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• 30 Years of Handheld Game Systems

  
  How handheld video game systems evolved: from early flops like the Atari Lynx to the gaming innovations of the iPhone.
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• How Will Verizon Defend Higher Early Termination Fees?
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• IBM Offers Hosted Tivoli Monitoring for the Midmarket IBM has released Tivoli Monitoring as a hosted service for midsized companies, IBM said Tuesday.
• Motorola to Sell Droid-style Phone in China This Month Motorola will start selling a smartphone similar to the Droid in China this month, but it will use a local 3G standard and Android-based OS.
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• After Code Is Released, Adobe Illustrator Fix Due Jan 8 Adobe says it will patch a zero-day flaw in its Illustrator software by Jan. 8.
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• Security Skeptics Invite iPhone into the Enterprise Despite its inherent security shortcomings, the iPhone is now showing up for work alongside, or instead of, Research in Motion BlackBerries and Microsoft Windows Mobile handsets.
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  Boxee Gets Boxed, by D-Link The net video management software enters beta, adds some new content partners, and becomes a physical set-top box made by D-Link
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  A Hands-On Tour: Google Goggles Visual Search Google Goggles brings visual search to your cell phone: Simply point and click your camera, and the app delivers detailed information about what you're seeing.
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  CrunchPad Faced with Bad JooJoo Fusion Garage is rebranding and launching the CrunchPad as the JooJoo, but the costly device seems doomed to obscurity.

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