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At what point do you consider something “unreasonable”? Let’s say you’re pulled over while speeding—do the police have the right to search your mobile phone

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Should mobile phones be subject to warrantless police search?

You can target Google mobile ads by location, but now Google is opening up two new targeting options for mobile ads running through AdWords. Ads shown on a mobile browser can now target by mobile device or by carrier. It is not clear how many devices are supported, but at the very least advertisers can specify that their ads only be seen on iPhones or Android devices.

To the extent that people who own those types of devices represent a more affluent demographic, it might make sense to concentrate a mobile ad campaign on those consumers. Targeting by carrier seems less helpful for advertisers and more like something Google is just making available because it gets that data automatically and it is technically possible. Other than for carrier-specific promotions or attempts by mobile phone competitors to steal away each other’s customers (okay, that’s a huge business right there), it is not going to improve ad effectiveness that much.

In addition to targeting ads by device, Google can also customize download links for mobile apps by device so that if a company is advertising a mobile app, people who se the ad on an Android will get the Android market download link and those on an iPhone will get the Apple App Store link. Already, Google offers contextual in-app ads via AdSense, which have their own targeting capabilities (by app, category, location, and keyword). The new Mobile AdWords ads brings better targeting to regular search ads seen in mobile browsers.

Irvine-based mobile phone app developer Rock Software is launching an iPhone app called Mark Cuban’s Puzzle Palace. The app, designed for adults, is $0.99 and lets users turn images into puzzles.

Mark Cuban’s image is on the home screen of the app, and users can choose to turn some of his personal pictures into puzzles, or use your own. The app is available now at rockapp.com/cuban (redirects to iTunes).

You compete for fastest time to put a puzzle together.

If I had an iPhone I’d definitely buy this just to make fun of Mark the next time I run into him. Alas, I’m on a Droid, so I’m safe for now.

Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.

Japan’s second biggest mobile phone carrier KDDI au showed their new cell phones [JP] for this winter. The first of the eleven models will be available in Japan as early as this month

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Japan’s 11 newest cell phones from KDDI au (photo gallery)

In Communist Russia, air force makes snow fall on outskirts of town The Flurry Alarm Clock is a luddite’s Chumby Mega Man Drum Kit = Awesome Wait, wait, don’t tell me. NPR has its own radio.

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Layar , one of the first companies to start popularizing the concept of augmented reality browsing using modern day’s mobile phone cameras, is today announcing the addition of 3D capabilities to its AR browser platform for Android and will be demoing the experience starting tomorrow at the Picnic Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With 3D, third-party developers can now tag real-life objects with three-dimensional text, place 3D objects on top of real-world space and create multi-sensory experiences.

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Layar Enhances Augmented Reality Browser Platform With 3D Capabilities

Layar, one of the first companies to start popularizing the concept of augmented reality browsing using modern day’s mobile phone cameras, is today announcing the addition of 3D capabilities to its AR browser platform for Android and will be demoing the experience starting tomorrow at the Picnic Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

With 3D, third-party developers can now tag real-life objects with three-dimensional text, place 3D objects on top of real-world space and create multi-sensory experiences.

Let me preface this post by saying that this whole “green movement” is a freaking scam. No company is making it easier for anyone to “go green” and buying a cell phone that’s made with recyclable materials doesn’t do anything for the environment.

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Sprint announces the “eco-friendly” Samsung Reclaim

Remember that awesome real-life Warthog built for the never made Halo movie? Yeah, it was the one built upon a Nissan Patrol 4

What do we have here?

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The Verizon Touch Pro 2 handled pre-release