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Forty years ago today, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper placed the first handheld mobile phone call using cellular hardware installed in downtown New York City. He called fellow engineer and rival Joel Engel of Bell Labs, who was also working on cellular network technology. According to Cooper, Engel was speechless at first and then courteous to…
Well, it’s not mobile related, but you just might want to take a quick break from the Wednesday work grind for this. A video comes to us today thanks to the small Northern California town I grew up in, Redding. Redding is a small city of around 100,000, nestled in the top of the Sacramento…
Music-streaming service Spotify has become a huge player in the on-demand music streaming scene, and is now looking to enter the realm of on-demand video streaming. According to Business Insider, Spotify will compete head on with the likes of Netflix and HBO Go by providing original content as well as access to a library of…
LG is the newest to jump on the smart watch bandwagon by announcing that it will bring a device to the market sometime soon, according to the Korea Times. With a multitude of smart watches currently coming to market, LG is expected to join the ranks of Apple, Samsung and Google with its very own smart watch offering. We still are lacking…
Google announced yesterday that it would be shutting down their Google Reader service, the denizens of the internet were shocked, to say the least. How are we going to get our news? What about our years of feed customization? Well folks, I’m here to help you tell Google to talk to the hand. Feedly is…
Virgin Mobile has released a new commercial featuring the king of weird, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. The new ad is, trippy, to say the least; while it’s not as crazy as most of Coyne’s fake blood spewing live performances, it is cool enough to garner Richard Branson some hipster cred. The ad doesn’t feature any new Virgin…
Android based tablets are forecasted to overtake Apple tablets in sales in 2013, according to a press release from IDC. Based on a predicted increase in the phablet/smaller devices market, which is expected to increase to 190.9 million units purchased as opposed to 172.4 million units in 2012. A 11% increase in this market is…
Neurowear is bringing us one step closer to the convergence with its mind reading headphones that were debuted at SXSW last week. The company that is the brainchild behind the Necomimi Brain-Controlled Cat Ears now applies its magical brain reading tech to the audio world. The newest project, named Mico, is a set of mind-controlled…
There are many apps out there that focus on sharing music, and now an app called Soundtracking has seemingly pulled the best parts from social networks and music sharing into one app. Soundtracking is an iOS and Android app that brings together picture sharing like Instagram, music tagging/discovery like Shazam, and location sharing features like those of FourSquare…
DirecTV subscribers who own Android tablets now have a new way to manage their viewing experience. The DirecTV Android app had been previously released for smartphones, but has now been optimized and released for Android tablets. The app will allow users to view programming from any room in their home, and will include the AUDIENCE…