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Money burning a hole in your pocket and a big space in your heart where Android should be? The T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide is available from today, in white, black or red, and each priced at $179.99 with a new, two-year agreement. Curious as to whether the myTouch 3G Slide might be the QWERTYsmartphone for you? Check out the full review over at Android Community.

The T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide has a 3.4-inch HVGA touchscreen together with dualband 3G UMTS/HSPA, WiFi b/g, quadband GSM and Bluetooth. As well as the hardware keyboard there’s Swype pre-loaded, while a tap of the “Genius” button is all it takes to get your SMS messages read out or the phone to respond to voice commands.

In the box there’s the phone itself, a charger and USB cable, together with a set of headphones and a microSD card. All in all it’s a decent mid-range device, though we wish it had come in a little cheaper.

Apple’s Smartphone Antenna Performance page, which aims to show that other phones besides iPhone 4 suffer from signal loss when held in a certain way, originally didn’t mention Nokia.

However, that didn’t stop Nokia from issuing a statement, claiming that antenna performance has always been a high priority for them. As Nokia put it, “Nokia has invested thousands of man hours in studying human behavior, including how people hold their phones for calls, music playing, web browsing and so on. As you would expect from a company focused on connecting people, we prioritize antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict.”

Now, Apple silently answered Nokia by adding a video which shows that Nokia N97 mini, when held a certain way, also shows significant signal loss. Grip the phone in a weak signal area, Apple claims, and it can drop from 7 to 2 bars. Check out the video below.

Nokia C6, which as you may know has been unveiled alongside two other QWERTY phones – C3 and E5, has been spotted at Nokia’s UK website from where interested users can grab it for 289 GBP. That’s kinda too steep, as we (and AllAboutSymbian) expected a price that’s closer to 220-230 GBP, but what do we know.

Anyways, if you’re looking for a perfect Symbian smartphone, the C6 is probably the closest you will get. By perfect I mean a device that has both a touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard.Sony Ericsson’s Vivaz Pro is also a phone worth considering for that matter.

The Nokia C6′s features include a 3.2-inch nHD (640×360 pixels) touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, GPS, 434MHz CPU, 3.5mm headset jack, HSPA and WiFi connectivity, Bluetooth and a microSD expansion slot (inside the box you get a 2GB card). In other words, you can think of it as slightly reshaped Nokia N97 with a much better and easier to use keyboard…

Today, the Electric Daisy Carnival takes place at Los Angeles. It has been set at the Exposition Park and the L.A Coliseum. It is expected that more than 200,00o people will attend the Electric Daisy Carnival 2010 including people who are currently in Los Angeles vacations.

The electric daisy carnival is a musical event that is held annually on the third week of the June.

Many independent electronic music acts are showcased at the electric daisy carnival 2010, which started last Friday and the carnival in Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver and Puerto Rico began on Saturday.

The carnival is an electronic dance festival, and fans from all over the globe arrive to take part in the music and dancing. The two day festival in Los Angeles has been said to attract approximately 1.4 million visitors.

On Saturday the same event in Dallas was going on and an estimated twelve thousand people showed up the festival, with around twenty four musical performances.

ASHDOD, Israel - Naval commandos can be seen rappelling down from helicopters then pointing assault rifles, in some of the dramatic footage of Israel's deadly pre-dawn raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla on Monday.
Israel says the troops returned fire after they were attacked with live rounds, knives and clubs, but the organizers of the Gaza blockade busting bid insist the soldiers started shooting the moment they hit the deck.
"They fired directly into the crowd of civilians asleep," the Free Gaza Movement said. Read the rest of this entry »

26th ANNUAL CALIFORNIA STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL EVENT:

Over two decades of tribute to the fruit that wears its seeds on the outside. The 26th Annual CALIFORNIA STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL gets underway at Strawberry Meadows of College Park in Oxnard May 16 and 17, 2009 10:00a.m. - 6:30p.m. Presented by the all-volunteer California Strawberry Festival Executive Board, the nationally top-ranked celebration serves up a menu of delectable strawberry delights, along with non-stop entertainment, Strawberryland For Kids, gooey contests for berry lovers of all ages, award-winning Fine Arts & Crafts, the Strawberry Promenade, and more. The tasty tribute to the luscious fruit garnered from the County's bountiful 11,538 berry acres nets proceeds to benefit close to 30 local non-profit organizations while
scholarships help to brighten futures. Read the rest of this entry »

Houston, Texas, students first thought they were seeing a joke, at first – but when a teacher beats a student, it’s no joke. The teacher beating a student was caught on tape with a student’s cell phone, and it has caused outrage as well as school district and police department investigations. The teacher has been fired and will have to use quick personalians for her legal representation, if she is charged. Either way, the “teacher beats student” question is raising blood pressures across the nation.

The incident of Houston, Texas teacher, Sheri Davis, raises a lot of questions. On Monday night, Davis was fired for beating a student at Jamie’s House Charter School. Other students present at the time of the beating caught the incident on tape with their cell phones. It was only after the release of the tape that school admin got the real facts and fired the teacher. She’s now, quite justly, under investigation for criminal charges as well. The tape explains it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxp7JIAmeaI&feature=player_embedded Read the rest of this entry »

The search query "How Do I Delete My Facebook Account" is now so popular, that all you have to do to bring it up is type "How Do I" into a Google search box and Google will suggest it.

That means lots of people are searching for "How Do I Delete My Facebook Account."

Possibly due to recent problems that the popular social website Facebook has been having with privacy issues ( see http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/facebook-to-hold-meeting-about-privacy-policy-as-backlash-gains/19476641/ for an explanation ) many people are trying to find out how to permanently delete their existing accounts. I mean, ALOT of people. Just try typing “how do I” into Google’s search box, and it will automatically suggest deleting Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »