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It seems we struck a nerve with some HTC Evo 4G owners in our previous coverage detailing a few well-known problems with the Android device — which included reports of screen separation, and touchscreen sensitivity issues. Now there’s word that HTC is aware of the problems, and has plans for… Boy Genius Report – HTC considers EVO 4G screen separation flaw minor; will address screen sensitivity issue in a patch?

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Updates on HTC Evo 4G issues: Screen separation is minor, software fix coming for sensitivity trouble

Check out the MoTR show to hear what James and Matt think about the EVO 4G after a few weeks, plans for iPhone 4 purchases, concerns about HTC ROMs, thoughts on a couple new smartphones, and more.

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MobileTechRoundup show #212; The EVO 4G is the best kickstand phone

The world of open source solutions for business telephony keeps getting surprisingly more sophisticated.For example, Twilio Cloud Communications has had an open API for telephony applications for some time, but this week has announced OpenVBX , targeted at delivering Google Voice-like features… OStatic – Twilio’s OpenVBX Expands Open Source Business Telephony Tech Crunch – Twilio Releases OpenVBX, An Open Source Google Voice For Businesses

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Twilio’s OpenVBX Expands Open Source Business Telephony

Acer on Friday announced new netbooks based on chips from Advanced Micro Devices, a win for the chip company’s efforts to grab market share from rival Intel. Acer, the world’s largest netbook vendor, announced two Aspire One netbooks with AMD’s Athlon II Neo K125 processors. The Aspire One…

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Acer Picks AMD Chips for New Netbooks

Natal outed as Kinect while 360 slim rumor gains speed: On the eve of the E3 conference, Microsoft’s official name of its Natal control system has been outed as Kinect. On a similar token, the Xbox 360 “slim” rumor is starting to look more and more credible by the hour. Then the Xbox 360… PC World – Fear and Loathing at E3: Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony Computerworld – E3 2010 News Wrap LA Times – E3: Nintendo booth tour, 3DS wows crowds

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Week in gaming: all E3, all of the time… well, mostly

The broadband industry and some politicians have reacted strongly to an FCC effort to have an open dialogue. In response to a Thursday vote by the FCC to open a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) period to consider the options for reclassifying how broadband service is governed, some broadband providers..

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The Broadband Providers Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks

News Analysis: There are strong indications that Motorola will introduce the Droid X the week of June 21. Exactly what it has planned for the device is unknown, but if it wants it to be a success, it will need to find the sweet spot between functionality and price. That’s the only way it will..

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10 Things Motorola Must Do to Make the Droid X a Success

Here’s an interesting little tidbit from Japan’s financial newspaper Nikkei . According to an article translated by andriasang — who also provided information this morning on a wireless ebook reader — Nintendo’s 3DS will be able to copy multiple games to internal memory and selected from…

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Nintendo 3DS to allow for game installs?

There are a few choices for ebook apps on your smartphone and my personal favorite is Kobo because of the fact I can buy their books and read them on various dedicated ebook readers. Shortcovers launched on Android and now we see the updated Kobo application available and working well.

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Review: Kobo ebook reader app comes to Google Android

Did you pre-order online for in-store pickup next week? If so, you may find you are only authorized and will be second priority to a different level of pre-order customer when you arrive. Please help me get to the bottom of this

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Check your iPhone 4 in-store pickup email, there may be multiple lines

Today I have managed to download the beta application of Swype for a Nexus One and will be putting through its paces and comparing to normal touch screen text input. As someone who sends over 1000 texts every month the idea of an application to help speed up this process is most welcome and Swype appears to be the answer. I have only just installed the application and will be giving some feedback in a few days time once I have managed to master the technique to make the head to head fair.

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Swype Beta Trial

There’s not much chance of this one appearing outside of Asia but the Altek Leo has definitely caught our eye. Powered by Android 2.1 it has a 14 megapixel camera with a pop-out 3x optical zoom lens so should, in theory, send your normal digital camera packing.

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Altek Leo – 14mp camera and HD recording

The soft input keyboards from Google and HTC are both quite good, but I personally find Swype to be even better and faster for most text entry situations. You can sign up for the public beta for a limited time so go get it on your device

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Public beta of Swype text entry system open for a few days

We’ve just had word that the all conquering HTC Desire is due to travel to America very soon. Our sources state that the handset will be available in the US “via select regional operators” and it’ll be in shops as early as August. It’ll carry the same 1GHz CPU, Android 2.1 and Sense interface and HTC state that this is the “next step for HTC in bringing the power of Android to even more consumers” after the huge success of the HTC Hero in the States

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HTC Desire – Coming to America

The Google Android super smartphone news just keeps getting better and better with Engadget getting some hands-on time with the upcoming Verizon Motorola Droid X that rivals the Sprint HTC EVO 4G. Which of these two would you choose from?

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Which would you choose, Sprint HTC EVO 4G or Verizon Motorola Droid X?

