Here you go, folks, an official statement from Redmond itself on the perennial Windows Phone 7 Series / copy-and-paste discussion . First and foremost, from the onset, there will be no copy and paste in the traditional sense; Microsoft is hoping to bypass the issue by integrating into the OS contextual, single-tap instances for viewing an address on a map (let’s hope it has some good recognition algorithms here), doing Bing searches based on highlighted terms, dial a phone number, and so on. But the book isn’t entirely closed here, apparently, as the statement goes on to say the company “will continue to improve our feature set over time based on what we hear.” We’ve also got a statement regarding the hacked emulator , to which a representative told us, “we have been very clear that [it] is based on early code and is not reflective of the final user experience,” which is a nice way of saying don’t get your hopes up on those fun little surprises (task manager, anyone?). Full statements after the break. Continue reading Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 series ‘will not initially offer copy and paste,’ case-specific actions integrated into OS Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 series ‘will not initially offer copy and paste,’ case-specific actions integrated into OS originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:41:00 EST

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When it comes to accessing Wikipedia on your iPhone , there’s no shortage of options. This week, a new app entered the arena dubbed Articles , and for users who value a solid interface and pleasant viewing experience, it’s an excellent choice. The app, which is $2.99 in the App Store , features some innovative features, like viewing articles based on your location, a really great photo viewer (complete with the ability to either copy photos or save them to your camera roll), and a multi-page interface that works the same way as Mobile Safari. The app also features a pull-down menu, a la Tweetie 2 , that can set the device’s orientation — perfect for those that want to view Wikipedia articles while in bed or on their side.

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Wikipedia Gets Pretty with Articles iPhone App

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[Sung to a popular tune] Having a podcast, it’s happening right now! Don’t forget to listen in on the live podcast-ing! Che-ck out out, after the break! Update: And it’s over. Thanks for joining us, the podcast should be posted this weekend. Engadget Podcast, live… now! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:05:00 EST.

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Sprint had promised a first-quarter update for its Touch Pro2 way back in January, and sure enough, it’s delivered the Windows Mobile 6.5 boost right on time. It might not have as much punch now that we know everything there is to know about Windows Phone 7 Series, of course, but it’s still a pretty big deal — the Touch Pro2 remains one of the best Microsoft-powered phones you can buy in the States, and unlike AT&T’s Tilt2 , it launched with that grubby old WinMo 6.1. It’s available now, complete with Sense “enhancements” and a variety of bug fixes — so if you’ve got one of these bad boys in your pocket, it seems like a must-grab. Sprint’s HTC Touch Pro2 gets official Windows Mobile 6.5 update originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:39:00 EST

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It’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament time — otherwise known as March Madness — and the online streaming initiative from CBS Sports and the NCAA is already netting massive numbers: 3.4 million hours of video/audio were streamed online by three million unique visitors on day one. Those staggering numbers mean that online viewership is already up 20% over last year’s figures, and apparently a large majority of you have no problem watching from work. In fact, the always clever “Boss Button” — a one-click option to hide your guilty pleasure — has already received 1.7 million clicks. So far the most-watched game via March Madness On Demand was Florida vs.

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Record Numbers Tune in to March Madness Live Stream

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For all y’all out there who think that the iPad leaves much to be desired, we’ve got the video for you. This parody, made as an assignment for a Comm 340 class (I hope they got an A), highlights all that’s lacking in the mythical device. It doesn’t have a camera , you can’t use it to make a phone call, and the name itself has spawned countless parodies — not to mention throwbacks to ‘ 90s television — that’s basically this video’s beef with Steve Jobs’s newest shiny, shiny baby.

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If you’d like to have empty space in between some of the icon sets on your Windows 7 taskbar to keep things organized and separated, this simple hack will get the job done. More

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Kevin Nakao is VP of Mobile & Business Search for WhitePages , a Top 40 Web and Mobile Publisher. You can find him on Twitter , and on the Whitepages Blog where he writes about mobile, local, and social media. While last year’s SXSW seemed to serve as the “coming out” party for location-based services (LBS), maybe this year’s conference signifies the migration of these platforms into mainstream culture.

