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• Google tells Android devs to kick the menu button to the curb, seriously you guys

  
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  If you’ve seen Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus in action, then it should be clear that the menu button has no future in the Android ecosystem. In order to drive that point home, Google has posted over at the Android Developer blog urging app creators to “say goodbye to the menu button.” [...]
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• Plasmonic cloak makes objects invisble, but only in the microwave region of the spectrum

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  Okay, so we’re not up to USS Pegasus levels yet, but for the first time researchers have been able to cloak a three dimensional object. Don’t start planning your first trip to the Hogwarts library restricted section just yet though, the breakthrough is only in the microwave region of the EM spectrum. Using a [...]
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• Tamron and Kenko bring third-party glass to the Micro Four Thirds bash

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  The fresh trend of Micro Four Thirds shooters is on the rise, thus it shouldn’t come as a surprise that more glass-makers are jumping on the MFT bandwagon. Joining the likes of Panasonic, Olympus and Kodak as part of the Micro Four Thirds Group, is a trifecta of third-party lens manufacturers: Tamron, Kenko [...]
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• IBM builds 9 nanometer carbon nanotube transistor, puts silicon on notice

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  It’s not the smallest transistor out there, but the boffins at IBM have constructed the tiniest carbon nanotube transistor to date. It’s nine nanometers in size, making it one nanometer smaller than the presumed physical limit of silicon transistors. Plus, it consumes less power and is able to carry more current ...
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• Shocker! New RIM CEO targets existing BlackBerry users for upgrades

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  All of new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins’ fresh ideas will apparently still be revealed to the company’s board in a couple of weeks, but he’s already dropped some gems in interviews with the Wall Street Journal and Reuters (update: and Bloomberg). First item on the agenda? Getting current users upgraded to the latest ...
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• MasterCard’s QkR mobile payment system enters trial in Australia

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  MasterCard is all over the map when it comes to mobile payments. The credit company will partner with anyone, anywhere, anytime if it means getting new customers and making a buck on the deal. Its latest offering is called QkR, an Australian effort with support from the Hoyts chain of movie theaters and Commonwealth ...
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• Google Music now lets you download your entire library

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  Computer meltdown? No backup? Well, at least your tunes are safe. Google Music just gained a new feature that lets you to download your entire library including purchased songs. A simple click in the Music Manager is all it takes to restore your entire collection — or just your purchased music — from the [...]
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• Windows Phone 7.5 gets multiple Google Calendar sync, additional Gmail features

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  Google’s improved how its calendar and email services interact with Windows Phones running the Mango update. Users can now cram up to 25 different calendars into the Metro OS’s built-in calendar app. The setup’s not exactly seamless; you need to navigate your Windows Phone to the Google Sync page, login and ...
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• Twitter to begin ‘reactively’ censoring tweets in specific countries, still no love for China

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  It’s no secret that certain countries have different views over freedom of expression on the internet, but this hasn’t stopped Twitter’s attempt to keep its service running in as many places as possible. In its latest blog post, the microblogging service announced that it’ll begin “to reactively withhold ...
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• North Korea makes using a cellphone a war crime during 100 day mourning period

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  Dear Leader may have blessed his subjects with the gift of 3G in 2008, but in his death he is taking it back… at least temporarily. As part of the country’s 100 days of mourning, cellphones have been banned within its borders. If you’re caught pulling out a portable to make a call, send [...]
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• German court rejects Samsung’s second 3G patent complaint against Apple

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  About a week after suffering a legal setback in Germany, Samsung received another bit of bad news this morning, when the Mannheim Regional Court rejected the second of its patent infringement claims against Apple. As with last week’s ruling, today’s decision addresses one of Samsung’s arguments that Apple’s 3G ...
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• Steam beta journeys to Android and iOS, for select invitees

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  Our friends at Joystiq are members of a privileged club of which we are not. We’ve both downloaded and installed the mobile version of Steam — now available as a free beta download for Android and iOS — but where they found Mac and PC games for sale, along with the ability to chat [...]
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• South Korea’s Live Park uses RFID and Kinect to bring your Holodeck fantasies one step nearer

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  All those long, long drives to Florida in the family station wagon seemed worth it at the time, but now that we’ve found out that those lucky South Koreans have another crazy theme-park, we might just change our minds. Located near Seoul, Live Park uses 3D video, holograms and augmented reality, interacting with ...
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• February 14th is Valen… Angry Birds day

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  Forget poking: from February 14th, show you love someone by flinging a mis-tempered avian toward them. It’s Valentines Day that Angry Birds will finally arrive on the ubiquitous social network — just in time to ensure half the coupled population of the world misses its dinner reservation, in order to get past one ...
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• Wii U controller to pack NFC, says Iwata, create new gameplay options

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  Aching for more details on Nintendo’s elusive Wii U console? Let Satoru Iwata scratch your itch — quarterly reports aren’t just for reporting losses and announcing new networks, after all. Boss hog Iwata told investors that Nintendo is spicing up their next console’s tablet-esque controller with a little NFC ...
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• Nintendo officially announces Nintendo Network, promises personal accounts for Wii U

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  Nintendo’s third quarter financial briefing just spilled the beans on the recently spied Nintendo Network, causing Nintendo fans everywhere to collectively sigh, “It’s about time.” Company head honcho Satoru Iwata says the network will offer “competitions and communication among users, as well as the sales ...
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• Transformers: Dark of the Moon clip breaks down shooting movies, special effects in 3D (video)

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  The Transformers: Dark of the Moon Limited Edition Blu-ray 3D doesn’t hit the streets officially until next week, but you can get a look at one of the special features early right here. In this video clip director Michael Bay and other members of the production team explain some of the special challenges that [...]
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• German scientists shoot world’s fastest movie: gone in 50 femtoseconds

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  No, it’s not another Fast & Furious sequel, it’s something much quicker — 800 billion times quicker, to be precise. Scientists at DESY (Germany’s largest particle physics center) are premiering the Guinness World Record-holding fastest “movie” to a select audience at its light sources users’ meeting. ...
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• SwitchMe brings makeshift guest account to Android root users

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  Wouldn’t it be absolutely splendid if you could hand your phone over to a friend (or complete stranger) without fear of them mucking up your system or digging into your personal bits? Yes, we’d absolutely love to see guest accounts become standard issue on all handsets, but until that day arrives, a new ...
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• Potential Samsung Galaxy SII-sibling heads to China via the FCC

  
  e-Smart Tech Gadgets — Authority: 143
  A mysteriously packaged Samsung device departed the FCC’s secure zone with a few question marks over its character. We know it’s got GSM/EDGE 850 - 1900 radios and can access WCDMA Bands II and V, plus the usual WiFi and Bluetooth gear, but that’s about it. The folks at Wireless Goodness are staking [...]
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