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THQ Wireless has ‘a number of games’ coming to webOS

Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Still feeling abandoned, webOS users? Take heart, as the good folks over at THQ Wireless are working hard with that recently released PDK in order to port a number of its titles over to Pre and Pixi users. We aren’t being clued in just yet as to what g…

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Citi discloses security flaw in iPhone app, is probably sending you a(nother) new card right now

Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Call us jaded, bitter or just downright unlucky, but we’ve received more new Citi card digits in the past two years than we know what to do with. Every other month or so, some prankster is breaking into some database and compromising some quantity info…

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HTC will ship all Android phones in China with Froyo on board, fuels fire for immediate update closer to home

Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

A wordy headline, to be sure, but a pleasing one nonetheless. We came across HTC’s Chinese web portal listing the Desire as coming with Android 2.2 (with Sense!) and simply had to ping the official source for confirmation. It turns out the info up the…

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LG’s Application Store launches in places you don’t live for devices you don’t care about

Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

LG’s official Application Store — not to be confused with an App Store, App World, or App Catalog — just went beta is 23 countries with the aim of serving up 4,000 apps to 33 countries (including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) by the end…

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Tweaker ports Samsung’s TouchWIz UI onto non-rooted Nexus One for reasons unknown

Posted on 24. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

This one’s been kicking around the interwebs for a few weeks now, but it has managed to grow into something of a beast during that period. Frankly, we couldn’t think of less fitting way to send the glorious Nexus One out than to completely deface it a…

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T-Mobile webConnect Rocket 2.0 USB WWAN modem now on sale

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Timely, no? In concert with its HSPA+ expansion, T-Mobile USA has decided to come clean with that webConnect Rocket 2.0 that we peeked a few weeks ago courtesy of a leaked presentation slide. Said device isn’t drastically different than the original, o…

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Nook for Android now available to download, offers eBook lending

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Well, what do you know? Turns out you don’t actually need to invest in a Nook e-reader to enjoy the experience on your existing smartphone. And considering that the average Android smartphone will boast a display larger than your face within 2 years (…

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BlindType vows to autocorrect all wrongs with your iPhone or Android virtual keyboard (video)

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer gets too fat to be able to dial a number? Well, he wouldn’t have had that problem had BlindType been around. This soft keyboard is described by its makers as being extremely resilient to inaccurate inp…

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Swiftkey beta brings new keyboard, world class predictive text to Android

Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

The software and language engineers at Swiftkey have been toiling on this app for the past two years, and at long last, it’s being made available for precisely nothing to anxious Android users. Hot on the heels of Swype’s own beta, the Swiftkey beta i…

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SlingPlayer Mobile for Android review

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

The World Cup may have just ended, but whether you’re into football or not, there must have been a point over the last five weeks where you or someone you know moaned about missing a live goal. This is where SlingBox comes in — in case you didn’t kno…

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Geocron lets Latitude automate your life, or at least your wife

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Our pockets and camera bags are stuffed with locationally aware devices, yet for some reason we find ourselves still having to do stuff manually when we get somewhere. Shouldn’t our thermostat click on the AC when we head home? Shouldn’t our house loc…

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Android App Inventor lets you be the developer (video)

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Google is following in Nokia’s footsteps today by offering its users a simple-to-use DIY app maker. Employing a design scheme that relies on visual blocks rather than oodles of arcane code, the App Inventor — still in Beta, of course — has functions…

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Google Open Spot alerts Android users to freed parking spaces

Posted on 11. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Oh, sure — this has certainly been tried before, but given that things like this need a critical mass of followers to be effective, we’re particularly jazzed about Google’s own initiative. Dubbed ‘Open Spot,’ this bloody brilliant Android (2.0 and up…

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HTC Aria update for AT&T enables mobile hotspot, sideloaded app support (update: partially working!)

Posted on 10. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Well, this is genuinely awesome: it seems AT&T is pulling back from its ban on third-party sideloaded apps on its Android devices, because HTC has just released an Aria update that enables them (either that or HTC just went rogue here, but we high…

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Apple’s MobileMe iDisk App updated for iPad, redesigned Calendar goes beta

Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Too lazy to cancel your $99 MobileMe automatic subscription renewal and make the jump to one of the many free alternatives? Don’t worry, your lethargy has paid off this morning as Apple introduces its new MobileMe iDisk 1.2 app and a beta version of i…

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Chase Mobile iPhone app update: picture your paycheck deposited, and it’s there

Posted on 02. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

While JPMorgan Chase & Co. certainly isn’t the first bank to do this — USAA has allowed its members to deposit checks by snapspot for just under a year now — it’s definitely the first major public bank to bring this stuff to the mainstream. A re…

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iMovie for iPhone gets a cheeky hack for jailbroken 3GS, runs well-oiled

Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by IBM. 

Not feeling hot about the trouble-prone iPhone 4, but still tempted by its optional iMovie app? Now you have a choice! Turns out to run said app on other devices (including iPod touch, supposedly) running iOS 3.0 and above, all you need are a jailbroken iOS device, iMovie for iPhone from the App Store, and two quick edits in the app’s info.plist file — change minimum system version to “3.0.0″ and front-facing-camera to “false.” Sounds easy enough, although we’ve yet to see the hacked app actually running on devices other than the 3GS demoed in the video after the break. And sorry, Redmond Pie’s already confirmed that this sucker doesn’t work on the iPad… yet.

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