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Today Google launched their own e-book store with dedicated shopping and reading apps for iPhone and Android. Currently, the store is limited to the U.S., but offers over 3 million titles to anyone with an Android 2.1 device or iOS 3.0 device and up. You can do searches within an e-book, adjust text formatting for…
We’ve got another BlackBerry PlayBook video to add to our growing collection. Last week, Rogers announced that they would be carrying the RIM’s first tablet, but they also took some time to give a quick walk-through at their tablet event. The demo was done by David Neale, RIM’s VP of Special Projects, who noted that…
The Motorola XT720 popped up its head at Mobile World Congress last year as an obscure Android handset due for Korea that would probably never find its way to North America. The months rolled on, and there were a few releases in Europe and a limited U.S. release through Cincinnati Bell, but as Motorola’s other…
Earlier this week, Apple pulled the Manhattan Declaration iPhone app from the iTunes app store for offending large groups of people. Well, it looks like Apple has offended even more people by revoking the application; the Manhattan Declaration earned the ire of some 7,000 iPhone users initially, but Christians have started an online petition of…
RIM’s second flip phone, the BlackBerry Style 9670, is available now on Telus for $79.99 on a three-year contract. Telus started recieving dummy units a few weeks ago, and we can only assume that Bell will be offering their Style soon too. The BlackBerry style runs the new version 6 operating system, which includes universal…
At an event showcasing tablets the other night, Rogers announced that they’ll be offering RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet early next year. They didn’t mention any specific pricing, but we’re guessing it’ll be around February for between $399 and $599, depending on how much storage you want. For those unacquainted with the BlackBerry PlayBook, it’s a…
The Android Market is being quietly updated across select 2.2 Froyo handsets to include a new “Similar” or “Related” tab in every app to find others like it. Not everyone is getting the update in the on-device app store just yet, but there are consistent reports that the new tab is showing up automatically. It’s…
Cloud gaming service provider GameString released a demo video yesterday showing popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft running on an Android-powered HTC Desire. Just to be clear what cloud gaming is, that’s when 3D rendering is done on a remote computer so the phone’s limited processing power and bandwidth can focus on…
Gowalla‘s check-in app for iPhone has just had a major update, the most prominent featuring being the ability to check-in and view check-ins from Foursquare and Facebook Places. There are a few other new features too, like a revamped user interface, spot prediction on check-in, highlights of the top picks in town, bookmarks for finding…
RIM has acquired well-known Swedish design firm The Astonishing Tribe. TAT has done a lot of mobile work in the past, including some live wallpapers for Android, some far-out concepts, worked on Symbian, and a lot of other really cool stuff. TAT also collaborated with Synaptics and a bunch of others on the Fuse concept…