This should probably go without saying, however it is never a good idea to brag about a crime that you have committed. Of course, that being said, its probably a smarter idea to not commit the crime in the first place. But as we often see, that rules is broken quite often. Anyway, those who commit crimes in the fine city of New York and like to brag online using social networks such as Facebook and/or Twitter—well, you may want to reconsider as it seems the NYPD has recently formed a new unit that will specifically track and monitor social… Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Phones these days are like precious jewels. The biggest and best phones are comprised of huge screens with no buttons. If they're dropped, chances are it's game over. If you're the type that needs more protection for your phone that a case can't offer, you need a rugged phone. Samsung has added to its Galaxy line of smartphones by introducing the Galaxy Xcover. the Galaxy Xcover will be available in October in Germany and Ukraine. The Xcover was designed for harsh conditions. It is IP67 certified which means the phone is classified as a device that has protection against dust… Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for . | Comment on this Article »
 
If you had been hoping and/or considering picking up one of those discounted HP TouchPad tablets over this past weekend and missed out for one reason or another—there is a bit of good news today. Stephen DiFranco, who is the SVP of the Personal Systems Group has reached out to the folks over at the webOSroundup blog and passed on the good news in terms of the TouchPad prices. According to DiFranco, the price drop has been made permanent. Yup, that means moving forward you will be able to pick up a 16GB TouchPad for $399 and a 32GB TouchPad… Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for . | Comment on this Article »
 
If you find yourself not being able to get enough Google+ related coverage, this latest bit may be right up your alley—the Google+ theme song. And this is one that will be especially nice for those who happen to find themselves grooving to the now classic “Another One Bites The Dust” song. That said, hit play on the video above to check it out for yourself and while this is certainly not anything life changing in terms of goodness, it should be good for a few minutes of fun. Enjoy.Via [YouTube] and [All Things D] Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Putting an end to any rumor and speculation—Peter Ritcher who is AT&T’s senior vice president of mobility and consumer markets has stated that LTE smartphones are not going to arrive until sometime in late-2011. And yes, that is despite AT&T planning to have their LTE network go live sometime this summer. Bottom line, AT&T LTE is coming this summer and compatible smartphones are not coming until closer to the end of the year. Anyway, as for the first few areas that will be getting AT&T LTE coverage, those lucky locations include Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. And lastly,… Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for . | Comment on this Article »
 
FROM GAMERTELL - The Xperia Play’s included PlayStation emulator has been cracked, and a developer named Yifan Lu has reverse engineered it to run unofficial PSOne ISO files. MORE » Full Story » | Written by NEWS for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Yesterday we mentioned the bad news in terms of Europe, Samsung and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. And for those who missed that post, Samsung has been told by the courts that they will have to stop selling the Honeycomb running tablet throughout Europe with one exception, the Netherlands. In short, as many would have guessed, this was probably not the best news for Samsung to get. Especially so soon after the troubles they were having in Australia. Anyway, that being said, it looks like a representative from Samsung has stepped forward with an official statement. Samsung is disappointed with… Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for . | Comment on this Article »
 
FROM APPLETELL - If you’re in the market for a pico projector and are not limited by price, then look no further than Microvision. MORE » Full Story » | Written by NEWS for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Those who are sporting a Chrome OS running notebook, whether it be a Cr-48, Samsung Chromebook or Acer AC700—there is a bit of good news today coming from Netflix. In short, Netflix is now streaming on Chrome OS.Via [Twitter @netflix] Full Story » | Written by Robert Nelson for . | Comment on this Article »
 
FROM APPLETELL - Now, not only can you stream content from your PC to your Boxee iPad app, you can watch your iPad app content on your Boxee Box. MORE » Full Story » | Written by NEWS for . | Comment on this Article »
 
FROM GAMERTELL - Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik cited popular video games as both the cover and inspiration for his July 22 attacks, causing retail chains to begin pulling the games from shelves. MORE » Full Story » | Written by NEWS for . | Comment on this Article »
 
