Sprint BlackBerry Tour on July 12th, 2009
Sprint has announced the release date for the BlackBerry Tour. The cell phone will be released on July 12th, 2009 for $199 with 2-years contract.
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How Apple’s A4 chip lets iPad run cooler, save battery life
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Apple broke with the consumer electronics industry’s accepted wisdom by designing its own processor chips for the upcoming iPad tablet computer. In the past, Apple persuaded Intel to build a custom central processor chip for its super-skinny MacBook Air. But iPad design goes one further by bringing the chips in-house, using [...]
Publishers line up against Amazon’s $9.99 e-books
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The ten-dollar e-book may soon be gone, replaced by the fifteen-dollar eBook.
Last week, VentureBeat broke the news that Amazon had removed all Macmillan titles from its U.S. site and its Kindle downloads. You could look up the books, but you could only buy them from third party [...]
Mippin brings news and social media aggregator Buzz Deck to the iPhone
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Mobile developer Mippin is bringing their popular news and social media aggregator application Buzz Deck to the iPhone. The application was originally developed for Android, and was also a winner of Google’s 2009 global app challenge.
Buzz Deck’s big claim to fame is its collection of auto-populated topic [...]
Apple’s A4 chip | Engineers correct stupid journalist
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I have no clue about computer chip design and manufacturing. So I trolled VentureBeat’s readers with a challenge | Explain to me how Apple’s switch from third-party chip manufacturers to its own in-house design for the A4 chip that powers the new iPad tablet computer makes the iPad better, either for [...]
Apple aiming to monopolize location-based mobile ads?
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We’ve known for the longest time that Apple was planning something with mobile advertisements, particularly after they purchased mobile ad firm Quattro Wireless for $275 million, but the company has been mum on specifics. As the company behind the phone that built the mobile ad market, I would imagine that it [...]
Seesmic adds multi-account support for Android
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Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, just launched an update to its Android app that supports multiple accounts.
It also remembers your position in the timeline, so you don’t have to miss incoming tweets. There are a couple other little fixes [...]
X2 launches new tablet computer, dubs it the iTablet
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Fresh off the heels of Apple’s iPad launch, UK manufacturer X2 today announced the launch of a new tablet computer that they have dubbed the iTablet, according to several UK sites. A slick marketing move, though Apple might not think so.
The iTablet comes in either 10.2-inch or [...]
Siri launches an iPhone personal assistant that actually works
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The “personal assistant” label gets attached to a lot of websites and applications, but it’s always an exaggeration. Usually the service in question can only tackle a small slice of what a human assistant would do, such as organizing your emails. Plus, you can’t just tell the app what you want, [...]
A pretty chart of top apps for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry
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Mplayit, maker of the mobile app catalog that lives inside Facebook, will release a report later today that lists the top games in their collection. Tetris, The Sims 3, and Wheel of Fortune are among the winners. So are Tap Tap Revenge and Rock Band.
On Mplayit, users [...]
Acer introduces Liquid smartphone
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Couple of months back, we covered three new Acer smartphones that were launched in India. Now Acer has announced another brand new high-end smartphone that merges business with style statement for the mobile users. Also, Acer Liquid is the first Android 1.6 OS phone to run WVGA screen.Acer Liquid is a [...]








