Your iPhone comes packing a pretty decent camera, but there’s no camera on the planet that doesn’t benefit from the stability of a tripod. Just one problem: Tripods tend to be long, large, unwieldy accessories, not the kind of the things you can just slip into your pocket. Until now. Photojojo’s Tiltpod Mobile puts an …
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10 August
Sky Movies on YouView as Now TV arrives with 30 days free
Cut-price dish-free Sky channels are now available on YouView — for free. You can watch Sky’s online service Now TV on your YouView set-top box, bringing Sky Movies to your goggle box without coughing up for a Sky subscription. Now TV is free for the first month — so that’s 30 days of movies from Sky’s film channels, long before they …
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9 August
Wireless industry attorney: San Francisco phone law ‘laughable’
Now playing: Watch this: Inside Scoop: Cell phone radiation warnings up in the… 2:55 Updated at 12:56 p.m. PT: with additional information and background An attorney representing the wireless industry said Thursday that San Francisco’s attempt at educating the public about cell phone radiation was “laughable,” asking the court to put a hold on the city’s ordinance requiring cell phone …
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T-Mobile USA continues to bleed its most valuable customers as the carrier struggles to keep up with its fellow national rivals. The carrier, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, said today it lost 205,000 net customers in the second quarter, largely due to a defection in customers with long-term contracts. T-Mobile posted a second-quarter profit of $207 million, down slightly from …
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9 August
Atari classic Pitfall reborn for iOS
At the risk of dating myself, I’m old enough to remember Pitfall, the iconic 1982 Atari game of running, jumping, and swinging. Old enough, in fact, to have owned an Atari 2600 and a Pitfall cartridge. Perhaps it was inevitable that the game would get a modern makeover, and so today brings us Activision’s Pitfall for iOS. Yep, Pitfall Harry …
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A new, press-ready image of the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze Q has been spied online, potentially hinting at its launch date. TmoNews, which has anticipated an August 15 debut for the smartphone, recently obtained the image you see to the right. Details about the Android-powered handset haven’t been confirmed just yet but it’s reported to include a sliding QWERTY keyboard …
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9 August
Samsung wanted Galaxy S to be more like iPhone, doc reveals
A newly revealed document from within Samsung reveals that the South Korean company went to great lengths to ensure its Galaxy S smart phone was a lot like the iPhone. The translated 2010 internal report, which comes from Samsung’s product engineering team via AllthingsD, was admitted into evidence this week, giving it weight in the legal conflict between the two …
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9 August
RIM wins reversal in $147.2 million Mformation patent case
Research In Motion has succeeded in getting overturned a verdict that would have forced it to pay $147.2 million in patent-infringement damages to mobile device management company Mformation. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has overturned a trial verdict and granted RIM’s “motion for judgment as a matter of law.” According to RIM, the court found …
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9 August
New hints of possible iOS 6 feature tweaks
With the release of iOS 6 highly likely in September (concurrent with the expected iPhone 5 announcement), the rumors around unannounced feature changes at tech sites are reaching an all-time high, so I decided to round up some of the big ones here. We already know about the main features in iOS 6 Apple announced at WWDC in June, but …
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9 August
No, Samsung isn’t interested in RIM
Samsung Electronics didn’t waste time nipping that rumor in the bud. The Korean conglomerate has flat-out told Reuters that it isn’t interested in buying Research In Motion or licensing its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system. “Samsung Electronics has not considered the acquisition of Research in Motion or licensing BB10,” a representative told CNET. The comment came after an analyst speculated …
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