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Oscar Nominees Receive Special Edition Red Carpet DROID RAZR MAXX, You Can Win One Too

Motorola – as they did last year with the XOOM – will hand out special edition DROID RAZR MAXX  (our review) devices to select Oscar nominees this weekend. The limited version will come in red (get it, red carpet?) and pack all of the 3300mAh juice that the normal RAZR MAXX has. The female recipients will take home this special RAZR in a gold and “glamorous” sequined pouch while the boys will receive a shaving kit (how clever).

Want the Galaxy Note on Verizon? There is a Petition for That.

Even with the Samsung Galaxy Note receiving a lukewarm reception from early adopters (or at least reviewers), there are still those that want nothing more than to see it land on Verizon. Once rumored to “certainly” be headed to Big Red as the Galaxy Journal, it’s completely unclear if it will actually ever arrive.

Quick Review and Contest: Andru Android Charger Takes the Charging Cake, Win 1 of 4 Now!

The Andru charger was introduced a couple of weeks back and has since taken the Android collectible world by storm. As the coolest charger you will ever find, Andru lights up while plugged in, has bendable arms, movable antennas, and is your ultimate desk companion

Motorola DROID 4 Review – Verizon

The DROID 4 has had an interesting early life. We handed out the first ever pictures of the device all the way back in October of last year followed by a weekend of D4 info overload that gave you every single detail that you could ever want to know about it. We fully expected this phone to launch in December, but for an unknown reason, it was pushed back and finally released this month

Apple wins ‘slide-to-unlock’ case

16 February 2012 Last updated at 13:13 ET Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Patents: Apple wins over Motorola in ‘slide-to-unlock’ ruling Apple was granted the sliding patent in March 2010 Continue reading the main story Related Stories ‘Mountain Lion’ released by Apple The iPhone stripped bare Microsoft backs Apple patent view Apple has won a patent dispute against Motorola Mobility regarding a “slide-to-unlock” feature on smartphones. The judgement marks Apple’s first patent victory over Motorola in any part of the world. Patent consultant Florian Mueller said the ruling could affect patent disputes involving Android device makers worldwide

Bart Davenport / Someone2Dance / Cheap Words 7" (Antenna Farm Records)

LINER NOTES: Bart Davenport is a Berkeley singer-songwriter and a Bay Area institution with 5 full length albums and numerous side projects to his name, including stints with Honeycut, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, and Incarnations. Fresh off the success of his 2011 acoustic covers album “Searching for Bart Davenport” BD has shifted gears towards a hard-edged Power-Pop sound in Someone2Dance.

EU court blocks net-filtering bid

16 February 2012 Last updated at 10:02 ET Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print European Court of Justice blocks net-filtering bid Netlog says it has more than 95 million members Continue reading the main story Related Stories Europe takes to streets over Acta EU court blocks web piracy filter A social network cannot be required to install an anti-piracy filtering system, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. Belgian music royalty collecting firm SABAM wanted the social network Netlog to stop users infringing copyright. But the court said the filtering required would contravene rights to freedom of business, personal data and freedom of information.

‘Typosquatting’ prize firms fined

16 February 2012 Last updated at 08:05 ET Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print ‘Typosquatting’ premium rate phone firms fined £100,000 ‘Typosquatting’ directs consumers to fake sites when they mistype the address Continue reading the main story Related Stories Web domains face major overhaul ‘Ethical’ lab combats cyber crime Two companies running premium-rate phone competitions on “typosquatted” sites have been fined £100,000. Typosquatters use misspelled versions of the web addresses of well-known brands. Premium-rate phone regulator PhonepayPlus said Amsterdam-based R&D Media Europe and Una Valley BV used typosquatted sites.

Challenge to Microsoft Skype deal

15 February 2012 Last updated at 13:48 ET Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Cisco to challenge Microsoft Skype deal at EU court Cisco operates its own video conferencing service, WebEx Continue reading the main story Related Stories Microsoft backs Apple patent view Cisco sees profits rise over 43% Cisco has said it will challenge Microsoft’s $8.5bn (£5.4bn) takeover of Skype at the EU’s top court. The networking giant said conditions needed to be set to ensure Microsoft would not block other video services

First Impressions of the DROID 4 – Great Keyboard, Poor Display and Surprisingly Decent Battery Life

The DROID 4 has been in my possession for almost 2 days now (unboxing and hands-on), which means I definitely have some thoughts on it that I’d like to share. Since our full review won’t be out until next week, I wanted to at least toss out some initial impressions for those that are considering picking this device up this weekend

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