THQ will be releasing Ratatouille: Cheese Rush, allowing gamers to play with the beloved rat Remy across multiple levels. The goal is to find 15 gourmet cheeses from different environments — such as Mabel’s Farmhouse, the sewers of Paris, and Chez Gusteau’s restaurant — featured in the Ratatouille movie. THQ is promising “eye-popping visual FX”,…
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WordPress admin interface optimized to work with iPhone, other mobile phones
iPhone users who happen to write a blog, here’s a good news for ya. Thanks to the new plugin called WPhone, you’ll be able to add new and manage existing posts right from your shiny handset, wherever you are. Apparently, WPhone is quite fast — all pages are NOT ONLY pared down to their bare…
Free magazines for iPhone/iPod Touch users from Zinio
Want free magazines? Sure you do. In case you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, you can now access the Zinio’s iPhone-dedicated website and read some of the most popular magazines on your beloved device, while on-the-go. At the moment, Zinio is providing iPhone and iPod Touch users with a free access to such…
Another day, another Nokia patent: Dual screens
The dual screen concept is not a new one. Somewhere in Asia there is a prototype on someones desk that uses eInk for the second display, enabling contextual keys. LG also filed a patent similar to Nokia’s dual screen concept. Let us not forget the recently launched LG Venus on Verizon, it too has dual…
Nokia Sports Tracker goes Web 2.0
Remember Nokia Sports Tracker? Well, the Finish giant decided to improve it… significantly! The new version — still in beta — adds a Web 2.0 kind of service on top of the application component. Basically, now you’ll be able to log your workouts online, analyze them (speed, distance, etc), and compare the data with other…
Qualcomm gets a win against Nokia
Qualcomm sure has a bit of legal good fortune to be thankful for today. The International Trade Commission (ITC) has just thrown out one of the lawuits brought against Qualcomm that would have barred the chipmaker’s chipsets from being sold in the US. Following on a Dutch court’s recent decision to throw out Nokia’s patent…
Reminder: Handy Taskman Contest still running
On Monday 3 lucky people will get a licence for Handy Taskman (read my review here). The rules are simple, go to this blog post and leave a comment telling me (the world really) what small and handy application you would like to see be developed for S60. The top 3 ideas get a registration…
Weekend Update: Grab your latest firmwares (Nokia N95 8GB, N81, E61i)
The Nokia E61i, N81 and N95 8 GB recently got firmware updates. Yes you still need a SIM card inside your device and a USB cable to upgrade, which is a sad shame. As Ricky pointed out a while back, why can’t we upgrade our devices over the air or via wifi? My Sony Ericsson…
Happy Thanksgiving Day! We’re thankful for our readers
Thanksgiving Day is here! We love turkey and ham and stuffing and pie and…well you get the point. We have a lot to be thankful for this year – great gadgets, great friends, but most of all, we’re thankful for our dear readers. At the risk of sounding a bit sappy, we’d like to take…
Another upside-down iPhone – this time on TV
Here’s another iPhone that’s had its butt-end confused for its top-end. Aren’t there people getting paid to make sure stupid slips like this don’t make it into the production version of any film or TV show? Actually, we’re pretty sure there are – which begs the question, where were they during the taping of this…