Android Phone Fans
It’s probably safe to say that you have your mobile phone with you close to 100% of the time. Even if you’re carrying around a netbook, you would have your phone in your pocket, purse, hand, bag, etc…. right? The folks at CELIO Corp took that fact to heart when developing RedFly.REDFLY identifies itself a (Read More)
Engadget
There's not a lot of meat here, but we like where it's headed: ASUS CEO Johnny Shih talked up the company's "two-pronged" approach to mobile devices last night, which apparently includes a unit that can be "put in the pocket, play MP3s, offer GPS services, works like a PDA and offers Mobile TV altogether" -- with the other (Read More)
Engadget
Behold! The glory of Engadget's CES Coverage, Day 2: Watch phones, Android tablets, Vaio P's, and press conferences by the fistful. Josh, Paul, and Nilay (who finally got his grubby mitts on a microphone) gather 'round the campfire to ponder the intricacies of the last day before the show floor opens up and the first "reall (Read More)
Crunch Gear
CES is filled with gadgets and gizmos that are known about months ahead of time and so the real jewels are the booths from previously unknown companies. Case in point is Touch Revolution and its sweet NIMble platform that is ran by *gasp* Android.So there I was, strolling through one of the mundane halls at CES and ran into (Read More)
Touch Arcade
JadeGame, who brought us Ultranium 4 and Metal Angel, has recently released an iPhone adaptation of their Mac platform game Android [App Store] through the iTunes App Store.Android is an out-of-this-world kind of game: It’s the biggest tiny game you’ll ever play! Though it’s set in a teeny tiny universe, i (Read More)
Nintendo Wii Reviews Blog
Ah, Japan -- it just gets all the dope controllers, doesn't it? Just days after hearing that a Wii-white GameCube controller was headed there soon, a lucky, lucky member of Club Nintendo has unboxed his limited edition Wii Super Famicom Classic Controller. (Read More)
Engadget
T-Mobile USA has a pretty solid relationship with HTC, considering it sells the Shadow, the Wing, and the G1 at the moment -- and seeing how the G1's doing a nice little spot of business for them, it stand to reason that they'd be looking to continue the good times through '09. We're hearing that two of the HTC devices leak (Read More)
MSNBC
Silicon Image Inc, the chip maker that helped create a widely adopted digital data transmission standard, on Thursday announced a new technology that will let users play and control their digital media on any screen in the house. (Read More)
TechCrunch
Pandora Radio, the personalized internet radio service that has remained among the most popular iPhone apps on the iTunes App Store since its inception in July, will be releasing its most significant update yet later today. Dubbed Pandora 2.0, the application will now include artist biographies, streaming samples for songs (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
At the Macworld 2009 keynote today, Apple announced that by the end of this quarter, all 10 million songs available on iTunes will be DRM free (Digital Rights Management). As of today, 8 million songs will be DRM free, with the other 2 million done by end of Q1 09. This is long overdue, especially considering that Steve Jo (Read More)
: It's lame, you have to upgrade every song, at the same time, plus the quality of the DRM free songs is so much better, makes me frustrated I bought the other stuff, didn't now better.
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Having trouble finding a job in, say, New York City or South Florida? You might give Madison, Wis., a try. It's got an unusually healthy outlook for job growth and a strikingly low unemployment rate--3.5% in October, when the national rate was 6.5%.That's why Madison tops Ajilon Professional Staffing's list of top 10 cities (Read More)
Submitted by Sarahcrisman:
Though the retail economy suffered what appears to be one of the bleakest holiday seasons in recent memory, it looks as though the video games industry bucked that disastrous trend.That's one conclusion that can be drawn from holiday Xbox 360 sales numbers released by Microsoft Monday, in which the company reported that its (Read More)
: mhm... I think the economic problems another reason for the why indie developers are doing pretty good now too (with all those 5-20 dollar pc games and all)
social|median
We launched a new feature today on socialmedian, "News Flash" -- it will be fun to see where this one goes and how it develops based on user feedback.Disclosure: We're pretty darn excited about this one! The foundation for the News Flash feature came from user requests to make it more meaningful to be a Newsmaker on (Read More)
Barcelonaphotoblog's clipped stories
As we've been saying over and over (and over) again, Apple is set to end the era of DRM music. We've been hearing it will be at Macworld but we're now getting confirmation both from our sources and from CNet that it is going to happen. This is turning out to be one heckuva Macworld keynote. Even without Stevo, it (Read More)
Gizmodo
One of the G1's biggest oversights is the lack of a proper headphone jack, and a couple of enterprising tinkerers took it upon themselves to force the G1 to play nice with an iPod dock. The hack is outlined very precisely but looks pretty delicate, so if you've got clumsy fingers like me, this might not be for you. They tor (Read More)