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Yep, I think we all saw this coming. Google releases a concept video of a way to overlay our everyday vision with Internet-connected services and apps that could potentially change the way we all live our lives. What to do, what to do… ah yes of course, let’s make some parodies. The first one isn’t…
That didn’t take very long. In a matter of about a week and a half, Temple Run hit five million downloads on Android. Imangi, the company behind Temple Run and other mobile games, had announced that it would arrive on Android soon only a few weeks before the release. Originally exclusive to iOS, it was released…
AT&T told Engadget that it will start unlocking out of contract iPhones starting April 8th. This is a big policy reversal on AT&T’s part as the carrier, up until now, was reluctant to unlock iPhones even when the customer was no longer under a contract. Beginning Sunday, April 8, we will offer qualifying customers the…
It looks like HTC’s strategic shift didn’t come soon enough, as the latest quarterly results from the Taiwanese company saw profits fall dramatically for Q1 of 2012. With the competition heating up this quarter, the upcoming One X, One S, and One V are on the front line to hold the likes of Samsung, Apple,…
We’ve been hearing loud rumblings that a Google Nexus tablet would be landing soon and that Google would be offering this and other Android tablets directly to consumers through an online store. Well, the folks at The Verge are reporting that we shouldn’t expect Google’s tablet until July at the earliest. While it’s tough to…
Have you been playing games on your iOS or Windows Phone 7 device and wish your games were just a bit more ‘splodier? I know I do and that’s why I was excited to hear one of my favorite Xbox Live Arcade games, Ms. Splosion Man, is making its way to both iOS & WP7…
We were genuinely impressed with the 41-megapixel camera on the Nokia PureView 808 but we were taken aback by the fact that it ran Symbian. Well, a leaked image suggests that we may see this technology on an upcoming Windows Phone. The leaked picture suggests we can expect a Lumia smartphone with this 41-megapixel technology.…
A user on the Crackberry forum is posting pictures of what he claims to be a PlayBook 4G. Could this be the next version of the Research In Motion tablet? To be clear, this could be a fake but he does post some other photos which clearly shows a SIM slot. Other than that, it…
The mass exodus of executives at Research in Motion continued this week, as two new executives tied to Blackberry have announced their departure. Senior Vice President Alan Brenner, who led the Blackberry platform at RIM, will be out after a transition period. Alistair Mitchell, a Vice President for the Blackberry instant messaging service, has already…
Windows Phone has had one heck of a time trying to pull customers away from Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS platforms. When consumers think about what devices they’re going to buy next, they generally consider whether their platform of choice feature certain applications, an area in which Microsoft has continued to struggle. Over a year…