Need some games to keep you busy during this holiday weekend? From now through Labor Day (September 5), Gameloft is giving away a handful of Android games and discounting all others to 99 cents. The giveaway requires a bit of hoop-jumping. For starters, you need to follow @GameloftAndroid on Twitter or like GameloftAndroid on Facebook. …
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September, 2011
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2 September
Dish, Blockbuster to take on Netflix with streaming (report)
Satellite TV provider Dish Network plans to launch a video streaming service with Blockbuster next month to compete with Netflix, Bloomberg news reported today. The new service has been timed to coincide with an increase in Netflix pricing. Earlier this summer, Netflix announced it would charge separate fees for its DVD-by-mail business and streaming video service. Customers who want both …
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2 September
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S gets 3D photo skills
It wasn’t all tablets, laptops and cameras at Sony’s IFA press conference: the Japanese giant made room to show off a new mobile too. The Xperia Arc S is the sequel to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc we were mightily impressed with, and looks like it’s adding some neat new tricks to its mobile repertoire. Such as? Well with the …
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2 September
Can Samsung or Sony beat the iPad, or will Amazon get there first?
Can anything beat the iPad? For the year and a half since the debut of Apple’s first iOS tablet, the answer has been a resounding no. Far from being iPad killers, many of Apple’s rivals have displayed more suicidal tendencies, from RIM’s decision to leave native email, calendar and contacts apps out of its BlackBerry PlayBook, through to HP’s now-infamous …
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2 September
LG PZ850T Pentouch TV lets you doodle on screen
TVs are rather more interesting at this year’s IFA than the usual tiresome who’s got the biggest willy-waving. Not to be outdone by Samsung’s TV that promises to get you fit, or Toshiba’s glasses-free 3D, LG has launched a telly you can draw on. That’s right, you can let your artistic side flourish, or just wait for Piers Morgan to …
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2 September
Toshiba 55LZ2 is UK’s first glasses
Personally, we’re not keen on having to sit in a darkened room wearing glasses that even Lady Gaga wouldn’t go near. So we’re delighted to learn the new 55-inch Toshiba 55LZ2 lets you watch 3D movies and TV without the hideous specs. Rather than using the standard glasses that separate the images to each eye to create the 3D illusion, …
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1 September
Android powers 40 percent of U.S. smartphones
According to new data out of Nielsen, 40 percent of U.S. mobile consumers now use smartphones, up from 30 percent just one year ago. And of those smartphones, Android takes the biggest share of 40 percent, followed by Apple’s iOS at 28 percent. Nielsen asked participants a number of questions to determine what kind of buyers they were in order …
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1 September
Dialed In #189: AT&T merger under fire
Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #189: AT&T merger under fire 50:52 Jessica’s back from vacation just in time to catch a busy week of mobile news that includes nothing less than a merger under fire, a new batch of Windows phones, and a deja vu moment with a lost Apple’s prototype, that CNET learned about first. Plus, it turns …
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1 September
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The Justice Department is looking to put the kibosh on AT&T’s $39 billion deal for T-Mobile. So what does this mean for T-Mobile, the smallest and weakest of the four national wireless carriers? The future of T-Mobile is the big unanswered question after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday seeking to block AT&T’s merger. …
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1 September
Samsung rolls out wave of new Bada phones
Along with the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Tab 7.7, Samsung trotted out three new Bada smartphones at IFA today, the Samsung Wave 3, Wave M, and Wave Y. All three of the handsets will run the Bada 2.0 mobile operating system, which brings new capabilities such as multitasking, voice recognition, NFC support, and Wi-Fi Direct, and uses the TouchWiz …
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