Acer Iconia Tab A200 Tablet Gaming with USB Controller Video Demo

If you're on a budget, there's a lot to like about Acer's new Iconia Tab A200 10" Android tablet. For $349 you get a full featured tablet with a dual core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU, a pretty decent ...

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Y Combinator Names Seasoned Entrepreneur Geoff Ralston As Its Newest Partner

Y Combinator has just announced the newest partner to join the prestigious firm: Geoff Ralston. Ralston's previous credentials include founding Four11, which was acquired by Yahoo back in 1997 for $96 million and served as the foundation for Yahoo Mail. Ralston spent eight years at Yahoo, eventually becoming Yahoo's Chief Product Officer. Several years after leaving Yahoo he was named CEO of Lala, before it was acquired by Apple in 2009. Most recently he cofounded�Imagine K12, a tech incubator for education-related startups, which presented at TechCrunch Disrupt SF (you can find the incubator's first batch of companies here).�

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Twitter to begin 'reactively' censoring tweets in specific countries, still no love for China

It's no secret that certain countries have different views over freedom of expression on the internet, but this hasn't stopped Twitter's attempt to keep its service running in as many places as possible. In its latest blog post, the microblogging service announced that it'll begin "to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country" when required, in order to keep said content available to all users elsewhere (as opposed to blocking it globally). The withheld tweets will be marked accordingly while their authors get notified with reasons where possible, and internet legal rights monitor Chilling Effects will also post the relevant take-down notices on a dedicated page.

This may seem like some form of censorship taking over Twitter, but the company only mentioned those of "historical or cultural reasons" like the ban of pro-Nazi content in France and Germany; so it's not clear whether Twitter will also handle similarly with tweets that potentially lead to events such as the UK riots last year. Even though Twitter didn't elaborate further for Reuters, there is one reassuring line in the post:

"Some [countries] differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there."

One such country is most likely China, and back at AsiaD in October, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told us that there's simply no way for his company to work with the Chinese government (you can watch him answering us at 38:17 in the video -- courtesy of All Things D -- after the break):

"The unfortunate fact is we're just not allowed to compete in this market, and that's not up to us to change. The person to ask is trade experts between both governments, but at the end of the day we can't compete. They (Chinese microblogging platforms) can compete in our markets, and we're certainly interested in what that means for us... We would love to have a strong Twitter in China, but we'd need to be allowed to do that."

There are obviously many factors that add up to this sour relationship, but the contradiction between China's strict internet monitoring policy and Twitter's core values is most likely the biggest obstacle. And of course, the Chinese government would favor its home-grown tech properties, anyway. That said, several months ago, one of the country's largest microblogging services Sina Weibo was criticized by the authorities for not censoring fast enough, so it's obvious that it'd be even trickier to work with a foreign company that sees things differently. Things are unlikely to change any time soon, or ever, unless China relaxes its policy.

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Smartphones Control Systems in the Cars of the Future

Carmakers are working on entirely new control systems for the cars of the future that will work like smartphones or tablet computers. Some of the designs were on show at the recent Detroit Motor Show and the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Conventional knobs, levers and switches might soon be a thing of the past and even the touch-sensitive screens found in the dashboards of many cars of today will be replaced as carmakers rapidly try to find clever solutions to the array of operating systems.

"With such a lot of data coming to the driver today and so many new possibilities, the conventional operating systems are not enough," says Mercedes researcher Bharat Balasubramanian.

Like a smartphone or tablet PC, the simple movement of a hand or finger would be enough to activate a function. "Cameras and infra-red sensors recognize the movement of the hand and measure the distance with the electronics, thus understanding every movement pattern and command," according to Audi developer Werner Hamberger.

Audi showcased at the Las Vegas event a cockpit fitted with three head-up displays that project important information onto the windscreen. The image to the left can only be seen by the driver while the image to the right can only be seen by the passenger. The central image can be seen by both.

It works something like this. The central image shows up several menus from which the driver and passenger can choose. The passenger can for instance choose a short film about a hotel or museum. Should the driver be convinced by the passenger that it is the right destination, a simple wink to the left can be chosen to enter the destination into the GPS system.

Similar steps are being taken by Mercedes with its Dice system. A white dice shows the vision of a car interior...

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Skype and Verizon

2010 is shaping up to be a good year for Skype. A few weeks back, spokesperson Peter Parkes confirmed the companys VoIP iPhone App would soon be able to access AT&Ts 3G network. Now it appears Skype could be making its way to Verizons network.

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Mobile Phone Banking

With the introduction of an iPhone app that lets you deposit a check by taking a picture of it, options for mobile banking are growing rapidly. And though you might think the boost in convenience comes at the expense of security, banking on your cell phone can actually be safer than using your PC if you take basic precautions.

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Text Etiquette

Perhaps the wildest, most unpredictable area in the realm of high-tech etiquette, text messaging is fraught with pitfalls that can turn otherwise sensible people into rude and thoughtless jerks. Try these simple tips to ensure that you will never annoy others or embarrass yourself with your cell phone.

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