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As Opera promised last week, they’ve now released a beta of their Opera Mobile 10.1 browser for Android. Since they’re using hardware acceleration throughout the entire application, things like pinch to zoom and scrolling are insanely smooth, or as Steve Jobs would say: “like butter”. Also built in is the ability to use the same…
The European Union is slowly turning into something resembling the United States and that has many people, myself included, becoming terrified at the idea that the cultures and traditions from the olden days are going to disappear. Hyperbole aside, the Euro is the best thing to happen to this continent since the Romans built roads.…
Sexually transmitted diseases are a huge problem in the UK, with nearly half a million new cases being reported last year, a record high. Instead of combating the issue in a common sense way such as teaching kids how to use condoms, around $6.5 million will be spent developing a chip the size of a…
According to a source who spoke to 9to5Mac Apple purchased a company based out of San Francisco called “Wi-Gear” two months ago and the eventual result of said purchase will be a set of Apple branded Bluetooth stereo headphones. Wi-Gear is known for building a product called “iMuffs” [see review on Geek.com] that give users,…
LG lauched a new netbook in South Korea that’s your typical run of the mill Intel Atom based 10.1 inch toy computer, but what’s special about it is that it comes with Bluetooth 3.0 and an application dubbed “SmartPOP” that allows you to control your mobile phone while it’s resting comfortably in your pocket. If…
If you’ve ever been in a situation where you’ve wanted to tell the world about something, and Facebook or Twitter wasn’t the way you wanted to blast your thoughts out into the internets, then you’re probably a blogger. Chances are that if you blog, you use also WordPress. Their native application has been available on…
Japanese operator DOCOMO is set to launch their LTE service, dubbed “Xi”, on the 24th of December. It’s unusual because traditionally the small island nation has always been the first to adopt the latest in networking technologies, launching 3G when European and American mobile phones were only starting to get color screens. Now Sweden, Norway,…
When phone manufactures make camera phones, they’ve got to deal with limitations in size, shape, and weight, which is why when companies like iFixit tear apart smartphones like the Nokia N8 or Apple iPhone 4, the resulting sensor module is typically the size of a single frozen pea. What LG has done with the newly…
Verizon Wireless is in final preparations to launch their LTE network by the end of this month. With speeds that are supposed to reach up to 12 Mbps on the download, as well as ultra low latency so websites pop up like magic, this is going to be the first major cellular network upgrade to…
MetroPCS, the first North American operator to light up an LTE network with an initial launch in Las Vegas, has now brought the high speed service to the cities of Los Angeles and Philadelphia. The only problem is that the sole LTE capable device they offer, the Samsung Craft, is nothing more than a feature…