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Whisper is a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch that picks up where Post Secret left off when it shut down at the beginning of January. It lets you anonymously share your secrets with the rest of the Whisper community using photos and text overlays. The app reminds me somewhat of Pinterest. It’s…
Nokia has teamed up with The Dark Knight Rises movie to deliver a special edition back cover for the Lumia 710 Windows Phone handset with the movie logo on the back. It comes in the standard cyan, magenta, yellow, black, or white colors available with the regular Lumia 710. If you drop by a T-Mobile store,…
Today is not a good day for Alnoor Ebrahim. He’s a 57-year-old U.S. citizen born in Tanzania who used to work for AT&T and has just been sentenced to up to two years in prison for illegally sharing secrets regarding Apple and RIM’s sales numbers. In a Manhattan court room, Ebrahim pleaded guilty to selling insider…
The Nokia 808 PureView smartphone is coming to the United States. It’s famous for having a 41MP camera sensor that snaps amazingly high quality photos and is sure to make photographers drool. Later this week, buyers will be able to pre-order the device on Amazon. It won’t be tied with any carrier or contracts so…
Microsoft announced Surface, a line of Windows 8 tablets tonight at the “big event” everyone’s been talking about. The two models are similar to the company’s strategy for different versions of Windows — there’s a Windows RT-based tablet for mainstream consumers and a professional tablet for users with higher-end needs. Both tablets feature a 10.6-inch…
For the first time, Microsoft added the Windows Phone Tango software update to the online Windows Phone update history page. The details of the update are present and they only show minor improvements to the OS. Shortly after Microsoft posted the release notes, the company pulled them, but not quickly enough. The new build number…
Mozilla confirmed today that its working on entering the iPad browser market with prototype “Junior.” Though that’s the code name for now, it presumably will be a Firefox app for the iPad. Mozilla is calling Junior “an iPad browser that makes browsing more fun, more ergonomic and re-thinks browser user experience from the ground up.”…
Now that classes are over and we approach the beginning of summer in about a week, the type of apps I use on a daily basis shift from productivity and utility to apps geared toward traveling or gaming — apps that promote a bit more relaxation, if you will. The top five apps I’ve been…
The Symbian-based Nokia PureView 808 has been getting a lot of attention because Nokia touts that it has a 41MP camera. There was a lot of skepticism about this and whether it’s truely 41 megapixels, but now CNET Asia has a photo shootout between the PureView 808, Apple iPhone 4S, and HTC One X and we…
Rumor has it that as podcasts slowly begin to become more popular, Apple is planning to remove them from iTunes on iOS and give them a dedicated app in the App Store. Users will be able to download the Podcasts app on their own time and consume the audio without the distractions of other types…