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Urbanspoon, the location-based restaurant-finding app cross-bred with a slot machine, has just added the ability to add pictures and reviews to individual menu items. That also means you can see what dishes look like at particular restaurants, and see if they taste as good as they look. The app’s also available for iPad, Android, and…
Fandango is trying to make it easier to plan your movie-going experience and the just-released Fandango iPad app brings some visual panache to what you’d expect from the service. One of the cool new things about the Fandango iPad app is a feature that it’s calling “The Pulse.” This provides you with a real-time update…
The Facebook app for Windows Phone 7 has just been updated and the world’s largest social network has added some much-needed features to its app for Microsoft smartphone platform. The first big addition to the Facebook Windows Phone 7 app is the ability to broadcast your location with Places. This feature is similar to the…
HTC announced today that it is opening a new R&D office in Durham, North Carolina. The office will employ 45 people and will focus on wireless technology research. The North Carolina facility will be first East Coast location for HTC and the third in the United States. HTC currently operates an office out of Seattle…
Remember that Infinity Blade update I was telling you about last week? Well, it’s here! That’s right, if you crack open the App Store, and flick through your updates tab, an updated version of Infinity Blade should be waiting for your install. For real. The update is dubbed ‘content pack #1’ by the developers, and…
The ViewSonic G tablet is one of the few Tegra 2-toting Android tablets that you can buy at the moment, but you won’t be finding it at Staples anytime soon. Yesterday we heard that the tablet may have been pulled because of a manufacturing error, but that’s not the case. According to ViewSonic, the G…
Today the FCC discussed the future of the open internet, and how service providers will be able to control access and speed of access to particular sites, services, and apps – policies collectively referred to as “net neutrality.” Google and Verizon have a vested interest in wireless internet, and together defended it as separate from…
SIM card manufacturer Gemalto confirmed that wireless carriers can lock LTE SIMs, forcing them to be used with specific plans or preventing them from being used on other Long Term Evolution networks. This report comes from Jean-Louis Carrara, VP of business development at Gemalto, who was speaking with PC Magazine. When speaking about carrier locking,…
Whether officially or unofficially, the Gingerbread version of Android – or 2.3 – is making its rounds. This morning we caught wind of the update readying for the Nexus One – the original Google phone. While the update simmers until it’s ready, which should be in the coming weeks, some clever hackers were able to…
The Apple TV is still considered a “hobby” by Steve Jobs but that hobby is on track to sell more than a million units by this week, the company said. The Apple TV was revamped in September to be a sleeker and, some would say, less advanced device. Gone is the ability to play local…