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Samsung Provides Android 2.2 (Froyo) Update To AT&T Captivate

February 27th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
It's tough to believe just how many months ago we reviewed Froyo. It was sunny, summer evening in 2010 when Android 2.2 began hitting the Nexus One, and now, over half a year later, some phones are still awaiting the update.

Samsung Provides Android 2.2 (Froyo) Update To AT&T Captivate

February 27th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
It's tough to believe just how many months ago we reviewed Froyo. It was sunny, summer evening in 2010 when Android 2.2 began hitting the Nexus One, and now, over half a year later, some phones are still awaiting the update.

Latest iPad Rumors Suggest More Memory, Thinner Body, Front-Facing Camera

February 27th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
The latest round of rumors concerning the iPad 2 specs are in, this set courtesy of a source that Engadget regularly uses. According to them, the iPad 2 feature a dual GSM/CDMA chipset so that it can be provisioned on either an AT&T or a Verizon/Sprint carrier.

Hardware Roundup

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Video: PowerColor AX6950 PCS++ Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews iXBT Labs Review: Gainward GeForce GTX 570 1280MB 'Phantom' Graphics Card Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Flex Video Card Review @ Ninjalane Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 On Linux @ Phoronix Motherboards and Chipsets: ECS H67H2-M Black Motherboard...

More Lion: Front Row, PowerPC axed

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
More discoveries in Mac OS X Lion have shown Apple is cutting out two of its older implementations. The developer preview no longer has Front Row, Apple's early answer to Windows Media Center.

LaunchBar 5 gives powerful launching options, on sale

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
LaunchBar is a smart launcher, which learns from your habits and patterns to help you work more efficiently. Until midnight tomorrow (Sunday, eastern time) MacUpdate Promo has LaunchBar on sale for $17.50, which is 50% off the usual price. I love LaunchBar because it's smart.

Android 2.3 Gingerbread coming to the HTC Desire, Desire HD, Desire Z & Incredible S in Q2 2011

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile According to SlashGear, HTC has offered up a Gingerbread release timeframe for a handful of phones. The devices include the Desire, Desire HD, Desire Z and the Incredible S and the good news is that Android 2.3 should be here sooner rather than later.

Twitter’s Top Trending Topics of the Week: Libia, Bieber Alert, NBA, and More

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
As Egypt left the Top 10 of Twitter trends, Libia took it's place to rise to the No. 1 spot of what people were tweeting about this week. Besides that one actual important topic, Bieber and Gaga were back again this week, as was Radiohead. So what else was trending this week on Twitter?

Mobile Etiquette Still Going Downhill

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
It’s no use arguing about it now: Having more smartphones is making us unbearable. Intel have the numbers to prove it. A crying shame.

Gadgeteer Testing Notes

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Recently, I had an opportunity to get early access to a new hardware system from Microsoft. Last fall, I met Colin Miller at World Maker Faire, where he explained the system to me.

Get Your PewPew On With PewPewPew Game

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
The real title is PewPewPewPewPewPew-PewPewPew and what you do is simple: go PewPew to destroy stuff. Pew Pew? Uh, we mean, get it?

We Knew It! Spongeob Is A Skynet Mole

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
You read it here first, boys and girls. The dude who lives in a pineapple under the sea with a snailcat is actually a cyborg programmed by Skynet to control our children’s minds. Is this the beginning of the end?Nah! Our paranoid streak just got the better of us.

Paintball RC Looks Dangerous

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
What do you get when you put together an automatic [non-lethal] weapon and a 4×4 RC? A very dangerous weapons platform is what. But hold on, what’s pictured down south isn’t exactly lethal even if it looks the part.

News Corp Accepting Bids From Potential MySpace Buyers

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Oh, MySpace! Tis a tragedy to behold how far you’ve fallen down, down, down. Worse, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp now wants to be rid of you.

Motorola Xoom tablet cannot load its own product website [Irony]

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Section: Communications, Computers, Mobile Computers Look, we all recently learned that the Motorola Xoom was going to launch without support for Flash.

Artist Drops The Paintbrush, Picks Up Explosives

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
If art always seemed a little bit too passive for your liking, we have a little something that might change your mind. Wall artist Alexandre Farto has been creating images without paint, pen or charcoal, opting instead for very precise explosions.

I’ll Be First In Line for the Sony NGP, Not the Nintendo 3DS

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
My love for video games is unconditional. I’m just as much a fan of the Nintendo Entertainment System as I am a fan of the PlayStation 3. I love the PSP as much as I love my old GameBoy. And I’m just as willing to pick up my Nintendo DS as the Sega Dreamcast. Simply put, I’m a gamer to the core.

Android 2.2 update now available for the HTC Aria

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Section: Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile Some good news for those sporting an AT&T branded HTC Aria smartphone—your Android 2.2 update has arrived.

Vintage Soviet-Era Space Capsule For Sale, Slightly Used

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
[image via Wikimedia Commons]Have a few million dollars and a penchant for collecting space-age gadgets? Better head to Sotheby's in New York City on April 12th. The auction house is selling a 50-year-old Russian space capsule that blasted off just three weeks before the first human did.

Startup CrunchFish Builds ‘Kinect’ for Smartphones

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Swedish mobile app developer Crunchfish has prototyped a mobile app that lets users control their devices using finger gestures in the air. The app requires a front-facing camera and can replace the touchscreen gesture control with what the company calls "3D control."

Fullspot O Clock Watch

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Here are some nice looking and very inexpensive Italian watches from Fullspot. Certainly designer, certainly fashion-ey, certainly the opposite of most of what you have in your collection. But actually quite fun. How cheap? Not really sure to be honest as there seems to be two prices.

Little-known options for the OS X login window

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
If you have your login window set to show the Name and Password fields (as opposed to the "List of users" or auto-login), you will see a window like the one shown above when your Mac first boots, when you logout, or when you change to the login window if you have Fast User Switching enabled.

Purported iPhone 5 part shows edge-to-edge, four-inch screen

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Rumors of an iPhone 5 with a four-inch display gained support late this week with a sighting of what might be its first identifiable part. A touchscreen digitizer layer shows the outline of an iPhone but with a noticeably larger, edge-to-edge screen.

Google Rumored To Have YouTube-Based Movie Streaming Service On Deck

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
If it's not Apple, it's Google clogging up the rumor mill pipeline. Recently, the search giant has been at the center of rumors that they could be launching a new music service to compete with iTunes, and now, The New York Post is reporting that Google may be considering the opening of a YouTube...

HP TouchPad, Pre3 in Dr Dre Music Video “I Need a Doctor”

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
For those of you much more interested in the webOS aspect of this article, you must forgive me, as I’ve got not only a healthy addiction to the mise on scene of music videos, but also the awesome implications of cross-branding.

Droid Incredible 2 in Verizon system backs CDMA Incredible S

February 26th, 2011 link to (permalink)

13 years ago
Plans for a version of the HTC Incredible S to show in the US may have been effectively greenlit on Saturday through a sighting in Verizon's inventory system. An entry for an HTC63503, or "INCRD2," has surfaced that points directly to a Droid Incredible 2 in the future.

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