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Well, it looks like Eric Schmidt quietly confirmed rumors that Android 4.0 (or possibly just 2.4) Ice Cream Sandwich would arrive in October, though he adds November to the timeframe too. In an interview with Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff, Schmidt informs us: “There’s a hunger for a multi-platform, multi-vendor, highly competitive hardware platform, which is what…
Digitimes is reporting a few interesting numbers for the mobile industry, particularly Apple’s smartphone business. Their research concludes that total smartphone shipments in 2011 will quite possibly exceed 462 million units. This is a 60 percent increase from 2010, in which 288 million units were shipped. Apple alone is expected to ship over 86.4 million…
Earlier this year, Atari released its “Greatest Hits” app into the iOS App Store, which brought famous games like Asteroids, Centipede, Pong, and many others to the iPhone and iPad. But the app lacks one important feature that gives us all a feeling of nostalgia: a joystick. It looks like Atari wants to bring that…
Last night, TechCrunch writer MG Siegler began teasing us on his Twitter about a big scoop he’d be writing about today. He is reporting that not only does the rumored Amazon Kindle tablet exist, but he has seen one with his own eyes and played with it. According to the report, the device will target…
It’s a damn shame we no longer get immersed in bubbles in the same way we did as children. But Sprint cares about us and the need for bubbles in our lives. Thank you, Sprint, for launching Bubble Mania 3D brought to you by the HTC EVO 3D. Sprint put together an approximately two-minute video…
Just when you thought the location troubles in the mobile industry were finally over, Microsoft is now facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly tracking the location of Windows Phone 7 users without their permission. Apparently, when a user decides to turn off all location services on their device, Microsoft ignores the request and proceeds…
Verizon Wireless announced that the Motorola Droid 2 will finally get an update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread and all its glory. The carrier didn’t announce a specific date for the roll-out to commence, so Droid 2 owners should be on the look-out for an over-the-air software update. Android Gingerbread will bring a lot of new…
Those words will echo throughout households of the future. The new LG Roboking VR680VMNC (did you get all that?) robotic vacuum is set to debut in Korea this month, showcasing the company’s effort to add advanced tech to appliances. It features three different cameras plus sensors galore to move around the house efficiently and has several…
Nielsen just released the latest statistics on smartphone usage in the United States. Slowly but surely, smartphones continue to take over the entire mobile phone industry. As of July 2011, 40 percent of all mobile phones in use are smartphones. The other 60 percent are feature phones, but that number shrinks with every day that…
CNET is reporting today that an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar yet again. This time around, it’s the iPhone 5. Apparently, this unreleased Apple product went missing at Cava 22 in San Francisco back in July. The company was aware of the problem at the time and quickly sought its safe…