Author Archive: Tim Lenahan - Page 6

If you are the adventurous type when it comes to your Android phones, you’ve probably taken your chances and rooted and flashed a bit in the past. Sometimes, however, the dastardly happens and you end up bricking your precious phone rendering it useless. If that has happened to you as [...]

The patent wars continue and there’s a no-holds-bar attitude when it comes to the fight. Everyone’s suing everyone and Google is definitely in the middle of it all. It’s no wonder they would want to continue building their patent portfolio, hence their latest purchase from IBM.

Google Goggles is that smartphone application (first for Android but now released for iPhone as well) which uses image recognition technology to find relevant information within user-taken photographs and search for it on the Internet. It has the ability to recognize everything from landmarks and storefronts to product labels and [...]

The brand new Motorola Droid Bionic looks pretty awesome with a dual-core 1GHz processor, 4.3 inch qHD display, and Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread (read more). Who knew there would be issues already? Reports are popping up that there are some signal issues for some users who may qualify for replacements.

Apparently if you like to push limits and step on toes, the Apple App Store probably isn’t the best place to get accepted. Phone Story is an app full of satire which pokes fun at the process that goes into making the iPhone, exposing the “dark side” of Apple. No [...]

Often when it comes to numbers, games, and productivity, the resulting stats end up much like a game themselves. This may be the case in this study done by Alexis Madrigal, a senior editor at the Atlantic on the Angry Bird Effect where he determines how much money is going [...]

Rumors are wonderful things, aren’t they? I remember the rumor about the iPad 2 being a seven inch tablet. Yeah, that really came true. This time the unsubstantiated rumor is that the iPhone 5 isn’t going to be much different that the iPhone 4 in the design department.

Every parent of children who drive get nervous that their kids are doing stuff they ought not to be doing behind the wheel. It’s amazing that they have to make laws against actions like texting while driving but that’s because that’s what people will do. Sprint is attempting to give [...]

Aviary is coming out and lending mobile photo app developers a helping hand by releasing a set of SDKs that add more editing options. This help is going to cover the spectrum because iOS and Android app developers are both feeling the love.

British military company BAE Systems has developed the ability to weave an antenna right into the clothes of soldiers. The benefits of such an idea is numerous. First, the whip antennas in use can become cumbersome to carry adding weight to already heavy loads soldiers have to carry. Next, whip [...]