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Love TripIt? If you’ve used it once – you probably can’t live without it. Its capability to quickly make itineraries from email confirmations rocks. If you happen to be a manager at some small company (or its owner), you may want the same capability for your employees, while at the same time being able to…
Independent mobile video service Vuclip is out with its monthly Global Video Insights Report, which this time also covers the biggest searches of the entire year. Without further ado, the top 10 U.S. searches on Vuclip in 2011 were: Lady Gaga Kim Kardashian Nicki Minaj Shakira Family Guy Michael Jackson Justin Bieber Drake Lil Wayne…
Both the iPhone Dev Team and pod2g posted updates about the upcoming A5 jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. According to both sources, the technical challenges behind the jailbreak are completed and the developers are working on bug fixes before releasing the tool to the public. Pod2g says you’ll be “able to free your iPhone in…
Researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology Arman Ahnood thinks today’s OLED screens waste energy and there’s room for improvements. The extra light phone displays emit could be reused by putting a thin-film PV cells around the display’s edges. Here’s the idea: The photovoltaic (PV) cell takes advantage of the smartphone display’s large footprint. In…
Samsung launched a new software update for its big Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet. Unfortunately this firmware version doesn’t bring Ice Cream Sandwich; rather it comes with a number of tweaks that overall improve the phone’s capability. Here’s what’s included: Keyboard now has five rows with the number row being always visible. Moreover, there’s a new “one…
Sprint is rolling out updates for three of its smartphones, including the HTC EVO 4G, HTC Design 4G and Samsung Epic 4G, all of which will hopefully remove the Carrier IQ software (that’s what “Security Update” could be). Here’s what’s included with each device’s firmware update: HTC EVO 4G Security Update Updated Peep client (to…
Samsung has teamed-up with Visit Britain to launch “The Best of Britain” app that will be available exclusively on Samsung Galaxy devices. Obviously the idea is use the much-hyped 2012 Olympics to promote Sammy’s products in the UK and to all those visiting the country during the big event. To that end, the application will…
We’ve already talked about the LG Prada 3.0‘s quest to the UK. The sexy device has already been announced by few phone retailers, which will offer it either unlocked or with a carrier contract. Now we have the first mobile operator joining the game – T-Mobile. Unfortunately the local branch of Deutsche Telekom hasn’t revealed…
Motorola RAZR in white will hit the British market in mid/late February when interested folks will be able to buy it for 430 GBP (roughly $664) unlocked. You can already pre-order the sexy device from Clove and wait for about 20 days to get it. Alternatively, I’m sure other phone retailers as well as mobile…
Motorola Motoluxe and Defy Mini — two entry/mid-level Android smartphones announced for the markets of China, Europe and Latin America — are now available for pre-ordering in the UK through Clove. The first of the two costs 258 GBP (almost $400) with VAT, while the second one could be yours for 174.99 GBP (about $270).…