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• Short Ends: Booth Babes, Drunken Astronauts, And Chicken Police

  Published: July 27, 2007, 7:45 pm

  Tags: Defamer Hollywood, 2800, 446, 2801, 425, 874

  Before her meeting with Harvey Weinstein for the Grindhouse booth babe gig at Comic-Con, this comely go-getter had both her legs. · Suspect that you might be a drunk astronaut? Take this quiz and find out for sure. · Happy Gay Birthday, Lance Bass! · Lindsay Lohan's assistant-stalking meltdown brings fresh attention to

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• Toys R Us "Ad" Reduces Xbox 360 Price, Too

  Published: July 29, 2007, 12:38 pm

  Tags: Games, 874, 629, 134

  Our mutant half-brothers over at Kotaku have posted a follow-up to yesterday's Walmart ad, potentially reaffirming the Xbox 360 price drop to $350. This time, it's a Toys R Us ad, showing the Xbox 360 for the same $350 price under the price reduction euphemism of "price break." This ad says August 12th, the other said August 8th, we say the

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• Wal-Mart Ad Has Xbox 360 Price Drop Coming August 8th?

  Published: July 28, 2007, 3:13 pm

  Tags: Games, Press, 874, 629, 372, 316, 134

  Without seeing the alleged Walmart ad with my own eyes, this is still in BIG RUMOR form. But according to a very small picture (bigger version after the jump) that has been floating around online, the Xbox 360 Premium may be dropping $50 to $350. UPDATE: More unconfirmed intel informs us that the drop is for August 8th ad. That lines up with

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• iFuntastic 2.1 Released: Easier AT&T Logo Destruction

  Published: July 29, 2007, 5:28 pm

  Tags: Phones, Software, 874, 2020, 319, 313, 127

  iFuntastic, the iPhone Ringtone swapping GUI app, just jumped to version 2.1. It still can load your iPhone with ringtones of your choice and can even rearrange the main menu icons. But now you can swap out that swarmy AT&T logo for any PNG at 65 x 18 pixels. (Above, I used a transparent background, and text with aliasing off so it would look good

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• The Apple Store Can Get You Your iPhone Fix in 24 Hours

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:31 am

  Tags: Phones, 874, 313, 151

  After being down for maintenance, the Apple Store is back up and running, and saying that it can now ship your iPhone within a day. So sing Hallelujah, as the jesusPhone can now be in your grubby little paws just that little bit sooner. [Apple Store]

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• Video of AT&Ts Videoshare Service in Action

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: Phones, 1035, 874, 754, 711, 372

  AT&T's Videoshare, their strange one-way video messaging service, is now working in a bunch of urban markets if you've got phones that'll work with it. I took it for a test spin this morning, and yes, it does work as advertised. See it in all its blurry glory in the above video.

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• AT&T Windows Mobile 6 ROM For Palm Treo 750

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Phones, 1035, 874, 127, 368, 400

  If you've been waiting to update your Palm Treo 750 to Windows Mobile 6 becuase you didn't want the possible instability of a third-party ROM, you're in luck. The official AT&T WM6 ROM has been leaked, and you can download it now. And since this is the "official" ROM, it probably means the "real" official ROM, direct from AT&T, should be available

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• US Launch Dates for Motorola RAZR 2 and Q9, More

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:14 pm

  Tags: Phones, 1035, 289, 874, 2811, 706

  Every once in a while the so-called Boy Genius actually nails a rumor or two, so we couldn't help but pass this one along: He's soothsaying now that the Motorola RAZR 2 V9 and Motorola Q9 will be rolling out on AT&T on August 24. He also has a bit of (possible) intelligence about some other phones, too. Boy Genius also hears that the Pantech C810

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• AT&T & eMusic Open Over-the-Air Music Store: No DRM, No iPhone Support

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Entertainment, Networks, Phones, 1035, 874, 652, 436, 270, 711, 372

  Rumours of an impending AT&T/eMusic tag team for an over-the-air music store were true: the eMusic Mobile store will be stocked with 2.7 million songs in delicious DRM-free MP3. Better yet, not only do tracks download directly to your phone, a second copy is sent straight to your computer. Not so delicious: the price, at $7.49 per

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• iPhone Software Update 'Arriving Shortly', Says VP of iPod Product Marketing

  Published: July 31, 2007, 5:19 pm

  Tags: Phones, 874, 313, 372, 127, 368

  Greg Joswiak, Apple's VP of iPod Product Marketing, tells a bunch of analysts that the first iPhone software update will be coming soon. Analysts then went on to speculate that the update could bring: new widgets, peer-to-peer applications (chat, picture messaging, social networking), location-based services, MMS support, home networking, and

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• DirecTiVos to Get Updates (For Some Crazy Reason)

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:34 pm

  Tags: Entertainment, 874, 1038, 436, 1362, 833, 368

  Hallelujah! For some reason, TiVo and DirecTV are updating the older Series 2 generation DirecTiVos as part of an ongoing agreement to explore bringing "future enhancements" to DirecTV TiVo owners. The improvments now include the addition of the Recently Deleted shows folder, Remote Booking, and Overlap Protection (recording conflict resolution).

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• iPhone Update 1.0.1 Now Available, Fixes Safari Security Breach, Other Bugs

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:16 pm

  Tags: Phones, 874, 313, 368

  iPhone Firmware Update v1.0.1 is now available through iTunes, and it will "fix bugs." The JesusPhone is getting an apparently minor upgrade, but the consequences are huge to your security. Discover why after the jump. [Last Updated 11:24PM EST - NEW: full listing of changes after the jump.] Updated 8:30PM EST • The most important

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• iPhone Reverse Engineering Opens New Door to Total Unlock

  Published: August 1, 2007, 12:55 am

  Tags: Phones, 874, 319, 313

  The iPhone Dev Team keeps closing up on their total unlocking target: they just announced that they have reverse-engineered the software which controls the iPhone's radio communications. The team has now a new way to search for the key to make the JesusPhone work with other carriers. Jump for all the naughty bits. Here is how this works:

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• Best Buy Drops Xbox 360 HD DVD Price to $149

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:34 pm

  Tags: Entertainment, 874, 2135, 842, 372, 134

  Best Buy has dropped the Xbox 360 HD DVD price yet again, down from the not-yet-a-week old price of $179 to $150. The five free movie deal is still intact as well, as long as you order before September 30. However, the player looks like it's sold out now with no store pickup available. [Best Buy]

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• Hands-On Vmoda's Vibe Duo Headphones for iPhone (Verdict: Punchy, No Remote)

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:12 pm

  Tags: Entertainment, 874, 313, 2021

  What made these $100 headphones irresistible Apple store iPhone retail bait? If it was a sin to use white earbuds with a nano, it surely was a sin to use it with a $600 phonepod. They're also the only headphones to launch with the iPhone that explicitly work with the recessed headphone jack. They sound great, but they've got one flaw.

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