Buyers are bringing down the AT&T and Apple online stores trying to preorder the iPhone 4, but this smartphone enthusiast is planning to skip this version for a number of reasons. Anyone else satisfied with their existing device or looking forward to something else?

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Smartphone satisfaction, network concerns, and iOS limits mean no iPhone 4 preorder

Your Royal Highness, Your Grace, My Lord Bishop, Your Excellencies, Honoured President, Academicians, Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen, artists, art lovers, friends, trustees, donors, distinguished guests and assorted media scum. I rise to my feet on this occasion with a due sense of the honour that has been accorded me and not a little fear and an – I hope – becoming sense of unworthiness. For I am not an artist

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Speech Given at a Dinner for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – 8th June 2010

There can be no easy answer to this. Both the Android and Apple iPhone OS are competing for mind space and increasingly green bucks from the paying customer. Both of them have “redefined” the word “cool” and increasingly, the focus has shifted on to advertising platforms

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Smartphones: The next wave of computing?

Wherever and however you are reading this, welcome. It might be that you are, like me, the kind of early adopting sillyhead who has already got their hands on an iPad and, having naturally rushed to download FryPaper the App, is now reading this on your new slidey-smooth device. Perhaps you have an Android or iPhone and are making use of WordPress’s rather superior on-the-fly mobile formatting

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A more powerful protest would be to let Pakistanis use Facebook and Twitter to oppose ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ Since “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” was announced on 20 May, those associated with its creation have been rushing around to distance themselves from the ensuing controversy…. CNET News – Facebook page tied to Pakistan ban now down news.com.au – Facebook denies Mohammed page delete The Atlantic – Pundits and Cartoonists Split on ‘Everbody Draw Muhammad Day’

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Pakistan’s Facebook ban is not the answer | Bilal Baloch and Nadia Naviwala

The Dalai Lama tried to hold a rare direct conversation with people inside China on Friday, answering questions live on Twitter about the fate of Tibet. The hourlong session with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader was conducted by Wang Lixiong, a Chinese writer and convert to Tibetan Buddhism..

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World Briefing | Asia: China: Dalai Lama Tweets

SAN FRANCISCO — After an intensive six-month review, Google won approval from the Federal Trade Commission on Friday for its $750 million acquisition of the mobile advertising company AdMob.As recently as last month, F.T.C. workers appeared ready to urge the agency’s five commissioners to… PC World – FTC Won’t Block Google Acquisition Reuters – Google gets U.S.

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F.T.C. Approves Google’s Deal for AdMob

The flaw was reported Wednesday by Steven Abbagnaro, a student at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was patched Friday afternoon, Pacific time, after the IDG News Service notified Facebook of the issue. The bug was a variation of an earlier vulnerability that Facebook learned about…

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Facebook Fixes Bug That Allowed Friend Deletion

AT&T on Friday made some significant changes to its early termination fee (ETF) policies that affect all of its contractual customers. The new prices–raised for some phones, lowered for others–go into effect for new and upgrading customers on June 1, 2010.

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AT&T Raises Some Early Termination Fees

This graphic shows a sharp spike in clicks over a 30-day period allegedly from click laundering, which Microsoft estimates represents about $250,000 worth of fraudulent advertising payments.(Credit: Microsoft)Microsoft filed a lawsuit this week accusing a Web site of engaging in a new type of…

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Microsoft sues over new "click laundering" fraud

Why a robo-butterfly? Some robotics experts build buglike or birdlike machines, also known as entomopters and ornithopters, to serve as tiny airborne spies. Japanese researchers had a different purpose in mind: Harvard’s Hiroto Tanaka and the University of Tokyo’s Isao Shimoyama wanted to figure..

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Cosmic Log: Flight of the robo-butterfly

Mayor Francis Slay “tweeted” on Twitter that the city turned in “an impressive application,” but his staff and the Convention Exploratory Committee declined to provide further details, citing competitive reasons.Think the convention itself would be at the expansive Edward Jones Dome, which is… St. Louis Beacon – Local Republicans help out McCain, under fire from the right in Arizona primary St.

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St. Louis officially files for 2012 Democratic convention, Phoenix no longer among likely rivals

Google will be investigated by more European countries, including France and Czech Republic, after revealing that it accidentally collected data from unsecured WiFi networks while photographing streets around the world for its Street View application.

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Google Faces More European Investigations Into Street View

Earlier, we wrote about the ruling against Perfect 10 in its attempt to get a temporary restraining order on Rapidshare. As we mentioned at the time, the only details we had were based on Rapidshare’s press release, that obviously presented it in the best possible light to Rapidshare…

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Details Of The Rapidshare Decision: No Search Engine, Plus Efforts To Takedown Copyright Material Helped

The Facebook page that encouraged users to post images of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed was taken down globally on Friday, following an order by a Pakistani court for ISPs in that country to block the social networking site. Facebook officials tell the Associated Press they played no role in the… MSNBC – Facebook page that led to Pakistani ban removed Montreal Gazette – American cartoonist condemns Mohammed Facebook page

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‘Draw Mohammed’ page removed from Facebook