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GOOGLE RESPONDS TO GOOGLE VOICE DROPPED CALL ISSUE

Were you one of the unlucky ones getting booted from your Google Voice phone calls this week after 15 or so minutes of talk time? Good news. Google identified the problem yesterday and has reportedly issued a fix. Just in case you weren't affected, or don't have Google Voice, or maybe you're just reading this because you have nothing better to do, the problem was pretty much just as described above: Users were complaining that any call they made that passed the magic 15 or so minute threshold...

SMARTBOOK AG FOLLOWS IN PSION’S FOOTSTEPS

Looks like smartbooks really are the new netbooks, after all. Aptly exemplifying déjà vu, German company Smartbook AG has issued a cease-and-desist to Netbooknews.de, claiming it owns the trademark and copyright on the term "smartbook" and that its use on the news site is damaging to the company's reputation and credibility. The letter demands that within two weeks all instances of the word be stricken from both the German and English-language versions, despite the latter being hosted in the...

OVERHEATING IPHONE REPORTS ALL OVER FRANCE

Reports of iPhones exploding, starting fires and killing people in cold blood have been around since the inception of the handset. They've also been relatively sporadic, seemingly short on evidence, and Apple hasn't given complaints much credence or response. So when we heard a story from France the other day about a security guard's iPhone "exploding" and sending a shard of glass into his eye (though apparently not serious enough to warrant a hospital visit), it was a little hard to believe,...

SONY’S S SERIES WALKMAN: THE S IS FOR STYLE

Sony's new S Series Walkman Video MP3 players have just hit stores and they're looking mighty fine. Available in 8 and 16GB, the S Series is a stylish, affordable option for the overcrowded MP3 player market. At W 1 3/4 x H 3 5/8 x D 5/16 inches and weighing in at a mere 1.6 oz, the S series is the thinnest Walkman to date, but let its slight frame fool you, this Walkman has a few tricks up its sleeve. Want to live out those latent DJ fantasies? Now you can thanks to the high quality, built-in...

CANON EOS 7D SPECS LEAK

We saw the poster and possible lenses for Canon's EOS 7D yesterday, and now it looks like the floodgates are open. A photography forum has most of the details you'll need, except the exact price and release date. It'll have a 18MP sensor, dual DIGIC 4 processors, ISO from 100 to 6400 (and some crazy 12800 mode), a 3-inch LCD in addition to the 100% coverage viewfinder and of course HD video capabilities like its siblings. It looks like it'll compete most directly with the king of prosumer...