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This morning, Apple pushed out the iPhone SDK 4.0 Beta 3 and the iPhone 4.0 Firmware Beta 3 (8A260B). This comes exactly two weeks since the last release of iPhone 4.0 Beta 2 on April 20, 2010. Apple typically follows a 2-week release schedule for beta releases of iPhone firmware. The firmware 4.0 update is to deliver a slew of new enhancements, some of which are detailed below: Multitasking Custom homescreen backgrounds Camera 5x Digital Zoom Application Folders Places and Faces in the Photo App Bluetooth Keyboard Support Also remember, if you have your iPhone/iPod Touch jailbroken or unlocked, you should not update to 4.0 when it is released, as you will lose both your jailbreak and unlock.

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iPhone Firmware 4.0 Beta 3 Now Available To Developers

Time for the third crazy week of the Direct2Drive Spring Sale. As with last week there are loads of great deals on digital download PC games. To see all of them head on over to Direct2Drive ! Some of my favorites: Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines – $9.95 – amazing game, amazing price. Bloodlines is one of my all-time faves as noted in my retrospective

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GearDeal: Direct2Drive Spring Sale Week 4 – up to 75% Off!

Think Google is content to simply make public domain books freely available for e-book readers? Not quite — the company has just confirmed that its previously announced Google Editions e-book service will finally be launching in late June or July.

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Google Editions e-book service launching this summer

A representative for Google said today that the company plans to sell digital books beginning in late June or July .This announcement comes after over a year of discussion at Google over its vision to distribute electronic books. The new service, called Google Editions, will give customers access to digital copies of books through a book-search service, allowing access to a broad range of sites from multiple devices. Plus, it’ll allow book sellers to sell Google Editions on their own sites, with sellers taking most of the revenue. Pricing information and details of which publishers will participate in Google Editions have not been released, but if Google Editions takes off, it’ll surely be a threat to the ebook stores offered by Apple , Amazon , and Barnes & Noble .

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Google Will Launch Ebooks Service in Early Summer

By Mauricio Julian Cuellar Jr. Alice Echo-News Journal After last weeks article revealing that nine out of 21 Pct. 1 employees for Commissioner Zenaida Sanchez marked disability on their mail-in ballot application, one worker came forward to say he did no such thing.

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Sanchez employee denies marking application ‘disabled’(Published May 5, 2008 Part of the Election Series 2009)

It has recently been announced by AT&T that they are have a new phone in their offering the Pantech Breeze II according to a recent report over at softpedia.com via att.com with a very low price attached. The device is a level entry device and the price tag that AT&T have it selling for at the moment shows just that. The Pantech Breeze II is available now from the wireless operator for just $19.99 which will mean the signing of a two year contract. Alternatively you can purchase for $169.99 free of any contract.

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Pantech Breeze II for $19.99 at AT&T

Vote For the Best Lost Character and Win the Ultimate Lost Package! It’s time we decide once and for all who deserves to be crowned The Best Lost Character of All Time. Vote on our bracket for a chance to win the ultimate Lost package!

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Vote For the Best Lost Character and Win the Ultimate Lost Package!

A new report published recently by comScore indicates a steep decline in consumer brand-loyalty over the past two years, leading the way for emerging concepts such as mobile marketing and mobile social concepts like that of Foursquare to pick up the slack. The comScore study evaluated the change in brand loyalty within a number of consumer goods categories, including health & beauty aids, OTC medications, apparel, food, household products and housewares. As the economic downturn has continued, the percentage of shoppers who typically buy the brands they want most has steadily declined across the categories examined.  In March 2010, for example, less than 50 percent of shoppers reported purchasing the brand they want most.

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Brand Loyalty Is Sinking, Can Mobile And The Likes Of Foursquare Be A Savior?

Dave Clausen of NYC Resistor wanted a powerful battery pack to recharge his energy-hungry iPhone 3GS and myriad ham radio equipment, so he designed the Mintybuck to handle the job with ease. Rather than using AA batteries and a boost converter to raise the output voltage to 5v, he swapped in a 12v lithium cell and a LM2674-5.0 -based buck converter to efficiently drop the voltage down to 5v. The chip is spec’d for 500 mA, and can convert power with > 90% efficiency.

