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Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines... Sony's motion gaming system, the PlayStation Move, is now available on Amazon for about a hundred bones. [From: Engadget] The Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet is coming to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. The 7-inch device should land sometime this October or November. [From: Engadget] Toys "R" Us is getting into ...

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines... Not even Apple is immune to Photoshop failure of embarrassing proportions. Documentation for the new iPod touch showed the iPhone interface, complete with Phone app, clearly 'shopped onto the the touch. Whoops! [From: TUAW] While the tech sector has proven strong through the recession, hiring is starting to slow. [From: New York Times] ...

Highlights from this morning's big tech headlines The Ping social network-infused iTunes 10 finally landed last night, and it's available for download. [From: Apple] The ever popular 'Angry Birds' game has been confirmed as being released to Android phones this Friday. [From: TalkAndroid] Also late last night, Twitter launched its official free app for iPad, bringing multiple account ...

Although freak shows have all but disappeared from modern carnivals -- since conjoined twins are now typically sawed in half, and "dog-faced" sufferers of hypertrichosis just get frequent waxes -- we can still look to the Guinness Book of World Records to expose the Earth's strangest and least-marketable talents and afflictions. While it may not be as lofty an achievement as Most Rattlesnakes ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Voyager 1 spacecraft has already traveled an astounding 14 billion miles since its 1977 launch, and the interstellar wanderer is now headed to the Kuiper Belt at the "'edge' of our solar system," more than 13 billion miles from home. [From: Popular Science] eBay has faced exorbitant lawsuits in the past, but XPRT Venture is ...

Road SMS' is an Android app from the Samsung App Store, and we hate hate HATE it. It ingeniously encourages the silly, rude and sometimes lethal practice of texting-while-walking. 'Road SMS' purports to be some kind of safe alternative because it uses your phone's camera as a video background while you're tapping away at that text that is so damn important that you can't stop walking. Oh, ...

When Samsung's creative team was sitting around brainstorming names for the company's newest phone, they obviously wanted a moniker that would stick: something to entice its target audience, pique the interest of onlookers and, apparently, annoy the living bejeesus out of us. So, they decided to name it ':)'. Mission accomplished. Sure, the new phone features a QWERTY keyboard, runs T-Mobile's ...

As you know, there's a bounty of 3-D TVs set to hit stores this year. Everybody's raving about the additional dimension, but nobody's talking much about the toll of watching hours of 3-D programming could have on your health. PC World found some interesting warnings on Samsung's Web site that bring to light some real questions. As it turns out, children, teenagers, old people, pregnant women and ...

You might not know it, but it's National Cell Phone Recycling Week. From April 5th through 11th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging consumers to recycle all those old cell phones that are just laying around the house. According to NPR, Americans toss out about 130 million cell phones every year. Now, there are some intrepid folks out there fighting the battle against e-waste, ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/03/31/companies-investing-in-3-d-tv-ads-might-do-better-to-invest-in/'; We have gone to great pains in making you aware of 3-D TVs, and the technological revolution that, manufacturers claim, they will foment upon their release. After having the opportunity to peruse various companies' offerings at CES this January, we were candid with you in our ...

How fast can you fire off a text message? More than likely, not nearly as fast as 23-year-old Seattle resident Franklin Page. According to The Seattle Times, Page is the fastest text messager in the entire world. If his record of entering a 160-character phrase on a Samsung Omnia II cell phone in just 35.54 seconds holds up for a few months, Page will see his name written in the Guinness Book of ...

The Photo Marketing Association (PMA) kicks off its annual convention on February 21st, so get ready for loads of new camera news. First out of the gates this year is Samsung, announcing its new top-of-the-point-and-shoot-line TL500. Priced at $449.99, the TL500 lands between the prosumer level of the DSLR and the point-and-shoot. This type of camera offers the advantages of full manual controls, ...

How many app stores does the world need? Well, if you ask Verizon, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, LG, and about 20 other cell phone carriers and manufacturers, at least one more. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, a whopping 27 companies, claiming 3 billion customers between them, announced that they would be collaborating on an "open international applications platform." The initiative ...

While 3-D TVs and slate PCs stole most of the attention at CES, there were plenty of interesting developments afoot in the normally mundane world of laptops and netbooks. (Yes, we're lumping them together. What is a netbook but a laptop for people with nothing to do but check Facebook?) There were laptops made out of recycled plastics, new connectivity technologies, surprising Linux demos, and ...

Samsung has upgraded two of its point-and-shoot models with larger screens and increased connectivity for sharing. Both shooters feature a 14.2 mega-pixel CCD sensor and 7x optical zoom (up from 12.2 mega-pixel and 5x, respectively), and the CL80 gets a larger 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen. Where that connectivity is concerned, the CL80 is the pick of the bunch, packed out with wireless sharing ...