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Sure, maybe it’s not as cool as that retro calculator watch you strap around you wrist (you nerd), but slapping a calculator case on your iPhone 4 has to be the next best thing. Coming to us from Etsy (no surprise there), this Calculator Case for iPhone 4 is a little bit of awesome. Sadly,…
NPolls, a marketing research company, has just conducted a poll of a thousand iPhone and iTunes users and came to a relatively surprising conclusion. It seems that nearly a third of all the respondents have never purchased music on iTunes. Perhaps it isn’t so surprising considering the availability of streaming music services, torrenting sites and…
Viral videos are one of the best weapons in a marketing department’s arsenal, and Nokia went pretty big with this one. What you see below is a pair of Chinese guys, one of them is obviously a tinkerer, using the recently launched C7 to do several things using what is presumably the built in Bluetooth…
A Microsoft store in Oak Brook, Illinois posted up a deal on Groupon that offered the HTC HD7 and the Samsung Focus for a lowly $49. This is a 50% discount on both handsets which currently retail for $99.99 with a two-year customer agreement. Of course, desperation is the first thought that comes to mind…
Don’t be surprised to see the Apple iPad winding up under a few mattresses, as Hugh Hefner said that the uncensored Playboy archives will be coming to the iPad soon. This could indicate a change in Apple’s developer stance. “Big news! Playboy–both old & new–will be available on iPad beginning in March,” Hugh Hefner tweeted.…
Starbucks launched a mobile payment system expected to go live today in 6,800 independent Starbucks stores and 1,000 stores that are in Target stores nationwide. Customers with a BlackBerry or an iPhone or an iPod touch can download the Starbucks Card Mobile application and add their Starbucks card information to the application. This application may…
T-Mobile is teaming with Location Labs to introduce DriveSmart Plus, an Android app aimed at making it easier to stop testing while driving. The T-Mobile DriveSmart Plus app will enable users to set their Android phones to automatically detect when they’re driving and put the phone into “Driving Mode.” This means that all incoming calls…
Several days ago, we reported that Samsung was delaying the Android 2.2 Froyo update for Galaxy S owners due to a conflict with carriers. Samsung was allegedly charging carriers for the update and couldn’t come to agreeable terms with them, so the Froyo update was hanging in limbo. This enraged Galaxy S users, some of…
I love how inventive prisoners can get with such limited resources. When they aren’t busy playing Farmville on smuggled cell phones, they’re tweaking and hacking everyday items into shivs, shanks, files and cell phone chargers. Inmates at Addiewell prison in the UK are stealing computer mice and using their USB cables to plug into PlayStation…
Sufing the web on your smartphone can be a little frustrating at times, but thanks to the new Surfboard web site/web app/web service you can now automatically convert your favorite websites into touchscreen-friendly content for your smartphone. The conversion is mostly seamless and makes web browsing on your mobile phone more enjoyable. I recently noticed…