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Meatwad has taken to the skies in a new iPhone game based on the offbeat adult cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. In MeatStroke, a lovably daft blob of ground beef evades the ire of many suns trying to cook him, while collecting moisture from nearby clouds to stay alive. Sadly, Master Shake and Frylock don’t…
The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform is just a few weeks away and the company is definitely jazzed about it but it’s time for developers to start getting excited because the developer tools have also gone gold. Mobile developers have already had access to the beta version of the tools, as well as training kits…
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is known for saying some bold things and she’s not above slinging some mud at her competitors. The sometimes bawdy Bartz said that the Apple iAd platform won’t be a success due to the iPhone maker’s need for control. “That’s going to fall apart for them,” Bartz said in an interview…
Slacker Radio, a web-based and mobile music streaming service, has just introduced a new subscription tier for on-demand music. What usually happens is Slacker generates a station for you based on a song or artist, which then tweaks upcoming songs based on what you like and what you don’t. The free version is restricted by…
Motorola confirmed on Thursday that it has acquired Aloqa, a technology firm that specializes in delivering location-aware content to mobile phones. Based in Palo Alto, California and Munich, Germany, Aloqa will join Motorola Mobility, the mobile division of Motorola that will be spun off from the new Motorola Solutions, Inc in early 2011. Aloqa’s technology and services uses…
Remember the good ‘ol Apple Newton? Some would argue it was produced well ahead of it’s time… others would argue it was just a plain old flop. Whatever your take is on the early PDA from Apple, one can’t help but feel nostalgic about it… especially if you pack an iPhone, run a MacBook Pro,…
An accessory list for T-Mobile reveals several upcoming handsets including the rumored HTC HD7 and the BlackBerry Bold 9780. This latest leak matches up with the previous roadmap leak which has proven to be fairly accurate at identifying upcoming handsets. The exhaustive list of handsets and the expected arrival date for their accessories include the…
If you dig all of those classic children’s stories from the one and only Dr. Seuss, the good folks at Oceanhouse Media have let me know of a pretty good sale they have on right now. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Green Eggs and Ham (the #4 best-selling children’s book of all time),…
Looking for a stand for your iPhone (or iPod Touch) and want to put your hard-earned money to good use, literally? If you answered yes, all you need to do is grab a $100 bill, and watch the video below for some simple (ok, maybe not so simple) instruction. Put together by Enrique Pardo, this…
A LinkedIn profile suggests that Acer is working on a Windows Phone 7 handset. The profile belongs to an unnamed Microsoft hardware engineer who boasts of having worked with Acer to “enable WP7 keyboards, touch, and sensor drivers”. Though most of the profile is deliberately blurred to protect the identity of this engineer, it is readily apparent…