Motorola Droid 3 for Verizon breaks cover once again

Want some more Droid three eye candy? If you just bought a droid 2, the answer is probably "no, please no " - but nevertheless, we have something for you. You take a few more than updating HowardForums rumors have emerged again showing a QWERTY keyboard that is largely similar to that being replaced by a very, very notable exception: it is a 5 row arrangement on this occasion what appear to keys halfway up the number line. People love the 5 row keyboard, so if this is legit - and really have no reason to doubt it - they offer alone could move a lot of phones. More about this soon, hopefully.

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O2 Germany says HP Veer is coming in May

The previous tweet pretty much says all of it - well, in German, anyway. According to O2 Germany, the Veer HP will launch in the company sometime in May, which probably means they will also be available in other parts of Europe at the same time, and probably in the U.S. and - we've only heard "this spring" for a release date. Unfortunately, still no word on any U.S. carriers Pixi for the successor, but surely someone can collect it. It is rather light, after all.

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the twelfth oldest domain on the Internet "Sun.com" will be decommissioned on June 1

Sun Microsystems, one of the original gangsters responsible for providing all the electronics and infrastructure we now know as the Internet, no longer of Sun Microsystems in January last year. Assimilated into the giant Oracle, its operations are no longer the familiar logo and soon will no longer even mentioned in the same website. Yes, after 25 years of answering the call of sun.com, the company will no longer be dropping their old domain name as well. The site has already been redirected to Oracle users for some time, but come June 1 will be like the sun I knew I had not even risen.

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Firefox 4, Google Docs & Netflix: This Morning’s Top Stories

The final version of Firefox 4 March 22nd

If all goes as planned, the final version of Firefox 4 should be released March 22, according to a message posted on the official forum of Firefox.

‪ Google Docs adds improved comments and e-mail notifications ‬

Google unveils on Wednesday an update to Google Docs that the feedback of improvements and added a simple email notification stating the email addresses in comments.

Netflix in talks to distribute the original series

Netflix is ​​in talks to distribute exclusive original television series by David Fincher and Kevin Spacey, taking into uncharted territory that would put him in direct competition with HBO and other premium cable channels.

Google acquires video processing startup

Google has acquired the technology company Green Parrot digital video images to improve the quality of the videos uploaded to YouTube of their service.

More News

* Twitter has taken a big step towards improving safety has a new permanent adjustment allows HTTPS.
* Visa announced on Wednesday a personal payment service that will allow U.S. customers to send and receive funds to any right of Visa, debit or prepaid account anywhere in the world.
* Google has released a significant update to its application for the iPhone, giving it a new look, new features and even a new name.
* Strong demand has led to treacherous IPAD 2 in most places, and long delays for orders online.
* Google intends to test a service that allows store customers to pay for purchases at the cash register with their mobile phones.
* More iAds are beginning to appear on the iPad.
* Only 58% of the tweets coming from Twitter clients officials, according to new data Sysomos, shed some light on the Twitter platform statement Ryan Sarver chief last week that "90% of all active users Twitter Twitter official use applications on a monthly basis. "

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10 Creative Uses of the New Facebook Profile [PICS]

Facebook users are showing some serious creativity, using the new profile design of the photo page.

The French artist Alexandre Oudin (below) has been identified as the creator of the fashion and design more and more are emerging now. People have been playing with their Facebook profile pictures since it launched for the first time, but the new redesign allows for some inspired fun including intelligent animation, typography and the magic of photography.

Check out our gallery of 10 of the best new Facebook profile picture and share creations fresh hacks I've seen in the comments below. And if you have been getting crafty with your profile, we see

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YouTube To Invest up to $875,000 in Rising Stars

YouTube is launching a new campaign to cultivate more original, quality content on their servers, with the promise of investing $ 35,000 to 25 of its members.

The new initiative, NextUp YouTube, does not focus on discovering new talent, but to "accelerate the growth of the next YouTube star." YouTube existing partners (those with fewer than 300,000 subscribers) are asked to apply with a video, up to three minutes long, demonstrating their talents and discuss the projects that I want to go to YouTube if selected.

The partners selected for the program will be a space of four days in the Creator of YouTube Camp, where they will be guided in the production, videography and other disciplines in an effort to improve their craft. YouTube has also promised to promote their projects and the channel upon completion. However, the main attraction for NextUp program has to be the charm for $ 35,000 boost in funding for acting, directing, producing or musical ambitions.

Once applications are submitted, YouTube users will have a say in who will receive money from the company. March 29 to April 8, YouTube users will have the opportunity to vote on YouTube.com / creators for their favorite stars. Thereafter, a panel of judges will select the finalists and announce that on 20 April.

