Toyota, Nintendo team on in-car navigation remote

Ready to control a car’s navigation system with a handheld game? For those who often feel they are competing against their in-vehicle navigation system to get to their desired destination, Toyota has a new tool that may help you beat the voice that lives in your dashboard. The Japanese automaker has teamed up with Nintendo to turn the Nintendo DS into navigational remote control that allows users to set destinations, map out routes, and even get sightseeing information.

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HTC Ville C tipped as lower-powered, cheaper One S

The HTC Ville S is not all that different from the One S.

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Evernote for Android gets a sexy makeover

The latest version of Evernote for Android brings some much-needed improvements to the interface. (Credit: Evernote) Much as I have mad love for Evernote, I’ve always found its apps to be a little, well, challenged in the usability department.

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Lenovo dumps classic keyboard on new ThinkPad laptops

No more classic-style keyboard with the new Lenovo T-Series ThinkPads. (Credit: Lenovo) Those of you who loved Lenovo’s classic-style laptop keyboards can wave bye-bye to them. With the new 2012 T-series ThinkPads, Lenovo has put the final nail in the coffin of the classic keyboard once made popular by IBM.

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Apple orders 4-inch iPhone screens, says report

Is the next iPhone due for a 4-inch screen? (Credit: Apple) Will the next iPhone actually sport a larger screen?

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Here’s what Android fragmentation really looks like

Samsung‘s Galaxy S II is the most prevalent Android device, trailed by almost 4,000 others. (Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack / CNET ) Open Signal Maps is a nifty free Android app and Web site that crowdsources where the strongest and weakest cell signals are.

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School buys telepresence robot to help sick student

(Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET) Without machines, Zachary Thomason wouldn’t live very long. The boy has been on a ventilator for all of his 12 years because he suffers from a rare muscle disorder that makes him extremely weak.

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Even Google was blindsided by Android’s success

Not even Google predicted just how big Android could grow to be. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Back in 2010, Google thought Android had some very nice potential for growth — at the time, it projected its mobile operating system might even reach more than 200 million installed users by 2013. Turns out Google was wrong: it busted through the 200 million threshold in 2011 instead and is now on a trajectory for more than 700 million users in 2013.

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Researchers use virus’s rogue traits to create electricity from motion

Viruses are the swarming bullies of biology, but it turns out their alarming self-replication could one day power your iPod. We’ve seen them in batteries before, but researchers at Berkeley Labs have now coated electrodes with modified M13 bacteriophage, a harmless bacteria-eating virus, to create the first ever organic piezoelectric material — which can convert force to electricity

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Diablo III woes plague launch day players

A taste of Demon Hunter gameplay. Just don’t equip any Templars with shields until Blizzard gives the green light. (Credit: Blizzard/Activision) The epic Diablo III role-playing game experienced several hiccups on launch day today as players reported numerous errors preventing gameplay.

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