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Are you ready for some serious Angry Birds action on your Wii or Wii U? Good, I thought so. Rovio has confirmed that the Angry Birds Trilogy will be coming to Nintendo’s consoles on August 13th. The Angry Birds trifecta is being published by Activision, and will include Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry…
Verizon and Casio aren’t messing around. Casio’s super rugged extreme-sports ready G’zOne Commando 4G LTE is soon to be offered on Verizon’s network. The device sports mid-range specs, and sports an almost indestructible design. The Casio G’zOne Commando 4G LTE runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich on a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and touts a 4-inch TFT…
The newest video released by Android Design In Action gives us a glimpse into the development of the newest iteration of the Google Play Store, version 4.0. In the video, Android design gurus Marco Paglia and Owen Otto take watchers through a 30-minute tour focusing on the nuts and bolts of the most recent Google…
T-Mobile HTC One S owners may have noticed quite the battery drainage issue after the Jelly Bean update rolled out last April, and a new update for the One S today resolves that debilitating issue. The update that is starting to roll out OTA today focuses solely on the battery ailments, which is welcome news…
Huawei has announced the MediaPad 7 Vogue today, a seven-inch tablet that sets itself apart from other similarly sized Android tablets by offering voice calling and SMS. The MediaPad 7’s receiver functions on quad-band GSM and UMTS networks, and can support 3G connections of up to 42MBPS. The MediaPad 7 will also come in a…
Only a day after launching its video capabilities, Instagram users have uploaded over 5 million videos in the last 24 hours. That’s a whole lot of moving selfies. According to a report from Tech Crunch, the spike in video uploads didn’t occur around the early morning launch time, but rather in the evening when the…
Prices of mobile chipsets for smartphones and tablets are expected to decline 10-20% in the second half of the year due to competition between MediaTek and Qualcomm, driving down the prices of smartphones along the way. Today Qualcomm is hosting its annual Qualcomm reference design forum in Shenzhen, China in an effort to attract participants…
We’ve already heard that Google may be working on developing wireless networks in emerging markets. Perhaps as part of that initiative, the search giant is testing high-altitude balloons that could bring Internet access to places with no infrastructure in place. The technology is in very early days, but they did manage to get balloons, carried…
If you haven’t heard of the Oculus Rift yet, you will soon enough. The virtual reality hardware took off on Kickstarter, and has now received its first round of funding from investors. Oculus received $16 Million today to help bring virtual reality into our homes. “With the recent console announcements and the advent of stronger…
Windows Phone users may have noticed some improvements to the voice capabilities on their handsets, as Microsoft has been rolling out updates to its Windows Phone users over the last few weeks. The updates to the Bing voice search software have brought improved speed and accuracy to Windows Phone, and can now return search results…