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Earlier this week we reported that Lenovo was going to release a 10 inch Android Honeycomb tablet with ThinkPad branding in July. It looks like that wasn’t the only leak to come out from Lenovo, now we’re hearing that there’s going to be a 7 inch model as well; ThinkPad enthusiasts be warned, this tablet…
When Apple launched the iPhone back in the summer of 2007 the folks at Cupertino probably didn’t think that nearly 4 years later iOS would turn into one of the hottest gaming platforms to ever exist. Google, who launched Android a year later in the fall of 2008, failed to see just how important gaming…
HP’s teeny tiny webOS powered Veer smartphone is going to ship pretty soon if the rumors we heard a few weeks back hold true. According to the gossip that’s been floating around on the internet the Veer will launch with AT&T on May 2nd. When new devices are announced an explosion of marketing campaigns typically…
In October of 2007 Nokia announced that they were going to purchase Navteq for a cool $8.1 billion. Many analysts were dumbfounded by the move, but in the end it could be explained by simple economics. Rather than having to fork over hundreds of millions of Euros a year to put mapping data on the…
Nokia has just issued a press release announcing what many have been anticipating since Stephen Elop got on stage and said Windows Phone would become the primary smartphone operating system for the Finnish handset maker going forward. About 7,000 people are going to be leaving Nokia’s payroll in an effort to save 1 billion Euros…
The iPhone 5 (or iPhone 4S) hasn’t even been announced yet, much less released, and there are already rumors circulating across the internet about the iPhone 6. According to Japanese news publication Nikkan, Sharp is in the process of re-tooling one of their factories to start building low temperature polysilicon (p-Si) displays. Mass production is…
The public meltdown of Charlie Sheen is one that polarized people. Some thought it was pathetic, and that the guy doesn’t deserve any media attention because he’s clearly out of his mind. Others saw a celebrity tired of conforming to the image that’s been thrust upon him by the studios and lashing out by becoming…
The state of California has lots of problems, and while the prisoners in their jails enjoying illegal access to mobile phones is a cause for concern, the ever increasing debt gets priority. Plans to pass a law that would make it illegal to smuggle a mobile phone inside a prison or for a prisoner to…
Apple’s iPhone has been making headlines these past few days for all the wrong reasons. Apparently each and every iPhone in circulation keeps a log file of where you’ve been and at what time. This data has privacy advocates freaking out, but what if this data can be used for good? In an article from…
In case you haven’t heard, Amazon has launched their own App Store, specifically for the Android platform. Many have wondered why the online retailer would do such a thing, and we think we’ll find out soon enough once Amazon launches their rumored tablet; more on that later. In order to get people to use their…