Verizon Wireless settles with FCC over false data charges

The Federal Communications Commission reached a record $25 million settlement on Thursday with Verizon Wireless over false data charges, in a move meant to show that the agency is stepping up scrutiny of consumer billing practices.

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IBM And Samsung Announce Patent Cross-License Agreement

Isn't the world just a better place when companies get along? While that's true in most all cases, it's definitely less fun/interesting, but there hasn't been a lot of beef between Samsung Electronics and IBM to begin with. Samsung today introduced a patent cross-license agreement with IBM, a huge monolith in the supercomputer and enterprise...

Source: http://hothardware.com/News/IBM-And-Samsung-Announce-Patent-CrossLicense-Agreement/

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Acer Announces GN245HQ 3D Monitor with Built-In 3D Vision IR Emitter

The 3D products just keep rolling in. One of the latest is the GN245HQ 3D monitor from Acer. Sporting a 23.6-inch LED backlit panel with Full HD (1920x1080) and a 120Hz refresh rate, Acer's marketing this one as the world's first 3D monitor to support the HDMI 3D solution from Nvidia. Don't worry if you're not equipped for HDMI connectivity,...

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The Colour Clock, a beautiful marriage of HEX and time

With apologies to the linguistic sensitivities of any Americans that may be reading, feast your eyes upon The Colour Clock.

Whether you're looking for colorific inspiration for a website you're designing, or merely looking for an attractive and easy to read clock, The Colour Clock is for you. By default you get the current time, but you can click a button to show the current HEX value of the background color -- and yes, the HEX value ticks up, just like the clock. As the seconds pass, the background color changes, and slowly but surely -- bit by bit [get it?] -- you're exposed to delicious new shades.

Mac OS X users even get downloadable screensavers! Windows users will have to settle for pinning the tab in their browser, or dragging it to a second display.

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Is Sony's Xperia Play All Thumbs?

The gaming world was still waiting to hear more details about Sony's Next Generation Portable, the successor to its current PlayStation Portable handheld gaming system, when all of the sudden the company up and confirmed another rumored gaming device. The Xperia Play looks to be the official name of what many had already dubbed the "PlayStation phone."

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On Christmas Eve, frantic shoppers still find it fun

So, by Friday afternoon, tens of thousands of last-minute shoppers had only the malls and shops around the region to find the perfect DVD, sweater, book, video game or gadget to pick up and slide, just in time, under the Christmas tree.

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Item-level RFIDs get support from big retailers, track your every purchase

Toilets, cows, and Germans have all been tagged by RFIDs, but according to a new study, it's footwear and fashion that top the demand for radio-enabled tracking. In a report released yesterday, ABI Research said more than three-quarters of a billion RFID tags will be used in global apparel markets in 2011, with retailers like Walmart, Macy's, and JC Penney leading the way. Item-level tracking isn't new -- in fact we saw something similar in 2006 -- but with the likes of Walmart on board, the system is expected to grow as much as 60 percent in the next three years. The study suggests inventory and security as driving factors in the adoption of RFIDs, but we've got our suspicions. And anyway, we don't want anyone to know how much we spent on that Material Girl leopard print shrug -- not even a machine.

Item-level RFIDs get support from big retailers, track your every purchase originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Galaxy Tab Gets Hacked, Finally Runs Gingerbread

PS3 'jailbreak code' retweeted by Sony's Kevin Butler, no punchline needed

Oh, honey. Sony PlayStation's (entirely fictional) Kevin Butler holds many (also fictional) positions within the company, but apparently none of them require him to keep up with (very real) news events. Travis La Marr (aka @exiva) tweeted the now-infamous PS3 METLDR root key towards Butler with the challenge to "Come at me." What's a spokeperson to do but confuse it for a Battleship reference and retweet the entire code? Obviously someone let him in on the joke, as the tweet's since been removed (original URL can be found as More Coverage below). At least Sony won't have to subpoena for his info here. Geohot, we hope you're laughing.

Update: As Digital Foundry points out, this sequence actually refers to the USB dongle ID generator key, also used for PS3 security circumvention.

[Thanks, Scott M]

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Robot buys a scone in a coffee shop, that's all you really need to know (video)

Robots. Constructed by man to make our lives easier and provide opportunities for sloth that might not have arisen otherwise. One resident of Mountain View, California decided that commanding his Anybot to fetch a scone from Red Rock Coffee was a good use of the $15,000 telepresence automaton. And here we thought bot proliferation would either freak us out or engineer mankind's demise -- turns out it'll just add a few more folks in line while we wait to order our next cup of joe.

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