The New iPhone is Most Certainly, Possibly, Will be Released on September 21st, Maybe
Apples are good for you, I’ve heard.
Windows Phone To Surpass Blackberry By December, Dominate Distant Third Place
Things are coming up Ballmer!
Believe it or not, based on WMPoweruser’s calculations, Windows Phone will surpass the Blackberry platform not long after Thanksgiving. We’ve talked about plotted dominance before and didn’t quite come off as accurate, but this trajectory seems far more accurate. The summary here isn’t that Windows Phone is winning so much as Blackberry is really failing.
Banned From Google & No Support in Sight
Not the screen you want to see.
Campaign To Build Tesla Museum Hits $450k In Under Two Days
It’s a lot of money.
Who knew crowdsourcing initiatives who could be so awesome? Yesterday, John Inman, known more commonly as web artist The Oatmeal, set out to help a non-profit purchase the grounds under Nikola Tesla’s former Wardenclyffe, New York facility.
If This is Going to be the New iPhone, I Don’t Want It
This can’t be the iPhone 5
Facedeals Checks You In With Facial Recognition
Ad agency, Redpepper is testing out a facial recognition Facebook check-in system a a few businesses in Nashville. It’s really cool but also creepy at the same time. After being recognized at a supporting business you will receive the deal via text message as well as being checked into the location on your timeline. I have wanted a proximity check-in system for Foursquare for a while now. Read the rest of this article…
HTC G1 Owners Rejoice! Jelly Bean Is Now (Sorta) Available!
Ha! Ha! Take that newer Android owners!!!!
While most of us are still waiting for our port of Jelly Bean, the first Android phone, HTC’s G1, has had the lovely new OS (that comes standard on the Nexus 7) whittled onto it by the crafty fellows over at XDA-Developers. Yeah, it’s nuts.
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Spotify Radio Needs Some Work, Pandora Fans Need Not Worry
*uncontrollable dry heaving*
I’ve had my share of suggestions for Spotify since they stole my heart from the Zune Pass after nearly half a decade. Don’t get me wrong, I think Spotify is a solid service (even if listens keep disappearing from Facebook, but sigh) and I applaud that they’ve been working on stuff, but Spotify’s newer Radio feature need some lovin’, yo.
Leo Laporte Refuses To Let Ex-G4’ers Sessler, Pereira On TWiT, Says They’re ‘Tainted’
Laporte seems lost.
The G4 absorption of TechTV was not a happy one. Here was a ‘hip with the kids’ network devoted to gaming devouring a respectable channel with tons of tech-related content. The path was complicated, but many of the TechTV staff left on word that they’d have to relocate from their San Francisco home to Los Angeles, among them Leo Laporte, who would later form the This Week in Tech network of video/podcasts. Leo seems like a real nice guy, but a recent remark about his former labelmates came across as quite uncouth.
The YouTube App Getting Pulled from iOS 6, About Time
Go away please.
