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A third new Nokia handset from Nokia World 2010 has begun shipping, with the Nokia C6-01 offering the same sort of functionality as its Symbian brethren the C7, but in a more affordable package.  The C6-01 has a 3.2-inch Clear Black AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera with LED flash, and 720p HD video recording. There's WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0, [...]

NASA is looking for a way to get into space without having to use those pesky, bulky rockets. That means hypersonic travel, which was added to NASA's Aeronautics 2010 proposal solicitation yesterday. The type of craft that NASA’s hoping for would be able to fly at five times the speed of sound–fast enough to make the jaunt from New York [...]

Pandigital's new 9-inch Novel tablet has cleared the FCC, complete with plenty of photos and the user manual.  As with the existing, 7-inch Novel slate, the new larger version has a stylus and comes with integrated Barnes & Noble ebook store access and WiFi.  There are also SD card, miniUSB and headphone ports, and a light sensor. It's also running [...]

Just about six months ago, Google completed acquiring AdMob, a company you more than likely know about if you've ever seen an advertisement on your mobile device. It cost them $750 million to purchase AdMob, and Google and the mob are announcing that they've begun the process of melding themselves together. Over the next few weeks the 20,000 application developers [...]

Sharp Japan has outed a pair of 3D-capable Android smartphones that don't require special glasses.  The Sharp GALAPAGOS 003SH and GALAPAGOS 005SH have both launched on Japanese carrier Softbank; each has a 3.8-inch WVGA display and runs Android 2.2 Froyo on Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The 003SH has a 9.6-megapixel camera, while the 005SH has an 8-megapixel camera and a [...]