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Hot on the heels of their 7-inch tablet, the Dell Venue is now on sale direct from the source, unlocked for $499.99 and shipping on February 18. The Venue cuts the QWERTY keyboard of its Windows phone cousin, the Venue Pro, but runs Android 2.2, has a 4.1-inch WVGA touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera, 1…
Google’s official blogging platform, Blogger, now has an Android app which lets you post, upload pictures, and share your location to your own little corner of the internets. There’s support for multiple accounts and blogs, for those particularly prolific bloggers, and saving local drafts if you need to do some reviewing later on. As you…
Not only is the Mubarak regime in Egypt willing to cut off the cellular connectivity to the populace of Egypt to stem the organization of protests and complaints to the outside world, they’re also totally cool using the same infrastructure to launch their own political counter-offensive. Vodafone has confirmed that the government has been using…
RIM has launched a new app in a limited beta called BlackBerry Radio. It basically jams up streaming music service from apps like Slacker, Pandora and iheartradio, as well as traditional radio networks like Corus into a single, unified discovery mechanism. You can either play the audio streams right through the app, buy songs that…
Some research by Bernstein has revealed that Nokia has spent upwards of $3.9 billion on research and development, which is close to three times as much as the average spent by competing mobile manufacturers. Okay, sure, Nokia is still the biggest in the world (for the time being), so it’s not entirely surprising. Samsung was…
HP and Palm have an event coming up on February 9 where they’re expected to announce at least one new device, most likely a tablet. Before getting started, they’ve launched a teaser video giving us a few brief glimpses of what they’re planning. Judging by the ominous silhouette on their new countdown page, a tablet…
At Google’s Android Honeycomb event today, CNN showed off their tablet-optimized app, and we got some time to try it out. As you might expect, you can peruse various categories of breaking news, like politics, health, and entertainment, including rich graphics and live international video feeds. Up to 350 stories can be seen in the…
Yet another app shown off at the Android Honeycomb event today was Google’s own Body, made to run on tablets. Using the same “layers” mechanic as Google Maps, you can peel back the parts of the human body like a big, gross onion and see what’s inside. Tapping on bones or muscles will pop up…
In a move which could spur even more developer interest in the platform, Google said at its Honeycomb event this morning that it would be bringing in-app purchases to Android. The new revenue stream will be available to developers by the end of Q1, and can take as little as five days to implement. The…
After taking two months to ready their back-end and a short beta, RIM has rolled out BlackBerry App World 2.1, complete with in-app purchase support. This is good news for both developers and end-users, as they’ll be able to buy or sell a whole new category of software, and offer a feature comparable to the…