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RIM Announces Playbook Pricing Starting at $499
With the iPad 2 released to the market as of April 19th RIM has decided to make certain their offering remains price competitive so they’re releasing their Playbook tablet at a similar price: $499. According to an article published on the Gadgetwise blog of the New York Times, this will make the Playbook the first ...
AT&T Announces Glasses-Free 3D Smartphone as Nintendo Prepares US Release of 3DS
It looks as if AT&T has decided to get in on the 3D action along with Nintendo—who have announced U.S. the arrival of the 3DS gaming platform this month—by revealing their own phone with a 3D display: the Thrill 4G. It will also support a glasses-free screen that permits viewers to see three-dimensional images without ...
Analysts, Watchdogs Dubious About ‘Unthinkable’ Merger Between AT&T and T-Mobile
The wireless broadband industry is currently reeling at the thought of AT&T merging with their long-time competitor T-Mobile USA. Such a move would certainly change the very landscape of the U.S. wireless market and will rock the foundations of broadband and consumer expectations from the three remaining biggest players. Analysts have already begun to identify ...
Verizon iPhone 4 Grabbed 4.5% of the iPhone Market in 2 Weeks
According to a recently released report by Millennial Media the Verizon iPhone has reached a significant portion of the market in just two weeks. The wireless carrier has proudly announced that their out-the-door sales mere hours after the debut of the phone also went extremely well, putting them on the map vs. AT&T who have ...
Flash Beta 10.2 Finally Arrives on Xoom, Still Lagging Slightly Behind Desktop
While Xoom happens to be a very powerful little tablet, when it came to us it didn’t support Flash. This happens to be one of the listed features that makes Android devices more versatile than Apple devices like the iPad—so when Flash Beta 10.2 arrived, CNET Crave got their hands on it and have their ...
iPad Two Player Arcade: Dust Up For Two
Taking social gaming to a different extreme, Huikea Experience brings us an iPad strategy game for two players: Dust Up For Two. Just barely into the beta stage (and they’re looking for testers) the video provided for actual game play looks extremely fun. Reminiscent of those retro tabletop arcade games that so many people may ...
Hail the Unconquered Mobile Heroes of Pwn2Own: Android and Windows Phone 7
The fifth season of Pwn2Own—the now annual device and software hacking contest—has come and gone. As expected, we have some quickly exploited platforms and some unexpected winners. Among the winners, both Android and Windows Phone 7 have proven themselves impregnable by the hacking teams; but as much as this is a win for Android and ...
Kinect Powerglove Hack Allows for Free-Space Navigation and 3D Modeling
We’ve seen a pile of homebrew Kinect Hacks that take advantage of the figure- and gesture-detection capabilities built into the Kinect’s firmware—and now we’re seeing yet another implementation that takes advantage of that and takes it a step further by adding extra inputs. Sebastian Pirch of 3rD-EYE has demoed a free-space 3D modeling tool that ...
Twitter Joins the Ranks of the Always-On HTTPS Enabled
Slowly but surely social media sites are beginning to get the clue about the necessity of Internet security and launched with an always-on HTTPS setting for users. As many users access their Twitter accounts from not just home, but on-the-go and thus possibly unsecured WiFi hotspots it’s important to keep in mind that all that ...
Nintendo 3DS Commercial Debuts Before March 27th US Release
The new handheld console from Nintendo which took Japan by storm is finally coming to the United States on March 27th 2010—although it reaches Europe slightly earlier on March 25th. Retailing for about $249.99 it will be a bit more expensive than the standard Nintendo DS but the new functionality, the 3d part, probably makes ...