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By Evan Ackerman
This necklace is giving me a serious headache. I imagine it’s because I write the occasional website, and broken images feel like a punch in the gut, and punches in the gut always give me headaches. No matter how many times you refresh the page, the image on this plastic pendant simply will […]

Filed under: Cellphones

Want the Internet in your pocket? Good, because that’s what LG is offering to South Koreans with its new LG-LH2300 Touch Web phone. This ain’t your father’s baby Internet mind you, the LH2300 features a new “Hello UI” riding atop 800 x 480 pixels spread across a 3-inch touchscreen LCD. LG didn’t stop […]

Filed under: Features, Home Entertainment
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.

A recently unearthed patent filing shows Apple is thinking beyond its current living room video vending machine, the Apple TV. Among a number of new features, the design specifies how DVR information could be sent to a […]

Web Exclusive: Lifetime’s ‘Side Order’ will not be renewed — FX’s docuseries “30 Days” will return in June, the cabler announced Wednesday.

Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet PCs, Wireless

Ah, after long last, HTC’s first UMPC, the Shift, is finally making its debut in the US. The early results are in: the keyboard and the Sprint EV-DO are good, but the $1,500 price tag might be a bit heavy to swallow — especially considering our European counterparts are paying […]

Film News: Story based on upcoming Playboy article — William Monahan will pen a fact-based thriller for Paramount based on an article that will appear in Playboy later this year.

Film News: ‘Doomsday’ helmer to adapt Sallis novel — Neil Marshall has signed with Universal to direct “Drive,” an adaptation of the James Sallis novel. Hugh Jackman is attached to play a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway car driver in heists.

Film News: Actor to costar with Roberts, Owen, Wilkinson — “John Adams” star Paul Giamatti is going from the pursuit of liberty to “Duplicity.”

Film News: Documentary may feature Martin, Pryor, Carlin — Yukster icons such as Steve Martin, Richard Pryor and George Carlin will get the documentary treatment from filmmaker R.J. Cutler, who’s purchased the rights to Richard Zoglin’s just-published “Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America.”

Film News: Japanese film first to use completion bond — Gary Oldman is in negotiations to join the cast of “Rain Fall,” a Japan-set thriller that employs sophisticated western finance techniques.