Archive for January, 2012
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
There aren’t many mobile phone games from the 1990s that are really worth taking a second look. In fact, the entire market of vintage cell phone games is sorely uninspiring, but there is one that has and always will stand out from its monochromatic brethren. If you had a Nokia ...
Posted in Apps, Gaming, Nokia, Smartphones, Videos, Windows Phone |
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Good Honest Broadband from Sky with NO restrictions.
Big news if you're a Sky Broadband customer - not only is the satellite giant launching its own fibre-optic network with up to 40Mb download speeds - free Wi-Fi access from The Cloud is also set to rain in.
Sky Broadband Unlimited Fibre is ...
Posted in Broadband, Computing, Other News |
Monday, January 30th, 2012
According to Symantec, 13 apps from three developers—many in the official Android Market—have been carrying malicious chunks of code called Android.Counterclank, and are suspected of running on as many as five million phones, stealing info and running ads against the will of the device's owner.
ComputerWorld, speaking to Symantec, learned that the apps have ...
Posted in Android, Apps, Security |
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Sony's PlayStation Vita hasn't exactly sold like hotcakes over in Japan, so the company has sweetened the pot for the portable's potential Stateside buyers. Those who placed pre-orders will get a couple of extra goodies for their $350. To go with the previously promised limited edition case, 4GB memory card and copy of ...
Posted in 3G, Gadget News, Gaming, Sony |
Friday, January 27th, 2012
T-Mobile U.K. is set to introduce a new price plan from February 1 that offers British subscribers everything their smartphone will ever need for just £36 (approx. $54.46) per month. It’s called “The Full Monty” plan, a trusted tipster revealed exclusively to TechnoBuffalo, and one of its best features includes truly unlimited data.
It’s ...
Posted in 3 / Three, Mobile Networks, Other News, T-Mobile |
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Nintendo has announced a rough release date for the Nintendo Wii U, reigning in the launch to this side of 2013. But can a holiday launch tip the balance in Ninty’s accountants’ favour?
The Nintendo Wii U has been floating around looking for something resembling a release date ever since it debuted last year at ...
Posted in Gadget News, Gaming, Videos |
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
When HP kinda, sorta killed webOS as a money making endeavor, they promised to keep it alive as an open source project, but offered little in the way of concrete details. According to The Verge they've partially pulled back the curtain, revealing that Open webOS 1.0 should arrive in September.
Along with ...
Posted in HP, webOS |
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
UK carrier O2 finds itself embroiled in data protection controversy today, with allegations that the operator is revealing mobile users cellphone number to each website they visit on their phone. According to Lewis Peckover, buried in among the header data from each O2 visitor is a line revealing their own mobile number; he set ...
Posted in 3G, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Networks, O2 |
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
What you see before you is either the deranged rantings of a lunatic, or the second generation of LG's Optimus 3D, erm, 3D smartphone. Currently codenamed "CX2," the handset's packing a new NOVA autostereoscopic display for better brightness, an unnamed 1.2GHz dual-core TI CPU and an NFC module. What isn't changing is the dual five-megapixel ...
Posted in Android, LG, Smartphones |
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Let’s say you live in the UK and want the HTC EVO 3D – you can check out that cool deal with a two-year carrier contract we talked about 10 days ago. Or you may want an unlocked device, sans any commitments toward mobile operators? Good news – now you can get ...
Posted in Android, HTC, Smartphones |
