Owners of other Apple products are more interested in the iPad than are non-Apple owners, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll buy, says a new survey from NPD Group.

Originally posted at News - Apple

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TomTom makes good on its pledge to offer lifetime map and traffic updates on select models with its announcement today that the services are now available in North America.

Originally posted at The Car Tech blog

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It might be thirty years since you’ve even thought about Pong, the earliest video arcade game, but believe it or not, the ancient two-dimensional tennis sports game is making a comeback in 2010.

On today’s episode of The 404 Podcast, we discuss the future of video games and how students at the Imperial College in London are developing a pair of special glasses that allows players to control paddle movement using their eye movements! The new technology holds particular promise for people with physical disabilities that might soon get the chance to join the gaming community. The glasses are fitted with infrared light sensors and a webcam that links a laptop to the player’s eyes, and although the hardware only costs $35 to make, the eye movement system itself costs around $36,000, so don’t expect to control Modern Warfare with your eyes anytime soon.

The big news of CTIA 2010 is Sprint announcing the HTC Evo 4g, the first available handset to run 4G in the US. Its list of accolades is impressive and blows away the competition: 4.3-inch display, micro-USB port, 8.3-megapixel rear facing camera in addition to a VGA lens on the front for video calls, and perhaps the most impressive–a kickstand! So far Sprint has rolled out its 4g network in 27 cities and plans to expand to NYC, Boston, D.C., SF, and more by the end of the year. The HTC Evo 4g certainly grabs our interests, but Jeff is shaking at the prospect of a phone worthy of replacing his 8th Palm Pre. Could this be the one? We’ll get CNET’s Cell Phone Editor Bonnie Cha in the studio soon to get the inside scoop.

Both of those stories plus an family-sized Calls From The Public on today’s episode of The 404 Podcast!

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Originally posted at The 404 Podcast

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Toshiba introduces a new portable external hard drive called Canvio that offers up to 1TB of storage.

Sprint finally launches the LG Rumor Touch, which was announced at CES 2010.

Originally posted at Dialed In

Owners of other Apple products are more interested in the iPad than are non-Apple owners, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll buy, says a new survey from NPD Group.

Originally posted at News - Apple

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Sprint finally launches the LG Rumor Touch, which was announced at CES 2010.

Originally posted at Dialed In

Cynics, take heart: sometimes all your effort isn’t for naught.

Originally posted at Digital City Podcast

Apple changed the delivery date for new orders of the iPad to April 12, indicating that preorder sales of the new tablet device may be better than expected.

Originally posted at News - Apple

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Less than a year after the release of the PS3 Slim, Sony says that a firmware update for older models of the PlayStation 3 will kill its Other OS option.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

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Mobile phone network operators could help solve their connectivity problems with small radio stations in homes. So why should you be the one paying $150 for one?

Originally posted at Deep Tech

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The new Brightcove Experience for HTML5 allows customers to publish video for devices like Apple’s iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

A mobile-app analytics firm turns up what appear to be screenshots of what the App Store will look like on the forthcoming touch-screen tablet from Apple.

Originally posted at Circuit Breaker

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Fujitsu registered the trademark in 2003, but Apple bought it just in time for the iPad launch next week.

Originally posted at Circuit Breaker