Rumor has it that Samsung is planning a new Windows7-based tablet with a 10-inch display, a slide-out keyboard and the name…”Gloria.”, but we didn’t quite grasp if that’s for the tablet itself, or a new line of those. Samsung is no stranger to the whole QWERTY-on-a-Windows-tablet concept, as it developed the Samsung Q1 Ultra back [...]
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Gameloft Offers Android Games and Dungeon Hunter HD for Free As part of Christmas Campaign
December 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Major game developer Gameloft currently has a Christmas campaign and the company is offering a free title every day for iOS and Android, along with discounts and sneak previews. To take part, you just need to follow Gameloft on Twitter. Each day sees a game being discounted or given away for free for a number [...]
Giesecke & Devrient Unveils “Mobile Security Card VE 2.0(MicroSD)”; Prevents Tapping
December 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
MicroSD card is now not only serves as data storage. German technology company, Giesecke & Devrient (G & D) introduced the microSD card for mobile phones that can prevent wiretapping. The Mobile Security Card VE 2.0 contains a cryptocontroller which encrypts cell phone conversations and securely authenticates the user. Quoted from Cellular-news, VE on naming [...]
Dell “Venue Pro” expected to be launched on Dec 14
December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The last missing part to the Windows Phone 7 launch devices is the Dell Venue Pro, the nifty bottom-sliding WP7 phone that rocks a huge 4.1″ display, 5MP camera and 8GB of memory and a spacious hardware keyboard below the screen. However, December 14th should be the date that marks the wide availability of the [...]
“ChevronWP7″ unlock could render Windows Phone 7 permanently unusable :Microsoft
November 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A Windows Phone 7 “unlock” tool was released on Thursday that allows owners to side load home-brew applications. The tool, named ChevronWP7, uses a method to trick the OS into registering itself as a Windows Phone 7 developer device with the application rather than Microsoft directly. Microsoft normally charges $99 a year for the privilege [...]
“Genuin software checker” for Windows Phone 7;complicates custom ROMs
November 23, 2010 By 3 Comments
The first big roadblock to Windows Phone 7 modding has been found. According to Conflipper, a former Windows Mobile hacker, Windows Phone 7 devices ship with a “Genuine Software” checker which gives you the screen below if you try to access Xbox Live, Marketplace, Windows Live, or Zune from a device running an OS version [...]
Palm Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi and Pixi Plus to be updated to “webOS 2.0” – HP
November 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today, we have some news that will bring a smile to the face of everyone who owns a Palm Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi and Pixi Plus. All these devices will be getting an upgrade to webOS 2.0. During the ongoing HP/Palm webOS Developer Day in New York City today, Palm Engineer and Developer Relations rep [...]
Android 3.0 “Hneycomb” with Tegra 2 could be launched on February
November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Things are moving rapidly in the Android world, this week we learned that Android 2.3 should be available in the next few weeks and now it looks like Honeycomb (Android 3.0) could be ready to go as early as February. A report in DigiTimes says that in February or March, the tablet-centric Android 3.0 or [...]
Android 2.3 Gingerbread to be launched in a few weeks;Google CEO shows off ‘Nexus S’
November 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
At the Web 2.0 summit, while people were expecting Gingerbread launch, Google CEO Eric Schmidt did not disappoint fully.Although there was no Gingerbread launch, but a lot of things came up this version of Android. Schmidt said Gingerbread would be out in the “next few weeks,” and it will have NFC support Showing off both [...]
Firefox 4 Beta 7 launched:Let’s check it out
November 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
The news for which all the fans of Firefox are waiting that Mozilla has released the 7th Beta version of the upcoming Firefox 4b browser and the incredibly interesting thing is that this latest Beta release comes with a new, faster JavaScript engine. Instead of the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, Firefox 4 Beta 7 uses the [...]
Microsoft Kinect Hacked?
November 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Microsoft’s Kinect controller has been hacked a few days after its release Late last week it was reported that a New-York based company; Adafruit Industries were offering $2000 to any individual or group that could develop an open source Kinect driver hack that could bring the technology to other platforms outside of Xbox360. Code to [...]
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