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Harry Potter fans have waited for the book series to launch as ebooks ever since J.K. Rowling unveiled the Pottermore website last year. It’s been a long wait, but today it’s finally over. Pottermore has flicked the switch and is now selling both a digital version and an audio version of the popular fantasy book…
Tickets for Google I/O went on sale at 7 AM Pacific time and sold out quickly. The first tickets to sell out were the academic tickets at $300 each. These choice tickets were gone within thirty minutes. Shortly after those sold out, the more expensive standard tickets ($900) were no longer available. Google I/O is…
Some Samsung users were surprised to discover a Russian email app installed on their Android device. Early reports thought the software, named MTS Mobile Mail in English, was malware. It was later discovered that the app was legitimate and a glitch was responsible for the errant install. Because of the way it is installed, the…
Clear took the App Store by storm when it landed on the iPhone earlier this year. It logged over 350,000 downloads in a few days and netted the UK developers a cool £169,000 ($268,000 USD). Now that Clear has been out for a while, other developers have had a chance to study the user interface and…
Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China was the winner of Apple’s big 25 billion download promotion. She was revealed as the winner earlier this month and now she has traveled from her hometown to Beijing to collect her prize. According to a report in M.I.C. Gadget, the woman is a new iPhone owner who is still…
Texting while walking can be efficient, but sometimes doing two things at once can be problematic. Just ask Bonnie Miller of Benton Harbor, Michigan. According to a news report from ABC57 News, Mrs. Miller took an unfortunate plunge off a pier while she was texting and walking. The incident happened during an evening walk with her…
Another rumor, this time from from WP Central, suggests the Nokia Lumia 900 will land at AT&T starting April 8th online and in-store on April 9th. This latest information comes from several employees who sent in tips to the Microsoft-oriented site. Another tipster visited an AT&T store where the Lumia 900 was already in the…
HTC Vivid customers should be on the lookout for an update that’ll bring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to their handsets. The update will gradually roll out to phones starting Thursday, March 22 says AT&T. Besides high-profile Android 4.0 features like face unlock, Vivid owners will also get HTC Sense 3.5 and Beats By Dr. Dre audio. Looking further…
Microsoft’s Dev center website is encouraging iOS developers to rethink their apps and port them to Windows 8 as a Metro style app. The article details the design elements that distinguish a Windows 8 metro app from its iPad counterpart. The example focuses on a connected photo journal that lets its users view and manage…
In a post on RIM’s Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog, Adrian Stone, the Director of the BlackBerry Security Incident Response Team (BBSIRT), explained RIM’s stance on Playbook jailbreaking. In a nutshell, he discouraged the practice and asked BlackBerry device owners not to install any jailbreak tools. Stone explains that when a jailbreak is reported, RIM…