Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project made a post-election nationwide survey of U.S. adults to find out how and whether U.S. adults have used mobile phones in the 2010 mid-term election campaign. The results are in, suggesting that more than a quarter of American adults (26%) used their mobile phones to learn about…
Archives for 2010
Starting with Android 2.3 Gingerbread ext4 will be the default file system
File systems are a topic no one really likes to talk about since they’re technically complicated and not really worth knowing about; as long as you can find your files and folders why should you care if the partition on your hard drive is using NTFS or FAT? With that out of the way, let’s…
Samsung Wave users in Europe to get the Bada 1.2 update in early next year
According to Samsung Bada’s official Twitter account, the Bada 1.2 update for unlocked Wave-ownin’ Europeans will be released in early next year. After the unlocked versions are cleared, Samsung will make the same update available for users who bought the device from carriers. As you may know from our previous post(s), Bada 1.2 update will…
Scanbuy survey: Mobile barcode scanning is going mainstream for the holidays
Scanbuy has recently conducted a poll on Twitter and Facebook to discover how consumers are utilizing mobile barcodes while shopping over the holidays. The results are promising with more than half of those surveyed scanning a barcode – 57% doing so at least once, 40% scanning a mobile barcode five or more times, with an…
LG C310: QWERTY feature phone that packs two SIM card slots [$200]
Earlier this year we brought you news of the LG C300 and C320, both QWERTY feature phones, with the latter coming in a unique slide up QWERTY form factor that few device manufacturers have dabbled with; check out Simon’s review of the Android powered Motorola Spice if you digg the style. Anyway, back to LG,…
Travel Through Time, 80’s Style: Transform your iPhone 4 into a Flux Capacitor
If you’re like me, the Back to the Future Trilogy was well and truly part of your happy childhood. With fond memories of those movies clear as day in your head, chances are you will do anything to make time travel possible… and, if you know your facts about time travel like I do, you’ll…
AT&T announces ‘It Can Wait’ campaign on the dangers of text messaging and driving
“When I got to the scene, her face was disfigured from sliding down the roadway.” That is Officer Grant Hendricks of the Missouri State Highway Patrol on the death of Mariah, a teenage girl who was just a day away from graduation when she answered a text message while driving and collided with a bridge…
REVIEW: Motorola Spice XT300 (Android Portrait Slider)
The Motorola Spice made its first official appearance in Brazil, bearing a striking resemblance to the Palm Pre form factor. There was obviously a lot of interest in a phone that had the same kind of smooth curves but ran Android instead. The entry-level specs would have turned off anyone looking for the best of…
Back to the Future Part One Available for your Desktop – iOS Version Coming Soon!
I promised to keep all of you gamers up-to-date on the new ‘Back to the Future‘ title coming out for iOS… and over the holidays, there was some movement on this front. Just before Christmas, Telltale games released the PC and Mac version of Back to the Future: Episode 1… much to my delight. It’s…
Amazon: iPad owners buying Kindle, too
The introduction of the Apple iPad and iBooks had some predicting that the Amazon Kindle and others e-readers were heading for a quick demise. That’s not the case, Amazon says, as many readers are purchasing an iPad and Kindle. “We’re seeing that many of the people who are buying Kindles also own an LCD tablet.…