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According to Microsoft, Pivot’s “a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online,” enabling “spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of [invisible] patterns and links.” According to me, it’s awesome. Pivot allows you to create and access data collections made from massive amounts of web information in a visual way.

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Pivot Shows Again that Microsoft Is Kicking Serious Ass [Web]

It’s time for movie night and you have several cellphones by no decent-sized TV or monitor. No worries! With Motorola’s “Reconfigurable Multiple-Screen Display” technology you’ll be able to turn that pile of tiny phone screens into one big display. Motorola’s patent filing describes technology which will allows the displays “of several handsets [to] be configured to act like one to run applications such as streaming a video while maintaining the same aspect ratio.” So, how many cellphones do I need to construct my own movie theater?

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Motorola Patents Combining Several Phones Into A Single Gigantic Screen [Motorola]

So there’s this tiny unpatched bug in VBScript that lets sneaky websites run malicious code on machines running Internet Explorer on Windows XP . It’s triggered when you try to access the help menu by hitting the F1 key.

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The Windows XP F1 Bug: Hijacking Computers One Help Menu At A Time [Security]

Bill Bunten is the mayor Google, Kansas—formerly known as Topeka, Kansas. He signed a proclamation temporarily renaming the city in an effort to convince Google to make Topeka a test site for a gigabit fiber Internet connection.

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Topeka, Kansas Changes Name in Attempt to Get Google’s Gigabit Fiber [Google]

Ahead of a March 2 event and TiVo HDs suddenly going extinct , two listings for a TiVo Premiere HD and Premiere XL HD have popped up in Best Buy ’s system. The Premiere XL is THX certified and records up to 150 hours of HD content. It’s $500

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Best Buy Leaks the Next TiVos: TiVo Premiere HD and TiVo Premiere XL HD [Unconfirmed]

Attention, classic JRPG fans! You can now grab both Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II from the iTunes App Store for $9 apiece, complete with touch-friendly controls and bonus dungeons. The original Final Fantasy includes the five bonus dungeons, The Soul of Chaos pack and The Labyrinth of Time, added to later editions of the game.

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Final Fantasy I & II Now Available for the iPhone/iPod Touch [IPhone Apps]

The iPhone 3G may be the most popular phone in the US, but Gartner’s annual phone sales tally still puts Symbian as being the most-used smartphone OS worldwide. Snapping at its heels, BlackBerry’s OS has less than half the sales. And the iPhone?

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Nokia and Symbian Still on Top in Gartner’s Annual Sales, Android Creeping Up Slowly [Smartphones]

Recently, Apple removed Wobble—an app that adds real jiggle to photographic boobies—from the App Store. Other removals followed. Now, a developer who talked to Apple has the scoop on the future of iPhone titillation, and it is bleak .

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Apple Says No More Titillating Apps, Period [Apple]

In beta for a while, HBO Go has launched: It’s a streaming site with access to over 600 hours of HBO programming, from original series like Big Love to Watchmen . The catch? You already have to be an HBO subscriber. Dumb.

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HBO Go Streams All the HBO You Can Eat (If You’re Already a Subscriber, That Is) [Hbo]

This can’t be good for anyone but Apple—a patent app filed in 2004 has been granted for their capacitive multitouch display. The patent is not necessarily all-encompassing, but it appears to be quite encompassing. The abstract explains the patent generally addresses: “A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time…” Apple’s touchscreen is still the best in the entire smartphone market , and while the implications of this patent are still unclear, it’s certainly hard to imagine it helping any other companies close that gap

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Apple Now Has a Patent on Their Capacitive Multitouch Displays [Patents]