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Apple sent out invitations to select media outlets inviting them to the Guggenheim Museum in New York for an education announcement. While details are still limited, The New York Times has cited that the company will showcase its entrance into the textbook market. This is a feature many student have been waiting for, the ability to ditch [...]

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Verizon announced three additions to its smartphone lineup today at CES, the BlackBerry Curve 8370, DROID RAZR MAXX, and LG Spectrum.
The BlackBerry Curve 8370 brings a new edition of the Curve to the Verizon network. Some of the highlights to this BlackBerry is support for Near Field Communications (NFC). The Curve 8370 also features 3G, [...]

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Lenovo announced the IdeaTab S2 today ahead of CES, its first Android 4.0 tablet. This tablet conveniently comes with a keyboard that will allow you to place it in and type away as if it was a desktop, trackpad and all. Lenovo packed a bunch of other impressive features that makes this a real competitor in the tablet market.
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Amazon, in an interview to with the New York Times, said that it is less than two weeks from rolling out an over-the-air update to the Kindle Fire. The company says that there will be improvements in performance and multi touch navigation. Customers will also be able to edit the list of items that shows [...]

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Verizon has released some new tablets on it’s network branded DROID XYBOARD. The tablet, made by Motorola, comes in two different screen sizes, 10.1 and 8.2. Verizon boasts that it is “lighter than a paperback book and thinner than an AAA battery”. Running Android 3.2 Honeycomb, the DROID XYBOARD takes advantage of Verizon’s 4G LTE [...]

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We have been waiting for an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 since it’s release. There is now a semi-tethered jailbreak using Ac1dsn0w, but nothing compares to not having to sync when you restart your phone to regain use of your most important apps.
Luckily a hacker named Pod2g has been working towards the cause and released [...]

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Today is iPhone 4S launch day! The phone is now available on Verizon. AT&T, and Sprint. Many people waited out all night to get the iPhone first! In fact, we got a chance to catch up with Steve Wozniak (The Woz), cofounder of Apple, who was first in line at the Los Gatos Apple store.
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If you are a music lover and haven’t heard about turntable.fm yet, you are missing out. Basically, you choose a user made rooms, mostly revolving around music-types, and listen to music played by other users or you can DJ yourself. The site is pretty addicting and will give you the opportunity to hear new music.
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Apple has seeded another iOS 5 beta to developers. Beta 7 brings along some big fixes and other improvements to help with user experience. The full change log can be found below.

Accounts

When creating an iCloud account, you can use any Apple ID as long as it is a full email address and not a MobileMe [...]

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Future Shop and BestBuy located in Canada are now dumping their stock of the HP Touchpads for $99.99 and $149.99 for the 16gb and 32gb. Recently, employees were allowed to purchase their tablets on an EPP plan for only $119.99 for the 16gb and $149.99 for the 32gb. It looks like it’s now available for [...]

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