Mafia Maps is a new application for the iPhone users, documenting real crimes committed throughout New York over a 70 year period. From Murder Incorporated raising hell in East New York to Crazy Joe Gallo knocking heads in Red Hook to John Gotti gracing the cover of Time magazine, the decades covered here represent organized…
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Polycom to bring its Innovative Unified Communication technology to Samsung Galaxy Tab
In what seems as part of the efforts to pitch the Galaxy Tab toward business users, Samsung is teaming up with Polycom to deliver Unified Communications (UC) to the Tab users. Under the deal, Polycom will develop standards-based video applications to be embedded and distributed on the Android-based tablet. We don’t have all the details,…
Evernote for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad updated with iOS 4.2 support, image multi-select, audio note improvements and more
Evernote has issued another update to its iOS application, further making it the note taking app of choice for many iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users. Here’s what’s new: Support for iOS 4.2, which is mostly important for iPad users as they’ll finally get multi-tasking. Image multi-select, allowing users to include more than a single…
Nokia E7 hits the FCC, supports 3G wherever you are on the planet; product manual also published
Nokia’s upcoming Symbian^3 powered E7 has found itself on American shores in a laboratory awaiting certification by the FCC according to Engadget. The sucessor to the long in the tooth E90 is expected to start shipping next month, so it may or may not hit a store shelf near you in time for Christmas. Features…
Dale Carnegie Training’s Secrets to Success app with updated with iPhone 4 support, social networks integration
The popular Secrets to Success iPhone app has been recently updated. It got a very few new features, but I find it important to talk about it nonetheless — after all, we’re talking about the work of m/f Dale Carnegie who is admired by many, truly yours included. 😉 There are few things included in…
Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T hire General Electric Executive to lead NFC base mobile payment effort [ISIS]
Three out of the four mobile operators that dominate America’s wireless landscape: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, are putting their differences aside and are going to be working together to create a new company, in conjunction with credit card processor Discover and the UK banking institution Barclays, to bring near field communication (NFC) based mobile payments…
Street Fighter IV for iPhone Update Coming Soon (Sagat Included)
For many (including myself), the Street Fighter series by Capcom is an iconic one… a series that draws back many fond memories of sitting in front of the old tube TV, thrashing away as the classic NES, and Super NES controllers. Some would consider the time spent playing these games as time wasted… For me,…
22 year old woman killed in accident at Nokia factory in India
A 22 year old woman who the police are referring to as S Ambiga was involved in a lethal accident at a Nokia manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur where she had been working for over 3 years. On Sunday, October 31st, her neck got caught in a machine located in the “loader phase-III” area of the…
115 MHz of spectrum to be made available in America within 5 years
Never before in the history of man have companies paid so much for what amounts to absolutely nothing but thin air. Spectrum, the invisible gold of our time, is a precious and limited asset needed by mobile operators to beam their signals into your home, onto the streets, and alongside the roads you drive on,…
LG breaks 1 million sold milestone with the Android-powered Optimus One
LG’s Android-powered Optimus One is selling briskly and has hit the 1 million milestone just 40 days after the handset’s launch. The Optimus One has a nice mix of features and low pricing that makes it attractive to consumers looking to move into a smartphone. The Optimus One is the fastest selling handsets in the…