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Cannon Digital Camera - Mini USB

Talk about optimizing your space! Modern society has gotten used to the ease of sharing information and images, and these Canon Camera Thumbdrives will make the process much more effortless than digging around for your USB cables and cursing your laptop’s lack of a card reader.

It’s not a Black Label phone but could’ve honored the designer series. It’s called Black but bathes in light. What is the LG Optimus Black? To begin with, it’s solid build and pure elegance. With Android on board, smartphone meets fashion phone in a super slim package.

The Optimus Black is the first phone we’ve tested that uses the NOVA display technology. Special enough to warrant a dedicated article.

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So a lot happened yesterday. But somewhere, all amid Google's I/O conference in San Francisco, Google executive Andy Rubin (who happens to be the head of Android) suggested that the next Nexus device might be coming in time stuff your stockings.

Asked about the Nexus brand, Rubin pointedly said, "The Nexus has been the thing that we used to set the bar, and there's always going to be new ones coming out in the market

San Francisco announced yesterday that it will be placing free electric-vehicle chargers around the city, the SF Examiner reports. The chargers will be available in 20 city-owned garages, including the garages at San Francisco International Airport. They're not meant to be electric car owners' sole source of power, but to let them refuel when they're not at home, since the currently available electric cars (like the Nissan Leaf) can only travel 100 miles or less without a recharge. The new stations will be free to use through 2013.

The emergency broadcast system got an upgrade today as a new text-alert system was unveiled at the World Trade Center site by the heads of the FCC and FEMA, along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The new system, called PLAN, will allow officials to send alerts to compatible phones in the event of a national or regional emergency. It will be rolled out first in New York and Washington, D.C., before coming to the rest of the country next year.

Faced with tough competition from tablets, Asus may strike back with a dirt-cheap netbook.

Digitimes' unnamed sources say Asus is planning an Eee PC netbook for less than $199 (not pictured), but it's not clear what the company would sacrifice to get the price that low. Those enrolled with online universities, take note!

Did you illegally download a copy of The Expendables, Sylvester Stallone's old-school macho get-together fight-fest from last year? If so, watch your inbox: You're likely one of the more than 23,000 file sharers being sued for doing so by the US Copyright Group in what is now the largest BitTorrent downloading case in US legal history.