Earlier this month, GM announced the OnStar and Google partnership that enables OnStar users to search destinations with Google Maps and send the directions to the Turn-by-Turn Navigation Service in their vehicle. The OnStar eNav with Google Maps feature is now available on all current Turn-by-Turn capable GM vehicles and you can watch the video to see how it works. Ford announced a similar deal with Google Maps and its SYNC technology a few weeks ago.

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The rumored LG Sentio is now available in T-Mobile retail stores , select dealers and online and will cost $9/month for 20 months with T-Mobile’s Even More Plus rate plan or $$69.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate with a two-year plan. More info on the product page.

Features include:

• 3-inch touch screen display (auto rotating)
• virtual QWERTY keyboard
• 3G connectivity
• 3 MP camera
• video capture
• media player
• visual voicemail
• micro SD card slot
• built-in GPS (additional fees may apply)
• messaging (text, picture, social networking and email)

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Android-owners should be quite happy to hear that Netflix is looking out for an Android developer to help them build a streaming client for Android devices, which basically means that an official Netflix app should be on its way, allowing subscribers to watch their movies directly on their mobile device. Of course, the bad news is that there still isn’t any official timeframe as to when we can expect such an app to arrive, so it looks like we’ll have to be patient.

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LG’s newly announced Network Monitor solution unveiled at the 2010 International Society for Technology in Education Conference is pretty interesting, as it’s available in 11- and 31-monitor options, providing a hassle-free virtual desktop computing option. Thanks to this design, a computer’s resources can be distributed to several users simultaneously, dividing the resources into independent sessions. Benefits of this setup include less heat and noise that are generated by multiple computers, reducing the carbon footprint, and obviously reducing the cost of purchasing computers. A price for this setup wasn’t mentioned just yet.

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Android 2.2, better known as FroYo, is barely out of the stables just yet, but that doesn’t mean Google is resting on its laurels with word of Android 3.0 aka Gingerbread being prepared for a Q4 release later this year. The crystal ball has become a whole lot clearer this time round concerning what Gingerbread offers, where among them a completely revamped user interface which is touted to knock your socks off. It will require some pretty beefed up hardware requirements though, including a 1GHz processor at the very least (qualifying devices such as the EVO 4G, all Galaxy S variants as well as the Desire among others), 512MB RAM, a 3.5″ display or higher with support for 1,280 × 760 resolution. What is clear though would be the brancing off where hardware is concerned, since lower end handsets will max out at Android 2.2 at best, while newer high end Android phones should ship with Gingerbread.

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You might remember the Palm Foleo, a netbook-like product that was intended to be a companion device but never made it to the market. If you’ve got a thing for nostalgic technology pieces, you’ll probably be drooling over the fact that a Foleo was up for auction on eBay, listed at $750. The auction has since ended, though it wasn’t entirely clear whether it was sold or the buyer took it down. The Foleo on auction had a wide range of software already installed, including a web browser, Office document editors, viewers, games, financial apps, and others. If this 10-inch device was to be launched, it was expected to retail for about $500 after a $100 discount. Do you think that the Foleo would have been a hit if it were released?

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iMovie is an exclusive app for the recently released iPhone 4, but someone managed to take that app and have it run on the older iPhone 3GS instead. One of the motivating factors to pull this stunt off is to verify whether the iPhone 3GS’ hardware is still able to hold its own against the new and improved iPhone 4. To enable this seeming digital ‘miracle’, all you need to do is download iMovie from iTunes, modify the info.plist file and change the Minimum system version to 3.0.0 as well as front-facing-camera section to false. This will in turn enable the app run on any jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch as long as iOS 4 is installed. Good to see the iPhone 3GS still has some legs left…

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Out with the old and in with the new, at least that is what Apple portrays with the iOS 4 update which also coincides with the end of support for iOS 2.x apps. Developers should do their bit by reviewing Apple’s iOS 4 Readiness Checklist, where it states that “the App Store will no longer support applications that target iOS 2.x,” alongside a gentle reminder to developers that “[a]ll new applications and updates to existing applications must be built with iPhone SDK 4.” Ah well, the price of technology would be to keep up with the times, and certain moments require you to be brave and make sacrifices, this time by purchasing a newer iPhone.

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Ads are prevalent everywhere you look, and some others are harder to catch due to their subtleness. YouTube has finally come to see the light by working on a button which lets you skip ads with but a click later this year. It is a win-win situation - after all, if the ad isn’t captivating enough to capture the attention span of viewers, Google won’t charge the advertiser, simple as that. The only clear winner apart from us viewers? The advertising firm employed by companies to come up with a YouTube ad only to have it skipped by its target market. After all, they still get paid, assuming there is no performance-related clause in the agreement.

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As expected, the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) firmware update 3.40 is now available for the masses, bringing them closer to the gaming promised land filled with living room-friendly features such as a Photo Gallery that lets you browse photos from Facebook or Picasa Web Albums, while sharing them with other friends on the PlayStation Network. As for its Video Editor & Uploader, this tool that can be found on the XrossMediaBar (XMB) lets you edit, save and upload video files which are stored on the PS3. Help other PS3 owners out with the PlayStation Store Five Star Rating Support, but be honest while you’re at it! So far there hasn’t been any complaints concerning the firmware, which is a good thing always.

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