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ZiiLabs, who is owned by Creative, known for making products that are targeted at the computer audio market, along with a handful of MP3 players, has announced two new processors today. The ZMS-20 and ZMS-40 both clock in at 1.5 GHz, with the later being a quad core chip and the former being dual core.…
The Personal Localized Alerting Network, or PLAN, was just announced by Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Julius Genachowski, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator W. Craig Fugate, and executives from T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. The goal is simple: In case there’s a threat to your safety, be it terrorist attacks or the release of a new…
If you live in America, chances are that it’s been a while since you’ve actually touched cash. These days people opt to pay for everything with plastic, and we’re not just talking credit cards, but debit cards too since they provide the added benefit of enabling online banking to check how much money you’ve been…
Distributing digital content causes a lot of content owners to start having chest pains. Unlike physical goods, like the wall of CDs and cassettes you’ve accumulated over the past few decades, digital content can be copied an infinite amount of times with no loss in quality and best of all it requires little physical space;…
T-Mobile, who had a terrible Q1 in which they saw nearly 100,000 customers leave their network, is set to introduce some new services this month. First, and the most appealing, is free WiFi calling. Here’s how it works: If you’re a customer with a phone that has WiFi, you can connect to your home network…
Al Jazeera’s coverage of the explosive situation in the Middle East, most notably their live cameras covering Egypt descending into complete and utter chaos, have earned them an award from the Columbia Journalism School and have also made many people start taking the news channel seriously. Before everyone just thought of Al Jazeera as a…
Many years ago, before the iPhone was announced, Nokia released a web browser for their Symbian powered smartphones that used WebKit. Since then the entire industry has standardized around that browsing engine, most famously Apple in iOS, but also Google with Android, and more recently RIM, who purchased Torch Mobile to accelerate their time to…
Gianfranco Lanci, the former CEO of Acer, got kicked out of the Taiwanese firm in March. Considering we never saw an Acer smartphone on store shelves and that their tablets had the magic ability to make us pass out due to boredom, it wasn’t really that much of a surprise. New details thanks to an…
It’s no secret that Microsoft has an update to Windows Phone coming out later this year that’s codenamed Mango. We think it’s going to be called Windows Phone 7.5 when it does eventually hit, and many of the new features inside have already been either announced or leaked. There’s a new browser, built using the…
An image of what’s purportedly the HTC Puccini has been leaked to Pocket Now, along with some juicy details. They say the Puccini, obviously a codename since no company in their right mind would name a product after the Italian composer who wrote Madama Butterfly, will have a 10 inch screen, run Android Honeycomb, and…