Monthly Archives: May 2011

Next iPhone Will Not Have NFC Support, Says Analyst

  There had been whispers in March that stated that the iPhone 5, or iPhone 4S as it’s now being referred as, would come equipped with NFC support something that the Nexus S already has, RIM is including in its … Continue reading

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Exclusive: Apple testing iPhone for T-Mobile USA | BGR

  That’s right, you’re looking at photos of an iPhone prototype with T-Mobile USA 3G bands. The actual internal model is N94, and if you remember, the Verizon model is N92 while the standard GSM variant is N90. We have … Continue reading

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Analyst: iPhone 4S Coming to Sprint and T-Mobile

  According to analyst Peter Misek from Jefferies & Co., Apple will not be launching LTE with its next-generation iPhone but will be launching a phone we’ve seen called the iPhone 4S which will feature better cameras, a dual-core A5 … Continue reading

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Google’s Real-Life Babelfish Will Translate the World

Google’s Real-Life Babelfish Will Translate the World The tough thing about translation: You need someone who actually speaks both languages. Easy for Spanish to English, not so much for Swahili to Inuktitut. In the Plex by Steven Levy illustrates how … Continue reading

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It’s Official: This Is the New AIM

On Monday we reported on AIM’s kind-of-sort-of-secret new video chat site. As of today, it’s official, and it’s just the beginning of a new direction for the hoary chat service. We all use AIM. And yet we can also all … Continue reading

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X-Prize reveals plans for tricorder competition, suspiciously lacking Nimoy endorsement — Engadget

  We could feed you a line about the final frontier or exploring strange new worlds, but we’ll just give it to you straight: the X-Prize Foundation has teamed up with Qualcomm to design the Tricorder X-Prize, a $10 million … Continue reading

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Throwback Thursday: AT&T Wireless | BGR

  As you can see from the above image, the destruction and slow reconstruction of AT&T is quite a story. With the T-Mobile merger currently being debated by Congress, potentially adding another chapter to the saga, we thought it might … Continue reading

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Coca-Cola Transforms Crowded Highway into Outdoor Theater [VIDEO]

To promote the new, smaller version of its signature beverage, Coca-Cola transformed a crowded highway into an outdoor theater in Bogotá, Colombia.The company, already widely recognized for its various attention-grabbing, smile-inducing guerrilla marketing tactics, built a screen and hired models … Continue reading

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First Suicide from the Tallest Building in the World [WARNING: STRONG IMAGES]

Well, it had to happen sooner or later: Someone just jumped off the 147th floor of the Burj Khalifa—shown in the picture above—the tallest building in the world, and killed himself. The man—Asian and 30 years old—jumped from an air … Continue reading

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Will AT&T create an iPhone 4G before Apple does? | TiPb

  Apple doesn’t currently make or market an iPhone 4G but given recent North American marketing shenanigans by the carriers, they might just get one sooner than anticipated. There was a time when 4G applied to really fast, really next … Continue reading

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