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When you were a child you probably played with Lego bricks and constructed small scale versions of cities you dreamed of visiting one day as an adult. Some of you also played SimCity and did the same thing. Whatever method you went about creating your fantasy metropolis, that urge to build, plan, and organize an…
Sprint is America’s third largest operator and one of the few who still uses CDMA technology for voice and data. Several years ago, when it came time to think up a 4G strategy, instead of waiting for the LTE standard to become finalized they decided to back WiMAX. Hindsight is 20/20 and we know now…
Those of you looking to avoid signing a contract to get a Motorola Xoom may have been waiting for the WiFi-Only version.To that end, PCWorld’s UK site decided to post the pricing of the WiFi version as £449.99 before quickly pulling it offline. Well, it’s made its way back to the site, with a couple of changes.…
We were hanging out at the GDC 2011 conference yesterday and got some more time with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and we got a bigger look at its gaming powers. The Xperia Play is the first PlayStation-certified smartphone and it will pack a slide-out dpad for gaming. The cool thing about it is that…
HootSuite had launched their Twitter and Facebook app for BlackBerry a few months ago, and recently updated it to include access to the LinkedIn professional social network. The social networks HootSuite was already supporting also got some added functions; Facebook got the ability to add pages, do searches, and view events, while Twitter now includes…
AT&T has been blocking the ability to download applications outside of the Android Market since day one. Since then, there have been a few ways to get around the blockade, for those Android users who want to install apps that they downloaded on their own. Today, we’re seeing a new sideloading workaround for the Motorola…
AT&T and Verizon are locked in for a March 11 launch of the iPad 2, but Canada isn’t far behind. Rogers has confirmed that they’ll be selling Apple’s new skinnier, faster tablet. Though they don’t mention pricing or dates, Apple did mention March 25 for international launches, and they’re selling the Wi-Fi-only 16 GB model…
Apple made some waves this morning by introducing the iPad 2 and while the announcement didn’t contain many surprises, it is still going to be one of the major players in the ever-competitive tablet market. As for the specs, the iPad 2 has a dual-core A5 chip for speedier processing, the same (or similar) 9.7-inch…
As expected, the original iPad’s price has been slashed in the wake of the iPad 2 announcement; the Wi-Fi 16 GB iPad is now $399, 32 GB is $499, and the balls-out 64 GB Wi-Fi and 3G model is going for $729. That’s a $100 cut across the board. Apple was reasonably humane and kept the…
If you grew up with the comedy of Bill Cosby like I did, chances are the comedian holds a fond place in your heart. Off hand I recall watching Fat Albert, Picture Pages, and of course, who could forget the loveable Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable and the rest of the Cosby family. Yes, the comedian is…