Japan used for electronic payments, access, interactive advertising, and membership rewards systems. Hell, Sony’s even got a FeliCa reading remote control . The dark arts of Near Field Communication have been given a boost recently with support from Nokia and the US carriers AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile

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Sony and Global HID to unify FeliCa and NFC laptop reader technologies

There are many of our readers sending in emails basically asking what is the point of Adobe Air and what can we do with it, well here is one answer. AppBrain now filters Adobe Air apps; AppBrain will now make it easy to find new Android apps that use Air, so in a nutshell the new filter will now sort by apps that use Air. There are not many apps out on the market that uses Adobe Air and normally the ones you do find is a little weird. Android Community say one example of the weird is the Jell-O bounce app that contains the Bill Cosby bobble head, what is this all about many ask

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Adobe Air Android Apps: AppBrain Review and Problem

So what if Microsoft’s nicest WP7 slate phones all went to Europe and the rest of the un-American world? At least we’ll have the HTC 7 Pro , the true Windows Phone 7 workhorse, with its tilt-sliding QWERTY keyboard and compact 3.6-inch size

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HTC 7 Pro arriving in UK and rest of Europe ‘early next year’

If yesterday’s announcement (or months of leaks) sold you on Microsoft’s freshest mobile OS, and you’re planning on pre-ordering one of the many WinPho7 handsets (and you live in the US), then you should really listen up. Microsoft are running a little promo at the moment, whereas you give them your email address, pre-order a Windows Phone, and they’ll give you a 3-month Zune Pass.

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Get a free 3-month Zune Pass if you pre-order a WinPho7 handset

In case a liveblog and a never-ending stream of Windows Phones weren’t enough for you yesterday, here’s a chance to relive Microsoft’s launch presentation of its grand OS redesign. It’s kicked off by the big dog himself, Steve Ballmer, followed by Ralph de la Vega and Joe Belfiore giving us the lowdown on carrier pricing and new features. It’s good, we promise

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 keynote video now available to watch… again and again

Research In Motion still faces a ban on BlackBerry devices in India even though Research In Motion has given the Indian intelligence agencies manual access to BlackBerry Messenger services, but that isn’t apparently enough. According to an article over on Reuters by Sumeet Chatterjee, the Economic Time has reported that the Indian government has placed a deadline of January the 31st 2011 for Research In Motion to deliver automated access to their BlackBerry Messenger service. According to India’s top interior ministry official on October the 1st said that automated access to the BlackBerry Messenger service will enable authorities to track messages in real time

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BlackBerry Access Deadline of January 31st Set by India

Nice going, Kensington — you just admitted to the world something we already knew. No one actually uses the lock slot / cable that’s issued to them on their first day on the job. It’s painful to envision the cash this company has made from mindless corporations who somehow think that employees are going to tie their laptops up each and every day, but now it has an alternative that it swears “your employees will actually use.” The new ClickSafe system essentially works as such: you insert a small locking nub into the lock slot that ships on (almost) every new laptop today, and then you clip the new locking cable on by hand. Once you’ve completed the first step, the cable connection is a simple motion each morning — in theory, at least. Peek the installation vid after the break if you’re still having your doubts, and feel free to blow $49.99 / $69.99 (depending on model) if you just know that this time it’ll be different.

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Kensington’s ClickSafe security lock: ‘so easy, your employees actually use it’

“Cute” doesn’t even begin to accurately describe it. Kotoro “dotimpact” Tanaka, a Japanese design professor, has been credited with designing what may actually be the world’s smallest game of Pac-Man . The microscopic installation was recently showcased at the 30th anniversary Pac-Man exhibition, utilizing original Pac-Man hardware, a projector and a microscope in order to blow up a minuscule game of cat and ghost for human eyes to recognize. We’re told that it’s able to reflect its image through a mirror in order to produce a 1cm square image at a resolution of 1439 pixels per inch (PPI), and users are highly encouraged to screw with the zoom and focus controls in order to heighten the level of difficulty.

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Microscopic Pac-Man installation makes a play for the smallest part of your heart

Just as the outfit promised us at Photokina , Samsung has outed an anticipated firmware update for its NX10 interchangeable lens camera. Version 1.20 adds support for Sammy’s downright brilliant i-Function lens collection, which enables shooters to adjust controls (ISO, shutter speed, aperture, etc.) by simply tapping a button on the lens and then twisting a dial.

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Samsung releases NX10 1.20 firmware update, brings i-Function lens compatibility

On Monday morning, Microsoft officially announced Windows Phone 7, a long-overdue reboot of the company’s smartphone OS that offers some compelling features to Office junkies, Xbox gamers, and anything-but-iPhone customers. With Microsoft launching a full broadside—ten phones by a variety of manufacturers on dozens of carriers—it’s another example of Apple seeing stepped-up competition in the mobile arena. And Cupertino may be in a far less advantageous position than it was just a couple years ago, especially when it comes to dealing with the carriers, who now have no shortage of other smartphone platforms to turn to. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, smartphone design had grown largely stagnant. It was hard to argue with Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s proclamation that the iPhone was five years ahead of the competition—and this was before you could whip out the “there’s an app for that” card. The iPhone was both a line in the sand for good mobile phone design, and a battle cry for the little guy turning the tables on the carriers: It featured no AT&T branding, came preloaded with none of the usual carrier bloatware, and even got AT&T to change its network to handle new phone features like Visual Voicemail.

