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The Limited Edition R2-D2 Motorola Droid 2 for Verizon, due to launch at the end of this month, has made a cameo appearance on Verizon’s website and it’s a beauty. Not only does the Droid 2 come with a special paint job that George Lucas makes a penny off of for every unit sold, but…
Here’s an accessory for those of you playing a guitar and also lovin’ their respective phones. With Guitar Sidekick, you’ll be able to mount your handset (or media player) to a guitar, start some app and let it loose. Guitar Sidekick could be used for video lessons, lyrics teleprompter, audio recorder, metronome, tabs display and…
One of the features in Apple’s upcoming 4.1 version of iOS is the ability to capture high dynamic range (HDR) photos, and on paper it sounds like such a feature should increase picture quality, but in the 5 minute 34 second demo by TechThrow below it looks like the implementation was rushed, wasn’t tested thoroughly…
Although location-based advertising is still in its infancy, there are no doubts it’s poised for massive growth. According to a new study from ABI Research, businesses will spend $1.8 billion on it in 2015 as part of their overall mobile marketing budgets. ABI’s practice director Neil Strother says that location-based advertising is still a very…
Leader in movie servers Kaleidescape is out with its own iPhone application, simplifying the movie-shopping experience for its customers. The free to download app scans a DVD or Blu-ray Disc UPC barcode, and then displays whether or not that title is on the owner’s Kaleidescape System, and if so, in what format. As a result,…
Developer of user interface Thinix released Touch VDI, a touch friendly solution for Microsoft Windows based virtual computers. Their idea is simple – to bring super touch-friendly user experience a la Apple iPad to the Windows tablet community. Since one of their main markets is the health industry, they point an example of how Touch…
Don’t know about you, but I’m a big fan of audiobooks. I listen to them when in a gym, when doing dishes, cleaning around the house and all those other “brainless” activities, if ya know what I mean. So I’m personally glad to report that the Audible application is now available for the Android platform!…
VimpelCom and Orascom are talking! If you remember, the $25 billion rumor proved to be true – the newly formed VimpelCom wants Orascom’s assets in Italy (Wind) and also 51% stake in Orascom itself. According to Moscow-based newspaper Vedomosti, VimpelCom’s board met in Amsterdam last week to discuss the deal. The company’s two main shareholders…
Distimo, which we know (or that’s just me calling them like that) as Google Analytics of mobile apps, is out with its July 2010 report. As usual, they don’t talk about Apple’s AppStore only, but also cover Google Android Market, Blackberry App World (worldwide), Nokia Ovi Store, Palm App Catalog and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.…
Rhomobile announced RhoSync 2.0, the latest version of what they say is the “only open source sync server for enterprise data.” It is a standalone server that keeps application data current and accessible on users’ smartphones even when offline, and is available both as a hosted Software as a Service (via RhoHub) and as on-premises…