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Since we’re your go-to source for complaining about DRM (now on CNN !), I figure we should mention the latest development regarding EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 . Dice, the game’s developer’s, have removed SecuROM DRM from both the retail version of the game as well as the digitally distributed one (i.e

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EA removes SecuROM DRM from Battlefield: Bad Company 2

It’s funny how and where you will see an innovation. While attending a super-fun event hosted by The Barbarian Group here at SXSW , I ran into a guy named Matt Paul who is the lead developer of an app/service called Stickybits . TechCrunch covered this story back in March , but it was interesting to hear the description of the service first hand from someone behind the scenes.

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SXSWi 2010: Stickybits. Real world bookmarking.

This strange app is a touchscreen interface that connects people, places, and things using “clouds” of items and people. It basically makes Venn diagrams of your contacts and allows you to share and explore content and messages.

This looks way too weird for the average user but clearly someone out there may want to move Sven and Nikola to a timeline and figure out which emails came from each person and which emails overlap.

The text input system is actually quite cool, however, because it predicts the words you’re about to type. Pop over to 4 minutes in to see how that system works.

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This strange app is a touchscreen interface that connects people, places, and things using “clouds” of items and people. It basically makes Venn diagrams of your contacts and allows you to share and explore content and messages. This looks way too weird for the average user but clearly someone out there may want to move Sven and Nikola to a timeline and figure out which emails came from each person and which emails overlap.

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Petit Petit touchscreen app: Interesting four-dimensional contact management tool

The Grace Allegro Wi-Fi internet radio costs $170 and supports streaming of over 16,000 radio stations, Pandora, Sirius, Live365, and MP3tunes. It can run for around eight hours on six AA batteries and the device can detect whether standard batteries or rechargeable NiMH batteries have been inserted and then recharge as needed. Other features include 802.11b/g/n support, an iPhone/iPod touch remote control app, MP3/WMA/Real Audio/WAV/AAC/AIFF codec support, alarm functions, built-in speaker, 4-line display, standard remote control, and the ability to add multiple Grace-brand internet radios to “listen to the same or different music in every room.” There’s a line out jack and a headphone jack but no line-in or iPod connectivity.

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Allegro portable internet radio features smart battery recharging

Tokyo-based crazy USB gadget maker Thanko has done it again. The company today announced [JP] not one but two “Hot Lunch Bags”, special cases that are supposed to warm up lunch boxes you brought to the office from home via USB

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Hot Lunch Bag: Thanko’s USB-powered lunch box warmers

The title says it all, ladies and gentlemen. Walmart plans to buy VUDU

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Walmart buys VUDU

ViewSonic’s 13.3-inch ViewBook Pro (VNB131) promises up to 8-hour battery life with the standard 6-cell battery but you can also swap out the built-in optical drive with an included 3-cell battery slice for an extra four hours of juice. That’s a nice touch for anyone who’s on the go a lot but still needs to be able to work with disc-based media from time to time. The notebook’s specs include the following: Ultra low voltage SU7300 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU Windows 7 Home Premium 13.3-inch LED-backlit screen at 1280

Last month SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales that they helped complete in 2009. They’ve now released last month’s data as well.

A total of a little more than $13 million in sales occurred, with the average transaction size of around $2 million. There continues to be very strong demand for consumer products and services startups (which includes companies like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, etc.). But the sellers are spread out more evenly across all categories, particularly consumer, IT, Healthcare, energy and cleantech.

36% of the transactions were sales of Facebook stock, and we’ve heard from independent sources that sales are being completed for as high as $40 per share (or a $17.6 billion valuation). That’s a substantial price increase from less than a month ago. Tesla took 29% of the transactions, and sales of Solyndra stock were 28% of the total. Gridpoint rounded the group out with 7% of the total.

The complete report is below, and you can download the pdf here.

Jimin-with-the-big-FLAC-collection and I met with one of the SteelSeries guys today.

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SteelSeries asks: You know the goody bag given out at the end of fancy events?