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In iPhone’s jump to other carriers, something’s got to give

The media, both traditional press and bloggers, clearly have their share of journalistic work to do; many writers and reporters do this job admirably. Sometimes, in fact far too often for my taste, the facts get twisted and turned in such a way as to make a story more compelling or salacious than it would otherwise be; to compound matters, headlines are generally worded in such a way as to draw readers into the story. Sometimes neither is necessary, and sometimes both can be a bit misleading

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SCOTTEVEST vs. Delta Sky: The EXCLUSIVE Truth Behind the Contradicting Accounts

Surgical procedures assisted by robots are nothing new — they can be more precise and less invasive — and now it looks like a new upgrade could make them even better. The main drawback of a surgical robot is that the human surgeon performing the operation gets no tactile feedback, but that’s not the case with Sofie

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Sofie surgical robot gives haptic feedback for a more humane touch

The graphics card that doesn’t require a fridge-sized cooler is turning into something of a rarity nowadays, but we doubt the market for quiet, efficient, and halfway-decent GPUs is ever going to disappear completely. NVIDIA is fleshing out its Fermi family today with a creature that aspires to such epithets, the 96 CUDA core-equipped GT 430

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NVIDIA launches sub-$80 GeForce GT 430 for single-slot cooler enthusiasts

Keeping your eyes on the road gets ever more difficult with ever-bigger, ever-brighter GPS navigation units hitting retail. This product of University of Utah research could obsolete them entirely by tickling your fingers. It’s called “shear feedback,” effectively stretching the skin on your fingertip to tell you which way to go, achieved via a pair of old Thinkpad trackpoints, which were always too coarse a grit for our delicate tastes. The nub moves left or right to tell you where to go, and in a test distracted drivers were 24 percent more likely to follow directions through their digits than when told by cold, uncaring GPS lady

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Shear feedback GPS navigation tells your fingers where to go, you just have to follow (video)

We just got a quick look at a previously Korea-bound Samsung X430 laptop that Microsoft has tapped as a “Microsoft Store Exclusive.” It’s pretty good hardware, both inside and outside, for the price. Also, due to its Store-exclusive nature, Microsoft also put the promised “Microsoft Signature Image” on here, which means a copy of Windows 7 completely free of crapware and trialware, though Microsoft has put a good quantity of first party software that you’ll probably want like Windows Live, Bing Maps 3D, and Microsoft Security Essentials

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Samsung X430 headed for Microsoft Stores with a crapware-free copy of Windows

So, you can go and nab Zune 4.7 right this minute. Also, Microsoft is showing off Windows Phone 7 right now behind semi-closed doors (sorry, public). Can we bring these two beautiful stories together? Turns out we can, and we did. Now, if you’ve ever used a Zune before, this isn’t going to be that revelatory of an experience, but there are enough minor tweaks and one major one (the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace) that we thought were worth a quick video walkthrough

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Zune 4.7 in cahoots with Windows Phone 7, caught on camera

We just spent some serious, and we mean serious time with Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7 . Just like your Xbox, this is sort of an amalgamation of “the place you go to play games” and “the place you go to ping and taunt your friends who also play games.” Unfortunately, it seems there’s a bit of a disconnect between phone-based scores and records and Xbox achievements — they all add up to the same gamerscore, but you can’t easily pull up your most recent Halo exploits to show off on your mobile, for instance.

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Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7: your Xbox isn’t in your phone yet, but we’re getting there

Windows Phone 7 . We came, we saw, we took lots and lots of photos. Today, Microsoft unleashed its global domination plans on the world, and we wanted to give readers some insight into what happens now, what happens next, and what the more distant future holds for Redmond’s smartphone play. As we saw today, the WP7 push is going to happen in multiple countries (more than 30), on multiple carriers (more than 60), and involve lots and lots of hardware. Ten devices to start — all announced today — and a slew of others likely to follow.

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Windows Phone 7 launch guide

The first batch of Windows Phone 7 devices has officially been unveiled, and HTC has got a handful of offerings running on Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system for their loyal followers. First up, there’s the HTC 7 Surround.

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HTC Windows Phone 7 line-up: HTC 7 Surround, HTC 7 Mozart, HTC 7 Trophy, HTC 7 Pro, HTC HD7

We’ve already seen some of Nemoptic’s so-called Binem displays on their own, but the company’s just made things considerably more interesting by combing the low-power, black-and-white display with a full color OLED. That would function as a dual-mode display (a la Pixel Qi ), giving you the ability to use the reflective Binem component when you’re outdoors or just looking to save power, and switch to the OLED as needed. What’s more, the Binem display can actually retain an image even when the power is off, which could let you spruce up your e-reader with a favorite image as a persistent wallpaper, for instance.

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Nemoptic shows off OLED screen with dual-mode Binem display

It ain’t “on sale,” per se, but it’s there. And being there means a lot. ASUS’ Eee PC 1015PN — special due to its reliance on both a dual-core 1.5GHz Atom N550 and NVIDIA’s next generation Ion 2 GPU solution — is finally, almost ready to make its shipping debut in America

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ASUS Eee PC 1015PN makes Amazon debut, brings along Ion 2 and Atom N550