A Congressional Research Service report considers whether U.S. dependency on foreign sources of rare earth elements threatens the defense and technology industries.
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Remember that T-Mobile G2 build that leaked out earlier this week? Even if you didn’t, the ROM still managed to find its way onto other Android devices by way of some clever (if not elementary, dear Watson) hacking, and from that very binary comes some vivid imagery. Nothing too surprising or earth-shattering, unless of course you find a Google Voice widget absolutely mind-blowing. And if you do, well, you’re welcome.
T-Mobile G2 build flashes to other devices to great results, new widgets originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
donniebaseball23 sends this quote from an opinion piece at Industry Gamers: “On Monday, news came down the pipeline from SCEE president Andrew House that Sony wants to focus on a younger audience for the PSP with future titles. My immediate reaction was one of shock and confusion. After all, in an interview with IndustryGamers at E3, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime noted that, ‘the way I would describe the market for the Nintendo 3DS would be the launch market that we had with the Nintendo DS plus the launch market that maybe PSP had.’ When your primary competitor is looking to the exact market that you’ve catered to, why would you abandon that market? There was a time when Sony Computer Entertainment was a trailblazer, bringing things to the industry ahead of everyone else. Nowadays, however, it seems that Sony is content to merely fall in step behind everyone else and simply try hard to not fall too far behind.”
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More here: Sony Continues To Lose Ground In Mobile Gaming
Were the events of the last week an eBay auction, then the bidding war between HP and Dell has reached a swift and dramatic conclusion. One could even say that the former company sniped the auction at the last minute—to the tune of $2 billion for the acquisition of data storage provider 3PAR.
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Samsung on Sunday announced that it has shipped one million Android 2.1-powered Galaxy S phones in the U.S.
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Verizon can’t be feeling too hot about being the straggler to the Galaxy S party, but the wait seems to be almost at an end. Best Buy’s just started taking in-store pre-orders for the Fascinate, while the latest internal document leak from VZW indicates a specific September 9 launch for the 4-inch Android handset. That’s when you should be able to snap the Fascinate up along with a prepaid data plan from Big Red, which fits in nicely with earlier unsanctioned disclosures on the matter. Either way, Samsung’s quest to conquer all networks with its Super Gorilla phone will be coming to a victorious end pretty soon.
[Thanks, Brian G.]
Samsung Fascinate ready for Best Buy in-store pre-order ahead of rumored September 9 launch originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Outsourced services provider, Salmat, has reported strong double digit growth in earnings and net profit for the 2009/10 financial year and has passed these earnings to its shareholders through an increased final dividend.
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Ben Huh, CEO of I Can Has Cheezburger parent company Pet Holdings, Inc., has made a public offer to purchase Reddit from parent company Conde Nast. Reddit’s management team is skeptical, but willing to entertain a chit-chat.
View post: Reddit Open to Chat Over Ben "Cheezburger" Huh’s Proposed Acquisition
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The growing availability of popular TV shows on the Web is at the heart of ongoing contentious programing fee negotiations between Walt Disney Co and Time Warner Cable Inc, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Nokia and Siemens have confirmed talks with private equity firms over a possible investment into Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), the Financial Times said on its website on Sunday.
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