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Gowalla Gets “Food Wars” Passport Stamps

Gowalla users will be able to check in to locations featured on the Travel Channel’s Food Wars show, thanks to a new collaboration between the network and the checkin service. Food Wars , which pitches culinary rivals against each other to create “The Best Dish In Town,” will get specially created passport stamps that Gowalla users can collect at filming locations. After checking in to such locations, users will also be able to access specific show information, see the details of the culinary showdown that was filmed there and pick up items specific to the show. The mainstream angle of this TV-themed team-up shows that Gowalla is stepping it up in an effort to compete with Foursquare.
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From the Tips Box: Alarm Phones, Ad-Free Radio, and Dressing Productively [From The Tips Box]

Readers offer their best tips for using old smartphones as feature-rich alarm clocks, listening to internet radio without the Flash ads, and a dress code for getting things done. Don't like the gallery layout? Click here to view everything on one page. About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption.
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Engadget Podcast 186 – 03.05.2010

RUSH to download the latest episode of the Engadget Podcast - before the lawyers beat you to it! Hosts: Josh Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Tom Sawyer Hear the podcast 00:02:21 - Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents 00:03:30 - Apple vs HTC: a patent breakdown 00:26:54 - Apple specifically going after Android in HTC lawsuit 00:27:56 - Google responds to Apple's HTC lawsuit: 'We stand behind our Android operating system' 00:31:12 - TiVo Premiere and Premiere XL usher in a brand new interface, optional QWERTY remote 00:31:25 - Live from TiVo's 'one box' press event 00:33:00 - TiVo Premiere hands-on (update: video!) 00:42:07 - Engadget is live from CeBIT 2010! 00:42:44 - NVIDIA Ion 2 now official; Acer, ASUS and Lenovo at the ready 00:45:10 - NVIDIA's Optimus technology shows its graphics switching adroitness on video 00:47:30 - Acer Aspire One 532G with ION 2 priced at an aggressive 379 euros 00:50:55 - Sony: Don't turn on your PS3 until PSN bug is fixed 00:55:45 - Project Pink QWERTY slider 'Pure' found in the wild, headed for Verizon? 01:01:53 - Exclusive: First Windows Phone 7 Series partner device unveiled (with video!) 01:05:10 - HTC HD2 and Windows Phone 7 Series: Just tell us no, Microsoft 01:06:30 - Microsoft sending mixed signals on Windows Phone 7 Series upgrades, HTC HD2 still in limbo 01:10:10 - Palm webOS 1.4 update hits Verizon's Pre Plus and Pixi Plus 01:19:06 - BlackBerry slider photos leak out! 01:20:02 - More BlackBerry slider pics appear -- is this the next Bold? 01:26:25 - The Engadget app for BlackBerry gets updated to 1.0.1 Subscribe to the podcast [ iTunes ] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes (enhanced AAC). [ RSS MP3 ] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically
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Y Combinator’s Browsarity Allows You To Donate Affiliate Fees To Charity

Affiliate fees are all over the web and often we don’t even know that we are clicking on affiliate links when we click through to make purchases at our favorite online retailers. On average, affiliate fees can range from 3 to 10 percent of the price of a product. Browsarity is hoping to put money collected from affiliate programs to philanthropic use, and keep a portion for itself in the process. The Y Combinator -incubated company has launched a Firefox plug-in that will rewrite any unclaimed links to a participating online retailer with an affiliate link, and donate any fees collected towards the charity of your choice.
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Send Email and SMS Messages Using Voice Commands With Vlingo for iPhone

Since Vlingo first introduced its voice control app for the BlackBerry more than a year and a half ago, smartphones and voice-to-speech technology have evolved quite a bit. Today, the company has launched a pretty major update to its iPhone app , adding the ability to send e-mail and SMS messages, plus a redesigned new interface. When Vlingo was first released for the iPhone back in December 2008, the voice-to-text market was still pretty small for mobile devices.
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Yelp for Android Gets Bookmark Sync and Draft Support

Back in December, Yelp for Android arrived, joining the local review site’s stable of iPhone , BlackBerry and Palm Pre apps. Since then, the app has been steadily updated with new features and options for Yelp users, and today, version 1.4 is being released with even more updates. Yelp for the iPhone introduced Check-ins back in January and while the Android app doesn’t have that (yet — Yelp says it is coming soon), the new additions are still pretty cool. The first big new feature is that you can now bookmark businesses with the Yelp Android app or on Yelp.com and those bookmarks will be synchronized across your account
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Is This Seriously the BlackBerry Storm 3 AKA Slider? [Unconfirmed]

It's not pretty, but according to BBLeaks this is the Storm 3 , also known as "Slider." Supposedly there's some video coming, so maybe we'll get a better idea of what might be RIM's newest offering soon. [ BBLeaks via BGR ]
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RIM dev webinar hints at BlackBerry OS of the future?

See that Storm -esque device there? You may have noticed that the home screen looks positively nothing like the experience you're used to -- and that's because it's not. Shown off as part of a slide deck in RIM's "Super Apps" webinar for developers last week, the company's official explanation is that this is a pure, off-the-cuff mockup, not indicative of anything they're working on for future devices or releases of BlackBerry OS. To be fair, when you take the shot in context with the bullet points and the fact that this presentation was geared squarely at devs, we can imagine that they really were just using it to get folks' creative juices flowing -- but it makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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TigerText Makes the Poor Decision Texts Go Away

Do you frequently make bad-decision texts — the kind of texts that likely show up on Texts From Last Night ? Well, then, you should probably download TigerText, a new iPhone app that will let you delete those digital mistakes from another person’s phone. TigerText [iTunes link], which was released yesterday, could be a boon for cheating politicians and foolishly sexting teens alike, according to founder Jeffrey Evans, who claims that he named the app before the Tiger Woods scandal. “People text like they talk,” Evans told Time .
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