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Underneath all the CES craze, Google manged to push out an update to its Google Maps application. The new update ushers in much needed improvements to battery life while at the same time improving location tracking within Google Latitude, which is notorious when it comes to sucking the life out of your battery (trust me, I…
Apple confirmed it has acquired flash memory parts maker Anobit. The company is based in Israel and has been vital in making flash storage for devices such as the iPhone and iPad. The acquisition will help Apple in the long-run with its clear shift toward an all-flash future — flash storage, that is. As one…
This could be a good year for the Finnish-company as Morgan Stanley expects shipments of Nokia’s new Windows Phones to hit 37 million units in 2012, and 64 million units in 2013. I know, this sounds like a lofty prediction, but if you consider the company’s growing list of handsets currently hitting the market like…
Shazam today announced its rolling out its first new app called Shazam Player which is a free replacement for the iOS music player. The new app provides a respectable set of features which include synced lyrics, social sharing, smart playlists, bios and more. The mobile music company packed its new player with some prominent additions such…
Marc Ecko, who is famous for his designer clothes, is making the jump into the world of tech with the release of a Bluetooth speaker called Spray. Today the company officially debuted its Spray speaker adding it to its Ecko UNLTD.SOUND line of powerful, stylish mobile audio products. The new Bluetooth speaker will be distributed…
ViewSonic is preparing to stun the world with a super cheap tablet that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Set to be released in late Q1, the new ViewPad E70 ships with a 1GHz processor (not sure it’s dual-core) and 4GB memory storage. Moreover, it sports a front-facing camera (for video calls), Wi-Fi connectivity support,…
We’ve already talked about the xpPhone in the past. You know that’s an OQO-like computer with cellular connectivity and all other goodies you would expect from a modern smartphone. At that point, xpPhone was running Windows XP (as its name suggests) and now they’ve announced a model with Windows 7 that is also capable of…
Toshiba seems to be planning to introduce an array of new tablets with the Japanese company showing off some cool models at the CES in Las Vegas. More precisely, they have devices with 5.1, 7.7 and 13.3-inch screens on display at their booth (as you can see from the gallery below). Unfortunately we’ve no clue…
As far as we know Asus is the first major company to release an Ice Cream Sandwich update for one of its products. That product is the Asus Transformer Price, which when used with a keyboard dock practically morphs into a netbook. Unfortunately we don’t have the change log, but we did hear that once…
With each successive generation of electronic readers prices inevitably come down due to advances in technology and manufacturing. That begs the question, when are eBook readers going to get so cheap that they’ll be practically free? We saw Amazon launch a $79 Kindle back in September of last year, and as cheap as it is…