Archive for February, 2012
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
The Pirate Bay, the largest torrent site on the Internet, is no more. Or well, it's not like it once was. As of this moment, they've taken down all torrent links on the website and will now only use 'magnet links'.
Though it sounds really bad, it's more of an act to ...
Posted in Computing, Internet, Other News |
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
There are plenty of things iOS can do that Android can't—Siri and Facetime, for example. However, Android may soon be getting its own exclusive feature: P2P file sharing courtesy of uTorrent, the most-used torrent client in the Western World.
BitTorrent, the parent company of uTorrent, is reportedly developing a mobile P2P ...
Posted in Android, Apps, Other News |
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
The next time you open up Gmail in Chrome keep an eye out for the prompt above, which uses HTML5 to finally close the gap between the way Google's browser handles mailto: links and its popular email service. Our only question about the change is what took them so long? Using extensions or simply ...
Posted in Google, Internet, Other News |
Monday, February 27th, 2012
MWC 2012: Mid-range marvel
The HTC One S is now official after weeks of rumours and speculation about the new phone launching at Mobile World Congress.
"HTC S is a powerful smartphone in a super sexy form factor," said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, at the press launch at Mobile World Congress ...
Posted in Android, HTC, Smartphones |
Monday, February 27th, 2012
MWC 2012: All the specs
HTC has now formally announced the launch of the HTC One X, its new flagship Android handset. HTC's CEO Peter Chou said that the new phone will be "the one phone you will need, the one camera you will need".
The HTC One X features a huge ...
Posted in Android, HTC, Smartphones |
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
Sony's press event is in full swing, and the first to arrive is the Xperia P. The phone follows on from the styling we saw on the Xperia S; but it looks likely to be the middle child, with a similar Sony-themed skin atop what appears to be Gingerbread Android, still housing dual-core ...
Posted in Android, Smartphones, Sony |
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Box has a habit of giving users some free storage to users but to celebrate its updated Android app, the company is giving a whopping 50 GB of free storage to any Android user who activates an account within the next 30 days.
Box is in the red-hot cloud storage space and this ...
Posted in Android, Apps, Cloud Services |
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
OnLive Desktop may have stumbled upon the best way to get Flash content on an iPad: host the CPU-hungry tech on a server as far away as possible from your tablet, and simply stream over the results. In an update to the OnLive Desktop remote access app, first released last month, OnLive Desktop Plus adds gigabit-speed ...
Posted in Apps, Cloud Services, Computing, iOS, iPad |
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Canonical has finally brought Ubuntu to the mobile world, and not as a tiny mobile OS for use on a 4-inch display – no – for desktop use FROM that mobile device. What Ubuntu is doing here is sitting on an Android device (they used a Motorola Atrix 2 for ...
Posted in Android, Computing, Linux, Other News |
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
We knew it was coming to that broad area we like to call Europe sometime soon, and now Panasonic's sharing the details on its Android-based return. Details about the 3.6 ounce (103 gram) device include that it's packing a 4.3-inch qHD (960 x 540) screen that's wrapped in a dust and ...
Posted in Android, Other News, Smartphones |
