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If you’re using your smartphone or your tablet to read magazines, chances are you favorite aggregator had news for you this week. It’s not a hard assumption to make, the past few days were perhaps the busiest ever in the increasingly crowded news aggregator space. Not only did existing apps expand their reach, but...
Apple has taken a page from Occipital’s book by posting a 360 degree view of its Grand Central Terminal store on its website, amongst the gallery of images added for the store. But it’s only available to view on Apple mobile devices that have a gyroscope installed. Apple added support for the gyroscope feature...
And like that they’re gone. $99 TouchPads hit ebay right on schedule and were gone within minutes. But that’s to be expected, really. It’s not often that a solid piece of hardware like the TouchPad is available for so cheap. And thanks to HP’s recent moves, the tablet’s operating system, webOS, will be around...
Image: Android Central Forums As we wait patiently for Verizon to announce an official date for the Galaxy Nexus, it looks like retailers already have them in stock. Today we saw reports on Android Central’s forums and elsewhere that at least one person was able to pick up a Galaxy Nexus at a Verizon...
Cell phone towers on the sky line of Old Delhi. There are far more cell phones in India than there is access to sanitary toilets — about 600 million out of 1.2 billion Indians have ready access to a clean bathroom, while 800 million Indians have cell phones. That rather shocking stat, was an...
One of the interesting facts we learned from the Steve Jobs biography is that he planned to revolutionize photography, and he may well have achieved that. Walter Isaacson wrote about Jobs, saying, “He had three things that he wanted to reinvent: the television, textbooks and photography. He really wanted to take these on.” While diehard...
The App Store is littered with augmented reality apps, and it’s with good reason. The idea of projecting a virtual world into our everyday lives feels magical to almost anyone. Couple this with the ease of Apple’s app store and it’s no wonder this genera of apps has been selling like hotcakes. But the...
It’s no surprise the majority of Internet users, with the slightest bit of common sense, are dead set against SOPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act, which we our very own Alex has already described in great detail here, could signal the end of the Internet as we know it. It’s extremely worrying to find...
Last week at Le Web, Alexia interviewed Sean Parker and Shervin Pishevar onstage in what turned out to be one of the most-buzzed about sessions. Here is the full video for your weekend watching pleasure. It’s a great discussion that ranges across the state of startups, venture capital, music, and politics . Parker bemoans...