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This morning at the BlackBerry World keynote in Orlando, Florida, attendees were a little surprised to see Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer take the stage. What could he possibly be doing down in Orlando during a BlackBerry event? Well, it turns out he was promoting Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, and Bing Maps. In partnership with BlackBerry, future…
Prior to their big show, RIM blasted out a ton of announcements yesterday, prominently including a new enterprise product that will support Android and iOS, as well as the Bold 9900, their first smartphone in an upcoming series with NFC chips, faster processors, and support for augmented reality applications. We’re covering it live, and hoping…
Going to huge tech conventions and conferences like CTIA 2011 is a rough life. You wake up very early every single day to hit meetings, keynotes to live-blog and hot hardware to track down. Then you’re walking a few miles every day as you trek the showroom floor in search of cool new gadgets, accessories…
Yesterday Apple confirmed the dates for the upcoming WWDC and 10 hours later the event was sold out! You may think that’s awesome — and we do somewhat agree — but if this is the case, Apple may need to move WWDC event to some bigger venue or organize two such events. This is a…
The Sony Ericsson LiveView accessory has been out in the U.S. for about a month, so thought we should check it out after spending some more quality time with the Xperia Play. If you haven’t heard of it, the LiveView is a Bluetooth accessory wearable thanks to a clip on the back that connects to…
At CTIA, OtterBox was showing off their work-in-progress case for the Motorola Xoom tablet. As usual, it’ll have the three layers of protection (silicon skin, hard plastic frame, and splash-resistant screen protector no additional screen like on the handset Defend Series, unfortunately), and the extra outer hard case can act as a stand just like…
French startup Wysips has an awesome idea to bring solar energy to mobile phones. Instead of putting a large and ugly solar panel on the back of the device, they want to integrate it into a phone display in such a way that user wouldn’t even know there’s a solar panel on their phone. The…
Jabra used the CTIA to announce the FREEWAY, its new speakerphone that features three speaker system along with HD Voice Ready, ensuring “superior audio quality” on both ends of a phone call. The company said the FREEWAY is good both for using inside and outside the car, and for calls as well as listening to…
This week at CTIA 2011 in Orlando we saw something that we really haven’t seen in smartphones before: glasses-free 3D displays. We knew they were coming, but it’s certainly something else to hold it in your hands and to see for yourself. The two showstoppers were most certainly the HTC EVO 3D for Sprint, and…
One new app to launch at CTIA 2011 was Gogobeans, which at first blush looks an awful lot like Bump. Basically, you have a locker of content (called beans) stored in a cloud, and so long as you and your friend are running either the iPhone or upcoming Android app, you can share file access…