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The long nightmare may soon be over for Nexus One users, as Android Gingerbread may be coming very, very soon. When he’s not blowing up MacBooks, Greg from MobileCrunch has been hearing from Googlers that the Gingerbread update will definitely be coming out over the air within the next few days. We’ve heard these rumors…
We knew that Netflix had plans to bring their application to the Android operating system to select handsets sometime in early 2011, but the picture is much more clear now. Today Qualcomm announced that future Android devices that ship with Snapdragon processors will be first to get access to the streaming Netflix application. Since Android…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the guys responsible for making sure that all the wireless radios, whether they be consumer mobile phones or encrypted military communication channels, actually work, has said that they’re going to begin investigating whether or not they can repurpose 95 MHz of spectrum in the 1755 to 1850 MHz…
We all know that the Swype keyboard can be used to help you text message faster but it turns out it can help even if you’re not using hands. A quadriplegic man was able to use the Swype keyboard, headtracking software and a computer to set a new Guinness World record for fastest typing without…
After watching President Obama deliver the 2011 State of the Union address, and reading reactions to his speech from people on both sides of the political spectrum, one word that continuously crops up time and time again is “socialism”. There is this fear, so severe that it’s even paralyzing, that everything government touches turns to…
Ubiquisys is a company that specializes in femtocells, the little boxes that people plug into their home broadband connection that then acts as a mini cell tower, giving you bars in places where before you’ve stood with nothing but tears in your eyes and hate in your heart because your local operator isn’t doing their…
The Bing app for BlackBerry has been updated with a few significant new features, including a mobile-optimized image search, instant flight status results, integration with OS 6 (which I presume means universal search, but can’t verify on Rogers for some reason), a filter to cut out naughty results, and a “What’s Nearby” option to browse…
Each and every time we had to write an article about Modu it has always left a bad taste in our mouths. From the beginning we knew that the company was created merely to swindle investors out of their money and that the products they showed off not only made very little sense, but were…
The internet is a place where “he said, she said” type rumors quickly become major news and then through some weird prism of logic somehow become fact. One such rumor was that Google’s upcoming Android 3.0 tablet optimized mobile operating system would require a minimum set of system specifications in order to even run. That…