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Ahh the Treasure Island Music Festival, one of my favorite fall time activities. The two-day festival has it all; multiple stages of performers, a pretty sweet beer garden, DIY craft stylings and a shit-ton of pota-potties. As anyone who has attended in the past can attest, finding out where your next favorite act is performing…
Wearables are in this year, and it wouldn’t be a party without Google jumping in the fray. With companies like Sony, Samsung and Pebble currently shipping smartwatches with varying feature sets, and we’ve been hearing rumors of Google developing a wearable device of their own. A report from 9to5Google claims that the Google Watch could…
While U.S. residents and a handful of countries around the world have been able to get their hands on the iPhone 5c and 5s for a few weeks now, hungry customers in the rest of the world have been waiting patiently to grab one of the shiny or colorful new devices. Apple will be releasing…
Comic fans are in luck today, as Google Play is now offering some of DC’s hottest Vertigo Graphic Novels on the Google Play Store. The lineup, which is also available through iOS app ComiXology includes Watchmen, Sandman, a ton of Batman titles and of course, V for Vendetta. Most Graphic Novels are priced around $9.99,…
Welcome to IntoMobile’s Photography pick of the week. This is a new series where we pick a photo to showcase the amazing capabilities of the mobile cameras that we carry around with us everyday. This week’s pick comes from Flickr user philippe leroyer, who used the Hipstamatic app on an iPhone to capture this cemetery…
Japan is known for many things like tech-savvy citizens, fast trains, electronics industry, weird fashion and vending machines. Google is trying to enter the last mentioned market and is piloting three Google Play machines that offer 18 different games. Everyone with an NFC-enabled Android 4.0+ smartphone can try these out and get either free-to-play or…
Scribd is offering a new e-book subscription service, kind of like a Netflix for e-books. The company, which is mostly known for its document embedding tool has built a e-book platform which will begin offering e-book sales as well as a subscription service today. Scribd will be offering content from HarperCollins as well as independent…
Last night’s Breaking Bad series finale was something for the history books, clocking 500,000 pirated downloads just 12 hours after the first copy appeared online. Most users who pirate shows and movies do so because of availability issues, which is common outside of the U.S. But the numbers do show the other side of downloading,…
Samsung, the undisputed kings of bling have been making gold-colored phones for years, and they want to make sure you know it. There was some chatter on the internets today bashing Samsung for copying Apple with its gold colored Galaxy S4, claiming that Samsung was merely copying Apple. Obviously, someone at Samsung took these claims…
Maybe those dead batteries aren’t so dead. Most discarded batteries have an average of 400 milliamps of power left in them, which means that we’re throwing out a lot of already purchased energy. Vitamilk, Thailand’s leading soymilk brand has created an interesting way to power smartphones by using what would be considered to us just…