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Apple’s supposedly confidential agreement with AT&T was not a secret after all: They struck a five-year exclusivity contract to carry the iPhone in 2007, an old court document reveals. Still, the validity of the contract remains a question. An ongoing class action suit filed against Apple and AT&T in 2007 alleged that the two parties held a monopoly over the iPhone by locking consumers into a contract for an indefinite amount of time

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Apple’s Contract With AT&T Does Not Quash Verizon Rumor

News has been pretty sparse about the pricing or availability of the PlayStation Move controller, but GameStop thinks they have the down low on when and how much. GameStop’s Canadian site is showing the (expected) release date along with the pricing. This could of course be idle speculation (GameStop usually just puts an arbitrary date in their system when they start accepting pre-orders), but the pricing looks about right

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PlayStation Move Controller will cost $60, expected Sept. 1st

Microsoft’s two newest phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, take aim at the same demographic as the company’s earlier Sidekick phones: Text-happy tweens. The phones have a promising new interface that puts social media updates front and center, with tweets, Facebook updates and other tiny news blurbs stacked up in an attractive column on the phones’ home screen

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Video: Hands-On With the Kin One and Kin Two

Close readers will have noticed that A) I write quite a bit about soccer+technology but B) never about Team USA. Messi this, Cristiano Ronaldo that. Well that ends today! Nike recently unveiled the kit that Landon Donovan & Co.

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Say hello to the environmentally friendly Nike kits that Team USA will wear at the World Cup

A little while ago I brought news of the super-duper technology that adidas’ kits (“jerseys”) will utilize at the World Cup . We all had a good time, yes? Well today there’s news of the boot, the F50 adiZero, that the likes of Leo Messi and David Villa (soon to be teammates at FC Barcelona maybe ~!) and Jozy Altidore will use to score many goals.

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Adidas F50 adiZero: Messi (and others) will wear the lightest soccer boot in human history at the World Cup

DustPan+Bin: a name as ruthlessly descriptive as it is full of annoying designer-y typographic quirks. The concept product it refers to is a combo trashcan and dustpan, complete with a handsome matching broom. The idea seems to be that you would leave the triangular receptacle in the corner of the room, just like any other trashcan, but when a rubbish-strewn-on-floor emergency arises, you are merely ninety degrees and a good sharp kick away from cleaning up

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DustPan+Bin: A Convertible Trash Receptacle

Sony has at last made good on its promise of mirrorless, interchangeable-lens compact cameras. We saw some mock-ups of the slab-like cameras back in February, and now Sony’s answer to the Micro Four Thirds and Samsung’s NX1 is here

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Sony’s NEX Mirrorless Cameras Are the Smallest in the World

I know nothing about the American version of rounders that you call baseball, but if I did I would say that the crowd-sourcing company Quirky just keeps hitting balls out of the park. This time the committee-designed product is a handsome lap-tray for the iPad, called the Cradle. The Cradle, which would actually be a pretty great work-in-bed laptop stand, is a bent-wood design which wraps over the lap to support the iPad in front of you

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Cradle, a Spinning Lap-Tray for the iPad

The Noosy 2–in-1 VoIP Adapter and SIM Unlock apparently has the power not only to unlock your mobile phone, but also give you one click IP dialing as well. So no more having to enter in long numbers + PIN 178 words | permalink | No comments | digg this

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Noosy 2-in-1 VoIP Adapter and SIM Unlocker – open up your comms and save your fingers

reCaptcha Mailhide is a clever way to protect your email address from online spam harvesters. Instead of using old techniques like name at domain dot com, or scrambling your online email address with a tool like AddressMunger, you can use 157 words | permalink | No comments | digg this

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reCaptcha Mailhide – protect your email address from online spammers

GigaPan’s robotic camera mounts can help spit out pictures to create fantastically detailed panoramic photos. That’s what photographer Gerald Donovan has used to create what is being billed as the world’s largest photo.

