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Project Spartan: Facebook To Take On iPhone With Own Alternative App Store

By Susan Underhill On 23/6/2011. no comments

Project Spartan: Facebook To Take On iPhone With Own Alternative App Store

Facebook has apparently decided to take on Apple’s domination of the mobile phone app market. According to various leaked reports Facebook is in the advanced stages of developing its own app store that would offer users a full menu of apps specifically designed to operate on the Safari browser used on iOS devices. In other words, Facebook is performing an end run around Apple’s app store. The app project is codenamed Project Spartan and reportedly is made up of a ...

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Latest Windows 8 Beta Build 7989 Leaked Reveals Bootscreen With Betta Fish And New Virtual Keyboard

By Susan Underhill On 22/6/2011. no comments

Latest Windows 8 Beta Build 7989 Leaked Reveals Bootscreen With Betta Fish And New Virtual Keyboard

As we near the expected fall release of Microsoft’s Windows 8 beta, the rumors about the new OS are flying fast and furious. Last week, GizmoDigit reported that Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president for Strategic and Emerging Business Development, hinted at an early fall 2011 beta release, with a fall 2012 release of the final Windows 8 OS. Now, the latest build of Windows 8 beta, referred to as Build 7989 has been leaked, and coding detectives have uncovered a ...

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O2 UK Skips BlackBerry PlayBook 7-Inch Tablet Due To Poor End-to-End Experience

By Susan Underhill On 22/6/2011. 1 comment

O2 UK Skips BlackBerry PlayBook 7-Inch Tablet Due To Poor End-to-End Experience

Research in Motion’s much heralded BlackBerry PlayBook 7-inch tablet is getting the cold shoulder from O2, one of the top retailers of mobile devices in the UK. On the same day of the PlayBook’s big launch day, O2 announced it “wasn’t impressed” with the RIM tablet and wouldn’t be carrying it. O2 explained that the PlayBook has “issues with the end-to-end user experience.” Despite O2′s snub, the rest of the major UK electronics retailers are happily offering the device for ...

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Distributing Or Creating Viruses In Japan Is Now Crime And Will Get You Three-Years In Prison

By Susan Underhill On 22/6/2011. 1 comment

Distributing Or Creating Viruses In Japan Is Now Crime And Will Get You Three-Years In Prison

Japan is getting serious about the growing problem of viruses and malware that cause havoc for Internet users, educational institutions and large corporations on a daily basis. It’s a jungle out there. The Japanese legislature just passed a domestic law that would make the creation and distribution of viruses a crime. Convicted cyber criminals would face up to three-years in prison and would be hit with a fine in upwards of ¥500,000, which is abut $6,200. Japan pushed through the ...

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Deep Shot Transfers Tasks Across Devices Using A Mobile Phone Camera

By Susan Underhill On 22/6/2011. no comments

Deep Shot Transfers Tasks Across Devices Using A Mobile Phone Camera

Deep Shot is an amazingly innovative software application for easily migrating tasks between your desktop PC, smartphone and other personal devices using your mobile phone. The process is intuitively simple. Deep Shot was designed by Google intern Tsung-Hsiang Chang, a graduate student in MIT and Google’s Yang Li. The software makes it possible to snap a mobile phone picture of an open application on a PC…the software detects the data in the uniform resource identifier from a website, and once ...

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Windows Phone 7 Apps Review: Netflix For Windows Phone 7

By Susan Underhill On 21/6/2011. no comments

Windows Phone 7 Apps Review: Netflix For Windows Phone 7

The Netflix app for Windows 7 mobile smartphones has been out for a year now, and by all accounts it’s been performing without a hitch. Released in conjunction with the initial launch of the Windows 7 mobile phone, the Netflix app has delivered amazing movie-streaming goodness to Windows Phone 7 owners. Lucky Windows Phone users were the first to benefit from a mobile Netflix app, but now (some) Android-based phones and iOS devices can also enjoy watching a streaming movie or an episode ...

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“It’s Game Time”: Redbox Rolls Out Game Rentals Nationwide

By Susan Underhill On 21/6/2011. no comments

“It’s Game Time”: Redbox Rolls Out Game Rentals Nationwide

Watch out GameFly, RedBox is coming after you. The ubiquitous red kiosks found in front of supermarkets and drug stores across the country are now packed with a slew of game titles along with movie rentals. The fast growing company announced in the spring that it planned to expand its trial run of game rentals to most of its nationwide rental kiosks. And true to its word, game rentals are now available in 21,000 of its 27,000 RedBox stations. At $2.00 ...

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Sprint Gives HTC Evo Shift 4G Android 2.3 Gingerbread Update On June 20

By Susan Underhill On 21/6/2011. 5 comments

Sprint Gives HTC Evo Shift 4G Android 2.3 Gingerbread Update On June 20

Get ready for some Android Gingerbread goodness! Starting on Monday, June 20 Sprint will be providing an Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) upgrade to lucky customers having the HTC Evo Shift 4G. The over-the-air update will be conducted in “waves,” with Evo Shift owners receiving notification of the much-anticipated maintenance release. The Gingerbread release offers a number of improvements and fixes, including the addition of SWYPE text entry capabilities. HTC Evo Shift owners anxious to start using Gingerbread right away can manually ...

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Samsung Exhibit 4G And Samsung Gravity Smart Coming To T-Mobile On June 22nd

By Susan Underhill On 20/6/2011. 1 comment

Samsung Exhibit 4G And Samsung Gravity Smart Coming To T-Mobile On June 22nd

T-Mobile earlier this month announced a vague summer launch of two Android smartphones. Now, the mobile carrier is announcing that the Android devices will be available to consumers on Wednesday, June 22. The Samsung Exhibit 4G and the Samsung Gravity Smart will feature some top of the line Android features for a small price. T-Mobile is also releasing the Android-based Samsung Dart, which will be available for free with a two-year contract. T-Mobile smartphone users will now have a number ...

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Sony Launches Qriocity Music Unlimited Android App With 30-Day Free Trial

By Susan Underhill On 19/6/2011. no comments

Sony Launches Qriocity Music Unlimited Android App With 30-Day Free Trial

Sony is finally taking notice of the legions of Android users out there just thirsting for a nifty streaming music app. The company, recently besieged with multiple cyber attacks exposing its weak web security, launched a free Music Unlimited app in the Android Market that’s powered by its struggling Qriocity service. For those Android users that have been yearning for an app that seamlessly syncs playlists between multiple devices, including your mobile phone, PS3 and PC, this is the app ...

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