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• T-Mobile's prepaid refill system goes down; free minutes for all

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:36 pm

  Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Down, Inoperable, Pre Paid, Prepaid, Problems, T Mobile, Tmobile

  Filed under: Cellphones File this under extremely annoying. According to T-Mobile, all systems for re-upping users prepaid phone minutes (online, phone-based, and refill hotspots) are not only currently inoperable, but have not been functioning correctly for the past three days. As a result, no minutes can be added to customers phones, but

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• Is this the new iMac keyboard?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 8:23 am

  Tags: Apple, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Imac, Keyboard, Rumor

  Filed under: Peripherals See that? That's the rumored, "super slim," brushed aluminum keyboard said to be accompanying Apple's new iMac computer. It certainly appears to share the key design of the MacBook like we heard but seeing "Photoshop" in the exif data doesn't give us a high degree of confidence here. Regardless, a forum jockey over at

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• Binaries, source outed for first 3rd party iPhone app

  Published: July 29, 2007, 11:38 pm

  Tags: Apple, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Cellphone, Hack, Iphone, Phone, Software, Third Party, Thirdparty

  Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds It's still a little way off from meaning anything to the average user, but the enterprising folks over at iPhone Dev Wiki have finally turned out binaries and source code for their very first compiled iPhone app. Of course, all it does is spit out the ubiquitous programmer shout-out "Hello World," but make no

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• Acer about to offer Ubuntu pre-loads?

  Published: July 31, 2007, 4:38 am

  Tags: Acer, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Linux, Ubuntu

  Filed under: Laptops Remember how Acer's chief, Gianfranco Lanci, slammed Vista as a disappointment to the "entire industry?" Apparently, he wasn't just fishing for sound bites. While there's still no official word, an Acer advert in Singapore offers their 15.4-inch Aspire 5710Z laptop pre-loaded with none other than the Ubuntu distro for SG$999

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• FCC approves rules for 700MHz frequency auction

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:38 pm

  Tags: 700mhz, Auction, Bidding, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Carriers, Fcc, Hybrid Network, Hybridnetwork, Kevin Martin, Kevinmartin, Open Access, Openaccess

  Filed under: WirelessThe FCC has just approved rules on the highly-sought after, Google-attracting 700MHz wireless frequency band auction which will take place sometime next year. The agency has decided that one-third of the soon-to-be-empty band will be available to consumers under FCC chairman Kevin Martin's "open access" plan, which forces the

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• Apple iPhone update 1.0.1 released!

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:13 pm

  Tags: Apple, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Firmware, Iphone, Update

  Filed under: Cellphones Boot up iTunes everybody, the Joz wasn't kidding when he said the first iPhone update is nigh. Apple just pushed out iPhone update 1.0.1. We don't have specifics about what this thing fixes (the x.0.1 and "bug fixes" doesn't instill much confidence it's all about new features), but we'll be updating as we learn more.

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• Panasonic's HDC-SD7 dons title of world's smallest HD camcorder

  Published: August 1, 2007, 3:51 am

  Tags: 3ccd, Avchd, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Hdc Sd7, Japan, Panasonic, Sd7, Smallest

  Filed under: Digital Cameras You can add one more "full HD" AVCHD camcorder to that mix of Panasonics announced earlier in the week. The new HDC-SD7 is said to be the "world's smallest and lightest" camcorder to record at 1,920 x 1,080 to SDHC cards. Otherwise, the SD7 is spec-for-spec the same 3CCD camcorder as the HDC-SD5 only in a

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• Hackers crash e-passport readers -- stage set for exploits

  Published: August 1, 2007, 5:27 am

  Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Defcon, E Passport, Exploit, Hack, Lukas Grunwald, Lukasgrunwald, Passport, Rfid

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, WirelessLukas Grunwald -- last seen cloning Germany's RFID passports -- is back with more "white hat" hackery on the worlds' new e-passport systems. This time, however, he's crashing RFID readers to demonstrate how a hacked passport could conceivably force approval of expired or forged passports. After all, "If you're

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• PS3 to receive tuner, DVR capabilities before March 2008

  Published: August 1, 2007, 6:53 am

  Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Dvr, Playstation 3, Playstation3, Ps3, Sony

  Filed under: Gaming, Home EntertainmentIt's been rumored before, now Sony's marketing manager for Computer Entertainment in New Zealand has apparently, and likely pre-emptively, unveiled Sony's intentions to turn the PS3 into a digital video recorder. Sony's Warwick Light is quoted in an interview with New Zealand's The Press as saying, "We're

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• Hitachi's DZ-BD70 and 30GB DZ-BD7H hybrid Blu-ray camcorders: global in October

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:31 am

  Tags: Blu Ray, Blu Ray Disc, Blu Raydisc, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Camcorder, Dz Bd70, Dz Bd7h

  Filed under: Digital Cameras In case you didn't believe 'em the first time, Hitachi is back with more, much more, on the world's first Blu-ray Disc camcorder. First off, we're looking at an August 30th launch in Japan (rest of world, October) of two models: the DZ-BD70 and DZ-BD7H hybrid which packs both an 8-cm BD writer and 30GB disk are priced

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• GameStop prepping for a Microsoft announcement on August 8th?

  Published: August 2, 2007, 12:55 pm

  Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Gamestop, Microsoft, Price Drop, Pricedrop, Rumor, Xbox 360, Xbox360

  Filed under: Gaming We're not sure what it's going to take for Microsoft to admit to itself that the cat's out of the bag on this one, but that Xbox 360 price drop "rumor" just got a bit more ammo in the form of a leaked GameStop memo sent out on Tuesday. Apparently the stores are supposed to get some Microsoft signage on August 8th, and if for

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• Senators Wyden and Brownback promise to push Internet Radio Equality Act

  Published: August 2, 2007, 7:29 pm

  Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Internet Radio, Internetradio

  Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable AudioThings haven't looked great for internet radio stations for a while now, and though SoundExchange has put a pause on the rate hikes while it's in talks with the webcasters, not much progress has been made, and US Senators Ron Wyden (D) and Sam Brownback (R) have decided to do something about it.

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• More details revealed on Dell's Latitude XT tablet

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Dell, Latitude Xt, Latitudext

  Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs Strange how quiet Dell's been about that Latitude XT of theirs -- outside the buzzsaw experiment. Well fine, if Dell don't want to talk about it, we'll talk about it for 'em. In addition to that photo above, here's some more dirt on what the first Dell tablet will come equipped with: Single or dual-core Intel

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• iPhone software: the community hacks, Apple improves

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Apple, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Cellphone, Iphone, Mobile Terminal, Mobileterminal, Phone, Software, Terminal

  Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds It's been a heckuva few weeks for iPhone devs, has it not? We've gone all the way from the crushing depression of knowing we'd have to play within the web sandbox, to the first hints of compiled goodness, to this -- the first true, native 3rd party app with useful functionality. As the name implies,

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• $599 80GB PlayStation 3 on sale online

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:09 pm

  Tags: Breaking News, Breakingnews, Playstation 3, Playstation3, Ps3, Release, Sony

  Filed under: Gaming Yep, it's August, that means the 80GB PlayStation 3 is due to go on sale. Sony didn't previously give us a date or anything, but it looks like GameStop / EB Games is stocking the $599 80GB console (bundled with MotorStorm), and claims shipment in 24 hours. Granted, we're now officially back to square one with a lower end PS3

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