Smartphone and Gadget News by ElectroGeek

A couple big players are about to crash the global mobile phone party.
Following Apple’s lead last year with the iPhone, device makers including Garmin  and possibly computer giant Dell are set to unveil a new generation of wireless phones.
Unable to contain its excitement, GPS device king Garmin jumped into the market just ahead of the [...]

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Keeping in line with its new retail strategy, the computer giant Dell said it will be closing all of its 140 U.S. kiosks, which it launched back in 2002 to showcase its product line, as it continues to expand its presence in retail stores. According to aReuters report, Dell spokesman Bob Kaufman said Dell will [...]

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Astronomers have obtained the first images of an asteroid on course to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday, showing the space rock is lopsided.
The new images, taken with the Goldstone Solar System Radar Telescope in California’s Mojave Desert, refine estimates of the asteroid’s size.
Named 2007 TU24, the asteroid was estimated to span up [...]

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Wall Street analysts have begun to search the globe for 1.7 million lost iPhones.
Apple said that it has sold 3.75 million iPhones through the end of last year, but AT&T has activated a bit less than 2 million phones. There was a moment of panic as investors imagined more than a million unsold iPhones piled [...]

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Best Buy Co. Inc. sold digital picture frames during the holidays that harbored malicious code able to spread to any connected Windows PC, the big box retailer has confirmed. It is not recalling the frames, however.
What Best Buy called “a limited number” of the 10.4-in. digital frames sold under its in-house Insignia brand were “contaminated [...]

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Free Wi-Fi will be offered at more than 10,000 locations, such as airports, McDonald’s restaurants, Barnes & Noble bookstores, coffee shops, and sporting venues.
AT&T on Wednesday said it will start offering its broadband subscribers free unlimited access to the company’s Wi-Fi network.
With the growing popularity of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, AT&T wanted to give its subscribers [...]

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Toshiba’s new ultra-slim and lightweight Portégé R500 notebook has built-in 3G mobile broadband.
Toshiba plans to put a polite boot into Apple’s hyped Macbook Air with a new version of its Portégé R500 notebook featuring built-in 3G mobile broadband.
The Japanese manufacturer points out that its lightweight laptops are thinner, lighter and more capable than Steve Jobs’ [...]

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Comcast Corp said it received two notices of inquiry on Monday from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, which is investigating claims the cable operator blocks certain Web traffic and applications moving across its network.
The FCC is seeking comment in response to complaints by Vuze Inc and Washington advocacy group Free Press.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told [...]

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A US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bug-fixing scheme has uncovered an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in 180 widely used open source software projects.
The program, called the Open Source Hardening Project, is sponsored by the DHS and carried out by Coverity and Stanford University. Launched in March 2006, the [...]

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