Motorola i1 gets clearer: 5 megapixel cam, Opera Mini default browser?

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

We’ve been slipped some additional information on Motorola’s imminent Android-powered i1 for iDEN networks today — actually, one correction and one interesting note. First, the correction: we’re now being told (by the same tipster as before ) that it’s actually got a 5 megapixel camera on board, a nice upgrade from the 3 we’d previously been told to expect. More interestingly, though, we’re also hearing that Opera Mini has been tapped as the i1′s default browser — a move that Moto is more than welcome to make since this is a Blur -powered, non-”Google Experience” device.

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Classmates.com’s Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit

March 10, 2010 NET News No Comments

Angry users sue Classmates.com after it decides to make previously private data public, just as Facebook did in December. Will its defense be, “I learned it from watching you, Zuck?”

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Bad employee! 12% knowingly violate company IT policies

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

By now, it’s practically a mantra that the biggest problem with corporate IT security is the employees themselves. However, we usually assume that’s due to ignorant users or poorly enforced policies.

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JooJoo revamps interface ahead of launch, adds local video playback — and changes color

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

The JooJoo tablet’s launch date might have been pushed back a month while Fusion Garage sorts out issues with the capacitive touchscreen, but it looks like the extra time has given the company a chance to tweak the interface and add in some features. Obviously the most noticable change is the revised homescreen, which has gone from line art on a garish solid color background to a nicely rendered icon grid over a high-res customizable wallpaper, but Fusion Garage has also ditched the confusing pinch-to-go-back gesture and replaced it a vertical swipe that brings down a status bar containing the home button, status indicators, browser navigation controls, and a combination address bar / search field.

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Aw, iPhone app fridge magnets

March 10, 2010 Mobile News No Comments

Take a break from reading our hard-hitting news coverage and take a look at these cute little things. Perfect stocking stuffer (I know, a little early) for your favorite app developer and/or iPhone fanatic. What with these things, those Android pillows, and all the other tech knickknacks I’ve been seeing, it seems that pretty soon they’re going to need a whole online store just to hold all of them

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Count The Beats: Inspiration… two apps for the musician on the move

March 10, 2010 Apple World No Comments

Filed under: Multimedia , Software , iPhone , App Store , Music Recently I’ve been preparing to move home and finally did last weekend. Naturally I had to pack up all my musical gear, equipment and of course, my Mac. In the week leading up to the move, I’ve had my iPhone and nothing else.

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Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side’ Eclipses Concept Album Classics

March 10, 2010 NET News No Comments

With its heady mix of heavy themes and technology, The Dark Side of the Moon remains the best concept album ever, even 37 years after its release. Plus: 10 more concept albums in Dark Side ‘s shadow that deserve a slice of the spotlight.

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‘PlayStation Move’ trademarked by Sony in Europe, reeks of motion controller involvement

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

We’re exceptionally likely to find out the official name of Sony ‘s PlayStation motion controller in just a few hours during the company’s GDC press event, but till then, we’ve got one more late-breaking morsel to chew on: Move.

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Razer Expanding Mac Support for Gaming Peripherals

March 10, 2010 Apple World No Comments

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, Razer announced a commitment to increase support for Mac users. Razer has a wide variety of peripherals geared directly toward the gaming community, and they committed today to having Mac drivers for all upcoming Razer products. Razer has been a Mac supporter for some time, with a Mac-specific version of their DeathAdder 1800DPI mouse with five independently programmable buttons for a couple of years

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Researchers get plastic to act totally metal

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

Plastics became ubiquitous during the 20th century.

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iPad SDK 3.2 beta 4 squashes rumors of a camera, but adds new gesture controls

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

There’s only about a month to go before Apple drops the iPad on the world, and it looks like all those theories about a last-minute camera addition were just fond fanboy wishes — iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 4 just came out, and in addition to stripping out several video-call related icons, we’ve been told the docs contain this little tidbit about that Camera tab : Launching the Photos application under the iPad Simulator will initially show three tabs: Photos, Albums, and Camera. The Camera tab represents photos available via the Camera Connection Kit for iPad, and is not relevant for the Simulator. The Camera tab will disappear after a few seconds.

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Microsoft Talks XNA Games for Windows Phone 7

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

This week at GDC, Microsoft showed off XNA games running on Windows Phone 7 and the screenshots are pretty darn impressive. Microsoft – Microsoft XNA – Xbox – Windows Phone 7 – Xbox Live

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GDC 2010: Call of Duty: World at War Zombies postmortem

March 10, 2010 Apple World No Comments

Filed under: Gaming , Retail , Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone. The game was one of the first big brand hits on the App Store — it successfully brought a game mode from one of Activision’s Call of Duty console games (originally developed by Treyarch) to Apple’s handheld device.

