Category: Software

Android Market 10 Billion Promo Day 2 Features 11 New Apps for $0.10

Android Market 10 Billion Promo Day 2 Features 11 New Apps for $0.10

We’re now into day 2 of the Google 10 Billion Promo in the Android Market, and there’s 11 different apps to choose from. All the apps featured are top selling paid apps normally, and now they are each on for only $0.10! As mentioned on Tuesday for Day 1, the 10 Billion Promo is to [...]

December 7, 2011 | 0 Comments More
RIM changing BBX name to BlackBerry 10 after Court Ruling

RIM changing BBX name to BlackBerry 10 after Court Ruling

After a few fists thrown (metaphorically of course) in the court room between a company called BASIS and Research In Motion, a US Federal Court ruled in favor of BASIS that the ‘BBX’ name trademark belongs to BASIS. RIM attempted to ignore attempts from BASIS to drop the name after RIM announced its’ next mobile [...]

December 7, 2011 | 0 Comments More
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 Shows Email, Calendar and Contacts all working, update in February

BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 Shows Email, Calendar and Contacts all working, update in February

At the BlackBerry Innovation Forum 2011, RIM gave the crowd in attendance hope for the PlayBook. The latest update scheduled to arrive to BlackBerry PlayBook’s worldwide is 2.0, running off QNX code. Something that the PlayBook has been missing, and RIM has promised will come, is native email, calendar and contacts within the PlayBook OS. [...]

November 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Apple’s Siri Will Work On Any Device After Hacker Crack

Apple’s Siri Will Work On Any Device After Hacker Crack

Is Siri the only reason people are buying the iPhone 4S? It may not be the only reason, but it is certainly a major part of it. Apple has put alot of investment into the Personal Assistant application to boost recognition and iPhone 4S sales. The last thing Apple would want is to have this [...]

November 16, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Source Code Released

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Source Code Released

Hackers and developers everywhere are likely cheering and jumping for joy, as the long awaited Android 4.0 source code is finally available for download. Google released the source code on Monday November 14th 2011 to the Google community. Android (4.0.1) Ice Cream Sandwich is the latest major version of the Operating System from Google for [...]

November 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Siri hacked to work on the iPhone 4 and iPad – video demo

Siri hacked to work on the iPhone 4 and iPad – video demo

Recently, since the launch of Siri and the iPhone 4S, developers have been keen on getting the new personal assistant to work on other Apple devices, mainly the iPhone 4 and the iPad (mainly because you can get either of those for over half off what you pay for the 4S and iPad 2). The [...]

October 31, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Apple hits Television hard with New iPhone 4S Siri Ads

Apple hits Television hard with New iPhone 4S Siri Ads

You’ve probably seen the ads by now, since Apple started a massive ad campaign, showing off Siri on the iPhone 4S. We’ve also probably seen way too many headlines as Siri questions, which is why this article doesn’t play that card. Siri is definitely a revolutionary way for humans to communicate with technology. There’s no [...]

October 21, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Google preps for Ice Cream Sandwich launch with New Lawn Android Statue

Google preps for Ice Cream Sandwich launch with New Lawn Android Statue

It’s been a tradition for each major build release of Android to launch, where Google places the latest life-size version on their front lawn. As you can see above, there are several others to join the Alumni of Android, the latest being Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”. Set to be announced on October 19th 2011 at the [...]

October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
RIM issues apology for BlackBerry outages, services are now stable

RIM issues apology for BlackBerry outages, services are now stable

After almost 4 long days of service outages, BlackBerry has things back under control. The announcement came early Thursday morning after more than 3 full days of BlackBerry service interruptions globally, affecting messaging services like email and BBM. Research In Motion founder Mike Lazaridis gave a public video apology as well, showing the shame of [...]

October 13, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Timing couldn’t be worse for BlackBerry outage as iOS 5 updates roll

Timing couldn’t be worse for BlackBerry outage as iOS 5 updates roll

Apple’s iOS 5 has been available for a few hours now, and users are beginning to get a taste of what all the hype was about. I’ve spoken with a few co-workers already who have stated that they are very impressed with the new notifications center as well as the new lock screen widgets and [...]

October 12, 2011 | 1 Comment More