12/19/2011, Recently, things were not going well for AT&T’s bid to acquire T-Mobile, but today things came to a hard stop as AT&T has withdrawn its offering in the face of hard objections from the government. AT&T says that it basically disagrees...

12/15/2011, Qualcomm has just announced the support of GLONASS, a global positioning system developed and operated by the Russian government. GLONASS is a network of 24 satellites that basically perform the same job than the American GPS system. However, Qualcomm can...

12/14/2011, Verizon, Samsung and Google have announced that the Verizon Galaxy Nexus LTE will be available at Verizon tomorrow for $299 with a new contract. Of course, the main strengths of that phone is that it will offer Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, and...

12/14/2011, After licensing its software to third-party vendors and launching its own cloud service, Pogoplug is back at building hardware and here comes the Pogoplug Series 4. This latest Pogoplug box keeps the simple concept that made Pogoplug so popular:...

12/13/2011, At GTC Asia, NVIDIA has announced that it would open its GPU computing platform called CUDA by releasing the compiler source-code to allow software vendors to port CUDA applications to non-NVIDIA platform, which opens the possibility to have CUDA...

12/13/2011, Rara.com has just launched in 18 countries, including the US, Canada, the UK and many European countries. Rara comes with two main differentiation factors: its design and its price. The world is in an economic pinch, so let’s start with the pricing...

12/13/2011, I have been using YouSendit for a while now, for sending very large files (up to 2 GB!) over the internet when my email client could not handle it. The key feature is the ability to send files very quickly without login in – there is a 50 MB limit...

12/09/2011, Yesterday, Google has launched Google Currents (iOS/Android download here), a new publishing platform that lets users read web news like they would with an electronic magazine. Unfortunately, Amazon Kindle Fire owners have quickly realized that Currents...

12/08/2011, Google has just launched Currents, a new publication platform that lets you follow your favorite sites on Android or iOS smartphones and tablets. Ubergizmo was among the launch partners, and we’re glad to tell you that you can now follow...

12/07/2011,   OnLive, the cloud-based gaming platform has just launched on Android and iOS (apps to be available shortly after this announcement), and this new step in OnLive’s history is also a new step in gaming history. While OnLive for PC, Mac and TVs...

11/30/2011, Samsung has announced its Exynos 5250, a system on a chip (what is an SoC?) whose dual-central processors (CPUs) are based on ARM’s A15 design. This particular chip will run at 2GHz, and this is interesting because at equal frequency it should be up...

11/22/2011, NVIDIA has just released this video of the Asus Transformer Prime running with Ice Cream Sandwich, aka ICS, aka Android 4.0. The video shows ICS on the Tegra 3 powered tablet, with all the new Android 4.0 transitions running very smoothly. The folder...

11/22/2011, ChatTime, a voice communication app for iPhone, is offering free calls between registered ChatTime users in 53 countries. If you’ve never heard of ChatTime before, it’s not a voice over IP (VOIP) application like Skype or Tango. Instead, it...

11/18/2011, SwiftKey X, developed by TouchType,  is a predictive typing app for smartphones launched a year ago on the Android Market, and the version for Android tablets, Swiftkey Tablet X, launched this summer. Swiftkey is powered by Fluency 2.0, an AI engine that...