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News at Apple and HP helped move the market this week. Here’s a recap of TheStreet’s top tech stories.
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Apple announced a refreshed iPod lineup, iOS 4 update, and the Apple TV this week. Samsung also revealed their Android tablet device as the fall tech releases kick up.
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Apple held its annual iPod show this week and the Macalope’s here to give you the final take-away. Truth be told, he’s not even going to talk about Ping because he doesn’t get it, but you know how it is with nerds: we can’t pass up a chance to make a Monty Python reference.
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Philips keeps rolling out new gadgets at IFA 2010 in Berlin this week, continuing on with the PicoPix PC pocket pico projector series.
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Sharp has toted along more than 30 LCD TVs to IFA 2010 in Berlin this week, including the Aquos series that sports Quattron technology.
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waderoush writes “On top of all the other features that it has crammed into iTunes, Apple this week added Ping, a Facebook-like social network for music discovery. It’s all part of the company’s plan to dominate the world of consumer media, but Xconomy argues that this time, Apple may have gone a bridge too far
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Yesterday Microsoft’s new mobile platform Windows Phone 7 hit the RTM milestone, and in the official announcement Microsoft was keen to stress how mush tested had gone into this new platform.
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coondoggie writes “The US military is inundated with video from airborne unmanned aircraft, remote monitoring systems and security outposts. In an effort to speed up the processing and analyzing of all this video, researchers at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week awarded an almost $11 million contract to open source software vendor Kitware to help develop what DARPA calls its Video and Image Retrieval and Analysis Tool (VIRAT) program.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Can’t say this is a surprise, but Motorola posted a note on its support forums today warning users Droid X users against upgrading to that leaked Android 2.2 build or any of those custom ROMS that’re out there — they’ll be cut off from the official upgrade when it hits in early September and potentially “stuck on the leaked version.” Ouch. Of course, that’s the risk you take when you start flashing your phone with unofficial firmware, but between this, eFUSE , and those cease and desist letters , it certainly feels like Motorola is decidedly unhappy that anyone would have the gall to hack or tweak one of its handsets, even if the phone in question is the size of a small tank and marketed by aggressive murderous robot hands insisting that it “does” everything one can think of with no restrictions.
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The fine people at iFixit have taken the extremely awesome step of tearing down some very retro gear this week, and up first, they’ve got the Magnavox Odyssey 100 which dates from 1975. The gaming console, which boasted two (count them ) games — Tennis and Hockey — was built around four Texas Instruments chips and powered by six C batteries