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RIM Announces Blackberry PlayBook

Beautiful isn’t it? The new Blackberry PlayBook is RIM’s foray into the growing tablet market. And on paper, it looks like it might give Apple a run for their money. It runs on a new BlackBerry Tablet OS for an optimized tablet experience like how iPad does it. Nothing like Android’s sloppy implementation. It comes packed [...]

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9 Minutes of Samsung Galaxy Tab Video Goodness

Check out the 9 minutes live video demo of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab below. Time will tell whether it will really shake things up for Apple in the tablet market. But so far, it’s looking great!

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Kindle for Android Adds Highlighting, Notes, and Voice Search

The Kindle app for Android is now updated with new features to make it on par with its iPhone counterpart. Features include: Add, edit or delete notes and highlights Search inside the book for words or phrases Search using voice Choose to lock the screen orientation in either landscape or portrait Look up words on Wikipedia and Dictionary.com Get Kindle for [...]

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Online Companies Offer New Reverse Phone Lookup Service

A very interesting and useful development in search technology has recently surfaced in the form of reverse phone lookups. This service functions in a way similar to a search engine in that it looks for information matching what you entered in the search field, but unlike these search engines, reverse number lookups only search specialized [...]

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BlackBerry Bold: Boldly Takes on iPhone

RIM announced today its latest BlackBerry 9000, also known as the BlackBerry Bold. Due to its black color enclosed in a chrome border, it’s hard not to notice the similarity between it and the iPhone. The BlackBerry Bold is not putting up a fight without being well-prepared. It has 3.5G HSDPA support, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, 480×320 [...]

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iPhone Washes Up Asian Shores

Apple has signed deals with four major telecommunication companies in four countries to help the company surpass its iPhone sales goal of 10 million units by the end of 2008. Singapore’s SingTel, India’s Bharti Airtel, Phillipines’ Globe Telecom, and Australia’s Optus, will begin carrying the iPhone “later this year.” A specific date has yet to be [...]

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Smash My iPhone

In response to Apple announcing the iPhone being launched in Canada, the SmashOurStuff team assassinated an iPhone on the main stage (just prior to the 420 countdown) at the Toronto Freedom Festival/Global Marijuana March. The fans were so hyped that somebody actually threw their iPod onto the stage to be destroyed as well!

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Glo Pillow Wakes You Gently with Light

The Glo Pillow is an alarm pillow that wakes you up gently with a gradually intensifying light. No more screaming alarm clocks! The LED light gradually increases in intensity for 40 minutes, simulating a real sunrise. And when you lift your head off the pillow, it displays the current time in easy-to-read dot matrix fonts. The pillow [...]

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iPhone Unpacking Like You’ve Never Seen Before

Someone has gotten really creative with his sacred iPhone unpacking moment, and that is ntr23 on Flickr. Just check out the photo gallery below and you would most likely agree.

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Charge your iPhone and iPod On The Move

To stay loyal to the Apple gods means you have to live with the non-removable batteries on your iPods and iPhones. Bringing the USB cable along with you everywhere is good if you expect to have computer access to get some charge from its USB port, but not too helpful if you are out, let’s [...]

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