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Ugh, dating. It’s an awful enterprise, fraught with awkwardness and hangovers. A company called Hinge is trying to change all of that, by tapping into the biggest repository of potential dates imaginable; mutual friends on Facebook. Hinge is one of the SXSW Accelerator finalists, and is part of 1776, a new startup campus in Washington DC. It makes…
NOOK users are getting some freebies thrown their way courtesy of Barnes and Noble. In a similar fashion to Amazon, the company is offering free books and apps weekly — every Friday to be exact. From now on, Barnes and Noble will be offering a NOOK app as well as a book selection. Barnes and…
A few years ago, Facebook got together with HTC and the Status was released, a handset that featured a QWERTY keyboard and a dedicated Facebook button that was poised to revolutionize social networking on mobile devices. The result? Well, the Status didn’t take off like expected. At all.w Facebook is not taking this sitting down however, as a…
It seems HTC just can’t catch a break these days. According to industrial sources, HTC’s flagship HTC One device may be delayed, as some critical hardware components are in short supply. Because of the shortage of the voice coil motor and the camera module, the HTC One may only be shipping 800,000 to 1,200,000 One handsets over…
With so many games out there for Android, I still find myself playing games from gaming’s good ol’ days, a time when animated sprites moved around in side scrolling adventures, when gore in video games was hard to find, and the word polygon was only something you heard about in math class. Here are 5…
According to a report from N4BB, T-Mobile will be releasing the BlackBerry Q10 sometime in May of this year.The rumor comes to us courtesy of a Blackberry rep at a local BlackBerry Experience Forum, where he confirmed the above rumor. While T-Mobile has announced that it would be offering the BlackBerry Z10 upon release in March, the only U.S.…
With the official release of the Android-based Ouya console on the horizon, the official game store has now gone live, claiming that any app uploaded through the developer portal will be available when the device starts shipping to its Kickstarter backers. Developers who have previously uploaded apps are in for a bit of a headache,…
AT&T has confirmed that its HTC One X will be getting an update that will include Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The update will be rolling out OTA today, and will bring with it several updates and some new features to play with. Included in the update are some new apps from AT&T, including AT&T Locker,…
Owners of the DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX are in for the Jelly Bean treatment today,via a new update which adds the functionality of Jelly Bean while gutting most of Motorola and Version’s infamous bloatware. The update has not begun OTA deployment yet, but can be installed manually. We’re still not sure when it will…
The Google Shopper Android app has received an update today, bringing with it improved search results and location data collection which will improve users shopping experience. Google Shopper will now have a slideshow view of products while browsing, and search results will retrieve the most popular products for your browsing pleasure. Improved location detection enables users to more easily find products…