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5 Things You Need to Know About Location-Based Social Media

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Three-dimensional charts may be a little more eye-catching and dynamic than their 2-D counterparts (it’s an Avatar world, baby), but data visualization blogger Stubborn Mule explains why you should consider junking 3-D charts, or at least why you shouldn’t trust pyramid charts. More

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In order to have access to iPad testing units, developers and testers had to agree to keep the device tethered to a fixed object in an isolated room with blacked-out windows, according to a report by BusinessWeek . That’s pretty hardcore. It’s unclear from BusinessWeek’s report if that was a condition enforced before the iPad was unveiled to the public or if it’s something that will be kept up until the April 3 launch date. Apple is a notoriously secretive company, especially when it comes to new products. Outside of partnerships with content publishers like The New York Times, Wired and The Wall Street Journal who have either confirmed interest or already shown demonstrations of their applications, the few developers that do have access to the iPad are keeping their mouths shut

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Apple Takes iPad Secrecy All the Way to 11

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Mac only: No longer must Mac users move to the keyboard to open links in a new tab—free, open-source app MiddleClick sits in your menu bar and allows you to use 3 fingers to middle click on Apple’s multitouch devices. More

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Mac OS X only: It looks like the folks carrying on Quicksilver’s legacy aren’t just messing around—they’ve released yet another update to the formerly abandoned app launcher. The B58 build focuses on stability, especially concerning issues for those running Snow Leopard, as well as making sure older plugins are compatible. There are also a few UI tweaks and bugfixes, as well as increased performance. More

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Researching topics such as health, diet, and (especially) the effectiveness of dietary supplements can be hard and time-consuming. Obscured by thousands of marketing tricks, finding the truth takes days, if not weeks of research. So, when someone puts in the time to do the research and create an infographic that makes certain aspects of these topics easy to understand, it can be a huge time saver. Read on for some of the best health-related infographics we’ve found online.

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Ever wonder what it would be like to step inside a giant wire mesh cage, put on a virtual reality headset, walk around like a hamster and shoot crazy alien opponents? No? Luckily our friends at Engadget did, and went hands, eyes and feet-on with the Virtusphere at GDC.

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Inside a Virtual Reality Hamster Ball [VIDEO]

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Cleaning LPs with a bottle of wood glue is hardly an intuitive way to get more mileage out of that bottle of glue in your workshop or clean a beloved LP. The results, however, are quite impressive. More

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A non-profit organization called Reboot has a mighty challenge for you this Friday night: Power down your cellphone, let your FarmVille crops languish and sign out of Skype for a full 24 hours. What do you think: Can you hack a single day sans technology? We’re seen efforts of this nature before — remember when John Mayer wanted you to make like a Luddite for the first week of 2010?

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Non-Profit Challenges You to Ditch the iPhone for a Day

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If you weren’t able to pick up tickets for Conan O’Brien’s “ Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour ” the first time around, you’ve just been given a second chance by way of a contest the former late night host announced on Twitter. The contest is a promotion for American Express ( disclosure: also a Mashable sponsor ), asking users to follow the credit card company on Twitter and then tweet “Hey @americanexpress I want to be with Coco in (insert city from list below). Pick me! http://bit.ly/bEUqsh #amexConan.” The winners –- who will get two tickets for Conan shows in either New York, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco or Los Angeles — will be selected at random from the tweets sent out between now and 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday

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Conan Launches a Twitter Contest for Tour Tickets

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If you follow Mashable, chances are you either visit the website directly, or subscribe to our RSS feed, daily emails or Twitter and Facebook pages. Given that there are dozens of ways to follow Mashable, we thought we’d round these up in a useful blog post. We’re also aware that some people get a little overwhelmed by all the content we create every day. That’s why we recently created separate feeds, Twitter and Facebook accounts for all of the topic channels here on Mashable: Social Media, Mobile, Web Video, Entertainment, Business, Tech, Apple and the Mashable Jobs board. If you find the full Mashable feed a little too much, please do consider subscribing to these individual channels instead.

