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Motorola Droid 4 And RAZR MAXX Hands-On: Two Giant Leaps For Droidkind

4:00AM January 12, 2012 | Brent Rose

I just copped a major feel on the new Motorola Droid 4 and the Droid RAZR MAXX. I’m going to cut right to the chase: they both carry on the traditions of their ancestors, but improve on them in ways that actually matter. More »


Entertainment

The Super Bowl Will Be Streamed Live For The First Time

6:14AM December 21, 2011 | Casey Chan

America’s biggest television event, the Super Bowl, is going to be streamed live to computers and mobile devices for the first time ever. Football! Everywhere! Yeah! Along with the Super Bowl, fans will get to peep NBC’s Wild Card playoff games and the Pro Bowl (snooze) online too. More »


Gadgets

Apple Gulps Memory Company In Stuff Not Posted

4:00PM December 14, 2011 | Brian Barrett

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. More »


News

Verizon Accidentally Sent A Scary Emergency Alert Telling People To "Take Shelter"

1:05AM December 14, 2011 | Casey Chan

Imagine your day yesterday. Maybe you were working. Maybe you were at home or at the grocery store. Now imagine at 12:27 PM you got an emergency alert message on your phone saying, “Civil Emergency in this area until 1:24 PM EST Take Shelter Now U.S. Govern”. Wouldn’t you freak the eff out? More »


Mobile

Carrier IQ Speaks! Denies All Wrongdoing

5:15PM December 2, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

It hasn’t been a good week for Carrier IQ. First a damning video apparently illustrating the extent of what information the program collects surfaces, then everything goes to shit. Now, the company is facing a Senate investigation for potentially millions of violations of privacy laws. And this is the response? More »


Mobile

Behold This Treasure Trove Of Mistaken Text Messages

4:20AM November 10, 2011 | Brent Rose

There’s a strange quirk in US carrier Verizon’s text messaging system. When entering a recipient, if their phone number doesn’t pop up with their name and you send it anyway, it may go to someone else. That someone else is often Leila. More »


Mobile

Hands On With The LTE-Speedy HTC Rezound

9:00AM November 4, 2011 | Sam Biddle and Brent Rose

People love big screens, so HTC’s giving the people another big screen: the Rezound is smaller than the titanic Titan (packing a 4.3-inch screen) and nice guts. Another piece of speedy LTE hardware is a good thing. More »


Mobile

iPhone 4S Cases Don’t Fit: Why Is That?

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1:30PM October 17, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Buyers of Apple’s iPhone 4S — there seem to have been a few — may be hitting a problem where existing cases don’t fit properly. I set out to investigate why. More »


News

Could The President End Up Prolonging This Patent Nightmare?

9:40AM August 25, 2011 | Kwame Opam

What with companies suing each other into infinity right now, one can see that the patent system is broken. But companies can also appeal to the International Trade Commission to rain the import ban hammer down on their enemies. Only the President could stand stand in their way. More »


Mobile

TechCrunch Evidence Hints At GSM/CDMA iPhone 5

10:35AM August 23, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Around the block we go again with another rumour that suggests the iPhone 5 may be a dual-mode device with support for both CDMA and GSM networks. More »