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  • Personal Releases Android App for Its Private, Personal Network and Data Vault Service

    Personal Releases Android App for Its Private, Personal Network and Data Vault Service

    Posted on November 30, 2011 | No Comments
    var AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Personal (www.personal.com), a private, personal network and data vault that allows individuals to ...

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  • Sprint Moment and Hero to get Android 2.1 in “the coming weeks” [Updated!]

    Sprint Moment and Hero to get Android 2.1 in “the coming weeks” [Updated!]

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    See that image above? It’s notable for two reasons: I’m fairly confident it takes the much coveted title for “Hardest to read leaked document ever”. It, in all of its tiny text, confirms that the Sprint HTC Hero and Samsung Moment will be upgraded to Android 2.1 soon. Update: We’ve now got a more legible picture and a [...]

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  • Remember that school that was spying on kids? Well now it’s creepier

    Remember that school that was spying on kids? Well now it’s creepier

    Posted on February 24, 2010 | No Comments
    The Lower Merion School District (motto: "We're Building the Future Police State"), caught using a remote monitoring service on school-supplied laptops while the kids were at home, had some pretty creepy rules on the books to ensure compliance. To wit we find, thanks to strydehax, these gems:
    * Possession of a monitored Macbook was required for classes * Possession of an unmonitored personal computer was forbidden and would be confiscated * Disabling the camera was impossible * Jailbreaking a school laptop in order to secure it or monitor it against intrusion was an offense which merited expulsion

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  • The HTC Scorpion may pack 1.5Ghz processor, Android v2.2, and WiMax – if it exists

    The HTC Scorpion may pack 1.5Ghz processor, Android v2.2, and WiMax – if it exists

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    HTC cranks out Android handsets like candy corn – and we love that. The only downside to this, however, is that each new leak has us drooling before the last leak even has time to become a real product. Our salivary glands were just warming up for the HTC Incredible and the HTC Legend, but now [...]

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  • GOG.com inks deal with Activision to sell DRM-free classic adventure games

    GOG.com inks deal with Activision to sell DRM-free classic adventure games

    Posted on January 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Hot damn, you guys. Hot damn. Good Old Games -- GOG.com -- is now selling old Activision games for six bucks a pop. And you know what Activision owns? All the old Sierra games.

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  • Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 catches FCC on a good day

    Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 catches FCC on a good day

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, to live the life of an FCC certification lab employee: setting up test benches, writing reports, playing with devices that won't be released for months or years. Instead, we're stuck enjoying their fun vicariously at an arm's length through a little portal we know as the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology, where gems like the X10 occasionally pop up complete with pretty in-the-wild pictures, teardowns, and user manuals. What we're looking at here are test results for EDGE 850 / 1900 plus WCDMA Band IV (that'd be T-Mobile's and WIND's spectrum, by the bye), WiFi, and Bluetooth, so even if T-Mobile ultimately chooses not to offer it on contract, you should be able to score it one way or another N900-style. The user's manual is basically just 40 pages of good stuff plus a bunch of conformity statement mumbo jumbo, but it's still a good read -- so if you think this might be your phone of choice come 2010, have a look.

    Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 catches FCC on a good day originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The iPhone And The Droid Face Off.. In Song

    The iPhone And The Droid Face Off.. In Song

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    You know whats nerdier than contrasting the merits of the iPhone versus those of the Motorola Droid (twice)? Pitting the two phones against each other in a sound effect remix battle. You know what's even nerdier than that? Absolutely nothing. The folks over at Indaba Music have challenged their users to strive for that pinnacle of nerddom in an all out remix competition they're calling Phone Wars. The results are... surprisingly pleasing.

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  • Next up on Boxee: Sony Picture’s Crackle

    Next up on Boxee: Sony Picture’s Crackle

    Posted on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Boxee is only days away from announcing the details about its upcoming hardware venture, and the good news keeps rolling. Crackle, which is a site I've never heard of but is apparently a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, is the latest video site to be available on Boxee. Actually, this is really good news for Boxee users. Crackle has some great shows.

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  • Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXLV: the Nokia iPhone

    Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXLV: the Nokia iPhone

    Posted on November 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Alright, so iPhone and N97 knock-offs probably aren't the rarest of gems around these days, but how many handsets do you know that can lay claim to being both? The Cooli902 takes the iPhone's 3.5-inch touchscreen, spit-shines a pretty realistic iPhone OS clone-job, and then adds the Nokia flavor with a fully fledged QWERTY keypad ripped straight from the heart of the N97. Not only does it open to that familiar angle, it also sports the same layout and what we can only imagine to be the same violent opening mechanism as found on the original Nokia handset. And to think that poor Philippe Starck had to pick between these two phones, when for only $143 we could have had both. More pics after the break, or hit the read link to get your own.

    Continue reading Keepin' it real fake, part CCXLV: the Nokia iPhone

    Keepin' it real fake, part CCXLV: the Nokia iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • iPhone Homescreen Exposé Concept: Would you use this?

    iPhone Homescreen Exposé Concept: Would you use this?

    Posted on October 12, 2009 | No Comments
    We get the strangest e-mails in the MobileCrunch tips line. Sometimes people will write in to tell us about their day, using us as an archaic, vacuum-esque livejournal. Other times (and quite often), internet newbies fail to realize this isn’t a store, and ask us when we’ll have such and such item in stock. Less [...]

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  • Video: LG BL20 gets done up with techno, fancy animation

    Video: LG BL20 gets done up with techno, fancy animation

    Posted on September 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Ready for your daily dose of electro music blasting while a cell phone floats around the screen? You better be. PhoneArena just managed to scrounge up a promo video for the LG BL20 that somehow managed to fly under the radar on YouTube for more than a week. While we’ve already got a pretty good idea of [...]

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  • The early days of John Madden Football

    The early days of John Madden Football

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    MaddenGreat article over at Edge Online for anyone interested in the early days of EA's John Madden Football franchise. Did you know that one of the first versions of the game was initially 7-on-7 due to memory limitations? Madden himself put the kibosh on that one right away, saying, "What’s this seven-on-seven? This isn’t football. If my name’s going to be on something it’s got to be 11-on-11."

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  • What are your Top 10 favorite iPhone games?

    What are your Top 10 favorite iPhone games?

    Posted on August 23, 2009 | No Comments
    When I finally got my hands on an iPod touch, I was excited. After watching countless "There's an app for that" ads, I was very much interested in checking out the App store. The main drive for me was games - until I actually saw all the games that were out there. To put it nicely, I was not impressed. While the App Store has plenty of gems, it's also filled with a ton of crap. I know because I bought a lot of it.

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  • 8-bit porn: the women of Leisure Suit Larry

    8-bit porn: the women of Leisure Suit Larry

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
    leisure suit larry 3Leisure Suit Larry was one of those game franchises I always saw on the shelf at the local computer games store but never bought. I picked up the box and oggled at the titilating pictures on the back, but I never traded my hard-earned cash for the soft-core bonanza that the games offered. I like to think I'm a better man, as a result. Lots of people must've bought the game, though, because they released something like eleventy billion different installments. That's a lot of 16-color skin to admire.

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  • Apple Kills Everyone’s Buzz At Once: Tethering On AT&T Is Dead, Pre Blocked In iTunes

    Apple Kills Everyone’s Buzz At Once: Tethering On AT&T Is Dead, Pre Blocked In iTunes

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    And yet another game of cat and mouse begins. Over the past 24 hours, Apple has released updates for both iTunes and the iPhone beta SDK. While both are seemingly minor on the feature front, each packs a bit of disappointment for those who had been using loopholes to their advantage. First off the bat was a [...]

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