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The Swiss Broadcasting Company recently launched an iPad application designed to showcase articles, photo slideshows, videos and the latest Swiss news. While the app may be an excellent resource for residents of Switzerland, the advertisement for this application is genius. The ad tells the story of Swiss folk hero William Tell in an animated, cardboard…
Zynga and GetJar are bringing the popular Mafia Wars game to your smartphone or tablets, as Mafia Wars Atlantic city will be a browser-based game using HTML5. The Zynga Mafia Wars will be the company’s first game targeted at the mobile browser and it will enable the company to reach the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and…
While some handset makers will update the software to their Android phones to fix security exploits in order to stop users from gaining root access, the Nexus line is made for those who would like to do just that. According to the Android Developers blog, the availability of root is not a result of compromised…
NEC has already dabbled in Android tablets in Japan, but soon (at CES, to be precise) they’ll be showing off something for the North American crowd. The NEC Dual Screen Cloud Communicator Tablet will run Android, have two 7-inch screens, include 3G, Wi-Fi, and GPS, and be stylus-compatible. NEC didn’t mention how exactly those screens…
Oh, Google TV was so full of promise but its commercial release has been met with a collective “meh” from consumers and the press and now reports suggest that the search giant is telling partners not to show off new Google TV products at the major CES trade show in order for it to revamp…
It has been a wild ride in the mobile world this year, as the pace of innovation has been going along at blistering speeds. Just think, at the beginning of the year, we were still drooling over the Motorola Droid, Microsoft was dead in the water with Windows Mobile, Palm was still puttering along as…
For a while now, I’ve been going on and on about the Notion Ink Adam for its insane spec list. The hardware is great, and we finally got a glimpse of the Eden UI over at AndroidPolice. But after seeing the 6 minute video, I am glad that I did not pre-order the Adam. The…
If you’re not excited about the upcoming CES yet, then take a look at the video below because Motorola will be coming out swinging. Yes friends, it looks like we can expect the Motorola Android Honeycomb tablet to make an appearance at the world’s largest electronics show. In the epic teaser video, the company goes…
You might want to hold off on getting a new smartphone this holiday season because Verizon will be introducing an Android phone with 4G LTE in January at the Consumer Electronics Show. “Jan. 6 at #CES: #Android and #LTE – could it be like peanut butter and chocolate? YUM!,” Verizon tweeted from its official account.…
If 2010 seemed like the year of the 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 2011 could very well be the year of the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, as reports suggest this will be powering a plethora of Android devices next year. Citigroup’s Glen Yeung says that Samsung just placed a massive order of the dual-core…