The Motorola Droid 2 looks a lot like the original Droid, and a teardown reveals that the similarities go more than skin-deep. In fact, the internal layout and most of the Droid 2’s components are nearly identical to those of the original Droid, gadget repair site iFixit found . The most significant upgrade is to the processor, which is probably a Texas Instruments OMAP 3630, iFixit says
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Droid 2 Teardown Reveals Beefed-Up Processor, Few Other Changes
As soon as the rumor broke that Apple would be renaming its struggling Apple TV to iTV, to better fit with the company’s i[Device] naming system, I thought to myself, “Isn’t ITV the name of a television network in England that always misses key goals in soccer games?” Yes, yes it is. In fact, the network isn’t too keen on Apple using the name iTV, and has promised to “vigorously defend” its IP. In an interview with Pocket-link, Mike Large, ITV’s acting group director of Communications, said that it has a “very strong brand, and a highly valued IP.” As such, any move on Apple’s part to re-name the Apple TV could expect to meet a legal challenge
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UK’s ITV Not Pleased With Apple iTV Rumors, Says It Will Defend Its IP
The Tea Party, the “American socio-political movement that emerged in 2009 through a series of locally and nationally coordinated protests,” and known for its colorful protest signs (as seen here), hates Net Neutrality . Why does the Tea Party hate Net Neutrality?
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The Tea Party Hates Net Neutrality Because It’s An ‘Affront’ To Free Speech. Umm…
Camera+, a popular iPhone application, was pulled from the App Store after it violated Apple’s developer agreement terms and secretly allowed users to use a physical volume control button as a shutter button to take pictures.
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Popular iPhone camera app pulled over ‘Easter egg’ shutter button
The Axon Haptic is a tabula rasa of a tablet. It comes as an empty, OS-less shell, waiting for you to install your choice of operating-system. The hardware of this ten-inch tablet is designed to work with almost any OS, from various Linux flavors through Windows to OS X.
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Axon Haptic Tablet Lets You Install Any OS
It’s Friday, and (as usual), I feel like ranting before the weekend. On Wednesday we reported that Camera+ had “snuck” in a feature in its application, allowing the user to shutter using the volume buttons. This ability has been atop of the request list of many iPhone owners, in regards to Apple’s native camera app
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Hey Apple, Lighten Up on Camera+ [Rant]
Back to schoolers just got another great reason to convince Mom and Dad to buy them an iPad: CourseSmart, the e-textbook provider, just released an iPad app. Now, you can carry all your textbooks with you on the tablet instead of schlepping a backpack full of dead trees round the campus. If any device was right for taking to lectures, its the iPad.
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CourseSmart Launches E-Textbooks for iPad
Apple news junkies 9 to 5 Mac have revealed some interesting info, via DVICE, about what they say possibly being the Verizon iPhone . Just to warn you, the following claims may induce severe skepticism, high levels of doubt, and a good old-fashioned belly-laugh. First, the rumored device is said to pack a next-gen A4 chip, which fires at 1.2ghz
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Just When You Thought the Verizon iPhone Rumors Couldn’t Get Crazier
We’ve got another Sony Ericsson to talk about, and they’ve brought us a lot of interesting models over the last few months. Will they be able to do anything interesting with the Sony Ericsson W995a? Let’s have a look! The Sony Ericsson W995a is a slider style cell phone with conference call capability, speakerphone, Wi-Fi, a composer system to make your own music, stereo speakers, direct printing (yes! direct printing! You can actually print stuff off your cell phone by hooking it into a printer!), a hundred and eighteen gigs of memory (which is comparable to some older desktop computers), mobile web, mobile email, video calling services, Java application capability, a variety of downloadable content like games, ring tones and audio and video files, an eight megapixel camera with 16x digital zoom, face detection and automatic focus, alarm clock, calendar, basic calculator, MP3 player, a 3.5 mm headset jack, and a battery capable of yielding nine hours of talk time on one charge. There’s a lot of good things to say about the Sony Ericsson W995a–there are plenty of features here, the battery life is unbelievably long…in fact, about the only bad thing about it is that the controls were a little tricky to start with. I had a rough time finding my way around, but it didn’t take long to get used to it. And chances are you won’t have too much trouble with it either. The Sony Ericsson W995a is great phone with lots of options, and though the controls are a little balky to begin with, you won’t have trouble for long. This may not be an iPhone killer, but it’s worth your time to check out.
