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New iPhone Navigation App Available Soon: Google Maps Navigation for iPhone

Google Said to Bring Free Turn-by-Turn Google Maps Navigation to iPhone; Does Apple Know About It?
By on Friday, 23. April 2010

Just the other day we were telling you how Google’s free turn-by-turn navigation system, Google Maps Navigation, will be available in the UK and now it looks like Google is getting ready to move to the next level.

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HTC & Huawei Back Away From Bidding On Palm

HTC & Huawei Decide To Not Move Forward With Purchasing Palm, But Lenovo May Be Back In
By on Friday, 23. April 2010

Palm just cannot catch a break here lately, and we are once again covering doom and gloom related Palm news. This latest report suggests that two of the once interested parties have since decided again moving forward with a purchase. The companies are HTC and Huawei, and given some of [...]

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Asus Eee Pad Tablet Coming in July; iPad Beware!

New iPad Competitor to Arrive in July from Asus: the Eee Pad; MSI M Pad Tablet Also in the Works
By on Friday, 23. April 2010

Despite the first not-so-good review the HP Slate got, the Windows 7-based tablet seems to be the main iPad competitor so far. Unfortunately we have no idea when HP will feel comfortable enough to launch the device so in case the iPad simply doesn’t cut it for you then you’ll [...]

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XFX Stages Marketing Campaign Around Black Series GPUs

XFX's Radeon HD 5970 Promoted Through False Security Alert, Watch Out For Number #68
By on Friday, 23. April 2010

A few months ago I e-mailed XFX’s PR people for comment on a story I wrote here. They didn’t reply to my inquiries, but instead, added me to their newsletter mailing list (gee, thanks). So, myself and tons of others got this “Security Alert” from XFX the other day that [...]

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Dell Aero Specs Leaked

Dell's First Little Android Phone Will Unfortunately Have A Sub-1GHz Processor, Android 1.5
By on Friday, 23. April 2010

A bunch of leaks recently released information on a ton of new Windows Phone and Android phones and tablets that Dell has coming out. Mysteriously absent was Dell’s first Android phone, the Dell Aero, coming to AT&T later this year. Although the phone was first out in China as the [...]

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Sony Quietly Adds 3D Support On PS3

New PS3 v3.30 Firmware Adds Support For 3D Games, 3D Video, Break Out The Glasses
By on Friday, 23. April 2010

Sony’s last firmware update (v3.21) was the controversial one that took away the OtherOS feature. Another one came out recently (v3.30) which adds the hotly anticipated feature of new options for sorting your trophies – as well as Sony quietly sneaking in support for 3D games and 3D video.

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Sprint iPad 4G Case Doesn’t Look Like It Can Support 4G Devices

Sprint 4G Case for iPad Gets Manhandled, Found Wanting; Photoshop Beats Real Life Again]
By on Thursday, 22. April 2010

Recently we’ve shown you an interesting Sprint initiative, making money off Apple’s iPad. Briefly put, Sprint is basically trying to pitch its limited 4G network to iPad users that want more connectivity for their new toy. Sure we all need Internet at all times, but do we need that Overdrive [...]

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Hulu To Test Paid Subscription Model

Hulu Plus Will Cost $10 Monthly, Will Offer Complete Achieve Of Older Episodes, Still Will Have Commercials
By on Thursday, 22. April 2010

We’ve talked about Hulu here before – it’s the video site run by big American media companies that provide their own full episodes. It’s been all free, ad-supported for the past two years, but rumors of a subscription model have been kicking around, and now the Los Angeles Times is [...]

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T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide Release Pushed Back Till June?

T-Mobiles myTouch 3G Slide Has Never Been Officially Announced, But The Rumored May 17 Release Date Is Now Rumored For June
By on Thursday, 22. April 2010

The T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide is no stranger to rumors. Consider just in the past few weeks we have seen rumors regarding the specs and release date as well plenty of leaked images. Anyway, the last we heard was that people were pretty confident that an announcement was coming soon [...]

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DataViz Brings DocsToGo For webOS Development To A Standstill

More Doom & Gloom Surrounding Palm & webOS As Developers Begin To Back Away
By on Thursday, 22. April 2010

Yesterday we had a little bit of a silver lining for potential webOS developers in that Palm has temporarily waived the $99 annual fee that is required to become a developer. And then today, the news quickly turned back to doom and gloom as we saw a rather large developer [...]

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