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BlackBerry Torch no challenger to Android, iPhone

Research In Motion, which has specialized in making messaging-friendly devices with physical keyboards, has struggled to come up with an answer to touch-screen devices such as Apple's iPhone and HTC's Droid ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Sony Ericsson to Introduce PSP/Smartphone Android 3.0 Gaming Platform

Sources have it that Sony Ericsson is hard at work developing a PSP Go-like phone running on Android 3.0 platform. According to Engadget the phone targets gaming fans and resembles somewhere between a Samsung ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

Apple to fix security hole in iPhone software

(AP) -- Apple is planning to release a fix for a security hole in the software that runs on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices.

Technology / Software

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vonage makes free Facebook phone call app

(AP) -- Vonage, a pioneer of home phone service over the Internet, has a new application for the iPhone and Android phones that provides free calls between Facebook users.

Technology / Software

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New BlackBerry is badly needed flagship for RIM

(AP) -- BlackBerrys still fly off the shelves. They still convey the message that their owners mean business - that they're people who are important enough to need e-mail access all the time.

Technology / Business

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

RIM unleashes BlackBerry Torch to take on iPhone

Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday unveiled a BlackBerry Torch to take on the hot-selling iPhone, avoiding comment on a plan in the United Arab Emirates to snuff out data service there.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

iPhone 4 review: Nice phone, too bad about antenna problem, lack of LTE

Apple's iPhone 4 is a beautiful device, one of the nicest in the growing field of amazing smartphones on sale this summer. The software gives its touch-screen controls a buttery smoothness, plus a few handy ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Zynga plants 'FarmVille' app

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus is expanding his farm. Zynga's ultrapopular Facebook game FarmVille, which has 70 million active monthly players, has launched a mobile app for Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad touch-screen tablet.

Technology / Software

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HIRO III lets you feel what you see on screen (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are developing a new touch screen system, the HIRO III, that incorporates a robot hand that could offer a new way of simulating the touching of virtual objects and receiving ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Toshiba, Intel to Launch Tablet PC for Education

Toshiba and Intel announced today that they will jointly commercialize an educational-use tablet PC designed to facilitate learning in compulsory education. Toshiba will launch the new CM1 tablet PC for educational ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Virtual reality you can reach out and touch

A team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported real objects through cyberspace, touched things in virtual reality and even felt the movements of a virtual dance partner.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Amazon adds video to Kindle e-books on iPad-iPhone

Amazon.com has updated its Kindle application allowing audio and video clips to be embedded in electronic books served up on Apple's popular iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch gadgets.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Venture firm Accel pours 11 million dollars into GetJar

Venture capital firm Accel Partners is pouring 11 million dollars into GetJar, an online hot spot for free mini-applications for mobile telephones.

Technology / Business

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Touch: How a hard chair creates a hard heart

(PhysOrg.com) -- Through textures, shapes, weights and temperatures, the sense of touch influences both our thoughts and behavior. In a series of six experiments documented in the June 25 issue of the journal ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Verizon: Droid X smart phone coming July 15

(AP) -- Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that it will begin selling the Droid X, the follow-up to Motorola Inc.'s popular Droid smart phone, on July 15.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0