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News360 becomes personal

11/01/2011, News reader News360 is getting a big update today. The news portal is getting logins, which opens the door to news personalization. While there is no lack of news reader apps and services, News 360 thinks that their algorithm in [...]

JetLev demonstrated on TV: almost knocks reporter over

07/18/2011, Over the weekend at the San Diego Yacht and Boat Show, the folks over at Fox 5 were taping a video demonstration of the water-powered jet pack, the JetLev in action. In case you didn’t know what the JetLev is, [...]

Anonymous Hacker Group Demands Federal Reserve Chairman Resignation, Or Else…

06/13/2011, Over the past few months, you have certainly heard your share of “hacking” and other cyber-attack news. Most of the time, cyber-attacks are either done for nuisance or theft. This time, the “Anonymous” group of hackers is demanding that Ben [...]

BlackBerry News for the BlackBerry PlayBook released

06/09/2011, It looks like RIM really is serious about getting apps out for their recently released tablet. The company has just announced the release of a new app for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Called BlackBerry News, it functions as its namesake – [...]

Google News brings “News near you” on your mobile phone

05/13/2011, Everybody loves reading the news, but sometimes people just aren’t concerned about things that aren’t happening around them. Well, Google understands this and has introduced a new feature for Google News users to get more localized, personalized content on their [...]

Bloomberg releases Businessweek+ magazine app on iPad

04/11/2011, While publishers are busy fighting for a better incentive when selling magazine subscriptions though iTunes on the iPad, Bloomberg has decided to go ahead and release an official magazine app anyway. Called Bloomberg Businessweek+, this app isn’t designed to take [...]

Zite – the iPad magazine that learns

03/09/2011, A newly launched magazine app for the iPad called Zite has launched recently and it aims to bring news reading on the iPad to a whole new level. With the ability to draw news from your Twitter and GoogleReader account [...]

The Daily to launch on Android?

02/24/2011, According to some reports online, The Daily, an eNewspaper that launched on the iPad earlier this month might not be an iPad exclusive. According to an anonymous tip to the folks at All Things D, the News Corp owned newspaper [...]

ASUS Eee Pads will come with Honeycomb after all

01/13/2011, Ignore the previous reports of the tablet being delayed and not shipping with Honeycomb (Android 3.0) – Asus’ Eee Pads Product Manager has come forward to clear up those rumors. Apparently the alleged reports began due to some misunderstanding between [...]

Yahoo Gets Local

12/08/2010, While the Internet can help connect people globally, Yahoo! is going local with a beta launch of its local site. Yahoo! Local, accessible via beta.local.yahoo.com, is currently available on the mobile Web on iPhone and Android and will offer users [...]

Droid 2 Apparently Explodes In Man’s Ear, Still Works

12/03/2010, Is Motorola’s Droid a feisty phone? Reports are in that a Motorola Droid 2 owner out there is claiming that the phone exploded in his ear. According to the story, the person has no health insurance and has since called [...]

Google News revamped

07/01/2010, Have you taken a look at Google News lately? This news aggregating site has been revamped by Google, with the intention of making the user experience a whole lot easier for folks to check out the most relevant articles and [...]

RIM Says No To Netbooks

05/18/2009, RIM won’t get sucked into the netbook game, according to their co-CEO Jim Balsillie who has laid out a promise that they will remain 100% committed to phones and phones alone, although its closest competitors, with Nokia in particular, are [...]