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iPhone apparently does seem to support sending any audio - including music and the audio tracks from your videos - to a Bluetooth headset that isn’t even enabled with A2DP - but it aint pretty.

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A variety of digital tools, from cell phones to dedicated readers, are now available for cracking open electronic books.

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The retail giant wants CAG to turn over all personal information about registered forum member Speedy1961, who has been posting weekly CC ads prior to their release on the site.

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Logitech’s MX Air packs a lot of technology into a small package

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Google will shut down its paid rentals and download service five days from now. Not only will videos no longer be available for rental or download, but previously purchased videos will no longer be playable. By way of apology, Google is offering $2 coupons for Google Checkout.

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Our mole talks about final pricing for Rock Band and the differences between the PS3 and 360 versions. How important is a wireless controller to you?

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Years of bad data corrected; 1998 no longer the warmest year on record

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Apple Sued Over Online Apple Store Receipts [Updatedx2]

A new class-action lawsuit alleges Apple violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act, according to Information Week.

The act, amended in 2003, states that “No person that accepts credit cards or debit cards for the transaction of bus..

2K makes Irrational name change

BioShock developers’ studios in the US and down under now 2K Boston and 2K Australia, respectively.

Metal Detectors and Night-Vision Goggles Now Used To Catch Pirates

Earlier this year Twentieth Century Fox came to the conclusion that Canada is the home of camcorder pirates. According to their research, over 50% off all camcorder recorded movies originate from Canada. These statistics are more fiction than fact of course, but they caused a widespread panic.

Movie theaters in Canada are now taking extreme measures to cut down this figure, even if this means less comfort for their paying customers.

Serge Corriveau, Director of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association, highlighted some of the measures they’ve taken and told CBC: “Having people searching knapsacks and people going up and down the aisles once the movie’s started to see if they can spot somebody camcording. You can see also people with night-vision goggles searching through the crowd trying to see if they can find something.” Corriveau added that metal detectors will also be used in theaters across Canada, specifically for pre-screenings.

And if this isn’t enough, CMPDA have also introduced a reward program for theater employees. Catching pirates is a lucrative business now, as they can earn upto $500 CAD if they identify a person who’s trying to record a movie on his phone or camcorder. More details can be found in the “theater employee camcorder training guide”.

The theater owners sure do all they can to please their customers.

DeSmuME DS emulator hits the PSP

While the DS and PSP aren’t without their squabbles in the past, there’s the fact that no matter how much you compare the two, there are certain obvious differences in approach that make it a bit of an apple to oranges scenario. That’s why it’s so intensely awkward to look at the screen above — a DS emulator on the PSP. It’s running a DS homebrew game, GeoWars, and running it pretty slowly at that, but still. DS on a PSP. The DeSmuME emulator was ported by Japanese homebrew developer SofiyaCat, and while we really can’t imagine many DS titles that would benefit in any way from playback on the PSP, the sheer triumph over logic on display here has made us total fans of the effort.

Interesting story about why apple makes some of the choices it makes, specifically why copy and paste seems omitted from the iPhone.

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