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The good news is we’re still here — luckily. On a lighter note, though, Google’s sprinkling some new features on top of its headline-loving News page

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Google News updated with enhanced Google+ integration, real-time coverage

If you, or your kids, wish to view the dionysian exploits of Newcastle’s finest at any hour of the day, then you’re in luck.

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MTV on demand launches in the UK, now everyone’s got a ‘banker’ for those cold nights

So you’ve got yourself Kindle Fire and a house full of young, impressionable children. What to do? Have no fear, update 6.3.1 is on its way, bringing with it parental controls like password protection for purchases, content disabling in the library and the ability to block access to the device’s Silk browser

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Amazon tablet update brings parental controls, lets kids play with Fire

Sure, Samsung gave us all the hard sell during today’s Mobile Unpacked event, but how do you really know if you want the new Ice Cream Sandwich handset until you cast your eyes on a real live commercial for the thing? Fear not, we’ve got one after the break, so you can finally know once and for all just how life-changey this phone is. Continue reading Samsung’s Galaxy S III now has a commercial to call its own (video) Samsung’s Galaxy S III now has a commercial to call its own (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 15:04:00 EDT

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Samsung’s Galaxy S III now has a commercial to call its own (video)

Oh yes, it’s a good time to go shopping for a smartphone, particularly if you’ve acquired a taste for an abundance of pixels and silicon cores.

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Samsung Galaxy S III vs. rival flagships: iPhone 4S, HTC One X, Lumia 900

It seems like almost every day that we receive a press release announcing Verizon or AT&T is planning to expand its LTE coverage to three, five, eleven new markets. But in some remote pockets of the country, you’d be lucky to latch onto even a solid 3G signal.

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FCC to dole out up to $300 million to help carriers expand service in rural areas

Eurocom calls its Racer 2.0 a small form factor mobile workstation — by which it means it’s a rather sizable laptop, but with plenty of power and decent aesthetics. Known for designing its rigs to be upgradable, the Racer 2.0 is such a recipient, which now offers the Intel HM77 Express chipset and support for both Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs

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Eurocom Racer 2.0 laptop receives Ivy Bridge, offers Radeon HD 7970M graphics

If your gadget life centers equally on Apple devices and luxury Danish home theater, Bang & Olufsen now has you officially covered. The BeoPlay V1 TV, which we got a sneak peek at just over a week ago, has a slot to connect your Apple TV without wires spoiling the look of your upscale loft.

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Bang & Olufsen caters to the iOS crowd with Apple TV-friendly BeoPlay V1 TV set, A3 iPad speaker dock

Fitting a truly quick solid-state drive into a small space isn’t easy, and for that reason RunCore ‘s new Mini DOM (Disk On Module) stands out from the crowd. It’s billed as the first single-chip SSD to use a SATA interface (SATA II, to be exact), giving it that much more bandwidth than the pokey IDE and PATA DOMs of old while remaining under half the size of a regular mSATA drive .

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RunCore’s Mini DOM packs single-chip, SATA-based SSD into tiny places

Don’t feel like having media purchased through Google Play billed directly to your credit card? Well, now you can have those charges simply added to your monthly phone bill, provided you’re on T-Mobile here in the US, or NTT Docomo, KDDI, or Softbank in Japan.

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Google Play adds carrier billing for music, movies and books