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Calling all iPad and would-be iPad developers: Starting today, Apple will be accepting apps for review. Only applications submitted to review by March 27, 2010, will be considered for the grand opening of the iPad App Store. After an initial review, Apple will let developers know about the readiness of their app so that changes can be made before a final review submission. Apple details the steps developers need to take in an e-mail, which you can see here: Apps must be written using the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 for the initial review. Tags: apple , ipad , ipad apps

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Apple Now Accepting iPad Apps

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The Large Hadron Collider is no stranger to setting energy records: back at the end of November it broke the 0.98 TeV record by hitting the 1.18 TeV mark. Well, the problem beleaguered collider’s just handily surpassed itself — this time with a truly stunning 3.5 TeV — with beams of protons on record as having circulated at 3.5 trillion electron volt. Now, we’re not scientists or anything, but that sure is a lot of volts! CERN’s moving on later this week and will begin colliding the beams so they can check out the tiniest particles within atoms in the hopes of finding out more about how matter’s made up. We look forward to hearing all about that, too — but until then, we made do by reading the source over and over. LHC breaks its own energy record, still less powerful than Lady GaGa originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:14:00 EST

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Windows 7’s taskbar is undoubtedly a great addition to Windows, but if you’ve got more than one application window open, you’ve got to either click twice or patiently hover to navigate to an open window. Reader Richard details how he fixed this: More

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According to the  Nielsen Company , the global average time spent per person on social networking sites is now nearly five and half hours per month (February 2010 data), with Facebook accounting for the majority of that time. That’s up more than two hours from last year. In arriving at that conclusion, Nielsen measured social network usage per person across 10 countries and compared that to data from the same time last year. When looking at specific countries, Italy tops the charts with social network time per person just under six and a half hours per month (6:27:53), and Australia is a close second (6:02:34)

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It looks like the virus-strewn HTC Magic that was recently purchased from Vodafone UK is only the tip of the iceberg. According to Vodafone Spain, some 3,000 users in all may have been exposed to Mariposa malware — which used the handset’s storage to make its way to customer’s PCs via USB, leading the company to replace the microSD cards for infected customers. The company also says that that the incident is “isolated and local,” but with the number of infections rising from one in the UK to 3,000 in Spain in just over a week we wouldn’t be surprised this story was just heating up. Vodafone Spain replacing microSD cards on 3,000 virus-infected handsets originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:49:00 EST.

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For eons we’ve wondered what it would be like to walk around in a bona fide Virtusphere , and at GDC last week we finally got our chance. The large plastic cage can turn and roll in any direction, and once replete with a wireless head-mounted display and fake gun, we were ready to take on some polygonal alien baddies. Getting into the cage is surprisingly easy, but unfortunately once we had a screen strapped to our head our well-honed sense of balance was right out the window, and we found ourselves staggering around a bit as we got used to the motion of the cage. The real military versions have a motion sensing gun controller, but we had to do all our aiming with our head, which didn’t help. After a minute or so we got used to the “momentum” involved in moving the cage, which felt pretty great, but we’d say our favorite part about the experience was just being able to turn in place to confront baddies — there’s something about a few well placed steps that really blows away a left or right tug on our 360 controller’s analog stick.