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World’s Largest Panoramic Photo Is the Size of 1,200 Billboards

This Ubiquitous Player freeware program is definitely a strange one. Picture an audio and video player which also does service as a text editor, image viewer, web browser, screen shot grabber, HTML editor, games console and and…sheesh, I forget. The 78 words | permalink | No comments | digg this

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Ubiquitous Player – Swiss Army knife freeware program does it all

Many, many years ago, people used to stop wine falling out of bottles with plugs made out of plastic or tree. If you can remember this kind of thing, then you may need this Motorized Wine Opener with Foil 138 words | permalink | No comments | digg this

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Motorized Wine Opener with Foil Cutter – Take the skill out of a dying art

This little Keychain Transformer Cam is cute, but it’ll only play MP3 and record VGA movies, it won’t turn into a huge tractor thing to save the planet. Which is a pretty poor show really we think.

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Keychain Transformer Cam – DV cam, MP3 player fits on a keychain, but won’t convert to Optimus Prime

How are you gonna make sure you’re left undisturbed on the commuter train every evening? Answer: plug your phone into one of these gloriously naff Leisure Eyes Cover with Speaker things and sit back, safe in the knowledge that *nobody* 104 words | permalink | No comments | digg this

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Leisure Eyes Cover with Speaker – gonk out your sight and sound

Speedbit Video Accelerator is a free program designed to improve your video watching experience by smoothing out video from the major sites. The blurb talks about removing buffering and freezing, and apparently it works with over 160 video sites. I 166 words | permalink | No comments | digg this

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Speedbit Video Accelerator – freeware promises to banish the YouTube stutters for ever

We all know what the Three Wolf Moon shirt looks like, so I won’t link it here. But did you know that it was actually made up of not one, but four separate images? True fact is true! Yes, it’s another clever little shirt from the chaps whose entire business is clever little shirts.

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Three JPEG moon T-shirt: meta meta meta ironic

It’s an endless battle: a new transport protocol replaces an old one and all of the drives based on the older system are completely obsolete. Well, Seagate thought long and hard and created the GoFlex system, a drive with removable transport hardware that can turn a standard SATA drive into a USB 2.0/3.0 drive, a Firewire storage device, or even a powered eSATA device

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Quick Look: Seagate launches the FreeAgent GoFlex system

We like electric vehicles here at CrunchGear, from the Volt to the Leaf to the Eneloop to the U3-X . But none of those are very common purchases, and although electric cars are looked forward to with anticipation, electric bikes seem to have escaped the notice of the US altogether.

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A few things to know about electric bikes

Seagate’s making a big bet on SATA connectors, though the company wouldn’t describe it that way: Its new FreeAgent GoFlex line of hard drives and accessories makes use of the standard interface to offer a wide range of easy connectivity options. Out of the box, the basic drive comes with a USB 2.0 connector. If your next notebook sports a USB 3.0 port, eSATA port, or a FireWire 800 connection, no problem: Just remove the Seagate drive’s back end and plug in the corresponding cable kit (sold separately by Seagate for $20 to $40)

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Seagate’s New Drives Offer Mix-and-Match Connectors

Writing about the newest technology can be tiring. As a man once said , “Everything’s amazing and nobody’s happy.” More storage! More speed! I want apps and GPS and privacy! The days before terabyte external drives and gigahertz phone processors were a more tranquil time, though admittedly we look back on it through a rose-tinted lens. Still, in between all the underpowered Windows 98SE PCs, fragile flip-phones, and mammoth laptops, there were plenty of gadgets we still remember with no small affection

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Gadgets Of Days Gone By

Short version : LiveBooks is a website designed to provide a platform for photographers and other artists to display and sell their work online. It’s an interesting alternative to the other sites out there in that it’s relatively easy to use, and the standard design templates are extremely well done. Features : No upload limit Drag and drop image management Password protected portfolios; perfect for clients Pros : Easy to set up Nice design templates Includes shopping cart integration MSRP: $39 a month/$399 a year Cons : Some loss of image quality during re-size Can’t easily change design template; requires help from support There’s no shortage of websites out there designed for photographers.

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Review: LiveBooks photo site