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Final Version of Firefox 4 Coming March 22

If all goes as planned (that is, if developers do not find any particularly problematic errors), the final version of Firefox 4 should be released March 22, according to a message posted on the official forum of Firefox।

"As of now, no known issues that prevent us from sending RC1 as final. (...) March 22 is the day we put up for sale, "says Damon Mozilla Sicor.

The release candidate of Firefox 4 was launched a week ago, we have used a lot during that time and found no significant errors. However, if an issue must be submitted before March 22, the date of the final move and we went to RC2 (Release Candidate Two) version instead.

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NVIDIA SLI faces AMD CrossFire in a triple-GPU shootout

Place your bets, gentlemen, because this is going to get ugly. Left: three thundering AMD Radeon HD 6950 cards running in CrossFire. Right: the triple threat of terror NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 in SLI. In the center: a tester Tom's Hardware trying to stay alive. The winner? Well, as usual in these articles reference depends on the kind of what you're doing, but in general is the solution and AMD CrossFire barrage that comes out on top in terms of performance, cost and efficiency further. But this is certainly very far from the whole story. You'll want to click through to read about each blow dying.

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Genius.com Raises Series E Funding – Misspells ‘Genius’

Genius.com this morning announced that it has closed its fifth round of venture capital financing, led by the emergence of capital. Existing investors Mohr Davidow Ventures, Accel Partners and Deep Fork Capital also participated in the round while supporting early Walden International apparently did not.

The size of the round was not disclosed - Genius.com raised more than $ 40 million in four rounds in the past according to CrunchBase.

In a neat twist of irony, the San Mateo company managed to misspell his own name in the press release (pasted below for posterity), causing your server to laugh.

Funny Typo aside, Genius.com, which provides marketing automation and sales lead management solutions, says it has been profitable and will use the additional capital to strengthen product development and marketing.

The company also announced it has promoted Sam Weber, chief operating officer to CEO. Genius.com co-founder David Thompson to step aside but remain as a strategic advisor.

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Visa launches personal service such as PayPal payments for U.S. Consumers

Electronic retail giant Visa payment network operator is to give PayPal a run for their money today, announcing a new service that allows U.S. consumers to receive and send funds to any right of Visa, debit or prepaid account.

Now, the bank's customers of financial institutions will have the option of selecting a Visa account as the destination of the funds for personal payments. The user enters the payee's account 16-digit Visa, e-mail address or phone number, allowing consumers to send funds directly from your bank account to the account of a recipient of Visa, as the act of send money with PayPal.

Previously, Visa's personal payments were offered by financial institutions outside the U.S., but availability in the U.S. is a big problem, considering the popularity of PayPal. Of course, the virtue of the use of PayPal is that you must have a Visa account to use their payment service.

Visa is constantly looking for ways to build their online presence in payments. For example, earlier this year, the company bought the virtual platform PlaySpan monetization of assets. Compete with PayPal, which has a massive user base, can be a formidable challenge.

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Seagate Pulsar XT.2 and Pulsar.2 SSDs target enterprise, reliability-obsessed consumers

Seagate has just taken the wraps off a new series of enterprise storage units, highlighted by a pair of new SSDs Press. On equipped Pulsar.2 MLC NAND is capable of speeds in excess of 6 Gbps SATA, while the 2.5-inch XT.2 uses SLC memory and a connection 6Gbps SAS, and both are touted as one might expect that the guardians faster and better than you can buy for your company data. Seagate believes that the use of MLC flash Pulsar.2 a significant advantage in reducing costs, while its data protection and firmware error correction is expected to maintain high levels of data integrity required in this space. No price is really to validate the claims of Seagate's revolutionary combination of price / performance, but their two new SSD drives will be available in the second quarter of this year. The XT.2 shipping and original equipment manufacturers, along with its 360MBps read and write speeds of 300Mbps. There are also new and Constellation Savvio drives the company, but you have to read the essay of 1,400 words press release after the break to learn more about them.

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Just-Eat Closes $48 million Funding To Scale Globally

Takeaway online ordering service, has closed a funding round of $ 48 million co-led by two leading venture capitalists, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Partners with existing investors Index Ventures also participating.

Just to eat now plans an international deployment. Now it is in ten countries and three continents and more than 15,000 restaurants. The company claims to generate over 500 million dollars of revenue for local businesses in 2011, buying links from the normal position of restaurant and order systems with an aggregator site that takes orders for takeout food.

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Samsung Launches 3D VOD service in Korea tells U.S. and Europe to prepare

Samsung promised 3D video streaming service has received official approval today in the company of national origin, bringing to fruition the contents of a partnership with DreamWorks Animation and give new life to many 3DTV sets. The press release is not automatically translated entirely clear what the content is provided when, but it looks like movie trailers, music videos and films for school children begin things, before films and more are added later. All new media demand will be accessible through the application Smart Samsung 3D TV platform. The United States and Europe are next to Sammy roadmap for this release VOD, but do not worry, if I live elsewhere, the service is available worldwide at the time.

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