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Goldgenie, the company responsible most recently for the gold Blackberry Q10, has done it again. Now a gold or platinum HTC One can be yours, though it’ll cost you a pretty penny. The gold-plated One is retailing for about $2,900 American! Famed for introducing the Gold Superstar iPhone series to the market along with the Gold Samsung…
Ready your credit cards, folks, as we have some great deals on some new tech toys for you! Our Top Deal Today is courtesy of AT&T, as the carrier is offering up 50% off most of its phones, waiving the activation fee, and shipping it to you for free! This means that some of the…
AT&T is offering 50% its devices when purchased online with a two-year contract, from now until June 30th. The deal comes attached to another offer, which is an in-store trade-in program which applies a $100 discount when a customer trades in a device no more than 3 years old. Android Central pointed to the fine…
Samsung Petrochemical, the materials wing of Samsung, has formed a partnership with SGL Group to invest in developing composite materials. Samsung’s plasticky phones may be a thing of the past! Carbon based products firm, SGL Group, has formed a 50/50 joint venture with Samsung to develop electronics that use carbon composite. Carbon fiber is commonly…
Anyone with both a smartphone and a car knows the perils the car charger. Whether it ends up wrapped around the shifter, the parking break, or your passenger’s leg, the long, thin cable snaking from beneath your radio is always getting in the way, and tangling itself in knots. Now TYLT has come up with…
Sony’s Playstation Network will be offline for maintenance tomorrow, beginning 9:30 am PST and ending 4:00 pm PST. Sony made the announcement in a post on the Playstation Blog today. While there’s no mention of it, it seems likely that this maintenance might have something to do with the problems some PS3 users have had…
Microsoft today announced the availability of the official LivingSocial app for Windows Phone 8. Now users get all they can handle from one of the top daily deals sites around. This isn’t just some half-assed mobile application, as many of the key WP8 features come with it such as the ability to see deals on…
American Airlines has just become the first major commercial airline to deploy electronic flight bags in their cockpits, which offer Apple iPads in lieu of the traditional paper-based reference materials that pilots must transport with them on flights. The use of tablets in the cockpits will bring generous fuel savings thanks to the reduction in…
Some new pictures of Sony’s rumored Togari phablet are here today, as well as a name change. The Togari will in fact be named the Xperia ZU, and will feature a Galaxy Note like build without physical navigation keys. The leaked pictures depict the white Xperia ZU, which keeps to the design aesthetics of the…
Apple released iOS 7 beta 2 for developers today and while it unfortunately doesn’t focus on improving the often-criticized design flaws, it does bring some minor improvements to features across the OS. The two main takeaways of the beta 2 is that it brings back the Voice Memos app, which was missing in action for…