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Some have predicted the fall of BlackBerry even before the BlackBerry 10 OS became a reality. If you’ve been following the company’s exploits for the last year or so, you’ll know that the company formally known as RIM has fallen on some hard times, laying off scores of workers and trimming their device lineup. In…
Deadly Premonition has carved out a niche as a cult game. It’s clunky and incredibly strange, and that’s a big part of its appeal. Now a new Apple iBook provides an interactive and informative companion to the cult title! Deadly Premonition came out for the Xbox 360 back in 2010, and instantly polarize critics. In…
Cricket will start selling the new iPhones on October 25th. In a short press release, the carrier invited users to register their interest for “the most forward-thinking smartphone in the world” (iPhone 5s) and “the most colorful iPhone yet” (iPhone 5c), and be among the first ones to get these two from Cricket. The sign-up…
As part of its Christmas shopping push, Nokia will offer free one-year subscription to Netflix with every Lumia device sold in the UK. According to the Financial Times, the company doesn’t want to passively wait for regulatory bodies to clear the deal with Microsoft and is looking to make some cash in the meantime. Apparently,…
Ahh the Treasure Island Music Festival, one of my favorite fall time activities. The two-day festival has it all; multiple stages of performers, a pretty sweet beer garden, DIY craft stylings and a shit-ton of pota-potties. As anyone who has attended in the past can attest, finding out where your next favorite act is performing…
Ingress is almost a year old, and has captured quite a devoted audience of Android players in urban areas. Google is reportedly bringing the location based augmented reality game to iOS, giving Apple users a chance to battle it out in real time. In an interview with AllThingsD, Ingress project manager Brandon Badger confirmed the…
Apple’s iPhone 5S announcement ushered in a golden age. For the first time an Apple product came in gold, as well as silver and “Space Gray”. Now a leak points to Apple’s refresh of its iPad and iPad mini will offer up the same color scheme. The pictures from Chinese rumor site Ctechcn show both…
Nokia Store will stop accepting apps for Symbian and MeeGo devices from January 1, 2014. The unfortunate part — which has something to do with the Microsoft deal — is that the Finnish company previously said it will support Symbian until 2016. Guess the new ownership structure changes many things… Meanwhile, Nokia will keep supporting…
You know how everyone is talking about fingerprint sensors after Apple’s pretty much made the technology cool (again)? Well, Synaptics reacted and is now acquiring Validity Sensors, provider of biometric fingerprint authentication solutions. The idea is to gain access to the fast growing biometrics market, which is in some sort of renaissance these days. Biometrics…
Next year will be important for Allwinner, which is preparing to bring quite a few chips to the market. Among products the Chinese company will launch is the 8-core processor we’ve told you about, featuring ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture with four slower Cortex-A7 and four powerful Cortex-A15 cores. But that’s not all, Allwinner will also be…