Foursquare Changes Privacy Policy To Publicly Display Users' Full Names In 2013

If you're a Foursquare user, you know users have complete control over what they share to other users and publicly. One thing its users won't have control over is the way the service displays your name through its service as Foursquare is announcing some policy changes today that will go into affect in 2013. One of the first major changes to the service will be how your name is displayed throughout Foursquare. Starting in 2013, your complete name will be made available for all to see, this includes both users of Foursquare as well as online.

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BLU Products Unveil Vivo 4.65 Android Smartphone

Is BLU Products a company that you've heard of. If you haven't we can't say we blame you, but if you're in the market for an affordable Android smartphone unlocked and free from carriers, then you might be interested in the company's Vivo 4.65 smartphone which will be priced at $300 and should be available for purchase come January 2013. So what can you expect for $300. Surprisingly its specs aren't too shabby and they should be more than adequate at getting the job done, especially for the user shopping on a budget or for a parent looking for a cheap smartphone for their kids.

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More Canon EOS 3D Rumors Surface

We're sure some of you guys might have heard rumblings of a possible Canon EOS 3D camera. The name is most likely not going to be the final name since "3D" would imply it can capture three dimensional images, but until we hear otherwise that's going to be the name for now. According to the folks at Northlight, they claim to have gotten more information about the alleged device, claiming that the EOS 3D will be sport a whopping 50MP+ image sensor. The sensor is also expected to be found in the Canon EOS 7D MK II which has been rumored for a possible announce in February 2013.

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First Tizen Device Gets MWC 2013 Debut

We are gearing ourselves up for CES 2013 which is happening in slightly more than a week's time, and there are tons of embargoes for us to finish up by then. Still, this does not mean that we do not cast our eye on the future – in fact, we do look forward to MWC 2013 that is happening a month after CES, where we will be off to Barcelona, Spain, to check out all that is happening in that part of the world as we intend to bring you the latest developments where smartphones are concerned as well.

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Carry Speed DS-SLIM Camera Sling Strap review

For photographers, one of the most important yet oft-overlooked accessories may be the humble camera strap.  It must be seamlessly functional,  comfortable, easily adjustable, and quickly attached to your camera.  Tall order!  Does Carry Speed fit its billing as “The Most Advanced Camera Strap System?”. Background Info.










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Kia design chief Peter Schreyer named Hyundai-Kia President

Automotive News reports Peter Schreyer has been appointed the first non-Korean president of Hyundai-Kia Motor Group. Schreyer is expected to retain his role as the chief designer for Kia, while also taking on new, high-level executive duties. He is now one of three presidents at the automaker. The designer made a name for himself at Volkswagen, where he penned the 1998 New Beetle and lent his eye to the Audi TT. In 2006, Schreyer moved to Kia, where he quickly revised the brand's styling from bland, forgettable lines to bold, "tiger nose" creations.

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Bill Gates's Children Banned From Using Apple Products

The Steve Jobs-Bill Gates rivalry is deeper than you think it is. According to Melinda Gates, the wife of the Microsoft founder, her children are banned from owning Apple-made products. During an interview with BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, Melinda Gates was asked if her three children – Jennifer, Phoebe, and Rory – ever tried asking her and Bill to get them an iPod. Melinda's response is interesting.
“Of course they ask. But they get Windows technology” she said.

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Touchy Turns Humans Into A Camera

So we have seen a Twitter-controlled cockroach in our earlier post, but what about a human camera. That might not make that much sense at first, as we would think that it has something to do with a human holding a digital camera in tow, but with the Touchy, it is a device that has some pretty lofty claims, that is, to turn anyone into a kind of human camera. Touchy is the brainchild of Hong Kong new media artist Eric Siu, where it is worn in the same way as a helmet and comes in the shape of an old school camera. The helmet itself will be attached to a tiny globe that is known as the Touchy Bulb.

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Samsung GT-I9500/GT-I9505 could be a high-end Tizen/Android device

We know that Samsung has picked up the Tizen project and could possibly be launching a Tizen-based device in the near future, and according to the folks at SamMobile, they are claiming to have gotten their hands on the first model numbers of an upcoming high-end Samsung device. These model numbers are the GT-I9500 and the GT-I9505, with the latter suspected of being the LTE version of the GT-I9500. Supposedly Samsung used the GT-I9500 for its Tizen-based handset, which if true could suggest that the South Korean company could be close to launching its flagship Tizen device.

