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As you might have heard, Apple lost an iPhone 5 prototype recently, and went on a search with the aid of San Francisco police to find it. How do Apple investigators feel about the whole thing? Well, probably not too happy, and they’re likely revolutionizing the art of pain to get it back. Or at…
While T-Mobile might be lining up to launch the new BlackBerry Curve soon, Sprint is falling a bit behind schedule. They’ve recently posted on their community forums that “due to unexpected circumstances, Sprint shifted the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 9350 smartphone beyond the planned Sept. 9 availability date. It will now go on sale in…
Evernote, the popular cloud storage app for a variety of mobile platforms, has just graced RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook. The app lets you access, edit, and create image, audio, and text notes that are all synced up to the cloud, so you can access them just about anywhere. Hopefully RIM will open up Bridge to third…
Cloo launched recently on an interesting premise: sometimes it’s hard to find a can in the city, nevermind a clean one. By leveraging existing social networks like Foursquare, Twitter, and Facebook, Cloo enables users needing a quick pee break to find second-degree friends that have some facilities available. Hosts even get a bit of coin for…
After being announced earlier this summer for Telus, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet has been launched in stores today, and is also being offered in competing Rogers stores across Canada. Telus is offering it for $649.99 with no strings attached, while Rogers is asking $679.99, but has an alternative to buy it for…
Docked in Copenhagen, Denmark is a boat called the Illutron. A collective of artists share a workshop there, doing all sorts of crazy crap, not limited to dangerous-looking interactive sound exhibits, teaching a factory robot how to draw, and now they’ve synced up a flame thrower to an Xperia Play so that instead of using…
As promised, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has been announced for AT&T before the end of the year. The device will be launching on September 18 for $49.99 on a two-year contract, and will be available in an exclusive blue tinge. As a PlayStation phone, it comes loaded with a couple of solid titles, like…
Sprint and Verizon have been getting a lot of attention from RIM with various launches over the last few weeks, but T-Mobile isn’t far behind. On top of recently launching the Bold 9900, the all-touchscreen Torch 9860 and Curve 9360 should both be headed to T-Mobile shortly, as the Torch has been spotted internally as…
This unassuming photo of a plate of sushi may have just revealed one of the key specs for the upcoming iPhone 5. Apparently the EXIF metadata associated with this photo says it was taken with an iPhone 4, but the original was shot at a resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels, or eight megapixels. Data…
Last night, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz announced in a company-wide e-mail that she had been fired by the chairman of the board of directors, which was quickly followed by rumours that Yahoo! would be willing to sell the company if the fit (and price) was right. Now, Yahoo! has a longstanding history in mobile; once…