While the iPad was officially announced in January, the iPad will not be available for purchase until late March.
Google already runs a successful online translator, Google Translate, but they've got far-loftier ideas than simply converting the written word. They want to translate languages spoken over the phone, according to their head of translation services.
Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends.
While the list of tweaks is absurdly small in the latest iPhone OS update, we know that some of you simply have to run the latest and greatest OS at all times regardless of risk. Fortunately for you, the Dev-Team has stepped to with a new version of PwnageTool (v3.
Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the Linux kernel, has an absolute disdain for mobile phones. All of the ones he has purchased in the past, the man writes on his personal blog, ended up being "mostly used for playing Galaga and Solitaire on long flights" even though they were naturally all phones run on open source operating systems.
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The HTC Incredible, a leaked cellphone code name that first made the rounds back in December, is the real deal, as seen in these sneak peak pics from Pocket Now. Can you say brown?
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 Engadget Mobile: HTC Incredible caught on video rocking Snapdragon, Android 2.1 with Sense UI, and Verizon bands
 Android Community: HTC Incredible for Verizon frequencies sports 2.1, Sense UI, Snapdragon
Unwired View: Verizon’s HTC Incredible with Android 2.1 appears in photos, video
 SlashGear: HTC Incredible for Verizon captured on camera, sports Snapdragon, Android 2.1 with Sense UI [Video]
 Boy Genius Report: HTC Incredible spotted, shot, stuffed and shown off
PMP Today: HTC Incredible Android 2.1 phone video surfaces, Coming to Verizon
 MobileCrunch: HTC Incredible leaks, is as red as Mr. Incredible’s suit
 Mobility Site: HTC Incredible leaked photos and video!
 SlashPhone: Rumor: HTC Incredible Leaks with Android 2.1, WVGA Screen
 digg.com: Exclusive HTC Incredible Photos
 PhoneReport v2.0 - latest news, specs, reviews, interviews, and analysis: HTC Incredible Details Emerge
Tech Digest: Aptly named HTC Incredible revealed, features massive 3.7 inch OLED display
 Today @ PC World: Watch Out, Nexus One: Here's HTC's Incredible Phone
 Crave: The gadget blog: HTC Incredible Android phone caught in wild
 PhoneDog.com Cell Phones articles: ARTICLE: That's Incredible: Verizon-bound HTC Android 2.1 phone leaked
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"Alpha Protocol," the action/RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Sega, has seen a few big delays, but the last one was especially odd.
While we have no reason to doubt the authenticity of such images, this one comes the way of PPCGeeks.com and a user on their forums.
Immediately following Apple's iPad announcement last week reactions to the device ranged widely both from tech bloggers and from casual observers of the Apple tablet madness.
Locations awareness has given us all sorts of cool technology for smartphones. We can use a location aware search to find places to eat, sleep, and play in cities we are not familiar with.
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Filed under: Utilities, Apple, Google Apparently "Android" is a four-letter word in Cupertino. The flash card app Flash of Genius was a finalist in Google's Android Developer Challenge, and the developers thought that was worth mentioning in the description of the iPhone version of their app.
After nearly a year in development and $24 million in venture capital, Siri is finally ready to bring its personal assistant to the iPhone. Siri brings a conversational interface to the iPhone which allows you to ask it to perform tasks for you such as find a French restaurant nearby and book a table, look up movie listings, order a taxi, or look up the phone number and address of a local business.
Apple has notified App Store developers that they will be prohibited from using location-based information for mobile advertising. The company claims the GPS data can only be used to provide "beneficial information.
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 TechBlips: iPhone Developer Program
 Gizmodo: A Hint at Apple's Mobile Advertising Plans (Location, Location, Location) [IPhone]
 Blogrunner: MACNN | THE MACINTOSH NEWS NETWORK: Apple prohibits App Store devs from using location-based ads
 CenterNetworks: Want to Run Location-Based Ads in Your iPhone App? Not So Fast.
 Mashable!: Apple to Developers: No Location-Based Ads for You
 mocoNews: Apple To iPhone Developers: Don't Use Location-Based Info 'Primarily' For Ads
 The Register: Apple bans geo loco ads on iPhone, iPad*
 The iPhone Blog: Apple: No Location-based Ads for Non Location-based Apps — Controversy de Jour?
 AppleInsider: Apple denying iPhone apps that use location framework for targeted ads
 Local Mobile Search -: Is Apple Hoarding LBS Advertising?
