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Google Voice pulled from App Store following iOS 5 crash

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 03:42 PM PDT

Google Voice pulled from App Store following iOS 5 crash


Google Voice pulled from App Store following iOS 5 crash
What once was there now is gone. Earlier today, Google Voice was just two clicks away in the iOS App Store. Now, all that remains is a page cache (at the source link below) and versions of the app that were already installed on iPhones and iPod touches. Vincent Paquet, Senior Product Manager for Google Voice confirmed that the app had been pulled, explaining "our last update of this week had...

Watch Me Talk To My iPhone 4S (Siri Demo)

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 03:01 PM PDT

Watch Me Talk To My iPhone 4S (Siri Demo)


Watch Me Talk To My iPhone 4S (Siri Demo)
If the iPhone 4S has one standout feature, it is the Siri personal assistant. You ask Siri to do things by speaking to it, and it can call anyone in your contact list, send them a text message or email, set up a meeting, play a song, set up a reminder for yourself, get directions, or just ask a question....

CTIA Enterprise & Applications 2011 wrap-up: Springboard, Atrix and Audi

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 03:00 PM PDT

CTIA Enterprise & Applications 2011 wrap-up: Springboard, Atrix and Audi


CTIA Enterprise & Applications 2011 wrap-up: Springboard, Atrix and Audi
And that's all she wrote, folks -- warm and sunny San Diego was a wonderful host for this year's CTIA Enterprise & Applications, but now it's time to head on home. The show was tremendously affected by the news of Samsung canceling its much-anticipated Nexus event, but there were still a few gems we were able to grab....

Will 2013 electric Chevy Spark be built in Korea?

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 02:20 PM PDT

Will 2013 electric Chevy Spark be built in Korea?


Will 2013 electric Chevy Spark be built in Korea?
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Chevrolet, GM, Asia Where will the electric 2013 Chevrolet Spark be built? Well, if you asked that question of General Motors, then this is the answer you'd likely receive: No location of production has been decided yet. Those are the quoted words of a GM Korea spokesman, according to Ward's Auto....

iPhone 4S lacks "Enable 3G" switch

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 12:09 PM PDT

iPhone 4S lacks "Enable 3G" switch


iPhone 4S lacks "Enable 3G" switch
If you're among the teeming masses holding a brand new iPhone 4S in your hands, you may be surprised (as we were) to find there's something conspicuously absent from the Network Settings menu on your new device: specifically the ability to manually shut off 3G data. After receiving word, and a screenshot, from a helpful tipster, rocking a 4S on Vodafone's network, we found the same option missing from our own...

London police to patrol streets on electric Zero DS motorcycle

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 10:45 AM PDT

London police to patrol streets on electric Zero DS motorcycle


London police to patrol streets on electric Zero DS motorcycle
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, On Two Wheels, UK London's boys in blue are to embark on a greener era of patrol with the unveiling of the Metropolitan Police's first electric motorcycle: the 2011 Zero DS. The police squad confirmed this week that it's to trial a Zero Dual Sport (DS) bike manufactured by Zero Motorcycles....

Windows 7 overtakes XP globally, Vista found weeping in a corner

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 10:45 AM PDT

Windows 7 overtakes XP globally, Vista found weeping in a corner


Windows 7 overtakes XP globally, Vista found weeping in a corner
According to StatCounter, it's taken roughly two years for Redmond's latest to surpass XP and become the world's most popular operating system. October 2011 marks the first time that Windows 7 has overtaken XP globally, with a 40 percent share of the market versus the latter's 38. As for Vista, it's been holding steady at around 11....

HTC Amaze 4G review

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 09:21 AM PDT

HTC Amaze 4G review


HTC Amaze 4G review
What do you do when you've already created a Sensation? If you're HTC, you repackage that lightning in a slightly different chassis, turn the volume (read: speed) up to 11 and borrow a bit of optical wizardry to add that new smartphone smell. All key elements that can be found in the DNA of the company's latest imperatively named product offering -- the Amaze 4G....

Mobile Miscellany: week of October 10, 2011

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 08:39 AM PDT

Mobile Miscellany: week of October 10, 2011


Mobile Miscellany: week of October 10, 2011
This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here's some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of October 10, 2011: US Cellular launched the BlackBerry Curve 9350 this week, and is now available for free (after rebate) with new activations, and $50 with upgrades....

Motorola Lapdock 100 hits Sprint October 21st, earns employees extra scratch

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 06:33 AM PDT

Motorola Lapdock 100 hits Sprint October 21st, earns employees extra scratch


Motorola Lapdock 100 hits Sprint October 21st, earns employees extra scratch
Ready to play PC with your smartphone? If you aren't picking up a Lapdock 100 from AT&T on the 17th, you won't have to wait very long -- Motorola's faux-laptop phone dock has been outed for a October 21st launch date for Sprint via an employee rewards email. Passing the Lapdock 100 Sprint Rewards Me training quiz nets employees $10 in Sprint scratch and the opportunity to sell you a rig...

