AT&T has released the Blackberry 6 operating system for customers with the Bold 9700 and Curve 3G. Blackberry 6 brings a performance boost, as well as a cleaner interface. The update corrects what was seen as one of the major flaws in these two handsets. Rumors of an OS update for the Bold 9700 were […]
Apr 29 2011 | Posted in
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T-Mobile on Thursday confirmed the addition of a rumored new $40, 2GB mobile broadband plan on twitter. Like reported before, subscribers who add it to an existing voice service will save 20 percent, having to pay $32 for the data. Other taxes and fees apply, as do restrictions, though exactly what they are wasn’t detailed. […]
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Adobe late on Thursday announced the release of Flash Player 10.2 for Android 3.0 tablets. Like the beta, the Motorola Xoom and other tablets that use Android 3.0.1 need an Android update to take advantage of the latest Flash Player. The release also includes a security update and is now available from the Android Market. […]
Apr 29 2011 | Posted in
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Bringing uncompressed, high resolution video to remote displays is the goal of accessory maker Gefen’s latest offering, the DVI DL CAT6 Extender. The extender makes a simple plug-and-play solution that promises lossless video transmission with zero dropouts to displays up to 200 feet away using two industry-standard CAT-6 cables. The kit is fully HDCP compliant […]
Verizon in a response to Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey’s call for answers on phone location data said it would start putting a sticker on every phone warning that they tracked location. The removable screen notice would tell users that it could track the real world location and “associate this location data with other customer information.” […]
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Long gaming sessions or other extended periods of computer use can be made less fatiguing with an inexpensive LED back-lighting kit retrofitted onto computer monitors, says accessory maker Antec in announcing their Soundscience Halo 6 LED bias lighting kit. The company claims backlighting — now also popular on some models of HDTV — helps reduce […]
IDC in a roundup of final phone market share saw Apple move faster than its rivals. Its 18.65 million iPhones shipped in the winter nearly doubled its market share form year to year to give it five percent of the total cellphone market. The growth was enough to push it past ZTE, which even with […]
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The launch of the Verizon iPhone 4 in the winter not only helped Apple gain status in the US but saw Android share decline for the first time in two years, the NPD Group found on Thursday. Apple was now the third-largest phone maker of any type in the US at 14 percent, slipping only […]
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Ready, set, the hunt is on for the Droid Charge by Samsung. Verizon Wireless kicks off the Droid Charge Scavenger Hunt starts today in Seattle at 5 pm. Tucked away in a hidden-in-plain-sight location, a Droid Charge is waiting to be claimed by the first person to follow the tweets and the online clues that […]
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Buffalo Technology has taken the wraps off their new, sleek black portable MediaStation 8x DVD Multidrive, an entirely bus-powered external superdrive that features easy plug-and-play use and a two-year warranty. The drive can handle dual-layer DVD+/-R and RW (and 6x max speed rather than 8x for single-layer) and 24x speed for CD-R and CD-RW discs. […]