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World Cup 2010: England Goal Disallowed on Good Grounds; Technology Proves It [FIFA Considers Introducing Technology Aid in Football/Soccer Games; One Month Too Late]

By on Wednesday, 30. June 2010

As much as I love technology and gadgets I happen to like football (that’s soccer for some folks) too. And what better way to enjoy it than by watching the South African World Cup 2010? It’s a pity though that we still rely on humans to judge the game especially [...]

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Google Nexus Two Still In the Works? [Is Motorola Still Making the Google Nexus Two for Google?]

By on Thursday, 24. June 2010

Just earlier today we found out that Apple is going to sell the one millionth iPhone 4, which is, again, an impressive sales number achieved quite quickly by Cupertino.

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iPhone 3G Can’t Use All Of iOS4′s Features – That’s Called Fragmentation [iPhone 3G Users Can't Use Backgrounds Or Multitasking With iOS 4 (aka iPhone OS 4.0), Blame Icons]

By on Tuesday, 22. June 2010

Many iPhone 3G users were disappointed to discover that when they updated their phones to iOS4, all their pictures were blurry. After they got over that, they found that they weren’t allowed multi-tasking nor backgrounds, like the 3GS and iPhone 4 users will be allowed. Looks like fragmentation does affect [...]

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Sprint to Throttle Data In the Near Future, Not Canceling Unlimited Plans Yet [Leaked Screenshots Show Sprint’s Data Throttling Plans; Carriers Don’t Like Unlimited Data Plans Anymore]

By on Friday, 11. June 2010

When I say “unlimited” I think about something that has no bounds whatsoever, you might call it infinite if you will. Clearly that’s not what carriers understand when they pronounce/write the word down in their sparkling offers: unlimited messages and unlimited data traffic is definitely something that gets you hooked [...]

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Bill Gates Ripped For Old Tech Predictions [Magazine Finds Old Gates Predictions From 1995, But Was He Actually Correct?]

By on Sunday, 23. May 2010

It’s a slow news day. A blogger who needs to hit his posting quota finds an old page of Bill Gates quotes and writes a snarky post – and bam, it’s news. And here we are, covering it as well. At any rate, The Atlantic magazine dug up Bill Gates’ [...]

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New Gold iPad Makes the Scene, Still Too Expensive & Still Without Flash [Stuart Hughes iPad Supreme Available with Gold & Diamond Finishes for $190,000]

By on Friday, 14. May 2010

This isn’t the first overpriced iPad we see here on TFTS but it’s definitely one to consider if you’re filthy rich and very bored with your life. The iPad Supreme in the pictures below is made of solid Gold and comes with diamonds on top (or on the bottom, depending [...]

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How Adobe Can Benefit From Steve Jobs’ Hatred of Flash [Commentary on How Adobe Can Utilize the Flash vs. HTML5 Debate to Their Advantage]

By on Saturday, 8. May 2010

The fact that Steve Jobs isn’t a fan of Adobe’s Flash platform is no secret, hell it’s all over the news — First the iPhone didn’t support Flash and then the iPad leading many consumers to question whether or not Mr. Jobs was going crazy. Of course, Steve Jobs has [...]

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Sprint HTC Hero Android 2.1 Update Coming on May 7? [Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android 2.1 Update Coming in Q4 2010; Anyone Heard of Android Froyo?]

By on Wednesday, 5. May 2010

We told you that Sprint’s Android 2.1 update was scheduled to arrive a few days ago for both the HTC Hero and the Samsung Moment, but that hasn’t happened yet. Moreover we now have another screenshot that says Android 2.1 is coming to Sprint HTC Hero but, at this point, [...]

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Steve Jobs’ Flash Thoughts Find Support from Microsoft, Has Hell Frozen Over? [Microsoft Says Future Is HTML5 Not Flash; They Don’t Mention Silverlight Either]

By on Friday, 30. April 2010

You probably all recall Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash we showed you yesterday followed by a fierce response from Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen. But it looks like Microsoft also wants to have a say in all this as it has directly responded to the Flash matter.

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Polaroid Bounces Back With The Polaroid 300 Instant Camera [Looks Exactly Like The FujiFilm Instax Mini 7S]

By on Friday, 30. April 2010

Yesterday I wrote about the odd choice of Polaroid tapping into the gaming accessories market. Today, it looks like Polaroid is utilizing what it knows in photography and has announced the Polaroid 300 instant camera. However, I’m puzzled as to why it looks exactly like the FujiFilm Instax Mini 7S.

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