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Digital Trends - Sony has quietly released a firmware update to the PlayStation 3 that, according to initial reports, blocks the now-infamous PSJailbreak exploit that enabled users to copy games to local storage devices and run home-brew applications on their game consoles. Sony is offering no specific information about the update, saying only that it “includes additional security features.”
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Mashable - Mashable is proud to present the fourth annual Mashable Awards (formerly known as Open Web Awards). The Mashable Awards celebrate major innovations and achievements in the digital and social media landscape by companies, people and projects via an open, multilingual, international, community-nominated voting platform. Millions of votes will be cast in 25 categories ranging from “Best New Gadget” to “Best Music Discovery Service” to “Must-Follow Brand.” Following three months of competition, the Mashable Awards Gala will kick off the 2011 International CES convention week on January 6, 2011 at Cirque du Soleil’s Zumanity stage in Las Vegas. The venue capacity is 1,200+ and the event will be streamed live. Tickets are now on sale exclusively through Eventbrite. For sponsorship opportunities, please contact sponsorships at Mashable.
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Appolicious - Wandering around a massive convention center looking for the right speaker or booth is enough to drive anyone crazy. But instead of struggling with a paper map and an inaccurate itinerary, download the free Conventionist iPhone app and be on your way.
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Appolicious - Create simple project mockups quickly and effortlessly right from your iPad. iMockups brings a complete concept design experience to the device in an easy app that can quickly produce results.
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Appolicious - Just in time for marathon season comes the just released Nike+ GPS iPhone app to help runners in all skill levels in their training.
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PC World - Intuit announced the release of QuickBooks 2011 for the Mac Tuesday, targeting small businesses that want to spend less time on bookkeeping and more time on making money. New features in the latest version of the software include multi-user support, the ability to set user permissions, improved handling of everyday tasks like tracking vehicle mileage and better integration with Apple's spreadsheet program, Numbers.
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Macworld.com - Nike has released Nike+ GPS, a new app for runners, in the App Store. As the name promises, this new app’s main advantage is live GPS tracking while you run. It can track your route and upload it—along with the rest of your run data—to Nikeplus.com, Nike’s Web service and community for gadget-enabled runners.
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Macworld.com - If you’ve ever wanted to spice up your iOS device’s e-mail messages with a little styled text, you’ve run up against one of the limitations of Apple's mobile software. But if you’ve got proficiency with the Markdown markup language—invented by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber—then you’re in luck, thanks to Second Gear’s new MarkdownMail app.
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PC World - The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) practice of searching laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders.
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Appolicious - Android continues to poach away market share from the iPhone and other mobile platforms, now accounting for 25 percent of mobile operating systems in North America.  That’s a 2 percent increase, month-over-month, and an 18.6 percent increase year-over-year.
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Mashable - Ringtones -- They are the darlings of the music industry and the bane of anyone subject to hearing a bad one. If you're sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don't want to download a canned tone, you don't need to spend extra money to turn your favorite song into a ringtone for your iPhone. There's a way to create ringtones in iTunes from your existing music.
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Digital Trends - Whether you’re still rolling with a chipped-up 8GB iPhone 3G, or just sprang for a flashy new 32GB iPhone 4, you can now claim to carry 17,000 titles in your pocket.
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Digital Trends - India’s Ministry of Home Affairs has delayed a ban on BlackBerry services for at least 60 days while the Department of Telecommunications evaluates whether India’s security concerns about the encrypted communications services can be allayed by routing traffic through BlackBerry servers located in India, rather than in overseas data centers.
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Mashable - Playing popular strategy game Starcraft 2 using an iPhone or even an iPad sounds like a usability nightmare, but developer Daniel Hellerman is planning to make it happen regardless of the potential issues.
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Digital Trends - This year’s E3 is on the horizon, and the buzz of what may and may not be displayed continues to push the rumor mill into overdrive.  Could there be a PSP2 announcement, or will the Natal steal the show?  What new games are going to blow us away, and who’s technology will we be telling our friends about? We will know soon enough, but for now, it is never too early to begin speculating about the future of gaming.  The PlayStation 3 has only recently begun to turn a profit on each unit sold, and with the console seemingly just beginning to hit its stride (and new hardware like the Move on the way), any discussion of the next generation of consoles is purely speculation.  Awesome, sweet speculation.
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PC Magazine - Leaked photos of possible iPod nano cases hint at a touchscreen—and raise interesting questions.
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PC World - Samsung sold more than one million Galaxy S Android smartphones in the U.S., the company announced. In a month and a half, the combined sales of T-Mobile Vibrant and AT&T Captivate topped one million, in a boon for Google Android's fight for supremacy against Apple's iPhone.
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Appolicious - A creative name is always a good place to start, but a clever and creative name definitely sets you a notch above the rest. The free Qrank iPhone app by Ricochet Labs Inc. is a great social trivia game for your iOS device. It is essentially a social trivia “question ranking” game for you and your network of friends-- and now you see where they got the name.
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In this photo taken on Friday Aug. 27, 2010, a man chats on his mobile as he walks past the hoarding of BlackBerry mobile in Ahmadabad, India.  Indian authorities are scheduled to meet Monday evening, Aug. 30,  to decide whether to ban some BlackBerry services in India, an official said, one day ahead of a government-imposed deadline for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. to give security agencies access to encrypted data or face a ban. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)AP - India said it withdrew a threat Monday to ban BlackBerry services for at least two more months after the device's maker, Research In Motion Ltd., agreed to give security officials "lawful access" to encrypted data.


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A woman walks past a Blackberry advertisement billboard in Mumbai August 17, 2010. REUTERS/Danish SiddiquiReuters - Research In Motion will give India access to secure BlackBerry data beginning September 1, a government source said on Monday, leading New Delhi to put off a decision on whether to shut down the smartphone.


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