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Chances are that if you buy a smartphone towards the end of this year, and most certainly in 2012, it’ll have a little chip inside that handles near field communication or NFC. Right now NFC is used for simple tasks like reading a tag, so instead of having to take a photo…
Jordan and Jessica are now engaged thanks partially to an engraved iPad 2, but mostly thanks to an open-minded, accepting female. Here’s how it went down: this Jordan character chose to skip over the typical question hidden in a fortune cookie proposal, and decided to pursue a 21st century style approach. He engraved “Will you…
The debate on why there are so few women in the field of science and technology rages on, but Google is being proactive and is teaching young girls in New York City how to develop Android applications. In Google’s New York office, a group of high school girls with little or no coding experience are…
Prisons face a growing problem of cell phone usage among inmates with 2,000-3,000 handsets being confiscated each year in some facilities. A variety of means allows inmates to obtain handsets which are then used from within prison to arrange for drug deals, organize gang activity and even order hits on prison staff members and their…
Amazon jumped head first into the music streaming market with the debut of its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player for Android. The online retail giant was rumored to be working on a music storage and streaming service and the cloud-based system is now available for customers to try. Amazon’s system uses Cloud Drive, an online…
When Google decided to come out and say that they will be withholding the Android 3.0 Honeycomb source code, it likely didn’t sit too well with some would-be porters, or those looking to install a custom ROM based off of the software. While it claims that porting Honeycomb to other devices may result in a…
Although I can’t consider myself a HUGE fan of The Joy of Tech, every once and awhile one of their comics will catch my eye, and make me laugh. Case in point today comes to us in the form of a new BlackBerry PlayBook comic. Check it out above. If you’re waiting patiently to get…
When video games go big time and become part of pop culture, the result is often a horrible movie or two. Angry Birds is no exception. I haven’t exactly been keeping up-to-date on the latest cinematic hopes and dreams over at Rovio, but I know a movie is definitely something that ‘could’ hit us in…
There was a lot of hype about Color for iPhone and iPod touch recently – especially since it just raised $41 million in funding and no one has really heard about it until a few days ago. Color allows users to share photos and create multi-user albums if they all own iPhones and are within…
Anyone who was CTIA 2011 in Orlando, Florida this week would have noticed a huge, empty space where NTT DoCoMo should have been. Instead, there was a banner above the space and a single vase filled with cherry blossoms. Many Japanese manufacturers and companies were affected by the earthquake that struck the country on March…