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Apple Awarded Stay, Won’t Have to Say ‘Samsung Didn’t Copy Us’ For Now

Tim July 26, 2012 33

Dang. Apple has won a stay on the recent ruling from the U.K. that would have forced them to post a statement on their official website, informing Apple customers that Samsung did in fact, not copy their iPad design. Until the case can be heard in October by...

NVIDIA to Add Support to Tegra Chips for Miracast Wireless Display Standards

Tim July 26, 2012 18

From the same creators of the WiFi standard, comes the Miracast wireless display standard, which allows for the wireless beaming of the display contents on your mobile phone or tablet, directly to a large HDTV screen in your house without a wireless router. To...

Gameloft’s Asphalt 7 Lowered to Just a Buck on Google Play, It’s Time to Race

Tim July 26, 2012 41

Gameloft has lowered the price on their newest racing masterpiece, Asphalt 7 to a single dollar. They haven't posted an explanantion for the change in Google Play, but if you were looking to pick up this epic game, then now would be the time. It's officially...

Google Announces Google Fiber, the Next Chapter of the Internet

Tim July 26, 2012 137

Today, Google announced Google Fiber for Kansas City. Google Fiber is the "journey to bring ultra-high speed Internet to Kansas City." With 1Gbps up/down data speeds, which is over 100 times faster than America's average broadband connection, Google is setting...

61.5% of First-Time Smartphone Buyers Opt for Android Over iOS

Tim July 26, 2012 87

According to the latest report from comScore, during a three month period ending in April, buyers moving from feature phones to smartphones, instead of feature phone to feature phone, increased almost 10%. More importantly to us, is that 61.5% of the folks who...

More Cities to Be Lit Up With AT&T and Sprint’s 4G LTE

Tim July 26, 2012 19

Today, Sprint and AT&T announced that customers in the below-listed areas will see 4G LTE turned on, if not by now, then sometime very soon. More specifically, Sprint says that the four markets listed should have their 4G LTE fired up before Labor Day (9/3...

Video: Dynamic Ambient Lighting for Smartphones is One Colorful Idea

Tim July 25, 2012 68

Say, "Hi" to "dynamic ambient lighting" for mobile phones. Through the installation of prototype hardware made up of 40 LEDs onto a Desire smartphone, along with a specially designed application like the one used in the video below, our smartphones have the...

Google Teaches You About Google Apps on Your New Nexus 7

Tim July 25, 2012 18

Moments ago, Google uploaded this video to keep the momentum moving along in this line of tutorial videos for new Nexus 7 owners. Since the heart of the Nexus 7 is all about apps, Google goes hands-on with their own portfolio of applications including Gmail,...