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WD’s 320GB My Passport AV external HDD wants to have and hold your media

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

Western Digital has played this card before with the strategically named My DVR Expander , but for those who don’t realize that an external hard drive is an external hard drive, there’s the My Passport AV. For all intents and purposes, this 320GB HDD is nothing more than a standard drive with a fancy marketing scheme following it closely.

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‘Galactica: Sabotage’ Creator Discusses Her Brilliant Beastie Boys Sci-Fi Mashup

March 10, 2010 NET News No Comments

A YouTube artist whips up a precise, shot-for-shot re-creation of Spike Jonze’s amazing music video using clips from the late, great Battlestar Galactica .

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How To Pin Files And Folders To The Windows 7 Taskbar

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

Microsoft has added some interesting new features to the taskbar in Windows 7 . This includes the ability to pin programs to it and make use of jumplists to access program functions and recently used files

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Pushing the speed limits of quantum memory

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

It feels like quantum computers have barely been invented, and scientists are already testing how extensible the current technology is. A paper published in Nature Photonics this week describes how researchers are beginning to push the bandwidth limits of quantum memory.

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Razer promises Mac support for all upcoming products

March 10, 2010 IT News No Comments

Razer already provides full Mac support for a few of its gaming peripherals — including the Naga and DeathAdder — and basic support for others, but it’s now taken avantage of GDC to “reaffirm” its commitment to Mac users. That apparently means that “all upcoming” Razer products — including the company’s line of StarCraft II peripherals — will boast full Mac support out of the box, and that the company will be rolling out updates to some of its existing products “later this year,” including the Orochi , Mamba , and Imperator gaming mice. First Steam , now Razer peripherals — dare we say it’s a good time to be a Mac gamer?

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iPhone devsugar: Unit testing for iPhone view controllers

March 10, 2010 Apple World No Comments

Filed under: Apple Unit testing refers to a software validation methodology that allows programmers to test individual program units for correctness. It’s been an ongoing question in the iPhone developer community as to whether the iPhone’s view controller class is testable or not.

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Icarus Studios Releases a Mac Compatible Platform for Fallen Earth

March 10, 2010 Apple World No Comments

Icarus Studios released today a Beta version of its Mac-compatible platform and the Fallen Earth MMO. The software will enable players to connect to the same live servers as PC gamers with game features specifically optimized based on the user’s operating system. The North Carolina-based game developers will utilize the open source software Wine to fuel the Mac-compatible version of the game.

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Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M

May 25, 2012

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Huawei-Made myTouch Q For T-Mobile Passes Through FCC

May 25, 2012

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While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot.  Pretty much all the [read full article]

Google Nabs Key Members Of HP’s Enyo Team, But Open WebOS Is Still “On Schedule”

May 25, 2012

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Wirefly Memorial Day Sale Offers Extra $25 Discount On HTC One S

May 25, 2012

Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers

“Because We May” Sale Puts A Ton Of Popular Android Games On Sale

May 24, 2012

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Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.

Turn Your iPhone Into A Bouncy Ball With The M-Edge iPhone SuperShell

May 24, 2012

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Siri-ing John Malkovich

May 24, 2012

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Google Adds Subscription Billing To Its Android App Store

May 24, 2012

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Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App

May 24, 2012

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Android Continues March Toward World Marketshare Domination

May 24, 2012

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We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.

Deutsche Telekom CEO Says Merger, Not Sale Is Still An Option For US Branch

May 24, 2012

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Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.

Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad

May 24, 2012

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Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone

May 24, 2012

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Google To Release Five Nexus Devices On November 5th To Celebrate Five Years Of Android?

May 23, 2012

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On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November

Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications

May 23, 2012

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The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents

May 23, 2012

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T-Mobile Prism Now Available Directly Through T-Mobile Online, Company Owned Retail Stores

May 23, 2012

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Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract

Mint.com App Update: Now Split Transactions

May 23, 2012

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Rubicon Project Acquires Mobsmith To Expand Into Mobile Ads

May 23, 2012

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Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide

May 23, 2012

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McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012

May 23, 2012

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9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking

May 23, 2012

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Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App

May 22, 2012

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About Last Night Wants To Improve Your Nightlife By Making It Even More Social

May 22, 2012

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Twelve Minute Walkthrough Of Galaxy S III, See It In Action

May 22, 2012

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I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..

Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data

May 22, 2012

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Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers

May 22, 2012

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Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone

May 22, 2012

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Zimride’s Lyft Is Going To Give Uber Some Lower-Priced Competition

May 22, 2012

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Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More

May 22, 2012

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Now On Your iPhone, ReadyForZero Is Ready To Save You From Debt

May 22, 2012

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Amazon Appstore For Android Now Lets Users Test Drive Apps Right On Their Devices

May 22, 2012

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