Archive for April, 2011
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Those with more obscure tastes may not find much to their liking, but we're guessing Amazon's latest move to sway customers from a certain other music store will please plenty of folks. The company's just launched a new $0.69 section on its website, which offers best-selling tracks for (you guessed it) ...
Posted in Music, Other News |
Friday, April 29th, 2011
We’ve been pretty sure that HP’s itty-bitty webOS phone, the Veer, would be hitting AT&T for a few weeks now — ever since invites for the device’s internal “Launch Party” specified that an AT&T employee ID was required for attendees. We’re also pretty sure that it’s launching on May 2nd.
Even still, ...
Posted in Android, HP, Smartphones, webOS |
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Well known developer Chainfire at XDA brings root to another device today, adding Samsung's Galaxy S II to the list of 3rd-party developer unlocked devices. This comes hot on the heels of the Gingerbreak exploit, which can be used on a wide range of Android devices, also developed in part ...
Posted in Android, Apps, Samsung, Smartphones |
Friday, April 29th, 2011
If you have a smartphone running Android you definitely know Shazam, the popular music recognition app and service that helps you identify tracks by holding your smartphone close to the music source. With eBay's sponsorship, users of the free application get free unlimited tagging until January 1, 2012.
Previously, Shazam was ...
Posted in Android, Apps, Music, Videos |
Friday, April 29th, 2011
The white iPhone 4 officially went on sale today and we had a lovely hands-on time with it this morning. We even went as far as snapping a shot of it next to a Samsung Galaxy S II. The new color on the iPhone 4 certainly makes it look bright and fresh, ...
Posted in Apple, iOS, iPhone, Smartphones |
Friday, April 29th, 2011
The Sony Playstation Network or PSN has been offline for a while now. At first users were irritated that they weren’t able to play online games and watch movies via Netflix. As the outage drug on things started to look worse with Sony hinting early on that the breach was ...
Posted in Gaming, Sony |
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Google has just announced the release of the stable version of their latest web browser, Chrome 11. One of the main features of Chrome 11 is the inclusion of speech input. So far the only service that utilizes it is Google Translate, but you can expect more websites to use it ...
Posted in Google, Internet |
Friday, April 29th, 2011
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Google is rolling out a new Android 2.3.4 update to Nexus S users in the next few weeks and other Android 2.3+ devices in the near future. What's the biggie upgrade? Google Talk for Android is getting video chat.
The video chat feature will work as part of the Google Talk ...
Posted in Android, Apps, Google |
Friday, April 29th, 2011
The powerful successor to the Samsung Galaxy S, the Galaxy S II, will be launching in 120 countries this week starting with Korea. The manufacturer is hoping to sell even more of the Galaxy S II than it did the original Galaxy S and its variants. In fact, it’s hoping to sell 10 million ...
Posted in Android, Samsung, Smartphones, Videos |
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Rumors are swirling around the web that the hackers who took down the PlayStation Network may have stolen 2.2. million credit card numbers. Not only that, but apparently the database is for sale.
It seems that the source of some of the rumors is Kevin Stevens, a senior researcher at security firm Trend Micro. ...
Posted in Gaming, Sony |
