Amid Apple lawsuits and controversy HTC keeps pushing on


March 4th, 2010 By: Savan Thongvanh

HTC announced today that they would push the reach of the beloved Desire smart phone even further. HTC will how offer, exclusively with Telstra Corp, their HTC Desire in Australia.

According to HTC, Telstra is Australia’s largest and fastest 3g network. The Desire will be available in April and pricing has not yet been announced.

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Skinput asks, “Dancing Coconut Girls, Anyone?”


March 4th, 2010 By: Jason Patocka

Body modders rejoice! Touch interfaces may soon be coming to your tattoo if Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research engineers advance their concept of Skinput. So far, the team has developed an external sensor that detects acoustic vibrations on the human body, and have paired this input with a projected user interface. This is an interesting field of conceptual R&D, as there could be more far reaching and tantalizing applications with convergent developments in bio-materials engineering and thin film displays.

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Childhood classic Qbert hits the iPhone and Touch


March 1st, 2010 By: Savan Thongvanh


This is an app you may not have been dying for but if you’re from my generation you might be dying to get. Sony has released the bouncing beeping classic game Q*bert to the iTunes Store.

This version has:

  • a bluetooth multiplayer co-op mode
  • 10 levels of play
  • 50 new levels, and
  • 5 special themes for iPhone and iPod Touch

Of course you can get it from iTunes or the AppStore

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Verizon helps us citizens call Chile


March 1st, 2010 By: Savan Thongvanh

As of late we’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of witnessing some high profile corporate citizenship. Yesterday Verizon added to the list of good deeds done by American companies by allowing , through March 6th, calls from the US to be made without fees for residential log distance users. more »

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Recognizr and Web 3.0


February 23rd, 2010 By: Jason Patocka

Sick of typing in search fields? Having trouble making small talk when trying to pick up cute strangers at the local tap? Well have we got an app for you…..
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AT&T joins the Android game with Motorola’s BACKFLIP


February 18th, 2010 By: Savan Thongvanh

Today Motorola announced another offering with AT&T.  Motorola’s BACKFLIP will be AT&T’s first phone with Android.  The phone will be available March 7th.

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The cloud gets more crowded


February 16th, 2010 By: Savan Thongvanh

Google is making could computing more and more mainstream today. People are computing the cloud and not even knowing what it is.

However as corporations try to trim budgets and cut corners they’re looking more and more to the cloud. Two major players today in the enterprise computing sector made announcements that they’d have more cloud offerings. more »

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Could this be the iPad and iPhone’s long awaited camera?


February 15th, 2010 By: Savan Thongvanh

I think we’ve all realized that the mobile device race is not about size anymore. Today’s race is about feature density and Toshiba has leapt past all of it competition in the mobile camera department.

Today Toshiba announced a TWELVE megapixel camera and chip for mobile. With most a US domestic cameras using cameras at or below 5 megapixels this is a chip that really pushes Moore’s law.
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Canadian TV brings the 2010 Olympics to your iPhone


February 12th, 2010 By: Savan Thongvanh

With the start of the Olympics here who better than the Canadians to keep us on top of the events. Canadian TV has an iPhone app to help you stay on top of your Olympic Games.

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Zombies Verruckt Map Now Available on iTunes


February 12th, 2010 By: Savan Thongvanh

While the iPad is in the headlines awesome things are still happening on the iPhone. For example one of my favorite parts of one of my favorite games, Call of Duty: World at War has release one of it’s hit bonus maps for iPhone!
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