Samsung has just announced that the international version of the Galaxy S II will get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich starting on March 10th, which is tomorrow. Now before you jump and down, you really should make sure that you have the right device. If you purchased your Galaxy S II from your operator, chances…
Archives for 2012
Sony PlayStation SDK open beta coming in April, official version later in the year
Sony will be releasing the open beta version of its PlayStation Suite SDK to content developers in April 2012 and the official version later in the year. Building on the previous closed beta release, the SDK will offer a “more streamlined content development environment for content developers,” no matter how small or big they [developers]…
Rumor: TSMC is having some issues cranking out 28 nm chips, Snapdragon S4 may be delayed
Qualcomm, NVIDIA, ST-Ericsson, they don’t actually make chips, they design them. Companies like TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) are responsible for producing the actual physical chip, and the folks at SemiAccurate are saying that they’re having some issues cranking out 28 nm products. To be more precise, they say TSMC hasn’t produced a single 28…
Archos updates its G9 tablets with Ice Cream Sandwich
Archos produces a variety of tablets and soon several of its mid-range models will get an update to Ice Cream Sandwich. The first tablet to get the ICS update will be the G9 series of tablets including the Archos 80 G9 and the Archos 101 G9. Both the Classic and Turbo models will get the…
Microsoft to shut down Windows Mobile Marketplace on May 9
Back in the day, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Palm OS were the smartphone kings. The three platforms competed for market share and pushed what you could do with handsets. That was then and this in now and now Microsoft is preparing to take its Windows Mobile (not Windows Phone) marketplace offline. The Redmond company sent…
New Path 2.1 update with developer API just unlocked a world of sharing
Path is out with version 2.1 of its mobile social networking app and it has a bunch of new sharing features in time for SXSW 2012, including a new API for developers to tap into Path and allow users to share virtually all activity on any service. The first to utilize this API is Nike+…
Tethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1 available for non-A5 devices
Well, this didn’t take long. The iOS hacking community has cooked up another jailbreak, this time for the newly released iOS 5.1 update. Now users have the ability to tether their iProducts to whatever computer or device they please, courtesy of an updated version to the Redsn0w jailbreak tool. But there is a catch, in…
Microsoft challenges OnLive over its Windows-on-iPad and Android software
OnLive is facing some heat from Microsoft today. The company, which provides an application that allows users of Apple’s iPad and Google Android tablets to run a hosted Windows 7 environment on their tablets, is reportedly utilizing Microsoft’s software without the proper licenses in place. In a blog post on Microsoft’s Volume Licensing blog, Corporate VP…
Flight Control Rocket for iOS navigates its way to space towards a March release
One of Firemint’s first, and some might argue most addictive title, was Flight Control. After its initial release on the iPhone, its been made available on Android, Windows Phone 7, and even a Mac version. The time for a Flight Control sequel has been long overdue, but fans of the original game won’t have to…
Mobile World Congress 2012: Huawei Booth Photo Tour
Not only did Huawei bring the world its own quad-core processor that will ship in the upcoming Ascend Quad HD, but its booth was probably one of the most ridiculous we’ve seen this year at Mobile World Congress 2012. Ridiculous in a very good way, though. Basically one side of the entire booth was a…