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If you somehow held off on buying a Core i7 rig as soon as they popped out last year, you’re in luck — and your poor Pentium II system is flat out of it. Just about everyone has updated their gaming desktop lines this week with an option to splurge on Intel’s 3.33GHz (or more) Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, and iBuyPower is no different. Said PC builder is now offering the chip within four of its Paladin desktops , and given that the stock clock speed is far too sluggish for your own greedy self, the Paladin XLC V3 ships in an overclocked configuration that promises a 30 percent boost in performance over the stock silicon. The rigs also ship with 6GB or 12GB of DDR3 memory, the latest and greatest ATI / NVIDIA graphics cards, an optional Blu-ray burner and a fresh copy of Windows 7. The lowest-end rig gets going at $2,159, while the aforesaid XLC V3 will set you back $4,409; the whole gang is available to customize as we speak

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iBuyPower crams Core i7-980X Extreme Edition into Paladin desktop line

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The Predator franchise of science fiction/horror/action films is coming back into the zeitgeist , this time without the Aliens . The trailer hit the web today; watch it to find out if the franchise is worth revisiting. The new film is called Predators (evoking Aliens , the sequel to Alien ) and the premise seems to be that several of humanity’s most effective killers are stranded on a jungle planet where they’re hunted for sport by a whole legion of predators. The film stars Adrien Brody, Lawrence Fishburne and Topher Grace, and it’s directed by Vacancy and Armored director Nimród Antal. Sin City ’s Robert Rodriguez is one of the three credited screenwriters.

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“Predators” Trailer Hits the Web [VIDEO]

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Windows only: Despite the many great media players out there, MusicBee earns itself a spot high on the list with super tagging, managing, browsing, ripping, syncing, and converting powers, all on top of an intuitive interface familiar to any iTunes user. More

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The e-book war between Amazon.com and Apple is getting uglier . Dennis Johnson cites a report in Publishers Marketplace (subscription required) that alleges that Amazon.com is telling publishers that if they switch to an agency model (ala Macmillan ) , they will lose Amazon as a platform for both e-books and print. This battle, which in many ways mirrors similar struggles between record labels and online music stores, underscores some of the challenges that moving into widespread digital distribution for a formerly non-digital product can bring. The Agency Model Conundrum Recently, Macmillian’s CEO John Sargent explained the agency model, as it relates to e-book sales, in his blog : “Starting at the end of March, we will move from the ‘retail model’ of selling e-books (publishers sell to retailers, who then sell to readers at a price that the retailer determines) to the ‘agency model’ (publishers set the price, and retailers take a commission on the sale to readers).” In other words, Macmillan wants to be able to control how much digital books are sold for on a per-book basis. Much like music publishers fought (and eventually won) the right to sell certain digital tracks or digital albums for more (or less, in some cases) than the $0.99 per track/$9.99 per album standard, publishers want that same control

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Apple vs. Amazon: The E-Book War Rages On

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Really, would you expect anything less from Apple? All sorts of wild tales have emerged about Apple’s tight restrictions on developers lucky enough to receive early iPad test units, and no matter how true they might be, we’re eating it up with a spoon. According to “people familiar” with the matter sourced by BusinessWeek , there’s a 10 page pact for developers to sign, with requirements that include keeping the iPad isolated in a room with blacked-out windows, continuously tethered to a fixed object, photographic evidence of compliance, and of course no bragging to the Twittersphere about your score. Frankly, if the iPad isn’t hand delivered to developer offices by a couple guys in well-tailored suits with an iPad briefcase handcuffed between them, we’d be sorely disappointed. A few developers receiving iPads early, must keep it in room with blacked-out windows and tuck it in every night originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:42:00 EST

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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Google Apps for business has a number of benefits over traditional business IT and desktop software. Using the full suite essentially places all of your data and entire workflow in the cloud, meaning you can access it all anywhere, any time, from any Internet connection. At $50 per year per user, the fully integrated apps system is certainly cost-effective, and even adding the free versions of Gmail , Calendar , and Google Docs into your workflow can keep your employees coordinated. For more casual users, or even those who might not be acquainted with Google Apps, here’s a guide to how the software can benefit your small business.

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