U.S. ethanol output dips... again

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:50 AM PDT

U.S. ethanol output dips... again


U.S. ethanol output dips... again
Filed under: Ethanol, USA After falling to its lowest per-day output level in 2011, you might think that ethanol production would rebound. Well, that's not the case as U.S. ethanol production dipped again last week while as export demand depleted stocks by nearly three percent. According to the Energy Information Administration, U.S....

Cars That Run on Very Alternative Fuels

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:50 AM PDT

Cars That Run on Very Alternative Fuels


Cars That Run on Very Alternative Fuels
Ammonia can clean your floors, but can it power your car?

Girl Scout merit badges get a 21st century facelift, focus on science and techno...

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 05:08 AM PDT

Girl Scout merit badges get a 21st century facelift, focus on science and technology


Girl Scout merit badges get a 21st century facelift, focus on science and technology
Think only Boy Scouts can earn badges in bad-ass activities like robotics and video games (whatever happened to wood carving and fire building)? Well you are wrong sir (or ma'am). The Girl Scouts of America are giving their merit badges a 21st century makeover, adding high-tech accomplishments like Computer Expert and Digital Movie Maker, as well as more esoteric points of pride like Locavore....

Nokia N9: The Most Amazing Phone You’ll Never Buy

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 04:25 AM PDT

Nokia N9: The Most Amazing Phone You'll Never Buy


Nokia N9: The Most Amazing Phone You'll Never Buy
Nokia was nice enough to loan me a Nokia N9, its first and almost certainly last MeeGo-powered smartphone, after I not-so-subtly pointed out that I'd love to give the thing a solid whirl. After having played with it for a day now, I'll tell you why I think it's a phenomenal smartphone that rivals the best of 'em, and why you would probably be better off not buying one anyway. I'll start...

Nintendo sells over 50 million DS units, 3DS sales fall flat in comparison

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 03:01 AM PDT

Nintendo sells over 50 million DS units, 3DS sales fall flat in comparison


Nintendo sells over 50 million DS units, 3DS sales fall flat in comparison
Nintendo's twin-screen wonder has seen almost as many reinventions as Lady Gaga, so it may not come as a huge shock to hear that the DS (in all its guises) has now sold over 50 million units in the US. The home entertainment maestros are still chasing similar success for its three-dimensional sibling, the 3DS, however....

Seeser laser pico projector is always in focus, powered by Android

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 12:57 AM PDT

Seeser laser pico projector is always in focus, powered by Android


Seeser laser pico projector is always in focus, powered by Android
We've seen our fair share of pico projectors, so takes a bit to actually get us excited about one, but the Seeser from ESPlus is showing a lot of potential. Inside the tiny black box is a laser-based projection system which, unlike traditional lamps, doesn't need to be focused and can output a 25-lumen, 800 x 600 image up to 100-inches in size....

DreamIt-Backed CloudMine Lets App Developers Bypass The Backend Pain, Focus On T...

Posted: 15 Oct 2011 12:17 AM PDT

DreamIt-Backed CloudMine Lets App Developers Bypass The Backend Pain, Focus On Their Product


DreamIt-Backed CloudMine Lets App Developers Bypass The Backend Pain, Focus On Their Product
I think it's a fair assumption to say that, for app developers, the enjoyable part of their job is building the actual app, not finding the right web services and hosting provider, setting up databases, and slogging through configuration. I could be wrong to presume this to be true, but CloudMine, a Philadelphia-based startup launching in open beta today is willing to bet that most developers might agree with me. So, CloudMine...

Siri ported to an iPhone 4, old phone learns a new trick

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 10:56 PM PDT

Siri ported to an iPhone 4, old phone learns a new trick


Siri ported to an iPhone 4, old phone learns a new trick
Apple's iPhone 4 may not have the fancy dual core CPU of its successor, but thanks to the efforts of developer Steven Troughton-Smith and the folks at 9to5 Mac, it may soon have Siri. The port of the sultry voice assistant was accomplished by using the 4S Siri and Springboard files, and some serious elbow grease, no doubt....

Motorola teaser counts down to ICS event date, ends a few hours early (video)

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 08:54 PM PDT

Motorola teaser counts down to ICS event date, ends a few hours early (video)


Motorola teaser counts down to ICS event date, ends a few hours early (video)
Motorola just unleashed a new teaser video alongside a curious countdown clock. The hook: Faster. Thinner. Smarter. Stronger. Whatever they're teasing, the clock stops dangerously close to the Google / Samsung Ice Cream Sandwich event set for this Tuesday, missing the mark by only seven hours. We can't say for sure that Motorola is trying get in on the Google magic, but if it wants to push its news during the...

Samsung's Korea-bound Galaxy S II HD LTE pops up in FCC filings

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 08:54 PM PDT

Samsung's Korea-bound Galaxy S II HD LTE pops up in FCC filings


Samsung's Korea-bound Galaxy S II HD LTE pops up in FCC filings
We'll have to brush up on our foreign languages to decipher the full battery label, but the Samsung SHV-E120L (aka the Galaxy S II HD LTE, thanks David_DK!)-- home to a 4.7-inch HD screen and dual-core 1.5GHz processor according to specs leaked last month -- has passed through its FCC testing....

