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  • TomTom’s Local Search App with 10 Million Places Made Available to Android Users

    TomTom’s Local Search App with 10 Million Places Made Available to Android Users

    Posted on November 29, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Hey, what about OS X?

    Hey, what about OS X?

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s interesting that this WWDC keynote was all about mobile. Obviously he had a big reveal this year – last year was all about the 3GS and Snow Leopard – but there was a decided lack of desktop talk this year. iOS looks like the horse Apple is betting on, at least this year. The uptake [...]

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  • Samsung pulls a Google and gives devs free Bada phones, confirms upcoming handsets

    Samsung pulls a Google and gives devs free Bada phones, confirms upcoming handsets

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Google didn’t invent giving stuff away. Oprah did that. Google just made — or at least greatly popularized — the trend of companies giving their latest and greatest handsets to all the attendees of the developer events in hopes of spiking their interest. The latest company to pull a Google: Samsung. At a Developer Day in [...]

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  • Are third-party cell phone battery manufacturers deceiving their customers?

    Are third-party cell phone battery manufacturers deceiving their customers?

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    1400mAh. 2500mAh! 10 million mAh! Ah-ah-ah! The vast majority of consumers don’t have a clue as to what those little numbers on their cell phones battery mean. Like with processor clock speeds and television refresh rates, we all tend to just assume that bigger numbers = better product. So when Joe Consumer sees some third-party manufacturer [...]

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  • Sharp announces world’s first four-primary-color, super-bright 3D LCD

    Sharp announces world’s first four-primary-color, super-bright 3D LCD

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    We all know Sharp is particularly strong in the LCD panel space, which means it's not a big surprise the company is the first to announce a 3D LCD with four base colors (Sharp has added yellow to the usual trio of red, green and blue). The company also claims the new screen is about 80% brighter than conventional models, boasting the highest brightness in the industry.

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  • AT&T’s signal-boosting 3G MicroCell hitting the shelves in San Francisco today

    AT&T’s signal-boosting 3G MicroCell hitting the shelves in San Francisco today

    Posted on April 11, 2010 | No Comments
    If AT&T gets a bad rap for having poor signal quality in any city, it's San Francisco. Part of this is due to the sudden influx of iPhones in the Silicon Valley that began in 2007, putting an almighty strain on the network; of the roughly 800,000 or so people living in San Francisco, we're estimating that around 10 million of them (or 1,150%) are carrying iPhones. Throw in ridiculous topography and monstrous buildings, and it starts to get tough to properly blanket the entire area in radio waves. Thus, it should come as no surprise that San Francisco is one of the first cities to be getting AT&T's cell-tower-in-a-box, the 3G MicroCell. AT&T just hit us up to let us know that we should start seeing the little router-sized, broadband-powered signal boosters on the shelves in their San Francisco stores beginning today.

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  • Tens of Millions of Mexicans May be Left Phoneless Come Saturday

    Tens of Millions of Mexicans May be Left Phoneless Come Saturday

    Posted on April 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Around about a year ago, a law was passed in Mexico that would enforce compulsory registration of personal details to a mobile phone account. The idea behind it was to help fight crime (Batman style) by inhibiting the method of delivering ransom and extortion calls. Telcos were given 12 months to collect the personal details of their subscribers. Come Saturday, that 12 months will be up, and despite radio and television commercials urging mobile phone users to register their name and address via text message, around 30 million lines are still unregistered. There is a push from telcos to have the deadline extended by a further 12 months, but senators have thus far refused requests to do so.

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  • Breakthrough? New spreadable electrode may pave way for cheaper LCDs

    Breakthrough? New spreadable electrode may pave way for cheaper LCDs

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    A research team from Japan-based Mitsui Mining & Smelting and Tohoku University says it managed to develop a spreadable electrode that may lead to lower prices for LCD panels in the future. The key element of the technology are indium tin oxide particles of 5-10 nanometers in diameter (pictured) the team has created.

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  • Image recognition startup Kooaba unveils API

    Image recognition startup Kooaba unveils API

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Image recognition technology startup Kooaba yesterday released an API that definitely deserves some developer attention. The Swiss company aims to unlock its library of over 10 million images, ranging from album covers to books and movie posters, and provide access to all that precious data via the cloud.

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  • Identity theft costs rise overall, while costs per victim decline

    Identity theft costs rise overall, while costs per victim decline

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    According to an article at Forbes, identity theft and related fraud were up considerably in 2009 with 11.2 million victims for an estimated cost of $54 billion U.S. dollars. In 2008, just under 10 million people were ripped off as a result of identify theft, for an estimated cost of $48 billion. Interestingly, the cost to individuals as a result of data breaches has declined from $498 in 2008 to only $373 in 2009. Who, then, is picking up the tab for identity theft incidents? Increasingly it's the financial institutions with whom we entrust our money.

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  • New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the fastest single-console game to reach 10 million sold

    New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the fastest single-console game to reach 10 million sold

    Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Can we agree that Modern Warfare 2 was an average shooter, just one that happened to be backed by a gigantic marketing budget? It wasn't bad, certainly, but the story was bat-shit crazy—Red Dawn was more plausible—and No Russian was so clearly developed to spark controversy. This is why this Mario story warms my heart so. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is now the fastest-selling game on a single console to reach 10 million units sold worldwide. The previous record holder was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

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  • Samsung sold 2.6 million LED LCD TVs in 2009, expects 10 million in 2010

    Samsung sold 2.6 million LED LCD TVs in 2009, expects 10 million in 2010

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    If you read the headline, then you already know that Samsung pushed out 2.6 million LED TVs in 2009. That's nearly equal to the population of San Diego. But the company also expects 2010 to be bigger -- a lot bigger. Samsung plans on moving 10 million LED LCD TVs in 2010, which would be one to every person living in Beijing. That's a lot, folks.

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  • Rumor: LG Cookie to be followed up by the LG Muffin?

    Rumor: LG Cookie to be followed up by the LG Muffin?

    Posted on December 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Man, that was a surreal headline to write. Two baked goods in one sentence, and we’re not even talking about Android. With over 10 million units pushed, the Cookie is LG’s best selling device ever. It should come as no surprise, then, that it’s getting a sequel. According to information leaked to PhoneArena, the second coming [...]

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  • BlackBerry shipments break record in Q3, RIM profits jump 59 percent

    BlackBerry shipments break record in Q3, RIM profits jump 59 percent

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    RIM being a thriving and profitable company is hardly a new story -- as confirmed by third quarter earnings of $628 million off the back of a record-breaking 10 million units sold -- but the way it's making its money seems to be changing. More than 80 percent of new BlackBerry subscribers in the quarter were private customers, marking a distinct shift -- maybe not away from the corporate arena, but definitely toward embracing the consumer market. In an effort to further consolidate its global empire, RIM has also announced a partnership with China Telecom to go along with its earlier China Mobile deal. Oh, and there's the small matter of the 75 millionth BlackBerry being sold, but we're sure the cool cats up in BB HQ aren't counting handsets, they're probably too busy rolling around in piles of money.

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  • Playmesh Tops the Charts with #1 Game on the iPhone: iFarm downloaded 1 million times in 10 days

    Playmesh Tops the Charts with #1 Game on the iPhone: iFarm downloaded 1 million times in 10 days

    Posted on November 30, 2009 | No Comments
    You might find this suprising, but the top social gaming companies on the iPhone are not the same ones you know of from Facebook and MySpace. Zynga, despite $54.2M in funding, has hardly made a dent on the iPhone. Neither has Playfish, which was recently bought for $300M. Playdom hasn’t done squat, either. Although “the [...]

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