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Samsung and LG in rare public battle about 3D TV

South Korea’s electronics giants are engaged in rare public mudslinging about whose 3D television technology is better, as they battle for a greater share of a potentially huge global market.

 
 
 

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Vancouver startup fine-tunes geolocation with new app

When Cea Person is looking for her husband Remy Kozak, she doesn’t have to call or text him. A click on an app on her iPhone and Kozak’s face appears on the screen, pinpointed to a location on a Google map.


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Charlie Sheen censored

Want less Charlie Sheen? There’s an app for that

A global art collective on Tuesday released an antidote for online Charlie Sheen overload - software that edits the headline-grabbing celebrity out of Web pages.


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Cobra’s iRadar warns drivers of red-light cameras

Speeding through or running a red light can land a driver with a pricey ticket, one that doesn’t include associated costs such as paying a higher insurance rate.


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Galaxy Tab

Review: Samsung Galaxy tablet

I’ve been testing out the Samsung Galaxy Tablet for the past couple of weeks and, even though I’m a huge fan of the iPad, I have to say that the Galaxy is a nice little tablet.


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Google purges tainted apps

Google has remotely purged Android smartphones of applications tainted with malicious code that could take control of the handsets and steal information.


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This Bear makes his own tracks

For the first time in 21 years, the University of Alberta Golden Bears face the Calgary Dinos in the Canada West men's hockey final this weekend, and they'll be led by a slight, skilled, would-be-pharmacist who comes from the basketball-mad city of Spokane, Wash.