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Chuggington Die-Cast 10-in-1 Layout Track Pack review

When I was offered the opportunity to review a toy train set, I thought it would be interesting to try it in conjunction with my expert team of train set testers - my sons, Franklyn (7) and Matthew (4). They willingly agreed to work with me on the project and share their feelings. In the past, they have played with wooden Thomas sets as well as electric train sets.  Trains are in their blood, as their grandfather has been a model railroader for decades and has constructed railroad layouts that have been featured in magazines and videos. When it comes to trains, there's no judge in the land that wouldn't qualify my sons as experts.




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Amazon Reports Best Holiday Sales Ever With 306 Items Sold Per Second

Now that the holidays are officially coming to a close and a new year is nearly upon us, you're probably looking back at the gifts you received over the past couple of days with either content or disdain. Either way, if you or someone you know shopped at Amazon, then you partook in one of Amazon's biggest holiday sales ever. Amazon reported today their 2012 holiday sales were the biggest the company has ever experienced with a record-breaking 306 items purchased a second on their peak day.

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Decoding PIN Codes Is Easier Than You Think It Is, Says Report

Decoding ATM PIN codes might be easier than you think. According to data scientist Nick Berry, an estimated 26.83 percent of all PIN codes could be guessed by using 20 combinations of four-digit numbers. Berry, the founder of the Seattle-based technology consultancy firm Data Genetics, analyzed passwords from security breaches and discovered that there are 10,000 possible combinations that the digits 0 to 9 can have in order to form a four-digit code. Berry also found out that roughly 11 percent of the 3.4 million passwords he analyzed were 1234, while 6 percent of them were 1111.

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Mixlr iOS App

There are people who are just too vocal sometimes that they can't seem to just stay silent for long. If they want something to share to friends and other people, they try to say it. For some people, having an avenue to air their views by talking about it is an opportunity that they need to grab. With the Mixlr iOS App may prove to be something useful for people who also happen to own an iOS device.
The Mixlr iOS app is a useful social live audio platform that allows people to air their views by talking and interacting with an audience across the world in real time.

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LG To Reveal Smartphone, Tablet And Laptop-Sized Displays At CES 2013

CES 2013, as with CES events in the past, looks to be an exciting one and if you're wondering what new display technology will be on site, LG will most definitely have you covered. Earlier we reported that as far as the big screens were concerned, LG will be revealing 3 UHD displays ranging from 55" up to 84", but what about smaller displays that could make its way onto our smartphones or tablets. It seems that LG will have you covered as well. LG is said to be set to reveal a 4.7" display with a bezel measuring only 1mm thin, meaning that we could be seeing phones with smaller bezels in the future.

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Buzzed Buzzer Party Horn Knows How Drunk You Are

It is the year end again, and we would no doubt have our choice of parties to attend to usher in the new year. Depending on where you live, chances are there will be some booze at those parties, and some of us might end up drinking too much for our own good. Well, here is a party accessory that you might want to check out – the Buzzed Buzzer party horn that would find a place in any New Year's party, although the horn works only when you have reached a certain level of inebriation. Sounds cool, no.

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AMG working on new 4.0L V8

AMG may be working up a new, small-displacement V8 for the C63. Autocar reports the Mercedes-Benz performance house aims to replace the naturally-aspirated 6.2-liter V8 found in the brawny C-Class with a turbocharged 4.0-liter V8. Autocar cites unnamed sources as saying the new V8 is built on the same modular bones as the turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine headed for the A45 AMG and CLA45 AMG. Both engines share bore spacing and individual cylinder displacement as well as other specifics.
Drivers won't see a cut in power with the move, however.

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Elecom outs the M-TP01DS, a multitouch trackpad for Windows 8/RT

Elecom released in Japan a new multitouch trackpad, the M-TP01DS, designed for both Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT. Thanks to this USB (Wireless) Trakcpad you will be able to fully enjoyed Windows 8 gesture control and compatible with none the less than 18 of them.




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Poetic Slimline case for Asus Google Nexus 7 review

My search for a Nexus 7 case continues.  I've been down the cheap path, and then looked at the premium option, but what lies in that middle ground . Poetic is a company makes cases for heaps of devices, and they were good enough to send me a Slimline case , one of about 10 different cases that they make for the Nexus 7. How does it stack up . Read on.

Outside

The Slimline consists of a hard back and a flexible cover.  Both back and front are covered in a faux PU leather.  Funnily enough when I first got it, a colleague and I had a quick sniff and  the case actually smelt like leather.









