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Sorella Stoute is an enterprising little girl. Just shy of 15-months, the toddler has already purchased her first car and conned her father into fixing it up for her 16th birthday. According to KOIN.com, the tale of the car-buying child starts with some innocent play time on her father’s smartphone. Rather than sticking with a learning game,…
Around mid-April, Google released an app that lets users learn about various nonprofits and charitable organizations. The app known as One Today was previously available only for those who had received invites, and is now available today for the general public. The One Today app showcases a different non-profit daily and allows users to donate…
Pacific Rim is a science fiction film that hits theaters Friday, July 12th. It takes place in the 2020s when monsters called Kaiju rose through portals in the sea and began attacking our civilization. To defend ourselves, humans created giant robots called Jaegars. Together with a heroic former pilot and trainee, the team must defend…
Samsung is encouraging the next generation of app developers by offering $35,000 in scholarships to 11th and 12th graders who have an interest in science, technology and mathematics. Samsung is offering Mobile App Academies at various locations across the U.S., and will award the scholarships to those students who create winning app ideas. “Participants will…
The Firefox OS powered Alcatel One Touch continues its journey across Europe, with Deutsche Telekom announcing that the affordable device will be available online through T-Mobile Poland tomorrow, and brick and mortar locations on July 15th. The One Touch, which launched in Spain on carrier Telefonica last week, will be available for 1 zloty and an…
According to a leaked roadmap picked up by Phone Arena, the upcoming HTC One and Moto X release dates have been revealed, showing that we should be getting both devices sometime next month. As per usual, Verizon has taken its sweet ass time to get its version of the HTC One out to the US,…
Nokia has just revealed their new Lumia 1020 Windows Phone 8 smartphone, which touts a 41MP camera and ZEISS optics. Along with this news is the confirmation that Twitter’s popular video sharing app Vine will be coming to the Windows 8 platform, along with other social apps such as Flipboard and Path. Vine first appeared…
Nokia took to the stage in New York City today and unveiled the rumored Lumia 1020. The press event kicked off with a focus on cameras, and it’s clear that Nokia is trying to grab the title of the king of the camera phone with this new Lumia phone. The phone has a 41-megapixel backside illuminated sensor, Zeiss…
Nokia is expected to announce the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020 during a press event today. A few hours before the big unveiling, AT&T has inadvertently taken the wraps off the phone in a video that appears on its YouTube channel. The video focuses on the camera and confirms the phone will rock a 41-megapixel camera with 6X…
Microsoft decided to increase the length of its support lifecycle for Windows Phone 8 from 18 months to 36 months. These updates will be rolling out incrementally, with each update building on the update that preceded it. The mobile operator or phone manufacturer, however, may control the distribution of these updates and update availability may…