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What better way to demonstrate the reach and speed of your 3G network than broadcasting a bear giving birth? You’ve got to hand to Verizon Wireless. At the very least, the company deserves some credit for originality.

The North American Bear Center and Whitewolf Entertainment Inc. is utilizing Verizon’s 3G service to offer worldwide video of a black bear named Lily give birth in a remote northern Minnesota cave.

Says Verizon exec Seamus Hyland,

We are thrilled to be part of such an amazing educational project. Because our 3G network service is available throughout Minnesota, we have been able to help researchers and people around the world witness this rare event.

Those interested in witnessing the miracle of 3G and, er, birth, can do so over here.

One of the top uses for an MP3 player is as a gym companion, so why not put your iPhone or iPod Touch to greater use by loading up some fitness-friendly apps that will help you get the most out of your workouts? Here are five that we love.

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Verizon’s gone to the US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC today to officially take issue with the net neutrality policy that the FCC laid out in the waning moments of 2010, saying that it’s “deeply concerned by the FCC’s assertion of broad authority for sweeping new regulation of broadband networks and the Internet itself.” The company’s extremely brief press release on the matter doesn’t detail where their issues lie, specifically, but they’d said back in December that they had concerns, so the move doesn’t come as a terribly big surprise. If we had to guess, the no-blocking rules surrounding wireless networks are certainly high on that list of concerns — Verizon and others have long said that wireless needs to be left largely out of the net neutrality debate — but we won’t know until we’re able to dig into the court case. Follow the break for the press release.

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This article was written on October 02, 2008 by CyberNet.

I know that some of you have been patiently awaiting for a Windows version of the Slife computer usage analyzer. Back in June we wrote up a quick review of the Mac version, and at the time a Windows version was in the works. About two weeks ago the Slife team announced on their blog that the Windows version of the application will be available “within a few weeks,” which means it could hit the streets any day now.

This is a pretty big deal because the application will let both Windows and Mac users track their computer usage for free. You can see things like what applications you use the most, when you use them, and much more. That data can then be used to try and optimize your time, or you can have the program alert you when you’ve used a specific app more than an allotted amount of time.

So the Windows version isn’t available yet, but keep your eyes peeled because it could be here any day now.

Thanks for the tip Matt!

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As we learned doing that big history of portable gaming story yesterday, price is often a deciding factor in the never-ending console wars. It’s something that has won plenty of battles for Nintendo on a number of systems, like the Game Boy, which stayed on top of the portable gaming heap for what seemed like forever.

At first glance, $249 seems a bit pricey for the Nintendo 3DS, particularly given what the company has charged for portables in the past. Given the system’s pretty advanced feature set, however, it actually seems pretty decent. You’ve got 3D gaming, Internet access via WiFi, 3D image capture, and a lot more. This is shaping up to be a pretty rad little device.

The question then, I suppose, is: is $249 too cheap? A few analysts think so. Says Wedbush Securities’ Michael Pachter, “I’m impressed that they had the confidence to charge $249; I think that they’re going to regret it.” Pachter reasons that the price will lead to sell outs in stores, leading to eBay sales of $500 a piece.

Perhaps, but Nintendo has long been known for its aggressive pricing, giving players more bang for their buck than, say a Sony or Microsoft. Sell outs would be unfortunate, certainly, but they didn’t seem to do too much to the Wii’s momentum–in fact, if anything, they made that console a hotter commodity.

Nintendo is making the right decision by pricing this thing as low as possible.