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LG Slips Details on New Flagship Phone

The Arena will come equipped with LG's own new 3D interface, with multiple home screens based around a cube.

Microsoft Teases My Phone Sync Service

The company's cloud-based service will offer users a way to backup their phones and keep information synchronized.

Web Video Viewing Ballooned in December

New statistics show traffic to sites like YouTube increasing by 13 percent in December.

EA Announces Two New Battlefield Titles

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will put players back in control of a modern squad of soldiers, while Battlefield 1943 will revisit WWII.

Motorola i365IS Won’t Blow You Up

The latest handset to join Sprint's line-up has been specially built for use in potentially explosive environments.

MSN Wonderwall Aggregates Celebrity Slop

Microsoft's latest site will chase the likes of TMZ and PerezHilton as an outlet for celebrity gossip.

MySpace Boots 90,000 Sex Offenders

Internal numbers show an astounding number of sex offenders populating the social networking site - and that's only the ones using their real names.

T-Mobile Offers Eco-Conscious W233 Renew

Motorola has thought through every aspect of the carrier's latest phone to reduce its carbon footprint.

The Sims 3 Delayed until June

One of EA's hottest franchises will need to bake for another three months before its rabid fan base can eat it up.

Amex Digital Photo Frames Multitask

When they're not showing family photos, the new frames double as thermometers, alarms, calendars and more.

Skype Marches Forward with Version 4.0

The latest version of Skype brings a refined interface, improved call quality, and full-screen video to the popular voice and video conferencing software.

EA Unwraps Three New Need for Speed Games

The age-old series will get three new titles this year, including a free racing MMORPG.

Swiss Nab Pot Farmers Using Google Maps

A facade of corn plants couldn't hide two acres of marijuana from Google's eye in the sky.

TechCrunch’s Arrington Takes a Break

After having his life threatened and getting spat on in public, Michael Arrington will step down from his online podium for some rest.

T-Mobile Revises Shadow, Adds Nokia 7510

A more compact Shadow and budget phone with a fashionable bent join T-Mobile's line up for early 2009.

Acer Elbows into Smartphone Market

The company will debut its first smartphone at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Bill Would Ban Silent Camera Phones

Fears of child exploitation have spawned a bill that would legally mandate all cell phone cameras to make a shutter noise when taking pictures.

Sanyo PLC-XTC50L Runs for 8 Months Straight

Sanyo's latest commercial projector uses dual lamps on an automatic switching mechanism to extend nonstop run time.

MSI Drops GeForce 9800M-Equipped GT627

MSI's family of gaming notebooks just picked a new model with parts from Nvidia's top tier of mobile GeForce cards.

Western Digital Produces Largest Hard Drive

Western Digital's new 2TB Caviar Green drive is the largest 3.5-inch drive ever produced, with a whopping 2TB of capacity.

iLife ’09 Ships Tuesday

Apple has reworked its popular software suite for 2009, including major updates to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand.

LCD TV Prices Fell 13 Percent in 2008

Figures from DisplaySearch indicate that the average LCD television was 13 percent cheaper in December than it was one year prior.

Digg Prunes Staff in Push for Profitability

The company will lay off 10 percent of its small workforce, but take on a new direct sales team to focus on bringing in ad revenue.

YouTube to Let Partners Sell Their Own Ads?

Rumored policy changes at YouTube could allow it to lure in more big copyright owners, posing a potential threat to sites like Hulu.

Glu Mobile Unveils a Slew of Mobile Games

The popular mobile developer offers a peak of what's to come, including a mobile Age of Empires game and another based on the Watchmen franchise.

BFG Begins Shipping $8,000 Phobos Systems

BFG Tech's upmarket Phobos gaming system has made it off the CES show floor and into homes in record time - for those who have the dough.

Using the iPhone to Track Carbon Footprints

A new application for the iPhone automatically tracks a person's movement throughout the day to calculate and track carbon output.

Specs Leak on New Intel Atom CPUs

The rumored Pineview chipset will make a number of improvements to Intel's already-popular Atom.

Google Continues Gobbling Ad Dollars

New numbers from Efficient Frontier show no end in sight to Google's death grip on search advertising spending, but Yahoo has begun to creep up.

Nintendo Wii Sells 10.17 Million in 2008

The latest numbers out of Nintendo show the Wii breaking one-year sales records in 2008, with over 10 million sold.

Panasonic Offers Two New Budget Lumix Cams

The DMC-FS7 and DMC-FS15 both bring high-end features downmarket to the sub-$200 price point.

Kogan Agora Android Phone Hits Major Snag

The Australian company has indefinitely delayed its Agora handset after encountering problems due to its smaller screen size.

Travel Tips: Finding an Internet Connection

Staying in touch from the road can be a headache, but not with the right hardware and techniques.

Burger King’s Facebook Gimmick Gets Eaten

A Facebook application offering free food for terminating Facebook friendships has been nixed by the social media site for privacy reasons.

Google Axes Apps, Offices

Google's perpetual explosion of growth has slowed for the time being, as it skims the fat from both its app portfolio and collection of worldwide offices.

Apple Allows New Browsers on iPhone

The company has eased up on its dictatorial app stance a bit and allowed access to browsers that challenge its own Safari.

Steve Jobs Leaves Apple until June

Jobs will temporarily step down from his post at Apple while he takes time off to focus on his health.

Pocket-Sized Casio FS-10 Shoots at 1000 fps

Super slow motion video and rapid burst shooting is no longer just for the big guys.