When you’ve forked out 500 notes on your iPhone, you want to keep that baby looking pristine — so Nissan has invented an iPhone case that heals itself. The Nissan Scratch Shield iPhone case is made from the self-healing Scratch Shield paint found on Nissan’s latest cars. In as little as an hour after suffering …
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18 January
iConvert turns your iPad into a sheet
If tablets are really going to kick laptops to the curb, they’ll need some of the same important accessories road warriors rely on. Like, say, mobile scanners. Enter the Brookstone iConvert Scanner, which combines a sheet-fed document/photo reader with an iPad dock. It’s due to ship February 1 for a list price of $149.99. As shown in the above demo …
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18 January
Snoozing my way through CES
Editors’ note: This is a guest column. See Roger Entner’s bio below. Three musketeers: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, and AT&T mobility chief Ralph de la Vega at CES 2012. CNET This year’s CES was pretty dismal for anyone interested in wireless. Sure, AT&T had some good stuff and the Microsoft launched the LTE Windows Phone 7. …
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18 January
Apple trades in your gadgets in Reuse and Recycling scheme
Apple is keen on recycling. We’re not talking about the iPhone 4S looking exactly like the iPhone 4 — chortle — we’re talking about the new Reuse and Recycling scheme. You can trade in an old iPhone, iPad, Mac or iPod — or any old mobile, Windows laptop or desktop made by another manufacturer — for cash. Cold hard cash, …
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18 January
Samsung denies planning to buy BlackBerry
Samsung says it’s not interested in buying ailing BlackBerry-maker RIM, pouring cold water on rumours that the Canadian company was looking to sell up to the South Korean tech giant. Samsung told Reuters, “We haven’t considered acquiring the firm,” further stating that it’s “not interested”. Ouch. Rumours starting circulating yesterday after BGR cited sources who reckoned RIM was moving towards …
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18 January
Nokia Lumia 800 Dark Knight Edition: A working batphone?
The Dark Knight Rises prologue set many tongues wagging about what the caped crusader would be getting up to against the masked Bane and his gang of goons. To tie in with the movie, Nokia made 40 special-edition Batman Lumia 800 phones. We got one, and we wanted to see just what special bat-skills it has. Batman is known for …
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18 January
LightSquared says GPS interference testing was rigged
LightSquared, the company seeking final FCC approval to build a nationwide 4G wireless wholesale network, said that a test showing interference between its service and GPS systems was rigged by manufacturers of GPS receivers and government workers to produce bogus results. On a conference call Wednesday with reporters, LightSquared executives Jeffrey Carlisle and Geoff Stearn, along with paid consultant Ed …
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18 January
Kindle Fire updates to bigger browser, better e
Amazon’s latest software update for the Kindle Fire tablet (version 6.2.2) is now officially available as a free, over-the-air update. Along with some general performance tweaks, the update gives users improved support for manually setting up e-mail providers in the tablet’s Email app, as well as a new full-screen mode for Amazon’s Silk Web browser. I recommend the update, and …
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18 January
Apple’s iOS, BlackBerry tops among business users
Apple’s iOS is the most popular mobile platform among corporate workers, at least according to a survey from mobile security provider Check Point Software. Among the more than 700 IT professionals polled for a Check Point study (PDF) released today, iOS accounted for 30 percent of the collective traffic on their networks. But RIM’s BlackBerry was right behind with 29 …
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18 January
5 things we love about Ice Cream Sandwich
We’ve managed to enjoy some extended face time with the new Galaxy Nexus since it was launched in Australia in the weeks before Christmas last year, and we’ve grown quite attached to Google’s new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Here are our five favourite parts. The differences between Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) and Gingerbread (Google’s previous version of Android for …
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