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Cell phone radiation detection app comes to Android
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Tawkon, a small Israeli start-up, announced Monday that its cell phone radiation detection application has arrived for Google Android phones. The company's mobile application uses an algorithm that measures your specific absorption rate or SAR (See also: CNET's Quick Guide: Cell phone radiat...
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Smartphones Are Turning Us Into Idiots
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Everyone I know has a smartphone. Some people I know have more than one. Our need for constant internet access, email, instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook, and texting has gotten to the point where it’s actually distressing to people to turn the phone off and let the world go for a while. How did this...
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Apple iPad officially hits Target shelves October 3rd
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Don't say we didn't warn you. The Apple iPad is pinching and zooming its way onto Target shelves starting October 3rd, in both WiFi / 3G and WiFi-only options. Those with a Target credit card can get a five percent discount when the rollout for that special begins October 17th. Is this what you've been w...
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All hope for Verizon iPhone now dead, hints CEO
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Verizon's CEO Ivan Seidenberg confirmed yesterday that all rumours of the Verizon iPhone are not true, crushing the dreams of the iPhone being on a decent network within the United States. The Verizon iPhone rumour has been surfacing for years now, with analyst predictions and inside confirmatio...
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Cell Phones
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I am looking to find out from this group what type of cell phones you have/like and what type of plan and the vendor. The hubby and I are currently running VE20 through US Cellular. 1000 minutes shared, free incoming, free cell to cell in plan, nation wide. No data though. We are finding that our bill h...
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iOS 4.x jailbreakers may get tricked by fake greenpois0n hacks
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Though the Library of Congress has ruled iPhone jailbreaks as "fair use," that doesn't mean Apple can't try to prevent it. While Apple has patched iOS 4.x to stymie jailbreaks on the iPhone 4, hackers have reportedly discovered a low-level boot ROM exploit which could allow these device...
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Report: RIM unveiling BlackBerry tablet next week
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The much-discussed BlackBerry tablet may finally come to fruition as soon as next week. It's been talked about for months, but Research In Motion has yet to acknowledge that such a device exists. But today The Wall Street Journal reported that the Canadian smartphone maker may reveal its own iPad-l...
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Top 10 Online Sources For Funny Mobile Sound Clips
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Humor is the best ice-breaker there is. Have you ever seen how heads turn when your mobile phone starts buzzing with a funny sound? Dressing up your mobile phone with cool wallpapers, and cooler applications is fine of course. But to take the banner of the ‘coolest’, think of funny sound clips. You can...
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The Complete Android Guide Is a Front-to-Back Handbook for Android Phones
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Truly the Android is not just any phone. Yes, you can talk and text on it, but it doesn’t stop there. Your Android phone works hard to connect your digital life to your real life. How many awesome articles have we shared with you so far talking about all of the cool stuff you can do with a Google Android ph...
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Cell phones to avoid
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We spend a lot of time talking about our favorite cell phones, but it's equally important that we tell you which handsets you should avoid. Though the following phones aren't completely abysmal, there are better options. We eagerly waited for Dell to release the Aero, only for it to disappoint. As CN...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab vs. the iPad: Compare For Yourself
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The Android vs. Apple battle has officially made its way into the world of tablets. Samsung took the wraps off its new Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet on Thursday. The Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch slate built to complete with the current tablet king, Apple's thus-far-unchallenged iPad. Sure, there have...
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Which iPod is Right for You?
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It's been almost nine years since the first iPod hit the scene, with its 5GB hard drive, monochrome display, mechanical scroll wheel, and Mac-only software. Compare that with the line of new players Apple released earlier this month, and it's clear: The iPod has come a long way, baby. Every fall Appl...
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A Massive War Is Approaching As The Tablet Market Cannot Sustain Six Separate Platforms
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Can you hear that? It’s the sound of war. Better choose your side soon, too. The tablet wars are going to get nasty. Apple’s army is prepped, already backed by over 3 million zealous iPad owners. But the Google Android horde is quickly banding together and will soon offer countless weapons from severa...
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Microsoft Feels The Windows 7 Phone Will Be A "Revolution"
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With the upcoming launch of the Windows 7 mobile operating system, Microsoft has decided to call it “The revolution is coming.” But the question is will Windows Phone 7 be a revolution? Chris Matyszczyk of Cnet is asking if the world is running out of words, since it seems like every company who bring...
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A 2.5Ghz Quad-Core phone?
