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UPDATED: Skype for iPad hits the App Store. Skype removes it.

UPDATE 2: It’s back up! Go get it! UPDATE 1: Skype has removed their iPad app from the App Store and sent out the following tweets: To ensure your best Skype experience, we’ve temporarily removed Skype for iPad which went live prematurely today. We know you’ve been eagerly awaiting Skype for iPad and apologize for [...]

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Switchkey ? Another Keychain Gadget You Don?t Need, But Will Want Anyway

The Switchkey is an automatic key fob made of aluminum. It comes with one key blank that you can take to most hardware stores for duplication. Grind the blank, assemble the parts and you’ll have a nifty spring action switch blade style key. The Switchkey is priced at $33, which includes free shipping.

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Seagate's GoFlex Satellite HDD invites Android users to its media streaming party

When we took a look at Seagate's GoFlex Satellite back in May, we recommended that non-iOS buyers hold off until the company rolled out an app for different operating systems. Android users take note, the storage company today took the wraps off of an app that lets users wirelessly stream content like HD videos from the external hard drive to devices running their favorite dessert-themed mobile OS. No internet connection is required to stream, you just need to be in range of the drive. The 500GB GoFlex Satellite has a built-in battery that can stream video for up to five hours. The drive will run you $200, but the Android app is decidedly more free. Check the relevant press info below.

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iCloud extra storage prices revealed

Apple has enabled iCloud‘s Buy More Storage option in the iOS 5 beta beta and here are the prices: 5GB: Free (every iOS 5 user will get this by default) 10GB: $20/year (including the 5GB free, that’s 15GB total) 20GB: $40/year (25GB total) 50GB: $100/year (55GB total) So pretty much $10 a year for ever [...]

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Start Fund And SV Angel invest $9 Million In New Y Combinator Startups

Earlier this year SV Angel and Yuri Milner partnered on a new venture fund, called Start Fund, to invest $150,000 in every new Y Combinator startup. All but one company from that class took the money. And LikeALittle, the holdout, had already taken funding from both Milner and SV Angel. At TechCrunch Disrupt in New York a couple of months ago SV Angel said they were making the same offer to the most recent batch of Y Combinator startups. The terms are the same - $150,000 in convertible debt with no cap and no discount on conversion. If you don't speak venture capitalist, here's what that means - other than gifting someone money, this is the most favorable a startup can raise money. It's very easy to say yes to this.

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HaloIPT Revs Up For Wirelessly Charged Electric Cars

Those who resist purchasing an electric car because charging stations are less ubiquitous than gas stations or figuring out how to charge your car at home seems complicated have one less excuse to go green. A new system from British startup HaloIPT allows cars to be charge wirelessly using induction. The wirelessly transmitted power goes to the car's battery for an ongoing charge, similar to the concept of recharging an electric toothbrush but with a lot more energy. Each car is outfitted with a pad underneath the car that is ready to receive power.

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ViewSonic reveals 24-inch V3D245 3D monitor, ships this month for $500

Still lookin' for that perfect 3D display, are you? ViewSonic would be absolutely thrilled to make your short list, with the 24-inch V3D245 making its debut this morning. Unsurprisingly, this one's arriving with a 1080p LED-backlit panel, and it'll be joined by an inbuilt NVIDIA 3D Vision wireless emitter and a pair of 3D Vision glasses. You'll also get a 120Hz refresh rate, two millisecond response time, HDMI 1.4 socket and 300 nits of brightness, and the three-year limited warranty should help quell any fears about longevity. Of course, NVIDIA would prefer that focused on the 550 (and growing) 3D titles available on its Vision Live website, but at least you've got until "mid-to-late August" to determine if the whole shebang is worth your $499.

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WD's 9.5mm Scorpio Blue 1TB laptop hard drive gets benchmarked

These days, it's hard to shake the urge to pop a solid state drive into your next laptop, but even if you're down with dropping the requisite coin, the restrictive capacity choices may make it darn near impossible for pack rats to bite. For those fitting squarely into that category, there's Western Digital's newest laptop drive: the 9.5mm 1TB Scorpio Blue. It's one of the first in this form factor (read: the one that slips into most everything smaller than a Clevo) to hit the 1TB milestone, and at just $99, it's a veritable bargain. The benchmarking gurus over at Hot Hardware threw it through the usual gauntlet of tests, pitting it against a 500GB Scorpio Black and a 640GB Seagate Momentus. As you'd likely expect, the 1TB spinner bested the competition in SiSoftware, ATTO and CrystalDiskMark tests, though not by a tremendous margin. Still, taking performance up a notch while also boasting a full terabyte of space makes it somewhat of a no-brainer for capacity freaks, and you can hit the source for a barrage of charts proving as much.

WD's 9.5mm Scorpio Blue 1TB laptop hard drive gets benchmarked originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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OMG/JK: The Man In The Yellow Jacket

We're back for a new episode of OMG/JK ? featuring both of your hosts reunited in the TCHQ studio (I was back in SF for our Mobile First CrunchUp). Oh, and this episode also includes a cameo by a man in a large yellow jacket. I won't spoil it. We kick off this week's episode by diving into Twitter's new ad format, which allows brands to place Promoted Tweets at the top of their followers' streams. Twitter has long been toying with various ad formats ? will this one please users, or just annoy them? Next up we have Facebook's secret iPad application, which leaked out as part of an official update to its iPhone application. MG got his hands on the app and tested it before Facebook cut off access, and his first impressions are good ? tune in to get the details.

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Iceland's crowdsourced constitution submitted for approval, Nyan Cat takes flight over Reykjavik

A committee of 25 Icelanders submitted the first draft of a rewritten constitution to the country's parliamentary speaker Friday, and despite our recommendations, Rebecca Black was conspicuously absent from the proceedings. The democratic experiment bravely asked citizens to log on to Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter to engage with the committee in a discussion about the nation's future. While the project's Facebook page played host to pleads for free ice cream and more volcanoes, the constitution's creators managed to stay on task, focusing on issues of decentralization and transparency in government. The draft is slated for review beginning October 1st.

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