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Angry Birds tops half a billion downloads: are you still playing?

This week Rovio has announced that not only had they jumped above 500 million downloads with Angry Birds, they’d therefore become the one with the most downloaded game in the history of gaming.

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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime visits the FCC

ASUS is following up its successful Eee Pad Transformer tablet with the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, which is rumored to launch a week from now on November 9.

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Apple confirms iOS 5 / iPhone 4S battery issues

Since early after iOS 5 was released several weeks ago for iPhone, users have complained of battery issues, and today it’s become officially confirmed by an Apple representative that not only are there several bugs, they’re working to fix them all up in a single patch to be released soon.

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ASUS Lamborghini VX6S Cedar Trail netbook gets pre-release benchmarks

This week the newest ASUS Lamborghini collaboration in the VX65 has been both benchmarked and teased by ASUS in the form of a lovely new wallpaper.

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Amazon Kindle Owner’s Lending Library offers 5,000 borrowable books

Those who thought ebooks would kill libraries obviously didn’t plan ahead to when Amazon replaced their friendly local librarian with a digital repository of borrowable books; the online retailer has launched the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library, giving Prime-subscribing Kindle users a chance to borr

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Apple to overhaul all products in 2012, iPad 3 rumored for Q3

The DigiTimes sources are working overtime right now with tons of rumors that are swirling about the iPad and future Apple products. According to the sources in the supply chain DigiTimes has Apple will supposedly have an inventory of next-generation iPads with about 2 million units by the end of 2011.

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Anonymous ramps Pedophile campaign with IP honeypot

Hack collective Anonymous has ramped up its anti-pedophile campaign, reportedly tricking those attempting to browse clandestine sites hosting child pornography into accessing a service that would identify their IP address and, subsequently, identify and location.

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Apple: Fragmentation-feeding Kindle Fire only good for iPad

Apple execs reportedly have no fear of the Amazon Kindle Fire, according to analysts meeting with CEO Tim Cook and others at the firm, because the 7-inch slate will only highlight Android’s growing fragmentation problem.

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A9's Flow app: Augmented consumerism


See it, scan it, order it. Yummy!

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