A little over a year ago, a handful of Google Voice applications co-existed peacefully inside Apple’s App Store.
VoiceCentral, GVDialer, and GV Mobile were each developed by independent programmers to leverage the Google Voice service in order to provide iPhone owners with the ability to make and receive calls using their Google Voice …
There’s a big e-mail virus making its way around the internet—”the first large outbreak of this type in nearly a decade,” according to IDG News.
There are a few different versions of the e-mail, but the most common one contains the subject “Here you have” along with the following message:
“Hello:
This is The Document I told you
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Apple released its rulebook for what can and can’t exist in the iTunes App Store and, believe it or not, there are plenty of apps already in the store that break multiple rules. Here are just a few.
Nothing: $0.99
That’s the app. "Nothing." Guess what it does? Nothing. Guess which rule from Apple’s "App Store Review Guidelines" it
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One of the first features touted for point-and-shoot digital cameras is the megapixel count. For most people, though, megapixels don’t matter much. Here’s why, along with some other features to consider instead.
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Today marks the first day of the 2010 NFL season, which brings with it the first NFL-licensed computer game since EA sports stopped making a PC version of Madden back in 2008.
QuickHit, as previously reported, is a browser-based football simulator. The newest version allows you to coach your favorite NFL team through various
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The latest update to Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 4.1, brings with it new features such as Game Center, TV show rentals, iTunes’ "Ping" social music network, enhanced photo features, and more.
It’s also apparently been jailbroken already.
You’ll recall that the act of jailbreaking a phone—exploiting a software bug to open the
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Google revealed “Google Instant” today—you can try it out here if you like, though it may already be activated within your browser at Google.com.
It’s pretty much just how it sounds. You begin typing your query into Google’s search box and your search results change in real-time with each additional letter you add, displayed …
While this doesn’t quite appear to be the same “Peel” case that surfaced in late July, the idea appears to be somewhat similar. A company called GoSolarUSA is planning to bring a $60 protective case to market this year that features a SIM card slot and special software that allows Apple’s new iPod Touch to make and receive voice calls …
As any parent can tell you, kids are actually NOT free. Unless you have at least eight of them, at which point you can get your own TV show or a cool comic book name like Octomom.
For everyone else, kids are expensive to raise. T-Mobile is hoping to appeal to that inevitability with its new Kids Are Free promotion, which allows new …
If you’ve got an iPad and Apple’s $29 Camera Connection Kit, you’re all set up for “the only hard drive in the market that can connect directly to the iPad without using a computer.”
That’s the HyperDrive, which was announced today.
As portable external hard drives go, it’s not cheap—not by a longshot. Pricing starts at $249 for …
EA Sports’ latest hockey-based offerings are available in North America today: NHL 11 for the Xbox 360 and PS3, and NHL Slapshot for the Wii.
NHL Slapshot joins 2K’s NHL 2K11, which was released late last month for the Wii. Sadly, it appears that PC owners may never again see an NHL title from either EA Sports or 2K, as yet another …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage at Berlin’s IFA conference to deliver the show’s closing keynotes. The full video is available here (it’s a little over an hour), and here are some of the highlights.
Augmented Humanity
The idea of “information at your fingertips.” Schmidt gave the example of a tourist using a smartphone to …