The Samsung Conquer 4G will officially launch with Sprint on August 21st for the price of $99 on a two year contract. If you’re interested in picking up the mid-range Android smartphone on Sprint when it launches, I recommend you pre-order the device with Wal-Mart instead, because the third party retailer has the 4G smartphone for free on a two year contract. In fact, Sprint requires a $50 MIR in addition to the $99 upfront cost for the device, so you’ll have to shell out $149 for the Conquer as opposed to nothing with Wal-Mart. It’s pretty interesting to see… Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Bell has been pretty much active into bringing more “superphones” into its fold recently. After making the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G, HTC Sensation and the Motorola ATRIX 4G not all that long ago, here comes Bell with another superphone - the Motorola XT860 4G. Running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, most of you will probably recognize this phone as having a striking resemblance to the Motorola Milestone 3 or Droid 3. Well actually, it’s the same Android phone, dubbed with a different name for Bell’s release. The Motorola XT860 4G features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 1GHz dual-core processor, 4-inch qHD… Full Story » | Written by Arnold Zafra for . | Comment on this Article »
 
T-Mobile often touts their data plans as unlimited, since even if you go over your allotted amount of data for the month they only throttle your speeds down to 2G. However, it looks like T-Mobile is about to put a hard data cap on the 200MB option and charge an overage of 10 cents per MB on both their Classic and Value plans. If you take a look at the leaked internal document below, you’ll realize the reason for the sudden data cap is due to a more than expected interest in the 200MB plan. The way I see it… Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for . | Comment on this Article »
 
We have seen several leaks regarding the HTC Puccini Android tablet on AT&T, but nothing too definitive in terms of pricing and availability. According to a recent report based on HTC sending out invitations for a mysterious event, there is a good chance that the Puccini will launch on AT&T on September 1st. The HTC Puccini will be a great tablet for AT&T has it will run Android Honeycomb out of the box and it will feature HTC’s customized Sense skin for Honeycomb. Moreover, it is said to support the HTC Scribe, which is HTC’s proprietary stylus that allows users… Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for . | Comment on this Article »
 
As if its numerous Kindle apps on different mobile platforms are not enough, Amazon just launched another version of its Kindle app, this time leveraging HTML5. Officially known as the Kindle Cloud Reader, this web app allows you to read Kindle books instantly using your desktop web browser - either online or offline. In addition, this Kindle web app also supports the iPad’s Safari browser. What distinguishes the Kindle Cloud Reader from all other versions of the Kindle app is the fact that it doesnt’ require you to download and install anything. Just like other Kindle apps, Kindle Cloud Reader… Full Story » | Written by Arnold Zafra for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Just as AT&T promised in late July, the HTC Inspire 4G update to Android 2.3.3 is now rolling out. It officially began on August 8th, and will likely take a few weeks until every Inspire owner receives his/her update. It’s nice to see a carrier be up front, honest, and precise with Android upgrades. AT&T was able to work closely with HTC and deliver on their promised time frame for the Inspire’s update. In case you’re wondering what exactly Android 2.3 brings for your Inspire, AT&T published a few bullet points detailing the update: This system update includes: Android 2.3.3… Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Samsung in cooperation with NVIDIA has just officially announced the latest Samsung Galaxy phone, dubbed Samsung Galaxy R. Featuring the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, the this smartphone runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has a 4.19 inch touchscreen. To be specific about it, said screen display is a Super LCD touchscreen which could very well be a toned-down version of the Super AMOLED Plus screen display of the Samsung Galaxy S II. Additionally, the Samsung Galaxy R also features a GeForce GPU which gives you fast mobile web browsing experience, even made better by an accelerated Adobe Flash player support. The… Full Story » | Written by Arnold Zafra for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Walmart's MP3 store is in its final days. On August 28, 2011, the Walmart Music Downloads Store will be closed. Come August 29, all content from the store will be disabled. Customer support will still be around for anyone who purchased music from Walmart's MP3 store prior to its closure. This situation goes to show that it takes more than competitive prices to make a successful product. Walmart sells some songs at a lower price than more popular services such as iTunes, but it didn't have the name recognition or well publicized platform support. The Amazon MP3 Store is also… Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Facebook released its Facebook Messenger app yesterday for iOS and Android devices. The app is pretty straight forward. It's a way for Facebook users to message each other without using text messages or using Facebook's main application. It's basically Facebook's response to Google's Huddle and Apple's iMessage. Facebook now appears to be getting ready to introduce a mobile video chatting feature as well. Buried within the contents of Facebook Messenger is evidence of an upcoming video conferencing feature. Two images of the possible feature were discovered by 9to5Mac. The Android version of Facebook Messenger also contains the same images. Facebook's… Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for . | Comment on this Article »
 
