Gadgets

BlackBerry OS 6 Coming To a Handful of Existing Devices

With the announcement of the BlackBerry Torch comes the rollout of OS 6 for existing BlackBerry devices including the Bold 9700, Bold 9650 and Pearl 3G. Rollout will be determined by mobile carrier certification so it could be months before it’s officially available. Of course, if you troll the BlackBerry forums, you’ll probably …

AT&T and RIM Announce the BlackBerry Torch

After a 16-month collaboration, AT&T and RIM announced the BlackBerry Torch, the first BlackBerry with touch-screen and full QWERTY keyboard. As expected, RIM’s latest OS, 6.0, powers the Torch including a handful of new features, like universal search, tabbed browsing, and group messaging.

(More on Techland: RIM Stokes BlackBerry

CBS Shows Going to Hulu Plus?

Apparently CBS is in talks with Hulu to feature its shows on the new $9.99 per month premium Hulu Plus plan. Said CBS CEO Les Moonves,

“Are we having discussions with the Hulu subscription service? Yes we are. Our goal is to get paid for our content in as many different ways as we can without hurting the mother ship. The key here is

BlackBerry 9800 To Be Unveiled Today

Handset manufacturers and mobile carriers tend to spend quite a bit of money on fluff phone launches (cough*Samsung*cough) but AT&T rarely, if ever, falls into that category. When RIM’s unannounced BlackBerry 9780 aka Bold broke cover last week, many – including myself – assumed that was the device AT&T would be unveiling. Turns out …

Rdio Breaks Out of Beta, Available for BlackBerry, iOS and Android

After a short beta period, the latest cloud-based music subscription service Rdio is now available across all platforms (desktop, BlackBerry, Android, iOS) with over 7 million songs. As is standard with other music services like MOG or Thumbplay, Rdio lets subscribers stream playlists and add new songs to existing collections that …

Spot the Gadgets in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

In honor of Star Wars Month, I volunteered to painstakingly watch all six Star Wars movies and compile a list of gadget-like devices I spot in each one. I can promise you I will miss a few and I won’t know what some of them are supposed to be called, but I’ll be damned if I don’t watch all six episodes of one of the greatest film …

Froyo Will Not Unlock Tethering or Mobile Hotspot For Droid

The good news is that Motorola’s Droid for Verizon Wireless will receive its Android 2.2 update this week; the bad news is that the tethering and mobile hotspot features won’t be coming with it. Our friends at Phone Scoop were contacted by Verizon Wireless spokesperson Brenday Raney who said in an e-mail that the “Droid by …

Ultimate Air Jaws: The Amazing New Technology Of Shark Week

In 2000, producer Jeff Kurr traveled to South Africa hoping to be the first to capture the incredible hunting techniques of the great white sharks that inhabit the coast. To feed on seals, the sharks have the self-taught ability to breach the water’s surface. Going airborne, the 2000-pound hunters grab their prey while lifting their …

PA Consulting Confirms “Death Grip” is Unique to iPhone 4

As if we didn’t already know. PA Consulting has released their own report on AntennaGate and confirms that the “death grip” is unique to Apple’s latest iPhone.

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Pitted against a BlackBerry 9700 and HTC HD2, the iPhone 4 performed within the same wireless range as the …

Top Ten Monday Tech Deals

Monday, you are a jerk. The jerkiest of all days. You’re only welcome September through December thanks to Monday Night Football and various three-day weekends upon which yours is the day off.

Here are some handpicked gadget deals to help get you through your Monday. The theme today seems to be refurbished pocket camcorders, …

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