Archive for August 20th, 2010

SAMSUNG OPENS UP A TOTALLY NEW AND BRILLIANT SMARTPHONE EXPERIENCE;

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# Full touch Super AMOLED offers the best ever viewing quality on a mobile
# First handset released on bada platform
# Social Hub brings all your social networks together in one, unified solution
# TouchWiz 3.0 expands Smartphone usability to the next level

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See What DROID™ Does Next: DROID 2 By Motorola Pre-Sale Starts August 11 At VerizonWireless

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BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and LIBERTYVILLE, IL — Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless 3G network, and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a pioneer in the mobile industry, today announced that DROID™ 2 by Motorola will be available for pre-sale on August 11. Hitting all the right keys, DROID 2 is a feature-packed device that helps manage work and social life with an enhanced QWERTY keyboard, ultra high-speed Web browsing, 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities, full push corporate e-mail, intuitive social messaging and Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 for access to the full web – all built on Android 2.2.

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Ocean garbage patches are not growing, so where is all that plastic going?

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Researchers have been visiting locations in the western North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea for more than two decades to better understand the large patches of plastic that have formed there. Although the mysteries surrounding exactly how the plast…

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Calendar: MIND events in September and October

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SEPTEMBER 20 We often refer to a strong sexual attraction as animal magnetism, but arousal involves more than just base instinct. At the Mind Science lecture series , psychologist Stephanie Ortigue will describe how desire depends on complex mental…

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Good Riddance to the Population Explosion: Keys to Prevent Unsustainable Growth

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Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of online exclusives about natural phenomena and human endeavors we’d like to see come to an end. They are connected with the September 2010 special issue of Scientific American called " The End &…

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Massive Oil Plume Confirmed in Gulf of Mexico

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A plume or not a plume? That was the question for scientists, oil company employees and government officials in the early days of the oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Macondo 252 well . [More]

Gulf of Mexico – Oil…

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Yonhap News Agency – Yonhap News Now Available on BlackBerry App World

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Seoul, South Korea – BlackBerry® smartphones users are now able to access real-time news from Yonhap News Agency fast and comfortably.

Yonhap News announced that the free Yonhap News application for BlackBerry® smartphones was launched on BlackBerry App World™.

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eBay and RIM Offer eBay Application for BlackBerry Smartphones in Six More Countries

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eBay application allows sellers to relist items directly within app; buyers can access more information about sellers

San Jose, Calif. and Waterloo, Ont. – Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a world leader in wireless innovation, and eBay, a global leader in mobile commerce and the world’s largest online marketplace, today jointly announced that the free eBay Application for BlackBerry® smartphones is immediately available on BlackBerry App World™ in six more countries: Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.* The application is also now officially available to North American BlackBerry smartphone users after a successful beta preview period.

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