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Mintybuck USB charger is like a supercharged Mintyboost

From the moment we saw the so-called “magical device,” we knew the lucrative digital cookbook market would never be quite the same, but it’s one thing to imagine an iPad as the centerpiece of one’s kitchen, and something else entirely to see to see it in the flesh. TUAW reader Alan Daly built his directly into the side of a kitchen cabinet, and set it to work doling out Epicurious recipes, streaming Jamie Oliver, and surfing some of the world’s best websites (in our oh-so-humble opinion) well out of the way of troublesome meat splatter. In lieu of flying toasters, his screen displays a virtual aquarium when it’s not in use, and the whole assembly seems to be a simple matter of cutting a hole and affixing a pair of wooden strips for support. It’s not clear, however, how he keeps it charged. Maybe that’s the magic Steve keeps talking about

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iPad merges with kitchen cabinet, sacrificing portability for utility

The new Samsung i9000 Galaxy S has now been given a confirmed release date as a SIM Free phone, this new Android powered handset offers a fast 1GHz processor and is the second Samsung phone to feature the manufacturers Super AMOLED display alongside the Samsung Wave S8500. Other key features include HD quality video recording and

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Samsung Galaxy S Release Date & Price

Earlier this year, the rumors surrounding the HTC Legend were coming fast and furious with renderings , videos , and even a brief appearance on a Dutch website reminding us of its existence. After its formal announcement at MWC 2010 in February, the Legend lost a bit of its momentum and dropped off the proverbial tech radar. Out of sight but not out of mind, the Legend was spotted on its way out of the FCC with a bright and shiny stamp of approval

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HTC Legend spotted at the FCC, on its way to AT&T

The wait for the N900 firmware PR1.2 has been somewhat excruciating. On Sunday, the Firmware was leaked. Note, that many users had experienced problems after improperly flashing their N900 with it. Details of the changes were already shown here in this post , but below is a video of pretty much what we’ll be getting when the new firmware for N900 comes out. joshv06

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Video: Nokia N900 New Firmware PR1.2 Preview

A new jailbreak for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches has been released, mere days after of the iPad 3G release in the US. Called Spirit, this hack lets you jailbreak your Apple mobile devices without connecting them to a computer

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Unteathered Jailbreak for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

I suppose that some of the best Bluetooth Car Kits would be the type that race car drivers use, right? So who better than four-time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen? The Nokia CarKit CK-200 has the ability to connect to two Bluetooth devices simultaneously.

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Nokia CarKit CK-200, as demonstrated by Juha Kankkunen

It has been recently reported over at softpedia.com via androidandme.com it would appear that Motorola may have something up their sleeve. The latest reports across the internet are suggesting that Motorola may be considering coming to the market and bringing with them their own operating system. Motorola have recently acquired a mobile platform company known as Azingo, a small company with is own mobile OS called Azingo mobile

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Motorola may bring own OS after acquiring Azingo

Nokia’s new entry-level QWERTY phone, the Nokia C3 , will be available in the UK soon (probably in June), exclusively via Vodafone. The C3 uses Nokia’s S40 UI, so it’s not exactly a smartphone. Anyway, the handset features a full QWERTY keypad, a 2.4 inch QVGA display, GSM/EDGE connectivity, Wi-Fi, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera, 55MB of internal memory, and MicroSD card support up to 16GB

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Nokia C3 and BlackBerry Pearl 3G (9105) coming soon to Vodafone UK

The second of today’s postings of Ovi Maps adverts. (Check out “ Lost…Really Lost “) Nokia’s really ramping it up to let everyone know you have FREE sat nav with Nokia Smartphones. I like the phrase at the end…”you have reached your destination….you have reached your destination”. It’s a very global affair. Nokia – getting you where you want to be.

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Video: Nokia Free Navigation Launch TVC (Ovi Maps Advert)

The guys over at engadget have been doing their usual snooping of FCC documents and have come across a pixelated label that is a very similar to the label that can be located beneath the endcap of the unibody HTC legend smartphone. However they say this particular label isn’t the same that has been seen before as the FCC documentation states the handset is for the WCDMA 850/1900 bands which is a fairly good indication that this little beast is destined to surf the Big Blue waves of AT&T and well as possibly Canada’s Telus, Roger and Bell. The FCC ID also lends itself as evidence as the original HTC legends sports the ID PB76100 while this new label carried a very similar FCC ID of PB76110

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HTC Legend Destined for AT&T Shows FCC

And just like that, ASUS ‘ 20-inch Eee Top ET2010 is leaving the docks in the UK. This here machine made its official debut back in late March, but at the time, the company dished no details surrounding price or release. Fast forward to now, and we’re told that the sleek all-in-one — complete with an AMD Athlon II CPU, 1GB or 2GB of RAM, a DVD drive and a total depth of just one inch — is now shipping across the pond

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ASUS ships Eee Top ET2010 all-in-one in the UK

Hot on the heels of “The one that got away ” advert, here’s really, really lost I like the humour Nokia’s trying to put in, the whole exaggerated notion of the unpleasantness of being lost, and how, with Ovi Maps you can avoid all that. Though initial first impressions were that it was odd and creepy (not something you want to be associated with) I think the punchline delivers

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Video: “Really, really lost” New Ovi Maps Advert