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    • Kindle-wielding Amazon dips toes into physical world (Reuters)
      Reuters - Amazon.com Inc is dipping its toes into the physical world as the largest online retailer offers more products in stores that may benefit from hands-on interaction with shoppers.
    • Why Are Digital Cameras Disappearing? (ContributorNetwork)
      ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | According to Mike Tomkins of Imaging Resource, digital camera maker Canon is in a bit of a bind. Its high-end Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras are growing in popularity, but compact cameras -- the basic point-and-shoot variety -- are starting to tank except in "emerging markets." Which is code for third-world countries, where most people can't afford SLRs anyway.
    • Just Show Me: 3 great to-do apps for your Android phone (Yahoo! News)
      Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you three great to-do apps for your Android phone. To get started, download …
    • Taiwan smartphone maker HTC sees Q1 revenue lagging (Reuters)
      Reuters - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp expects to post much lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter, underscoring analyst views that it will face another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.
    • Android Alternatives to Apple's Siri Personal Assistant (ContributorNetwork)
      ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.
    • TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report (Reuters)
      Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.
    • Celebs suit up for DirecTV Beach Bowl (AP)

      Actor David Arquette arrives at DIRECTV's Sixth Annual Celebrity Beach Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 at Victory Field in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Nekesa Moody)AP - Deion Sanders said he wasn't worried. Joe Montana went in with his game face on and Jordin Sparks just hoped sand did not end up in her eyes.


    • Four of the Strangest New Video Game Controllers (ContributorNetwork)
      ContributorNetwork - Back when home video games were still new, every new console's controller was an experiment. And before people settled on things like the Atari 2600's joystick and the Nintendo Entertainment System's gamepad, which influenced everything that came after them, they tried out some ... unusual form factors. Like the Fairchild Channel F's hybrid paddle-joystick, or the Mattel Intellivision's disc-and-touchpad arrangement.
    • Android Games from Capcom and Square-Enix on Their Way ... In Japan (ContributorNetwork)
      ContributorNetwork - States-side fans of video game consoles, from the first Nintendo Entertainment System to its modern successor the Wii, know what it's like for a game that looks awesome to only come out in Japan.
    • The Super Bowl: The most DVR’d, and DVR-proof, broadcast on TV (The Cutline)
      The Cutline - More than 111 million people are expected to watch the Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots on Sunday—roughly a third of the U.S. population and the largest television audience in television history. And virtually all of those viewers will be watching it live. "Live sports is the most DVR-proof programming [...]
    • Sprint investors in purgatory until 2013 (Reuters)
      Reuters - Sprint Nextel , like its bigger rivals, is expected to report a steep decline in fourth-quarter profit margins due to its launch of the costly Apple Inc iPhone.
    • Just Show Me: How to see recently used apps in Android 4.0 (Yahoo! News)
      Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to find out what apps are running on your Android 4.0 …
    • Google tightens security in Android app store (Reuters)
      Reuters - Google Inc has been quietly policing its online store for months now in an acknowledgement of malware's growing threat to its increasingly popular Android mobile software.
    • How Wireless Carriers and Manufacturers Screw Up Android (ContributorNetwork)
      ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Google recently unveiled its new Android design guidelines, which are meant to help people develop apps for its open-source smartphone and tablet operating system. The guidelines work in tandem with Android Ice Cream Sandwich's visual overhaul, which was designed to "enchant" smartphone and tablet users in a way that Android's previous, bare-bones iterations, did not.
    • Steve Jobs brought back to life as an Android fan in Taiwanese ad (Yahoo! News)
      Yahoo! News - In the months following long-time Apple CEO Steve Jobs's untimely death, we've seen him resurrected in many forms. He's already been brought back in plastic and bronze, but we never thought we'd see him reborn as an Android supporter. Leave it to a Taiwanese tablet …
    • The $23 Android Tablet You Can Buy in India (ContributorNetwork)
      ContributorNetwork - You can buy it in India if you're a student, that is. According to Jamie Yap of ZDNet Asia, the Aakash tablet is priced at 2,200 rupees, or 45 U.S. dollars, while students pay a special subsidized price thanks to a government contract. 25,000 students have already requested one from the University of Mumbai, and more than 1.4 million people have ordered the tablet so far, with three new factories being set up to meet the demand.
    • Angelic "Steve Jobs" loves Android in Taiwan TV ad (Reuters)
      Reuters - He may have derided Android devices in real life but in the afterlife Apple Inc founder Steve Jobs is glad he can use one -- or at least that's the story a Jobs look-alike tells in a recent TV commercial for a Taiwanese electronics company's new product.
    • Sony cuts annual digital camera, PS3 hardware forecasts (Reuters)
      Reuters - Sony Corp on Thursday kept its annual LCD TV sales forecast unchanged but cut its forecasts for digital camera and PlayStation 3 hardware sales.
    • Just Show Me: How to use the notification system in Android 4.0 (Yahoo! News)
      Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to use the new notification features of your Android 4.0 phone. …
    • Mexico watchdog: no official word on Televisa deal (Reuters)
      Reuters - Mexico's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it was still in the process of notifying the companies of its decision on broadcaster Televisa's proposed purchase of half of cell phone company Iusacell.