If you’re looking for a laptop with 3D but hate wearing glasses, Toshiba has the laptop for you. Toshiba has just announced that it’s latest laptop, the Qosimio F755, will be available in mid-August for all those who want glasses-less 3D on a PC. The Qosimio F755 will start at $1,699 when it releases this month. That will give you a robust gaming laptop with a Core i7 CPU, Nvidia GeForce 540M GPU, an unspecified amount of “fast RAM,” and 750GB of storage space. You’ll also get that 3D display that combines parallax image display with head tracking to provide… Full Story » | Written by Shawn Ingram for . | Comment on this Article »
 
Since April iPad users that subscribe to Cablevision’s Optimum service for TV have been able to stream their TV right to the iPad. Now anyone who subscribes to Optimum TV services can stream live TV to any iOS device. Cablevision has updated the Optimum app to now work on iPhones and iPod touches as well as the iPad. That means anyone with an iOS device will be able to stream TV to any of those devices. The app will also let you set your DVR and manage content on the DVR. You still can’t watch the shows and movies that… Full Story » | Written by Shawn Ingram for . | Comment on this Article »
 
A federal jury in Massachusetts return a mixed bag of results for Nuance in the company’s efforts to assert Vlingo had infringed on a Nuance patent. Vlingo aimed to invalidate the patent. Yesterday’s verdict was a good news/bad news for both companies. The jury validated Nuances patent. That’s good news for Nuance and less than good for Vlingo. However, the jury also found that Vlingo did not infinge on Nuance’s validated patent. That’s bad news for Nuance and good news for Vlingo. Nuance will appeal the decision. "We are pleased that the jury rejected Vlingo's attempt to invalidate our patent,… Full Story » | Written by JG Mason for . | Comment on this Article »
 
After weeks of waiting the Boxee iPad app is finally available for free in the App Store. The app will give you some of the video features of the Boxee Box, and will let you send video straight to your Boxee Box from your iPad. The main focus of the Boxee iPad app is watching videos from the web. Those videos can either come from your friends that shared them on Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr, or videos you bookmarks to watch later on Boxee. If you like the videos you watch, the app will let your share them to your… Full Story » | Written by Shawn Ingram for . | Comment on this Article »
What: Cadence 4bit binary watch Price:$90 Rating: 5 stars review sum up: classy watch with tech angle It’s time to spruce up your watch collection with this watch from the Cadence company. No longer does showing off a little geek cred mean a black calculator watch from the 80s. Now, you can sport a great looking watch and still be true to your intellectual pursuits - meet the 4bit binary watch from Cadence. Read all about it This great looking watch features a bright white face and brushed metal (jewelry-grade stainless steel) and 4bit binary code to represent the numbers. … Full Story » | Written by JG Mason for . | Comment on this Article »
 
The LG G-Slate—on T-Mobile—is going to receive its Android 3.1 Honeycomb upgrade from Android 3.0 starting very soon, and will probably last a week or two. Typically with software OTA roll-outs, the time frame in which you will receive the update can last a few weeks. According to a post in the LG Forums by a moderator, the update is likely to have already begun, which means there is a chance you could already have it. The Android 3.1 update will bring about several chances including UI enhancements, resizable widgets, changes to the pre-loaded apps, as well as a few… Full Story » | Written by Natesh Sood for . | Comment on this Article »
 
You no longer have to log in to the official Facebook application to access the messaging features. Today, Facebook released Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android. Facebook Messenger is a separate application that only handles messages. Chat messages, inbox messages, emails and text messages will be located in one place. The Facebook Messenger app also allows users to add their locations and photos into messages. The location feature is meant to coordinate multiple people in various locations. Even without adding locations, users can still send a single message to multiple recipients. Facebook Messenger was created in part by Beluga, a… Full Story » | Written by Jeremy Hill for . | Comment on this Article »
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