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So it’s been a few days since your ex went all Kano on you and ripped your heart out of your chest, proudly raising it to the sky before throwing the lifeless mass on the ground. In the old days, getting over that heartbreak was a little more visceral; you could burn the photos, love…
Now this is one juicy rumor if you ask us. According to 9to5Google, the search giant will begin to open retail stores by the end of the year. The Google Store will apparently sell Nexus-branded devices as well as Chromebooks and upcoming products to get them into the hands of the public in an easier…
More and more company announcements are being verified not in a long press release, but rather a single tweet in less than 140 characters. That remains true for some new products soon being sold at Staples. The retail chain’s Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources Regis Mulot tweeted “After Canada, #Apple products are coming to #Staples in US. Great…
We’re less than a week away from HTC’s February 19th event, where we’re expecting to see what the company has been cooking up. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been seeing a few renders of what is apparently the HTC M7, and now we have another one all done up in black. Some may make…
The Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 are getting the Linux treatment, at least for developers at the moment. Canonical is releasing a developer preview of its Ubuntu mobile operating system available on February 21st. Since the release is a developer preview and not finalized code, it may be awhile before we see Ubuntu running a…
Kickass Startups is back for week number two, our new column showcasing great new mobile products that deserve a boost in coverage. Last time, we covered the new 1 Second Everyday app funded by Kickstarter. Today, we have the Metal Slate line of excellently designed iPhone 5 cases by Spigen SGP. The company is known…
Skype users in the US and UK using the iOS, Android, and OSX apps can now send video messages up to three minutes long to each other, bringing a new way to communicate over Skype’s well established service. For now, Windows and Windows Phone users are not seeing the feature, and there’s still no word…
In another addition of Android Thursdays, NVIDIA took some time to demo an upcoming game on the Project Shield, Dead on Arrival 2. It really doesn’t matter if you haven’t played the first iteration of this game, as one rarely needs an excuse to kick zombie ass. While we’ll likely see the game land on…
A new Samsung device with designation SCH-I545 was spotted in a recent benchmark at Nenamark. The device was rocking a 1.9 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, an Adreno 320GPU, Android 4.2, and a full HD 1080p display. As noted by Droid-Life, this model may be the Verizon variant of the Galaxy S IV. It shares the…
Vertu has recently announced its first Android-based smartphone, Vertu Ti, which will sell for whopping 7,999 EUR (about $10,500) despite the fact it has mid-range specs. Of course, with devices like these, specs don’t matter that much – rather, it’s the precious materials used for the casing. Anyway, according to this article at ZDNet, the…