Archive for March, 2011

Firefox 4 Mobile officially released for Android and Maemo devices

Moments ago, Mozilla stripped the release candidate moniker from Firefox 4 Mobile and pronounced it fit for public release. If you have a Nokia N900 phone, or a fairly-modern Android 2.0-or-later device, go ahead and install it from the Market, by using scanning the QR code after the break, or by visiting Firefox.com/m. Accompanying the [...]

$8-Million iPad 2 Gold History Edition is World’s Most Expensive

At $8-million, the iPad 2 Gold History Edition by Stuart Hughes not only has 24K gold accents, but “sections of a 65 million year old T-Rex dinosaur’s thigh bone has been splintered and then shaved into the Ammolite and finished off with a single cut 8.5ct flawless diamond inlaid in platinum and surrounded by 12 [...]

Google accuses China of interfering with Gmail

It’s act three of Google vs. China. We’ve seen the two duke it out over accusations of cyberwarfare and search engine censorship, and now Google is throwing down the gauntlet over interference with Gmail. According to The Guardian, the number of complaints from Gmail users and advertisers in China has steadily risen of late. Google [...]

Geek Uses iPhone to Hack Times Square Billboards

According to YouTube user “BITcrash44″, he managed to hack billboard in Times Square by plugging a transmitter into an iPhone 4, playing back a video clip, and then have that footage sent to a video repeater that overrides any screen. Continue reading for the video demonstration.
Starting off small, he exhibits how the device works on [...]

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace breaks 10,000 app milestone

Microsoft’s fledgling smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 7, has just hit an important milestone: over 10,000 apps are now available from the Marketplace. Microsoft has managed to reach this impressive target in just four and a half months, faster than both Apple’s iOS App Store and Google’s Android Market managed, adding about 1,000 apps a [...]

BattlePaint is an addictive geometric shooter game

In BattlePaint, you play a cube. In fact, you’re not even a cube — just a square. But boy, are you fast! And you can shoot in all directions. That’s important, because there are baddies coming in from all over the place. The “baddies” are swarms of other squares, in all sorts of pretty colors. [...]

Killspencer Historical Reserve iPad2 Case

The Killspencer Historical Reserve iPad2 Cases ($150) are made of vintage coated cotton bags engineered in the 1950′s and used as an optimum performance material in the Korean War. This coarse duck water repellent canvas has ben preserved in roll form, unused and untouched for over 60 years. A distinct vintage scent coupled with a [...]