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Excited for Tegra 2 to finally take the Android smartphone world by storm? Recent leaks out of LG and Motorola certainly suggest that NVIDIA’s finally going to make some inroads with its silicon somewhere around the Gingerbread or Honeycomb time frame — and that might happen sooner rather than later if a posting on Facebook is to be believed. Remember that shiny black Olympus (pictured above) that leaked last week? Someone in the captain’s chair of one of AT&T’s official Facebook accounts responded to a question about availability of the phone earlier today, matter-of-factly reporting that “the Motorola Olympus should be available in December or January.” We would’ve been willing to chalk it up to confusion on an employee’s part, but the post was later removed without a trace, and a follow-up with AT&T elicited a standard “we don’t have any information to share about upcoming devices” response. The company claims the posting was made “erroneously,” and we’ll agree with them on at least one level: neither AT&T nor Motorola intended for that information to slip out today.

Motorola Olympus hitting AT&T in ‘December or January,’ says now-deleted Facebook post originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s not like anyone could predict the media streamer war that would erupt in 2010, but it looks like Western Digital’s taking things pretty seriously. The company has just issued a somewhat major overhaul for its WD TV Live Plus and WD TV Live media players, adding Facebook support while also giving US-based users the ability to instantly rent or purchase movies via Blockbuster on Demand. Post-firmware update, users will also be able to tap into Deezer (an on-demand music service), Flingo (another internet TV portal) and AccuWeather (a place that “forecasts” what’s happening in our “atmosphere”). Potentially more important than all of that, however, is the addition of USB wireless keyboard support — simply plug in a USB wireless dongle that ships with most every wireless keyboard out there, and you’ll be free to update your Facebook status or search for “Bed Intruder Song” through YouTube, all from the comfort of your sofa. Huzzah!

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WD TV Live media players gain Blockbuster on Demand, USB wireless keyboard support originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 25, 2008 by CyberNet.

Ever since Facebook apps launched, one of my biggest pet-peeves has been all of the darn app requests I receive.  It’s annoying to say the least, and the worst part about it all is that there is no easy way to ignore them all with one click.  For each individual request, I must click “ignore” over and over again. The number of requests usually builds up to about 30 before I get sick of having a big list of them, and then I take the time to go through and click ignore for each one. I figured if I was frustrated with this issue, certainly many of you are as well which is why you’re going to love a new “one-click” solution to ignore them all!

All you have to do is go to www.ignoreall.com and follow the instructions. You’ll end up bookmarking a bookmarklet and then once you go back to the page with all of your pending application requests over at Facebook, you’ll click the bookmark and the JavaScript program will go to work and all of the ignore buttons will be automatically clicked. You don’t have to worry about friend and group requests getting ignored because this solution is only for the application requests. This is the perfect one-click solution I have been looking for. Hallelujah! Now why couldn’t Facebook have thought of incorporating an “ignore all” feature?

Click here to see a video of this bookmarklet in action.

Note: Currently works in IE and Firefox

Source: Digital Inspiration [via DailyApps]

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Are social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook a threat to marriage in the 21st century? Reverend Cedric Miller of New Jersey’s Living Word Christian Fellowship Church thinks so.

He blames the marriage troubles of 20 couples in his 1,100 member church on Facebook. According to the pastor, a spouse in each of the couple re-connected with and old love interest through the site in the past year.

“I’ve been in extended counseling with couples with marital problems because of Facebook for the last year and a half,” Miller told The Associated Press. “What happens is someone from yesterday surfaces, it leads to conversations and there have been physical meet-ups. The temptation is just too great.”

The reverend is telling his married officials to either quit social networking altogether or resign from their posts. It’s Miller’s latest move in his battle against the social network. In the past, he has recommended that married members of his congregation quit Facebook or turn their passwords over to their spouse.

Miller himself is both married and on Facebook. He says that he uses the site to keep in touch with his children. He plans on deleting his account this weekend.

We might be busy refilling our inkwells in preparation for CES 2011, but let’s not forget that some of the CES 2010 exhibitors are still working feverishly on bringing their innovations to market. Copia is one such company, though in the time between its January debut and today it’s had to abandon its plans for own-brand e-readers and has fully transitioned itself into a software offering — with apps available for the desktop, iPad, Windows Phone 7 now, and Android and other touch devices following soon. Copia allows Facebook Connect logins, which should give you a hit at its premise — it aims to meld an ebook store in with a vibrant and active online reading community, with a litany of social and sharing features making it perhaps more attractive than the somewhat more limited social skills on offer from the current ebook market leaders. Unannounced OEM partners have been engaged to deliver the Copia platform on upcoming e-reading devices, though whether the whole thing sinks or swims will be entirely up to you, the user. See a video demo of what Copia’s about after the break.

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Copia’s ‘social reading’ platform goes live, abandons hardware plans originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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