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Apple loosened its licensing terms for its Lightning cable and has given the Kickstarter-funded Pop Charger a second lease on life. Last week, the development team behind the Pop Charger announced that the project was canceled because Apple would not offer the company a license for its Lightning cable. The Pop Charger is a multi-device…
It was Cyber Monday, 2012, and Amazon was offering a deal on their Kindle tablets. I quickly snatched up a 2nd-gen Kindle Fire for my mom’s x-mas present, as she (like everyone else this holiday season) wanted a tablet. When the unit arrived a few days later on the doorstep, I immediately had my greedy…
It’s that time of the year again folks: the holidays. Whether you’re nursing your wounds from braving the godless hordes on Black Friday or just digesting the massive amount of mom’s cooking, today is a great day to snag some deals from the comfort of your recliner. Cyber Monday is here, and if you’re looking…
Google’s Niantic labs has been hard at work creating the next evolution in augmented reality gaming, a game called Ingress, which is being billed as-wait it’s a mouthful the world’s first MMMMORPG. No, that’s not the name of the final boss; it stands for massively multiplayer map-based mobile online augmented reality game. This new game…
File this under “rumors” or “mistakes” but Carphone Warehouse’s website suggests that the white Nexus 4 is in works. At the phone’s web page, users are able to pick between the black (default) and white models. Pressing the “white” color unfortunately doesn’t show us any image, hinting us this could be an error on the…
If you’re looking for an ultra-thin and ultra-portable laptop for under $500, today’s deal is for you. Dell Home has the Dell Inspiron 13z 13.3-inch laptop on sale for $469.99 after $100 coupon code HX2FMBB7L35V4Q. This is a savings of close to $200 off the retail price of $668.99. Coming in at only 0.82″ thin…
Though Apple is selling millions of smartphones, its iPhone adoption rate can’t keep up with Android says well-known Internet analyst Mary Meeker. Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was in San Francisco this week for a Bloomberg event, according to a TechCrunch report. During a quick presentation on mobile trends, Meeker pointed…
According to a report in TmoNews, T-Mobile is no longer allowed to use the Apple iPhone name when marketing its “Bring Your Own Device” program. The BYOD program offered discounted rates to iPhone owners who switched to T-Mobile. This policy change was announced in a leaked internal memo obtained by TmoNews. T-Mobile is the only…
For a company who goes nuts over patent infringement, and was just awarded $1+ billion dollars from Samsung for just that, the new iPod Nano revealed at the Apple event today looks remarkably similar to the Nokia Lumia. While they may look similar however, “thugtacular” on Reddit.com has pointed out that it just looks “like…
Passbook is creating quite a bit of buzz and anticipation for the release of Apple’s newest mobile firmware, iOS 6. Though there is still come debate as to whether the iPhone 5 will feature NFC technology that is currently already being seen in some Samsung phones with Google Wallet, iOS 6’s Passbook is sure to…