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If our hands-on video of the BlackBerry Torch 9800 hasn’t whet your palate for RIM’s first slider, maybe some smoothly-crafted TV marketing will. AT&T has started hitting the airwaves to build up hype for the lighting of the Torch this Thursday. The device packs RIM’s brand new OS 6, along with an VGA touchscreen, 5…
The wait is almost over, fellow Android users who also happen to be TweetDeck fans. The TweetDeck Twitter client should be coming to Android in the form of a public beta some time at the end of this week. While there are some great Twitter clients out there for the OS, TweetDeck is sure to…
Best Buy is reportedly developing a tablet device to compete with the Apple iPad. Best Buy CTO and Geek Sqaud founder, Robert Stephens has used Twitter to shed some light on this new tablet device. Recently, Stephens posted photos of a non-functional prototype tablet that was used to test different form factors, including one with…
Android is no stranger to the battlefield, as multiple applications have been made with the platform for military operations. This time around, though, we’re seeing some hardware in the mix, the arm-mounted Android computer from General Dynamics. The General Dynamics GD300 is an 8-ounce GPS unit that’s worn on the wrist, sports an 8 hour…
Right on cue, AT&T has released its U-verse iPhone app and the program enables U-verse customers to download their shows and watch them on the go without a data connection. The AT&T U-verse Apple iPhone app enables users to sync with their home DVR service and download shows and movies over WiFi. You’ll then be…
Apple has apparently signed a deal with a company called Liquidmetal Technologies for “the firm’s advanced ‘amorphous’ metal alloys.” Sounds like some Terminator 2 T-1000 stuff to me. The agreement between Apple and Liquidmetal Technologies filed with the SEC shows that Apple can make use of the latter’s intellectual property whenever and however it wants…
Microsoft Research made public several new research papers that shed some light on a project with the codename of Menlo. This top secret project was rumored to be an attempt by Microsoft to develop a novel operating system for mobile devices and these newly published documents confirm this assumption, in part. According to the publicly available…
Google and Verizon held a press conference today to address concerns that it is conspiring to undermine net neutrality. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said the companies are committed to an open Internet for wireline broadband and for wireless broadband to have similar openness with a few caveats. The companies issued…
Shortly after we heard that Kmart’s $150 Android tablet, the Augen GenTouch78 was running a pirated version of Android OS, the company has come out and said that the addition of the app was “overlooked,” and was not meant to ship with it installed. The issue at stake is that the Augen Android tablet shipped…
The Puma phone was announced a while back, and we really caught a good glimpse of it around Mobile World Congress, but now it has been unboxed and it has made us a little curious. From the looks of things, it seems like Sagem, who makes the Puma phone, is really going for a strong…