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Microsoft’s MIX10 event kicked off yesterday, and more details about Windows Phone 7 Series were revealed. We’ve already reported that the only way to get apps on Windows Phone 7 devices is through the Windows Marketplace. Now, it’s been confirmed at the event that the best Windows Mobile handset out now, the HTC HD2, will not be upgradeable to WP7. This is because it does not conform to Microsoft’s minimum requirements for the OS. Those requirements include a WVGA multitouch-capable capacitive touchscreen, an accelerometer, 5-megapixel camera, 256MB of RAM, 8GB of internal memory, and the three hardware buttons namely the back, Windows, and Bing (search) button.

Speaking of WP7 handsets, a new one from Samsung was being demoed at the event along with the two we had previously seen, which were made by LG and Asus respectively. The handset is a dead-ringer for the old Symbian-powered Omnia HD, with the physical buttons of course replaced with WP7’s required ones. It is not yet sure if those three phones will go to retail or will be for demo purposes only, but you can take a good look at all three in Engadget’s gallery here.

Remember the breathtaking panoramic image taken during US President Obama’s inauguration last year? That picture was made possible by GigaPan, and now you can have the power to make those images as well. The GigaPan Epic Pro takes your DSLR, pans and moves the camera, takes hundreds of pictures of a scene you want captured, and stitches the pictures into one beautiful panoramic image using proprietary software (software comes with the package which costs $895 US). The mount can support a camera and lens combination weighing up to 10 pounds, and comes with a rechargeable battery.

TechCrunch has a follow-up on their piece about MySpace’s crumbling mid-level management structure, and things really are not looking very good for the social networking site. A lot of MySpace employees emailed TC telling how bad it really is inside the company. They really are losing plenty of managers, most of which are defecting to other tech companies. Reading the excerpts from the employee emails will help you feel how bad it is becoming inside MySpace now.

It’s no secret that Apple ticked Adobe off by not supporting Flash in its handhelds like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and more recently the iPad. Now, Adobe is saying that Flash 10.1 will silence Apple and its criticism. The company says it believes HTML5 will take years to fully develop, contrary to what Steve Jobs said when asked about the absence of flash in the iPad when it was launched. It will be interesting to see whether Adobe or Apple is right about this.

Finally, the folks at Ars Technica take a look at what social networking sites do to the profiles and accounts of deceased members. Facebook probably has the best policy when it comes to handling profiles of deceased members. They let friends or relatives of the deceased turn the profile into a memorial. That should insure that even after someone dies, his/her presence on Facebook will be around for as long as Facebook lasts.

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