Missed out regestering for Google IO 2012? Now what? First off, your not the only person who missed out. It sold out in 20min. 20MIN!!. Heck, rock concerts do not sell out that fast. Google I/O has officially sold out! There are no plans to release any additional tickets for Google I/O 2012. We have no plans for Last Call or other promotions at… Read More
Why you will not win the Microsoft challenge, even if you do I heard about the Microsoft challenge where you would take your cell phone and try to do something faster then someone on a Microsoft Mobile 7 phone. If you can win, you get a laptop. Given that they are doing this in the first place, I figured that this is fixed and as such I… Read More
Rumor control: $149 high power tablet Well we know its just a matter of time before we have a sub $100 tablet, but most of us expect it to be a race to the bottom for creating a tablet powerful enough to be useful, but only ‘just’ powerful enough. Well break out the rumor books, looks like Google is pushing to… Read More
Tether your iphone to your laptop without Jailbreak.. again This has been a running battle between Apple, the phone companies and those who want to tether their phones to other devices. Well, here is latest update in the battle, and this time, its a tether that not only does not require jailbreak, but does not even require the installation of an app! THIS is… Read More
Phone, Tablet, and keyboard combined into the 3 in 1 ASUS PadFone. Living the Dream! Yes I want this. This device was announced last year, but no one could seem to get their hands on it. Until today. The core of this 3 part system is an high end Android smartphone. Sporting a 4.3-inch AMOLED display, a Qualcomm dual-core processor, running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), Bluetooth, a 8-megapixel camera,… Read More
Microsoft, Google Docs and now onLive Desktop plus. The rush for business on the tablet is on and MS is at a disadvantage Yesterday, there were rumors of a Microsoft project to create apps for tablets that will allow greater access to MS Office applications. Next comes the release of an upgraded Google Documents for Android that provides document editing and real-time collaboration, and now comes onLive upgraded iOS app that provides a windows 7 desktop on the… Read More
Edit Google Docs in Android – New and Improved! Android business users rejoice. You can now edit your Google docs in your tablet, and not just edit, but you can see those edits in real time just like on the desktop. Nice. Now this news by itself may not seem like big news, but in fact, its quite interesting when you consider that Microsoft… Read More
Tablets will be like calculators when I was a kid. But it wont be an iPad Late last year when the Kindle Fire came out, pundits were saying, ‘oh this is going to be an iPad killer’ To which most of us in tech with 1/2 a clue basically ignored them and instead asked who was going to win this new market and how long will it be till Apple looks… Read More
You thought Siri was slanted, Iris is FAR worse We all remember the dust up around Siri and its refusal to give directions to an abortion clinic. Well Iris, (siri spelled backwards) which is suppose to be an somewhat Android equivalent powered by ChaCha is far worse. Never mind not giving directions; ChaCha will quote scripture when asked if abortion is wrong. Q: Is… Read More
The $35 tablet from India is real. Called the AAKASH Last month I said it would believe it when I see a sub $50 tablet, well know I’ve seen it from VentureBeat. It costs around $45 to build, but with a $10 discount from the government, we have a $35 tablet. Now this is just for India keep in mind and targeted for some of… Read More
Create Rage comics on your Android phone I was only a matter a time before someone created a native Android app for creating rage comics. WIN! I have not tried it myself since my Android is stilling in a box somewhere, (using the iphone for now), but I’ll dig it out at some point and replace the iphone screenshot. However, if someone… Read More
Unboxing the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and augmented reality I just received my Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone. This is the first PlayStation certified Android smartphone, hence it is also known as the PlayStation phone. I won the phone from a party Qualcomm had during the Game Developers Conference 2011 for their new Snapdragon platform. I haven’t won anything like this before so I… Read More
20% discount on VentureBeat’s MobileBeat and GamesBeat 2011 MobileBeat 2011 — VentureBeat’s 4th annual flagship conference on the future of mobile — on July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, is gathering the brightest minds in the industry to explore this year’s hottest macro trend: the arrival of true mobile computing now that 4G is here. There’s no doubt that 4G… Read More
Catan for Android is out. Also an iPad update The first AndroidTM version of Klaus Teuber’s famous board game is available now. Several Catanians will prove themselves worthy opponents: pirate Jean, with her no prisoners attitude; Sean the ruthless knight or Vincent the merchant, who’ll never be short-changed. True to the original game, up to four players can compete for the most settlements, the… Read More
Stitcher is now my top digital radio app for iphone Android Stitcher has grown enough to be a good digital radio app. Use the desktop version to set up your stations.… Read More
Color losing even more color after pulling its Android App Remember Color? I do. I remember it getting $41m in VC cash for what I though was a pretty weak idea. Then I tried it. And I was really puzzled. This seem more like a simple 20k app that really does not need more then 500k to launch.. and all in all, it was just… Read More
Sub $50 tablet? Yup running Android. Cheap, but good? I will do more follow up on this later tonight, but I wanted to get this posted. From Penn-Olson India’s much-hyped $35 ‘Sakshat’ tablet appears all set to go on sale at the end of this month, after experiencing a delay earlier this year. Originally intended to be a $10 tablet, there are still very… Read More
Rage Faces for iPhone and Android for SMS and email in iOS5 I have only just started to see this with people I know, but rage faces are spreading via SMS chat. So I figured I should look up this up. Yes, apps are already in the Apple and Android store and ready to for download. They work well enough. Simply click on the rageface you are… Read More
Cell phone screen with button touch feedback. From Japan of course Saw this on thenextweb looks pretty good. Basically what the Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI is building is a cell phone screen with the use of well timed and placed haptic vibrators and a pressure sensitive screen. Of course, since I have not tried this myself I have no idea what it would feel like, but… Read More
Most common reasons people use Android .. According to Robert Scoble at least, so not exactly a scientific poll.. My employer bought me this and didn’t give me choice to get an iPhone (most common answer, actually, when I meet normal people outside of the tech industry). They like the hackability of the phone. I then usually ask what their favorite… Read More