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It looks like Evernote is starting to branch out a little from their usual cut-and-dry cloud storage service. Today they’ve launched two new iOS apps, called Evernote Hello and Evernote Food tailored to saving information specifically about certain foodstuffs and certain people. Hello goes a little bit beyond just recording contact data in a few…
Over the summer, RIM launched a call conferencing app which tied tightly into the native BlackBerry calendar, phone, and e-mail functions. Today they’ve tacked on a few new features. One is the ability to automatically generate a conference call entry in your calendar based on information within e-mail messages, like the body, subject, and recipients.…
Encyclopaedia Britannica released an official app for the iPhone and iPod touch to give users access to over 80,000 articles overflowing with knowledge. Not long after the announcement that the encyclopedia would be released for iPad, it’s now been downsized for the remaining iOS devices. There’s already a few similar apps in the App Store, but…
Microsoft is in the process of scaling down its massively popular Office suite of applications for the Apple iPad, one report says. Obviously the iPad gives developers a big market with proven success for selling apps, and Microsoft may be realizing that. Next to Windows, Microsoft Office is arguably the most successful suite of software programs…
Rohm, a semiconductor manufacturer based in Japan, teamed up with researchers at Osaka University to develop and unveil a new chip that would allow for wireless data speeds of 1.5 gigabits per second, which breaks any records you can find. The magic happens in the utilization of terahertz waves to transmit data. Even with this level…
Google has been granted patents today for the unique way one can unlock their Android phone and judging by the patents, Google is looking to take the functionality a few steps further. When you are preparing to unlock your device, a screen comes up with nine dots that form to make a grid. Connecting the…
Do you think the 10-hour battery life on your iPad 2 is impressive? Imagine 100 hours of battery life, it may not be that far off. That’s what engineers at Northwestern University have technically accomplished with their new lithium-ion battery technology. By poking millions of tiny holes in it, the battery can hold a charge…
Some hobbyist hackers have rigged up an iPhone 4S to collect brain wave patterns from some simple ECG pads, translate them into synthesized speech, which is in turn pumped through the 3.5 mm headphone jack, and recognized by Siri as a usable command. Besides pressing the home key to initiate Siri, all you have to…
Google has announced that they’re ceasing support for their dedicated BlackBerry Gmail app in favour of working on working on their web apps. While you’ll still be able to use the app if you’ve already got it installed, it won’t be available for download after November 22. It might be easy to cast this as…
Square, the mobile payments service created by none other than Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, updated its Card Case app today with some convenient new features. The new automatic tabs feature makes payments nearly effortless, thanks in part to iOS 5’s new geo-fencing technology. All you need to do is walk within 100 meters of a…