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Windows Phone Marketplace is growing by leaps and bounds. In less than eight weeks, the Marketplace boasts of over 3,000 apps and 15,000 developers. Early last month, Windows Phone launched in the US and we looked at the top games and the top launch titles. We have been using Windows Phone since launch and have,…
Earlier this year, AT&T decided to alleviate its network in the dense Times Square area of New York City with a Wi-Fi Hotzone. For the most part, it has helped a little in conjunction with beefing up its network. The carrier is now planning on taking things a little further by expanding its Wi-Fi Hotzone…
They say necessity is the mother of all invention, and I’d be hard-pressed to think of a greater necessity than to stay immobile and comfortable on the couch while remaining adequately refreshed with ice cold beer. In that spirit, one enterprising couch potato has modded his mini-fridge to dispense one of four different beers, which…
“When I got to the scene, her face was disfigured from sliding down the roadway.” That is Officer Grant Hendricks of the Missouri State Highway Patrol on the death of Mariah, a teenage girl who was just a day away from graduation when she answered a text message while driving and collided with a bridge…
Every year, IBM surveys its 3,000 researchers and asks them what they think will be the dominant new technologies in the next five years. These predictions are usually reasonable in scope and not wild, science fiction-based fantasies. One such prediction from 2010 points to the development of holographic mobile phone conversations. This technology would be…
A brazen would-be robber was foiled when the folks he was attempting to rob pulled out knives in retaliation. According to the police report, Jerome Taylor, donned a mask and entered the Northern Indian Restaurant in New London, Connecticut. He pulled out what appeared to be a gun and demanded money from the cooks who…
Here is an enjoyable video for all you Foursquare and Facebook fans this Christmas morning. The folks from Excentric, a Portuguese digital marketing company, put together a video detailing the birth of Jesus from a modern day outlook. The group did not re-write the story, but told it from the perspective of a technophile and…
This isn’t exactly a brand new app but I stumbled upon the PatriotApp and felt I could help spread some Christmas cheer by helping you all fight those dirty terrorists with nothing more than your iPhone or iPod touch. Unfortunately, the Patriot iPhone app doesn’t turn your iOS device into a rocket launcher but it…
If there is a market that thrives just as well as the legitimate side of the wireless industry, it’s the knock-off business. While many knock-offs and copycats are pretty decent, most of them are crap. Turd. Doo-doo. Poop. And that’s what you’re seeing above–the Poop phone. It’s a rip-off of a phone you’ve probably not…
Tenor Nick P. and Pianist Sam Brash took some wonderful lyrics written by Ljova and created the anthem, called “An iPhone on Verizon,” that will make everyone cry, whether in joy over the impending Verizon iPhone or in pain over the grating, repetitive melody. Of course, this anthem may not be a sincere plea for…