Winterize Your Car for Less

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 08:14 PM PDT

Winterize Your Car for Less


Winterize Your Car for Less
Preparing for winter's onslaught doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg.

NVIDIA intros 3D Vision 2 glasses with brighter field of view, comfier design

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 06:52 PM PDT

NVIDIA intros 3D Vision 2 glasses with brighter field of view, comfier design


NVIDIA intros 3D Vision 2 glasses with brighter field of view, comfier design
NVIDIA's 3D Vision is impressive and all, but one trade-off you'll have to accept when you put on those active shutter glasses is a markedly dimmer field of view than what you'd get if you settled for plain-Jane 2D gaming. Well, the outfit just unveiled the second generation of the technology -- appropriately named 3D Vision 2 -- and this go 'round it promises not to strain your vision quite so...

Verizon pricing, release windows for Galaxy Nexus, HTC Rezound revealed

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 06:52 PM PDT

Verizon pricing, release windows for Galaxy Nexus, HTC Rezound revealed


Verizon pricing, release windows for Galaxy Nexus, HTC Rezound revealed
One of our tipsters has forwarded this info from Verizon, with pricing and advertising dates for the supposedly Ice Cream Sandwich-ready Galaxy Nexus and the HTC Rezound (aka HTC Vigor). According to the leak we can expect both to sport on contract minimum advertised pricing (MAP) of $299 when they launch....

Redesigned BMW 3-Series Revealed

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 06:12 PM PDT

Redesigned BMW 3-Series Revealed


Redesigned BMW 3-Series Revealed
BMW plans sales in North America to start in February 2012.

How gas cars use more electricity to go 100 miles than EVs do

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 05:31 PM PDT

How gas cars use more electricity to go 100 miles than EVs do


How gas cars use more electricity to go 100 miles than EVs do
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture File this one under "ammunition for future debates." EVangelist Peder Norby, who has been having more fun driving and writing about his Mini E than anyone at BMW probably thought possible, recently wrote a most interesting post comparing electricity usage to produce gasoline to the electricity needed to drive an electric car....

Once Magazine Brings Compelling Photojournalism To Your iPad

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 05:31 PM PDT

Once Magazine Brings Compelling Photojournalism To Your iPad


Once Magazine Brings Compelling Photojournalism To Your iPad
Do you remember when photojournalism and photographic stories used to be a more central part of the news reading experience? Granted, those were the days when print publishing reigned supreme and photo-centric news magazines represented some of the highest circulation periodicals in American publishing. There's no better example of this than Life Magazine, which sold 13.5 million copies per week at its peak....

CubeStormer II rocks a Samsung Galaxy S II, makes CubeStormer I look downright s...

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 05:31 PM PDT

CubeStormer II rocks a Samsung Galaxy S II, makes CubeStormer I look downright slothful (video)


CubeStormer II rocks a Samsung Galaxy S II, makes CubeStormer I look downright slothful (video)
CubeStormer I was pretty cool, we guess, but that was way back in 2010. Now we're all about CubeStormer II. Built by Mike Dobson and David Gilday, the puzzle-cracking robot is capable of solving Rubik's Cubes at blazing fast speeds, shaving precious fractions of seconds off of human world records....

The Electric Vehicle Story: a Nissan Leaf documentary

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 04:10 PM PDT

The Electric Vehicle Story: a Nissan Leaf documentary


The Electric Vehicle Story: a Nissan Leaf documentary
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, Videos Kevin Day is a Nissan Leaf owner. And this is his story. A brief documentary, titled "The Electric Vehicle Story" was filmed for entry into Zooppa's "Changing Your City for the Better" contest sponsored by Siemens. The film, as told by Day, offers a first-hand account of what it's like to own a Leaf. The experience is real, not a long-term review ride....

MSI infuses more gaming juice into its G Series notebooks with processor refresh

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 04:10 PM PDT

MSI infuses more gaming juice into its G Series notebooks with processor refresh


MSI infuses more gaming juice into its G Series notebooks with processor refresh
They may have barely finished component convalescence after being kitted out with NVIDIA's GTX 570M, but MSI's GT780DXR and GT683DXR are getting yet another technical leg-up. This time, the processors are being nudged up to an Intel Core i7-2670QM, replacing the Core i7-2630QM we found on these gaming rigs last time we met....

(Fly or Die) iPhone 4S

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 04:10 PM PDT

(Fly or Die) iPhone 4S


(Fly or Die) iPhone 4S
Erick and John take the iPhone 4S and its built in voice activated personal digital assistant Siri, for a spin in this episode of Fly or Die. Right off the bat Erick says he is impressed with reception he receives when using the iPhone 4S and points out how the iPhone 4S streamlines notifications from various sites (Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram) by having them scroll in one fluid stream. Erick also demonstrates how Twitter is integrated into the...