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YouMail launches WhoAreYou: visual caller ID app for Android
The makers of the YouMail visual voicemail app released a fresh new calling tool in the Android Market today. It’s WhoAreYou, and this creatively titled app answers that question by bringing visual caller ID to smartphones at last. There’s a number of handy features in WhoAreYou. The main one, of course, is seeing who called. When the majority of phone calls shifted from being made on home phones to cell phones and smartphones, caller ID didn’t follow the trend. Sure you can see phone numbers on incoming calls, but never … Read more
George Tinari
Evernote launches new iOS apps to help you remember food and people
It looks like Evernote is starting to branch out a little from their usual cut-and-dry cloud storage service. Today they’ve launched two new iOS apps, called Evernote Hello and Evernote Food tailored to saving information specifically about certain foodstuffs and certain people. Hello goes a little bit beyond just recording contact data in a few interesting ways. After punching in their contact data, people are e-mail the contact info of the phone owner, so the swap can come around full loop, even if both parties don’t have the app. Hello … Read more
Simon Sage
BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing 2.0 app makes calls out of e-mails
Over the summer, RIM launched a call conferencing app which tied tightly into the native BlackBerry calendar, phone, and e-mail functions. Today they’ve tacked on a few new features. One is the ability to automatically generate a conference call entry in your calendar based on information within e-mail messages, like the body, subject, and recipients. Within the phone app, the conference call’s name shows up as the caller ID when you’re getting dialed in. To make setting up these meetings easier, there are 10 presets available right off the bat, … Read more
Simon Sage
Encyclopaedia Britannica arrives on iOS for a monthly fee
Encyclopaedia Britannica released an official app for the iPhone and iPod touch to give users access to over 80,000 articles overflowing with knowledge. Not long after the announcement that the encyclopedia would be released for iPad, it’s now been downsized for the remaining iOS devices. There’s already a few similar apps in the App Store, but nothing has been official until now. The app is nicely designed with some handy features helpful for browsing and reading through articles. The Home tab has what appears to be a Bing-inspired search function with … Read more
George Tinari
Microsoft Office coming to iPad in 2012?
Microsoft is in the process of scaling down its massively popular Office suite of applications for the Apple iPad, one report says. Obviously the iPad gives developers a big market with proven success for selling apps, and Microsoft may be realizing that. Next to Windows, Microsoft Office is arguably the most successful suite of software programs to come out of Redmond. From day one, Apple has had its iWork suite available for iPad, and iPhone and iPod touch compatibility was recently added. Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are in the App Store … Read more
George Tinari
New chip allows for mind-blowing wireless speeds
Rohm, a semiconductor manufacturer based in Japan, teamed up with researchers at Osaka University to develop and unveil a new chip that would allow for wireless data speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, which breaks any records you can find. The magic happens in the utilization of terahertz waves to transmit data. Even with this level of speed, Rohm promises that 30 Gbps isn’t far in the future. Don’t think the company was only able to accomplish this by producing a large chip because it’s only 2 cm long by 1 … Read more
George Tinari
Google successfully patents Android unlock pattern and other new gestures
Google has been granted patents today for the unique way one can unlock their Android phone and judging by the patents, Google is looking to take the functionality a few steps further. When you are preparing to unlock your device, a screen comes up with nine dots that form to make a grid. Connecting the dots and drawing a pattern — which you can customize in the Settings — then unlocks the phone and brings you to the home screen. If you’re familiar with HTC’s Sense UI, you know that … Read more
George Tinari
New battery technology will allow for devices with 10x longer battery life
Do you think the 10-hour battery life on your iPad 2 is impressive? Imagine 100 hours of battery life, it may not be that far off. That’s what engineers at Northwestern University have technically accomplished with their new lithium-ion battery technology. By poking millions of tiny holes in it, the battery can hold a charge ten times longer and can recharge ten times faster. In the future, these super batteries could dramatically reduce how often we have to recharge our mobile devices. The engineers predict the batteries could potentially get … Read more
George Tinari
Project Black Mirror upgrades Siri from voice recognition to mind reading
Some hobbyist hackers have rigged up an iPhone 4S to collect brain wave patterns from some simple ECG pads, translate them into synthesized speech, which is in turn pumped through the 3.5 mm headphone jack, and recognized by Siri as a usable command. Besides pressing the home key to initiate Siri, all you have to do is think your command, and your iPhone 4S will hop to it. The engineers expect that they’ll even be able to eliminate the need to press the home key, making it fully automatic. So … Read more
Simon Sage
Google kills Gmail app for BlackBerry
Google has announced that they’re ceasing support for their dedicated BlackBerry Gmail app in favour of working on working on their web apps. While you’ll still be able to use the app if you’ve already got it installed, it won’t be available for download after November 22. It might be easy to cast this as yet another doom-and-gloom story for RIM, but siding with the web is very much in-line with Google’s ongoing development strategy, and besides, Gmail integration with the native BlackBerry e-mail client is about as good as … Read more