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Sony Ericsson W995a Cell Phone Review–Better Than Expected
One man drove 12,238 miles across 30 states to scrawl a message that can only be viewed using Google Earth. His big shoutout: “Read Ayn Rand.” Nick Newcomen did a road trip over 30 days that covered stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. First, he identified on a map the route he would need to drive to spell out the message.
We have covered a lot of Bluetooth keyboards in the past, like the one from Freedom i-Connex and Chinavasion . This one from EFO is about the size of a credit card and has F1-F12 function keys, CTRL, ALT, DEL, and even multimedia playback buttons. Looks good for the iPhone or iPad, and you can get it for $32 or when it goes back to a non-introductory price of $40 in September
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EFO Mini Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard
I suppose that the reason why I posted this is because I know there are people out there who like hearing the word “beer”. These guys at Yelp created the iPad Kegbot, a device that has an iPad to keep track of beer consumed. It also has an RFID reader so it can know who is drinking, and how much they have drank.
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Kegmate from Yelp uses iPad
The City of San Francisco is considering a new ordinance that would allow residents and business owners to object to the placement or installation of new cell towers based solely on their aesthetics. Federal laws state that the public can’t block new towers if standard safety conditions are met, but the new law proposed in San Francisco would permit the public to block new cell tower antennas from being built on public land. Complaints filed by the public over such matters would initiate a public hearing to discuss the antenna, its appearance and placement
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San Francisco Might Allow Public to Block Ugly Cell Towers
Some of you might remember the 3D Maze App that would come free with Windows 95. A new AR Labyrinth game, that is quite similar to 3D Maze, now comes free with the augmented reality app Layar add-on. Watch when you hold out the phone and you’ll see the 3D maze happening.
HTC is all set to get Android 2.2 , 720p video, and iTunes Sync , and it will launch from U.S. Cellular on August 27th. Just to refresh your memory, it has a 3.7 inch touchscreen, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, integrated GPS, 5 Megapixel camera, and WiFi.
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HTC Desire launching from U.S. Cellular on August 27
Ever since Google released their Android OS back in 2008 they have innovated some pretty sought after features. These features include free turn-by-turn GPS surface a la Google Maps Navigation and now Google Voice Actions. If you couldn’t’ tell by its name, this feature allows you to control several Android functions utilizing nothing more than your voice
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Google Launches One-Button Voice Actions for Android
It has been more than 7 weeks since Apple released its iPhone 4 in the United States, so you should be able to walk-in to most of its retailers and purchase one, right? Not according to Mac Life , who reports that Apple Insider sent an analyst to various stores to collect the data. He found that of the 30 stores he strolled into, just 16 had any stock.
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Walking in to Buy an iPhone 4? Good Luck!
In my previous post today I was telling you the Dev Team was working on a patch for the PDF exploit found in iOS and not fixed by Apple on older iPhones and iTouch. The PDF Patch has been released in Cydia for free and you can install it now. PDF Patch will fix the security hole that was used by JailbreakMe and could potentially be used to inject malicious softwares on your device
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PDF Patch Fixes the PDF Exploit in iOS
Following an exclusive agreement with Apple to license its unique metal alloy for an undisclosed sum, Liquidmetal Technologies immediately paid off $10.9 million in debt, suggesting the deal between the two companies was worth at least that much.
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Licensing agreement with Apple helps Liquidmetal pay off $11M debt
Theodore Gray, author/creator of “The Elements,” shares his thoughts on interactivity in ebooks, why programmers should be treated like authors, and why he believes the print form will continue to exist for quite some time.
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What publishers can and should learn from "The Elements" – Theodore Gray, author of "The Elements," on interactivity, apps vs….
Shipments of smartphones running Google’s Android operating system outpaced iPhones for the first time during the second quarter of the year, as sales of all integrated mobile devices worldwide rose more than 50% to 61.6 million units.
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Android-based smartphone shipments leapfrog Apple’s iPhone
First on AppleInsider: After a user completes a video game, their unique experience — complete with recorded images and other data — could be turned into a custom-built comic book or e-book, based on a new patent application from Apple.
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Apple invention would create custom comic book from game experiences