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Fancy a way to charge his and her phones with a sin­gle dock? Idapt's i2+ has you cov­ered -- the mul­ti­faceted mo­bile charg­ing ma­chine that launched at CES is now ship­ping di­rect­ly from the com­pa­ny, with Walmart, Crutchfield, Costco and loads of others slat­ed to pick it up in the com­ing weeks. It'll set you back $39.99 (or €34.99 across the way), with that tal­ly net­ting you six of the most pop­u­lar charg­ing tips: miniUSB, mi­croUSB, iPod / iPhone, Samsung 4, Nokia 2 and Sony Ericsson 2. Head on (...)

[video link] Silvio Berlusconi will be the first head of a G-7 state to be ar­raigned in court on charges of paid sex with a mi­nor. A few days ago, the court from Milan is­sued a sub­poe­na for the Italian premiere, on a charge that could car­ry a penal­ty of 15 years of pris­on. This April 6, sug­ar dad­dy Silvio will face three adult fe­male judges from Milan, the Italian wom­en that the press here in Italy call his "Nemesis." A right wing com­men­ta­tor of the TG1, one of the TV (...)

We ran in­to Dennis Brulé at LeWeb this week, Brule is a French en­trepreneur and part of the team be­hind the Paris-based Moodstocks, which fo­cus­es on prod­ucts that use im­age search in­clud­ing Moodstocks Contacts, Moodstocks Shopper and Moodstocks Notes. Using a smart phone im­age recog­ni­tion tech­nol­o­gy that Brulé and co-founder Cé­dric Deltheil have been de­vel­op­ing for 4 years, the sparse Moodstocks Notes iPhone app al­lows you to check in­to ob­jects like books, CDs, posters, fly­ers and wine la­bels (...)

<img align='left' src="http://pho­tos.mac­nn.com/news/1011/ac­eri­co­nia.jpg" bor­der='0' width='176' height='120' /TheAcer Iconia du­al-touch­screen note­book in­tro­duced at the end of November will ship in Spain on January 28, but for a high price. It should cost 1,499 eu­ros ($1,985) and thus as much as high-end sys­tem de­spite its mid-range in­sid­es. If and when it ships in North America isn't known, though it may cost (...)

As played out as the whole one-piece hard plas­tic iPhone 4 rear shell cat­e­go­ry has be­come over the past few months, there are oc­ca­sion­al­ly new re­leas­es that stand out from the pack, and Bangkok/Berlin-based Bling My Thing has one of them. The com­pa­ny's Simple is Beautiful series of iPhone 4 cas­es (€30-€45) are clear or semi-trans­par­ent rear and side shells with Swarovski Crystals at­tached, vary­ing in pat­terns, col­oration, and mir­ror (...)

Physical key­boards are old news, right? They will be come January 28, which is when Acer in­tends to make its du­al-screen Iconia lap­top avail­able for pub­lic con­sump­tion. That's the date we've re­ceived from the com­pa­ny's of­fi­cial Spanish mouth­piece, ac­com­pa­nied by a lofty €1,499 ($1,987). Literal cur­ren­cy trans­la­tions are as usu­al inad­vis­able, but that's a hefty fee, how­ev­er you want to think about it. Then again, the Iconia does come with two 14-inch mul­ti­touch LCDs, which last we checked (...)

The par­tial floata­tion of part of Mail.ru Group in London this mon­th ap­pears to have warmed up the mar­ket for Russian dig­i­tal IPOs. Badoo, a so­cial net­work that lets users pay to make them­selves more promi­nent to peers, is “prepar­ing to en­ter the stock mar­ket”, says Forbes’ Russian web­site (and Quintura), cit­ing un­named peo­ple close to founder Andrei Andreyev. The site has not yet re­spond­ed to our calls or emails. Twenty-per­cent stake­hold­er in­vestor Finam tells Forbes it was (...)

Eurocrats fund IBM-led de­vel­op­ment Fancy that: European tax-pay­ers are cough­ing up for a €15.7m IBM re­search pro­ject about stor­ing ob­jects in the cloud with meta­data.…

Put down those iPads, Mercedes own­ers, and look to the sky. There's a word of won­der up there and, if you had your­self an SLK with the Magic Sky Control var­io-roof, you could be look­ing at it. Well, of course, you could al­ready be look­ing at the sky if you had an SLK be­cause, you know, it's a con­vert­ible. But, let's say you want to do it with­out ac­tu­al­ly hav­ing to ex­pe­ri­ence na­ture. Now we're talk­ing. The var­io-roof is a glass pan­el in the cen­ter of the SLK's re­tractable hard­top and now, if (...)

Ah, ha! So there it is! After wait­ing for months and months (and months), it seems as if ASUS has qui­et­ly start­ed ship­ping its gi­nor­mous DR-900 e-read­er. At least in some sec­tors of the world, al­beit in "non-fi­nal" form. Hispazone man­aged to get their paws around one re­cent­ly, and they did the world a solid by writ­ing up a lengthy list of im­pres­sions and film­ing a hands-on video (em­bed­ded after the break). Critics seemed to ad­mire the build qual­i­ty, and they felt that the in­built web (...)

