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At Gizmodo Gallery: Charity and Prizes
If you're not already on your way to the NOW OPEN Gizmodo Gallery to see all of the amazing gadgets we've brought together, here's another reason to come: sweet prize giveaways.
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Crazy Never Before Seen Logitech Mutant Mouse Prototypes
I love Logitech mice, so I actually dug their shameless mouse timeline. Even more awesome, though, are these amazing prototypes that never left their lab, like the three-scroll wheel monstrosity and hockey puck above.
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Barack Obama Uses a Zune
After all of the misinformation and dirty lies spread about Obama over the course of the presidential campaign, this is the most shocking I've heard about him: He uses a Zune. This can't be possible.
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Giz Explains: Why OS X Shrugs Off Viruses Better Than Windows
Mac OS X, mythically immune to common computer plagues, has actually always welcomed antivirus software. Or, uh, maybe not. Confused? No worries—here's how OS X and Windows differ on resisting viruses and other nasties.
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You Might Have a Hard Time Finding an iPod for Christmas
You expect Wiis to be rarer than cancer-survivor unicorns around Christmas, not iPods. But analyst Shaw Wu says that iPod shortages are going all around, from the iTouch to the shuffle, and at multiple retailers.
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Samsung: Hey Circuit City, Where the Hell Is Our $74 Million?
Sony isn't the only company that tried to rips its gear out of Circuit City's broke, zombie clutches. Samsung has been asking for the bankrupt company to return $74 million of merch from September.UPDATED 4:00PM
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Amazon iPhone App Lets You Buy Anything You Take a Picture Of
Today, Amazon launched an iPhone app that'll exist solely to make buying crap easier. Its killer, buy-more-crap feature? Take a picture of anything, and Amazon'll shoot you the product page to waste money on it.
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iPhone App Makes Logging On to Free AT&T Wi-Fi Not Suck
All iPhone users get free AT&T Wi-Fi, hurray. But the text-message-based access system makes it a pain in the ass to log onto. Enter Easy Wi-Fi for AT&T, an app that makes it, well, easy.
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iPhone Conquers 16.6 Percent of World Smartphone Market
After besting BlackBerry and the Razr, the iPhone has seized its largest parcel of the global smartphone market yet: 16.6 percent. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually a pretty big deal.
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Laptop Cop Geo-Locates Stolen Laptops With Wi-Fi
Previous version of Laptop Cop let you remotely delete (or retrieve) files from a stolen laptop, but the newest feature makes it genuinely worth paying for: Real-time geo-location using just Wi-Fi.
It uses Skyhook, the same Wi-Fi location tech used by the iPhone to triangulate your position against Wi-Fi access points. Convenient, since we're not quite at the stage where laptops have built-in GPS for lojacking (though it's probably not too far off).
Unfortunately, for now it only works on Windows computers (booo), but if you have a habit of losing your laptop, $50 is pretty cheap for a chance to find out where it lands.
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T-Mobile Monthly Soft Data Caps Will Return
When the G1 launched, there was an uproar over T-Mobile's 1GB-a-month soft data cap that would slow your connection down to a 50kbps trickle, and they backpedaled. Guess what? The cap's coming back.
The good: The new cap is 10GB, a fairly reasonably amount for mobile data (really, that's like over 300MB a day). After you hit 10GB, your connection will be throttled down to 50kbps, just like T-Mobile's original cap plan. The bad: It will cover every phone, including the SideKick. Worse for SideKick users, their monthly data is going up to match the G1's. The supposed T-Mobile employee revealing this info also mentions "$34.99 for all you can eat (cough 10GB cap)" though it's not quite clear what he's referring to specifically.
Really, G1 users are most likely to be affected, since it's the only phone T-Mobile's got conducive to really moving that kind of data. How much data are you guys using a month on average, anyway? [Android Community Forums via Android Community]
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