 TechCrunch: Apple Warns Developers Against Adding Geo Spam To Their Apps
 Download Squad: Apple issues warning about location-based ads in iPhone apps
 Boy Genius Report: Apple: iPhone/iPod Touch apps can’t use Core Location primarily for advertising
 Macworld: Apple tells iPhone devs not to use GPS just for ads
 Technologizer: Apple Will Reject Apps that Use GPS for Location-Aware Ads
 PC World: Apple Tells IPhone Developers Not to Use GPS Just for Ads
 InformationWeek: Apple Bans Location-based iPhone Ads
 Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews: News Roundup: Facebook 400 Million and Project Titan, Location Based Apple Ads and iTunes Web Browser, Snoop Vader, Sony Profits, Snooki Crasher, WWII On Google Earth, FriendFinder Cancels IPO, TC Intern Fired, Patrick Stewart On Twitter, and Stewart vs. O’Reilly
 Gadget Lab: iPhone App Devs Not Allowed to Use Geolocation Just for Ads
 The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Apple puts limits on location-based advertising in the App Store
 Epicenter: Apple Allows Location-Based Ads in Apps with ‘Beneficial’ Uses
 MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing: Is Apple Killing Geo-targeted Ads?
 VentureBeat: Apple aiming to monopolize location-based mobile ads?
 Digital Trends: Apple Puts Ban on Location-Based iPhone App Ads
textually.org: Apple Bans Location-based iPhone Ads
 iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone: Dis-Location and Ban-Droids: What's Apple Suppressing This Week?
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Last September we announced Google Sync with push Gmail support and 2-way sync for calendar and contacts for iPhone, Nokia E series, and Windows Mobile devices.Tomorrow we are taking the next step towards access from any location, on any device by launching new administrative controls that give these devices mobile access to Google Apps.
As analysts say rising demand for Internet display ads will begin paying off for Google in 2010, one asks: "Is this a $10 billion business?
We've had a pretty clear indication that Microsoft would have plenty to say about Windows Mobile 7 at MWC this month, and it looks like we now have the first significant batch of rumored details ahead of the presumed launch. While nothing is close to being confirmed just yet, PPCGeeks has received what it describes as some "truly amazing information" about what's now apparently known as Windows Phone 7, and it certainly paints an interesting picture.
Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, Macbook Pro A quick couple of tips from readers Ken and Jack, and this thread over at the MacRumors forums, point us towards an interesting results page at the Geekbench site (Google cached version, in case they get hammered), which aggregates benchmark results from thousands of users all over the globe. This particular page reports the performance of a previously unreleased MacBook Pro model (MacBookPro6,1) which claims an Intel Core i7 M 620 processor running the show.
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The world's most widely-used smartphone platform is now completely free and open. Today, the Symbian Foundation announced that the entire 33 million lines of Symbian^3 code is now free under the Eclipse Public License.
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Symbian announced it has released the source code for the operating system, several months early.
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 Digital Trends: Symbian OS Set Free, Now Open Source
 SlashGear: Symbian OS going free and open source for first time
Unwired View: Symbian OS is now free and completely open source
 Mashable!: Symbian OS Goes Open Source
 Nokia S60 News and Reviews: Symbian Goes Free, Becomes Open Source
 The Red Ferret Journal - gadgets, cool sites, freeware and tech trivia: Nokia Releases Symbian OS to Open Source for Free
 Hardware 2.0: Symbian OS makes early open source debut
 Phone Scoop - Latest News: Symbian Foundation Releases Symbian Source Code
 biskero: Symbian Open Source Migration is done!
 SlashGear: Symbian OS goes open source
 Download Squad: Symbian OS goes free and open-source, in the biggest switch in software history
 O'Reilly News: Lamp: Four short links: 4 February 2010 - Personal Ad Preferences, Android Kernel, EC2 Deconstructed, Symbian Opened
 MobileCrunch: Symbian goes open source, releases code to developers
 901am: Symbian Makes its Mobile Platform Open Source
Geek.com: Symbian goes open source
 Boy Genius Report: Symbian opens up its source code, available now for your downloading pleasure
 Mobile Industry Review: Symbian is now officially Open Source
 Electricpig.co.uk: Symbian boss predicts Symbian tablets incoming
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Amazon.com and the book publisher Macmillan finally settled their weeklong dispute, restoring Macmillan books to the site.
AT&T made headlines Thursday by announcing that it had decided to allow SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone to stream video from a Slingbox over its 3G network. AT&T's CEO claimed in the announcement that Sling Media modified the app to be more efficient on its network, but Sling has responded, saying it didn't have to change much of anything.
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AT&T and Sling Media have reached an agreement under which AT&T's 3G network will support the SlingPlayer mobile app.
AT&T reverses its ban on Sling Media's iPhone application streaming television over its 3G data network. The decision allows users to watch their home television signal on their iPhones, iPods and soon, iPads.
A tiny but significant factoid in Sony's earnings report from the WSJ: "Sony loses about six cents for every dollar of PS3 hardware sales.Educated guesser of component prices iSuppli had deduced that Sony was finally eking out a little bit of profit on every PS3 Slim they sold, thanks to lower costs, but apparently, not the case!
I bet a vein is pulsing on the forehead of Steve Jobs right now in Cupertino. Sure, he and Apple decided to call the long anticipated tablet launched this month the iPad rather than the iTablet, which had been rumored.
Besides color and flexible EPDs (electrophoretic displays), Prime View International (PVI) also plans to introduce touch-capable EPDs and EPDs that support animation in 2010, according to PVI chairman Scott Liu.