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If you’re looking for a cheap 7-inch tablet and don’t mind it wearing a BlackBerry logo, you may be interested to get the PlayBook at a steep discount. Staples Canada will run a one-day “Sunday Door Crasher” sale tomorrow, offering the 16GB Wi-Fi only model for just $159. Sure there’s the new version with LTE…
There’s a new product trying to raise some cash (and awareness) at Kickstarter. Called Ubi, it’s a screen-less, Android-powered, voice-activated computer that plugs into a wall outlet. Yes this means that you talk to Ubi and it talks back to you. The applications that are planned to ship with Ubi include voice-enabled Internet search, speakerphone…
SwiftKey has once again updated its Android app, introducing two new themes, continuous voice typing, along with a number of bug fixes as reported by the ever-active SwiftKey community. The two new summer-inspired themes are Sky (blue) and Fuchsia (pink), both of which you can see from the image above. As for the mentioned voice…
According to Bloomberg, Google’s Motorola Mobility unit filed another complaint with the ITC accusing Apple of patent infringement. The complaint is not available publicly, but information from Bloomberg suggests it targets the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and select Mac computers. Motorola filed an earlier patent infringement complaint with the ITC that will be decided soon…
In April of 2011, Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit claiming patent infringement against the Korean electronics company Samsung. Since then the Apple vs. Samsung patent war has spawned months and encompassed around 50 hours of testimony, which cost both high tech companies millions in court fees, expert opinions, and corporate lawyers. Each side has been…
Finally, the day has come. Motorola has some good news for those of you out there who’ve been pissing and moaning about its locked bootloaders, who advocated Google to take a more hands on approach with the matter. Today the subsidiary owned company found the time to not only announce its September 5 event in…
Yesterday we talked about the release of a phone set to hit China called the Xiaomi Phone 2. The phone is an impressive device that rocks some incredible features and specs. The list of specs include a 4.3-inch 720p IPS display by Sharp, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 quad-core chip, 8MP rear camera, 2MP…
AT&T picked a quiet Friday afternoon to let customers know that it will not charge for FaceTime video calls over its cellular network. The ability to make a FaceTime call over 3G/4G is a new feature introduced in iOS 6. Though AT&T is allowing customers to use the cellular version of FaceTime, it’s not all…
Before it was making your refrigerators, televisions, and smartphones, LG corporation started out as an industrial chemical company, which was established in 1947. It wouldn’t be until 1958 until that the company established Goldstar Co. Ltd, now better known as LG Electronics. A lot has changed since 58′ and LG certainly has been a part of…
Android has been known for being incredibly vulnerable to malware threats, but a new study from Kaspersky shows that the problem is getting worse instead of better. From Q1 to Q2 2012, malware threats targeting the platform nearly tripled from 5,441 to 14,923 — that’s over the course of just three months. Almost half, or…