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Did you hear the news about the Samsung Orion, a 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor announced last Tuesday, September 7th? The thing’s a BEAST! Now, think about your latest 1GHz Snapdragon phone. Now, double that speed. Now, double it again. Now, divide that by four and multiply it by five. Now,...
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Google Hints at New Directions for Android Tablets
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Froyo might be the last word for Android smartphones, but Google denies it’s meant as a tablet OS, adding fuel to rumors that we’ll be seeing Honeycomb or Gingerbread-enabled tablets competing against the iPad sometime soon. At least one Googleexecutive has been saying publicly that the company d...
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New exploit found in iPhone hardware makes it jailbreakable for life
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A new exploit discovered in the iPhone hardware, or more specifically, the A4 processor, makes the iPhone, iPod touch 4G and the iPad jailbreakable for life. The exploit is found in the A4 hardware, so Apple can't patch this through a software update without updating the hardware. The exploit is sim...
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Android usage to surpass BlackBerry, iOS by year end
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Android is on its way to taking the silver medal in mobile market share worldwide, and gold in North America—as long as the platform maintains its currently strong growth numbers. According to market research firm Gartner, the mobile world will be dominated by Symbian and Android devices by 2014, w...
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Android now accounts for 25% of North American mobile Internet traffic
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Over the last few months we’ve seen many statistics showing that Google’s Android platform is rising to the top of the pile in the smartphone category – which is quite a feat when you’re fighting Apple, RIM and Microsoft (well, soon). Quantcast (via Engadget) has just released statistics showing th...
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With iPod Refresh, Apple is Fixing Mistakes
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Apple's new line of iPods might be the best ever, if only because last year's models were plagued with technical problems and miscalculations. Looking back at Apple's press event yesterday, it seemed like each new iPod was intended, at least in part, to right the wrongs of 2009. Let's take a closer lo...
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New Apple TV is iPod Touch in sheep's clothing
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The inside of the new Apple TV likely resembles the interior of the iPod Touch, a move that allowed Apple to dramatically cut costs, a Canadian research company said today. What's unknown, said Jeffrey Brown, who heads the business intelligence group at Ottawa-based UBM TechInsights, is whether t...
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Apple iOS 4.1 release next week, 4.2 for iPad in November
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Apple announced today during their live stream broadcast about the upcoming iOS 4.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new improvements include fixes for a lot of security issues, bugs and adds a lot of additional features. iOS 4.1 will include GameCenter, which allows you and your friends to play ga...
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Apple announces new iPod touch, nano and shuffle
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Apple hosted their first web stream today in years, and introduced a variety of new products and software updates. Apple showed off their entire line up of refreshed iPod products, including the iPod touch and iPod Nano. First on Apple's release list is the iPod touch 4th generation. The new iPod tou...
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iTunes 10 available today; new social network Ping
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iTunes 10 is available later today, sporting several new features that change how you browse and discover content. This update also comes with a brand new icon, as Apple felt that the CD was outdated and that we as a whole are moving to digital downloads. Apple has looked more at how screen real estate w...
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Apple iPod Touch, the best gets better
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As a portable media player/gaming device/mini-tablet computer, Apple's iPod Touch has been blowing us away since 2007. The only thing really to say about the fourth-generation model unveiled Wednesday is that it is predictably more awesome, yet still not quite a match for the capabilities of the...
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Videos: Steve Jobs shows off Apple iOS Updates
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At Apple's press event in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs announces updates to the mobile operating system. iOS 4.1 will bring new features starting this week, while version 4.2 will arrive this November. ZDnet has all of the videos HERE!
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Sony takes on Kindle with next-gen e-readers
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Maybe the third time's the charm for Sony. After two tries at doing touch-screen e-readers, the company has officially unveiled its latest generation of Readers, and this go round Sony's engineers have finally gotten it right--at least the touch-screen part. As the rumors suggested, Sony is basi...
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QWERTY faceoff: Droid 2 vs. Epic 4G vs. BlackBerry Torch
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Although most of the momentum in the smartphone world is happening around touchscreen devices, there are still plenty of people — especially many business professionals — who want a hardware keyboard. There are three new high-end smartphones with hardware QWERTYs that have recently hit the mark...
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Want to learn how to create stuff for the Win7 Phone Platform?
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Today we are publishing the first in our training content led by our MVPs. Rob Miles and Andy Wigley led an incredibly well received live training course about a month ago, focused on getting developers trained up on building amazing applications and games for Windows Phone 7. We recognize that pro...
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