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Target ’s announced it is launching a scannable mobile coupon program — the first of its kind.

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Target launches first scannable mobile coupon program, frugalistas going wild

Steph Thirion, creator of the early iPhone standout Eliss , has a new game on the way, from a new company. The first game to be released by Thirion’s studio, Little-Eyes, will be Faraway , a project Thiron says “will be about constellations and infinite space travel.” Faraway will be on display at the Kokoromi Gamma IV event tomorrow, and should also be playable at the Gamma IV showcase during GDC . At that point, presumably, we’ll know exactly what Faraway is and what platforms we’ll be able to play it on.

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Eliss creator’s next game: Faraway

Samsung first announced its R0 PMP way back and July of last year, and we saw its R1 model hit the FCC a month later in August, but the company has just now finally gotten official with US availability for both of them.

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Samsung announces US availability, pricing for R1, R0 PMPs

Suspense! Drama! Surprises! Unrealistic expectations! It’s always a veritable roller coaster of emotions whenever Apple gets around to cutting a new SDK build — and without a doubt, iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4 is no exception. We don’t yet have a good read on what’s new here, so if you’re a member of Apple’s $99 dev program and happen to get it downloaded and installed, let us know if you find anything awesome, like an iPhone 4 or iPad 2. Or, you know, anything else

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iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4 drops in

Watch out, Flip , because here’s one tough guy that you don’t wanna mess with. Joining Aiptek ’s family of pocket camcorders is the PocketCinema Z20 — a fine mix of 720p camera (courtesy of a 5 megapixel sensor) and pico projector of an unknown resolution, powered by a two-hour battery (which we’ll believe when we see it). Users will be spoiled by a long list of features: 2GB of internal memory, microSDHC expansion, built-in 2.4-inch LCD, HDMI output, composite video input (iPod adapter included) and remote control.

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Aiptek PocketCinema Z20 packs pico projector and 720p camcorder

Watch out, Flip , because here’s one tough guy that you don’t wanna mess with. Joining Aiptek ’s family of pocket camcorders is the PocketCinema Z20 — a fine mix of 720p camera (courtesy of a 5 megapixel sensor) and pico projector of an unknown resolution, powered by a two-hour battery (which we’ll believe when we see it).

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Aiptek PocketCinema Z20 packs pico projector and 720p camcorder

Also shitcanned by Apple in the Great App Store Purge of 2010: Wi-Fi scanning apps. The reason being that they used private frameworks to access wireless info.

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BTW, Wi-Fi Scanner Apps Were Begging to Get Banned by Apple [App Store]

Here’s a little spicy rumor for you Palm fans on this tranquil Sunday: according to TopTongueBarry who claims to work for AT&T , his company has just finished certification tests with GSM flavors of the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus ahead of a possible April 26th launch — a date not far from what we’ve heard earlier . However, the bigger news from Barry is that the big A will soon be testing a third mysterious webOS device by the name of Palm Elan, which may greet us mere mortals on May 10th (but possibly in Europe first). Another forum member Shadow-360 also dug up some cached pages that claimed to have accessories for the non-existent device, as pictured above

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Palm Elan to be the next webOS smartphone, heading to AT&T?

AT&T’s preaching about the mucho dinero it’s dropping into renovating its network to pretty much anyone who’ll listen these days, and a veritable cornucopia of press releases this week start to go into detail on some of the upgrades we’ll be seeing over the course of 2010.

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AT&T announces slew of network investments for 2010