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Deal of the Day – Dell Inspiron 660 Core i5 Quad-core Mini Tower with 8GB RAM, 2TB HDD & GeForce GT620

Saturday's LogicBUY Deal is the Dell Inspiron 660 3rd Gen Core i5 Quad-core Mini Tower loaded with 8GB RAM, a 2TB hard drive, and 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 620 Graphics for $449.99.  This computer is equipped with Windows 8 (64-bit), Wireless-N, a DVD burner, and an 8-in-1 card reader.  It comes with a keyboard and mouse, 90-day premium phone support, and a 15-month McAfee Security Center subscription. $649.99 – $200 instant savings = $449.99 with free shipping.

This deal expires December 24, 2012 or sooner.

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Flickr Giving Away 3 Months Of Pro Service For Free

We have some good news for all Flickr users out there. Just in time for the holiday season, image and video hosting website, Flickr, is giving away three months of pro service to all current subscribers. The news was first reported by a few Flickr users, who took the announcement to Twitter. One guy who goes by the name Michael Jurewitz tweeted, “Nice. If you've got a Flickr Pro account, head on over to Flickr and log in to extend for a free three months.”

While writing this report, a Flickr staff made the announcement on the site's forum saying, “As our way to saying thanks this holiday season.

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Fire Hose iPhone Covers

The Fire Hose iPhone Covers by Station Supply Co. is made of salvaged cotton & nylon blend fire hoses. It is 2mm thick and sticks up with your iPhone with a high-quality 3M adhesive which leaves no damages in removing. The case is available in white, red, or yellow, with or without text and stripes and priced $20-$40.

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Study: Apple Maps Three Times More Likely To Give Wrong Directions Compared To Google

Chances are if you aware of Google Maps on iOS, you're probably also very aware how much of a terrible experience Apple Maps offers users who just want to know how to get from point A to point B. One thing we weren't aware of was how Google Maps' directions compared to Apple Maps' attempt to give you correct directions. According to a study conducted by CrowdFlower, if you use Apple Maps you're three times more likely to get lost than if using Google Maps. In their study, they compared Apple Maps, Google Maps and Bing's direction-giving ability by picking 1,000 random business listings in the U.S. and 100 in the U.K.

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Luc1 Motorsport does advertising right. Again.

Last year, Luc1 Motorsport rolled out a nine-minute-long video as a way to thank the team's sponsors for their support over the 2011 season. Now the crew is back with another supermoto infomercial, and while the 2012 clip may not be as intense as last year's, the video is no less entertaining. While our French is about as rusty some of the vehicles in our stable, the basic plot seems to follow Sylvain Bidart as he frantically races to catch a plane to make a race. After failing to run down his first flight on the runway, Bidart has to enlist the help of a private pilot, but not before scoring the man some much needed spray lubricant.



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These UCube speakers resemble mini iMacs

If you're in the market for a set of speakers that will match your iMac, then the UCube speakers might be just what you are looking for. While we doubt that they will be able to offer the same type of clarity and tone one might expect from a high-end, audiophile-grade speaker, we believe that these speakers should be more than enough to get the job done. For starters, as you can see above, they have been designed to resemble the iMac - at least to a certain degree, and are made from brushed aluminum.

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Icy Tower 2 Android Game App

Most people look into game apps to kill time when they have nothing to do. Such games need not be something that players need to finish in order to appreciate it. These casual time killers only takes a few minutes at a time to enjoy, and then again if some vacant time presents itself on other days. Such game apps include the Icy Tower 2 game app for Android devices.
The Icy Tower 2 Android game app is an interesting and fun casual game app that employs a jumping game. This vertical moving game app has the character moving up through a maze of platforms that make up the Icy Tower.

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Apple's ‘Pinch to Zoom' Patent Tentatively Invalidated By USPTO

Apple might have won big time against Samsung in court, but now it seems that all the patent trolling are beginning to take its toll on the Cupertino-based technology giant. Just a few weeks after tentatively invalidating the so-called "Steve Job patent," the USPTO is now applying the same ruling to Apple's “pinch to zoom” patent, which is, by the way, a key factor to Apple's one billion dollar victory in August. According to a document issued by the patent office on Wednesday, all 21 claims of U.S. patent No. 7,844,915, also known as the “pinch to zoom” patent, were rejected by the USPTO after further re-examination.

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Polaroid to Supposedly Launch Android-Based Mirrorless Camera

A leak from Russian social networking site VK claims that Polaroid will be introducing a new camera soon. The camera would not be the usual device we expect from them, but a shooter that comes with a mirrorless interchangeable lens system and will run on Android. Polaroid has long discontinued its traditional instant-film cameras as it ran into different bankruptcy situations. The company signed an agreement with Summit Global Group in 2009 and Sakar International last January to produce digital still cameras slapped with the Polaroid brand.

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