You may have more e-read­er choic­es than ev­er the­se days, but if you pri­ma­ry con­cern is a de­vice with a col­or screen that's al­so avail­able in a num­ber of dif­fer­ent col­ors, you might just want to con­sid­er Energy Sistem's new Color Book Series e-read­er. Of course, you won't ac­tu­al­ly get a touch­screen (just a reg­u­lar 5-inch, 800 x 480 LCD), but there are plen­ty of but­tons to make up for that short­com­ing, and you will get a few de­cent fea­tures like au­dio and video play­back, sup­port for comics, a (...)

Seems like France is kind of full of dat­ing sites. And that's prob­a­bly not so sur­pris­ing given that the coun­try is often con­sid­ered one of the most ro­man­tic. Hope­ful­ly ev­ery­one has now heard of Meetic, the French on­line dat­ing giant list­ed on the Euronext stock ex­change since 2005 who s­cooped-up Match.com's European di­vi­sion last year. And then there's a cou­ple new­com­ers that are mak­ing head­li­nes, like SmartDate (who scored €2 mil­lion ear­lier this year so that you can date the friends of your (...)

You may have seen the set­tle­ment yes­ter­day, like­ly be­ing ap­pealed, in which a wom­an was ordered to pay $1.5 mil­lion for il­le­gal­ly down­load­ing and shar­ing 24 songs. That’s $62,600 per song, far above the (equal­ly ar­bi­trary, but con­sid­er­ably more re­al­is­tic) $2250 per song ruled as the ab­so­lute max­i­mum in an­oth­er court, dur­ing an ear­lier tri­al. Higher fig­ures, par­tic­u­lar­ly those re­quest­ed by the record­ing in­dus­try, were called “mon­strous and shock­ing,” and with luck, the new set­tle­ment will be (...)

It's a mi­cro­phone stand adapter for your iPad. It's made in Italy from darn-near-in­de­struc­tible ma­te­ri­als. It's $39.99 / €29.99, avail­able to pre-order now, and will ship in December. And the white out­li­nes in the gallery be­low demon­strate its us­es far bet­ter than our mere words ev­er could. Gallery: IK Multimedia's iK­lip: uni­ver­sal mi­cro­phone stand adapter for iPad Continue read­ing iK­lip puts your iPad on a mic stand, Steven Tyler drap­ery sold sep­a­rate­ly iK­lip puts your iPad on a mic stand, (...)

Accused file-swap­per Jammie Thomas-Rasset was yes­ter­day hit with a $1.5 mil­lion fine for down­load­ing and dis­tribut­ing tunes by Richard Marx, Journey, Def Leppard, the Goo Goo Dolls, No Doubt, and others. Each of the 24 songs at is­sue in the case cost her $62,500. Meanwhile, the same of­fense in Germany might cost you €15 ($21) a song. In October, the Hamburg Regional Court ruled on the case of a young man ac­cused of shar­ing the songs "Engel" and "Dreh' dich nicht um" over peer-to-peer (...)

If you're LG, you wait un­til Android be­comes a tablet-wor­thy OS be­fore bring­ing out your Tegra 2 slate. If you're Toshiba, you're too busy ship­ping your 10-inch Froyo tablet to care. The Folio 100, pow­ered by NVIDIA's lat­est and great­est ARM SOC, is mak­ing its promised Q4 2010 ar­rival to­day, as it be­gins ship­ping all across Europe. There are still no re­lease plans for the US, but Euros can now en­joy a 1024 x 600 res­o­lu­tion, 16GB of in­ter­nal stor­age, a 1.3 megapix­el we­b­cam, mini-HDMI, USB (...)

Energy Sistem knows the quick­est way to this tech writer's heart: comic books. The Spanish com­pa­ny to­day an­nounced the re­lease of a new col­or eBook read­er, the Energy Color Book, and they're talk­ing up the thing's abil­i­ty to read comics. Well played, Energy Sistem. The read­er can dis­play full col­or books and videos and can play MP3s while you're read­ing. It comes in 2-, 4-, and 8GB ca­pac­i­ties and fea­tures a mi­croSD slot for ex­pand­ed stor­age. The read­er is a bit on the small size--the (...)

<img align='left' src="http://pho­tos.mac­nn.com/news/1011/noki­ae7-ctia.jpg" bor­der='0' width='176' height='120' /Symbian to­day said it had re­ceived a ma­jor cash in­flux from the European Commission as part of a con­ti­nent-wide pro­ject. The Artemis Joint Technology Initiative has given the mo­bile OS de­vel­op­er 22 mil­lion eu­ros ($30.8 mil­lion) to de­vel­op the SYMBEOSE con­sor­tium, or Symbian -- the Embedded Operating System for Europe. The group should stream­line cre­at­ing Symbian de­vices and (...)

Handset mak­ers other than Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be de­sert­ing Symbian and Nokia’s re­cent­ly-re­newed com­mit­ment to the mo­bile OS may turn out to be a last dice throw - but, hey, at least The Symbian Foundation has now found a €22 ($30.84/£19.25) mil­lion in­jec­tion from a European tax­pay­er pro­gram­me… A European Commission-spon­sored pro­gram­me called the Artemis Joint Technology Initiative is giv­ing over the money to a spin-off group the foun­da­tion has cre­at­ed, be­cause it “i­den­ti­fied Symbian as a (...)

European gov­ern­ments and com­pa­nies will in­vest 22 mil­lion eu­ros in­to pro­jects de­signed to en­cour­age de­vel­op­ment on the Symbian mo­bile op­er­at­ing sys­tem.