Orange San Diego revealed: Intel-powered phone to reach UK on June 6th for £200 (Mat Smith/Engadget)

Orange San Diego revealed: Intel-powered phone to reach UK on June 6th for £200 (Mat Smith/Engadget) Orange took its time to decide, but now it’s settled. The first European Intel-equipped smartphone is the San Diego, replacing the Santa Clara codename assigned to it since February’s Mobile World Congress....

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Need To Pump Up Your iPhone Voice Recordings? The Pint-Sized iRig MIC Cast Is Now Shipping

Need To Pump Up Your iPhone Voice Recordings? The Pint-Sized iRig MIC Cast Is Now ShippingThe microphone in the iPhone 4S is pretty good â€" I have found it to capture excellent quality on all my consumer-ish recordings and videos. Of course, that is not to say it could not be improved. When the iRig MIC Cast was announced at CES this year, I was pretty excited. I have gotten a lot of use out of the original iRig MIC and this miniaturized version seemed poised...

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Three Questions for PayPal’s New Boss

Three Questions for PayPal’s New Boss Payment president: David Marcus of PayPal.PayPal Three Questions for PayPal’s New Boss David Marcus aims to push the service into physical stores. Wednesday, May 30, 2012 By Rachel Metz PayPal has built up its mobile offerings in the past several...

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Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains

Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level DomainsToday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) closed its window for new generic top-level domain name applications. ICANN will publish a list of all the applied-for strings in two weeks, but Google today already announced some of the names it applied for. Among these are, as expected, .google and .youtube. According to Google’s chief Internet evangelist and “father...

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First Impressions On Fluent, The Startup Promising “The Future Of Email”

First Impressions On Fluent, The Startup Promising “The Future Of Email”Y Combinator’s Paul Graham recently begged entrepreneurs to consider “frightening ambitious startup ideas,” like building a better search engine or replacing universities. “Any one of them could make you...

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Timing Is Everything: Indie Movie Discovery Platform Prescreen To Close Its Doors

Timing Is Everything: Indie Movie Discovery Platform Prescreen To Close Its DoorsIt was just last September that we covered the launch of Prescreen, the startup founded by former Groupon and Zoosk execs that aimed to help independent films find the publicity they nearly always lack. To do so, they built...

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Here Come the Arctic Drones

Here Come the Arctic DronesAs it becomes increasingly clear that climate change and the race for new sources of oil and gas are going to turn Earth’s poles into hotbeds of military contention, Northrup Grumman is responding by offering Canada a drone that can fly under even the harshest of conditions. The RQ-4 Global Hawk has been used by the US military for surveillance since its introduction in 1998. And now it’s going to get a second life protecting Canada...

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