At a Hong Kong press event to unveil the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, Google finally shared details of Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the next version of Android. ICS is meant to clean up the user interface found in Honeycomb, the current platform for Android tablets, and unify the platform for both smartphones and slates....
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has gone to great lengths to combat the problem of telemarketers sending unwanted calls and text messages to telecom subscribers in the country, but all that effort seems to have been for naught, according to a report by The Times of India. Among other measures, the rules enforced...
“If they’re not producing energy, you’re not paying for it.” That was Vivint CEO, Todd Peterson on Vivint Solar, the company’s latest attempt at bringing renewable energy to consumers in a disruptive fashion. Through Vivint Solar, customers do not have to pay anything up front for solar power. They simply sign...
Samsung introduced the newest flagship Google Android phone, the Galaxy Nexus, at a Hong Kong press event on Wednesday morning. The smartphone, long rumored as the Nexus Prime, will be the first handset to run the next version of Android: Ice Cream Sandwich. J.K. Shin, Samsung’s head of mobile communications, explained the cutting-edge nature...
Online book publishing service Blurb today launched a new way to publish collections of photos – as an eBook for the iPad. The new eBooks come in templated or custom two-page layouts, which readers can swipe through, search the text of and zoom into full resolution images. Publishers pay $1.99 per book and get...
When Amazon launched its Kindle Fire tablet last month, it sparked discussions among most tech enthusiasts and bloggers over things like whether or not they’d buy one and whether the new device should be seen as a competitor to Apple’s tirelessly dominant iPad. One detail about what Amazon unveiled was cause for concern for...
10:36 PM | Hugo Barra, Google’s director of product to talk about apps Core apps: New Android browser. New tab browser with live preview. You can close tabs with a simple flick gesture. One click quick access to desktop versions of websites. Bookmarks automatically synced from Chrome browsers. There’s also an Instapaper-like page saver...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company was winning the battle for productivity applications in the cloud, and when it’s winning, it’s taking customers away from Google. And in doing so, he invoked a little bit of Charlie Sheen in showing his enthusiasm about network-based applications. “Everything is a little earlier days than all...
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