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It’s an annoyance that anyone who flies has to deal with, powering down your devices at take off and landing. The polite but firm voice of the flight attendant telling you “All the way off, please!”. It’s a pain more than ever now, as most of us travel with electronics to entertain us, or to…
New York state is taking texting and driving very seriously by introducing dedicated “texting zones” on New York highways. Here’s the interesting part though; New York will not be constructing new areas, just rebranding current rest stops and parking areas as safe places to text, check a Facebook status or put a new pic up…
We first got word of Archos’ GamePad successor, the GamePad 2 a few months ago, and a new press image and spec sheet have surfaced confirming the new Android gaming tablet. The GamePad 2 will share the same form factor as the original GamePad, but will have an improved processor, more memory and RAM. According…
Plants vs. Zombies 2, the long-awaited sequel to PopCap‘s 2009 hit, is finally coming to Android devices. The game was released for the iPhone and iPad on August 15th but there was no mention of when it would be coming to other platforms. Today gaming site Polygon caught wind that Plants Vs Zombies 2 would…
An update to Ingress has just been pushed out to the Google Play Store, bringing with it a handful of tweaks and a few new features. The most notable addition is an avatar creator for agents. The avatar creator was hinted at in last week’s Ingress Report and allows agents to create a customized avatar,…
CyanogenMod has announced the release of a stable build of their most recent build, CyanogenMod 10.1.3. The build, which is based on Android 4.2 includes a feature allowing users to remotely locate and wipe missing devices using their CM account. The feature is similar to Google’s Android Device Manager. CyanogenMod’s Focal app won’t be making…
This week we took a look at Quiz RPG: World of Mystic Wiz, a Japanese smartphone game that was only recently translated to English. The game mashes up casual RPG gameplay with trivia and card battling. It’s a unique deviation from a tried and true model of mobile gaming, and it’s a lot of fun…
An infographic showing pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about the state of mobile is here! The infographic comes to us from Supermonitoring.com and shows everything from mobile adoption, vendors and platforms, e-commerce, mobile payments and advertising. According to the infographic, around 50% of internet users worldwide are using mobile devices as their…
Philips has taken it sweet time to update the Android application for its Hue bulbs, but yesterday a new update finally rolled through that brings bug fixes, improved stability, and a few new tweaks that users have been waiting on for a long time now. Take a look at the “What’s New” section of the…
Can’t wait to get your hands on the HTC One Mini? Well you may be waiting a while. HTC’s little HTC One may be facing shipping delays, according to Reuters. HTC is facing supply constraints which is forcing a case shortage for the HTC One Mini. The HTC One Mini launched in mid-July. Despite the…