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Today Show’s Topsy-Turvy ‘Call Me Maybe’; The Deschanel Family Twee

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We realize there’s only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: Zooey Deschanel has a twee brother who also loves Siri, the Today Show does Call Me Maybe — Today Show style and baby jaguars.

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Apple Dispute Halts Sales of HTC One X, EVO 4G LTE

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If you’re interested in buying HTC’s new flagship Android phone the One X or the brand new EVO 4G LTE for Sprint, you may be waiting a while.

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The rumored 4-inch iPhone screen: Is bigger better?

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The Wall Street Journal and Reuters report that Apple is preparing to debut a larger handset come fall. Say it ain’t so, bemoan some nostalgic techies

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The rumored 4-inch iPhone screen: Is bigger better?

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The Wall Street Journal and Reuters report that Apple is preparing to debut a larger handset come fall. Say it ain’t so, bemoan some nostalgic techies

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Panel Sympathetic to Geolocation Privacy Concerns

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A House Judiciary subcommittee appeared sympathetic on Thursday to calls for Congress to set standards for when law enforcement can gain access to geolocation information generated by cell phones and other devices.

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Panel Sympathetic to Geolocation Privacy Concerns

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Wi-Lan says court rules in its favor in patent case

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(Reuters) – Patent licensing company Wi-Lan Inc said a U.S. judge had ruled in its favor in a patent infringement claim related to handset products and high-speed packet access base stations. Wi-Lan had alleged that Alcatel-Lucent USA, HTC Corp and Sony Corp’s Sony Mobile Communications (USA) Inc had infringed four of its patents.

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A match made in heaven: BlackBerry PlayBook and… Windows Phone? [video]

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What do you get when you cross a struggling vendor’s debut tablet with a mobile operating system that has spent the past 18 months running into the brick wall that is Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s iOS? One Dutch developer seemingly needed to find out, so he ported Microsoft’s perpetually-emerging Windows Phone OS onto RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook. The result is a somewhat responsive slate that gives us a look at what will never be; Microsoft is on record in stating that it has no interest in bringing Windows Phone — emphasis on “Phone” — to tablets. Of course, with the software giant’s next-generation Windows 8 platform on the horizon there is no reason to put Windows Phone on a

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UK agency approves BlackBerry 7 OS for government

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(Reuters) – Research In Motion Ltd said the UK agency responsible for setting standards for computer security has approved the BlackBerry 7 operating system for government use. This will allow the government employees to use six models of the smart phone including BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Torch 9810 and BlackBerry Torch 9860, RIM said. Ministry of defence, central government employees and more than half of the country’s police force use BlackBerry smart phones, the company said. (Reporting by Aftab Ahmed in Bangalore; Editing by Joyjeet Das)

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‘Smartphone Face’: Is your cell phone making your face sag?

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Aestheticians have a new formula: Your smartphone plus gravity equals drooping jowls and double chins. Is their math right?

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‘Smartphone Face’: Is your cell phone making your face sag?

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Aestheticians have a new formula: Your smartphone plus gravity equals drooping jowls and double chins. Is their math right?

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LG announces Optimus UI for Ice Cream Sandwich devices

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LG on Wednesday announced a new user-interface skin for its Android-powered devices running Ice Cream Sandwich. The South Korean company’s Optimus UI 3.0 is said to be designed with convenience and speed in mind, and is being labeled as both unobtrusive and simple. “With smartphone hardware becoming more and more similar, it’s important for manufacturers to differentiate their products from the competition through the user interface,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company.