Inspiron M101z – Dell’s New Compact, Lightweight Laptop
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The new notebook presented by Dell boasts netbook-like size and is ultra-lightweight. The Inspiron M101z 11.6-inch laptop weight less than 4 pounds. The 11.6-inch widescreen LCD display has a resolution of 1366 x 768. Its heart is a fast Single Core AMD Athlon II Neo K125 processorthat runs at 1.7GHz. The standard 6-cell battery can power the [...] Read Full Story
Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type puts a touchscreen on your Series 40 featurephone
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Nokia has just revealed its X3-02 handset, which does the unthinkable and marries a relatively standard 16-button keypad with a 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen. Now, we’ve had our reservations about Symbian’s ability to translate to a touch-friendly UI, but the beauty of this phone is that touch comes as… Read Full Story
HTC Spark, Bee and Lexikon specs outted: one WP7 and two Froyo devices coming soon
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Another day, another HTC leak. This time we’re seeing some juicy specs for three upcoming devices, courtesy of notorious ROM leakster 911sniper (who appears to be buddies with Conflipper). First up is the cutely-named Bee that sounds pretty much identical to the entry-level Wildfire in Europe, exce… Read Full Story
Qualcomm to ship 1.5GHz QSD8672 Snapdragon processor in Q4
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And you thought a dual-core 1.2GHz chip was quick. If all goes to plan (that’s a big “if,” by the way), Qualcomm will one-up its Computex standout before the end of this year, with vice president of product management Mark Frankel affirming that his company is on track to ship a 1.5GHz dual-core QSD… Read Full Story
Cricket hires goats to eat blackberries (video)
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Yes, you did read that headline right, but it’s not quite what you think — rather than a children’s tale of talking crickets and cell phone-eating goats, we’re talking about clearing brambles covered with tiny black fruit at the cell towers of Cricket Wireless. The carrier hired a herd of goats to… Read Full Story
SNAP for iOS gives you The Power… to appraise your Facebook privacy
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SNAP (Social Network Analyzer for Privacy) by BIT Systems does one thing, and one thing only: it looks at your Facebook profile and then “grades you on how visible you are to the outside world.” Of course, you can always just go into Facebook itself and look at your privacy settings, which would sa… Read Full Story
Pleco 2.2 Chinese Dictionary uses iPhone camera to translate text in real time (video)
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Can’t say we’ve heard of the Pleco Chinese Dictionary app prior to today even though it’s been around for two full version releases. Of course, we’ve seen plenty of Google Goggle-like smartphone apps that can snap pictures and then convert the image to text using optical character recognition (OCR)… Read Full Story
Vlingo bows to Google Voice Actions, makes Android version free of charge
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When Google Navigation hit the scene, it sounded the death knell for paid GPS on Android, so you can imagine the doom and gloom at Vlingo HQ last week when Google released the similar Voice Actions for free. As it turns out, however, Vlingo’s not going to give up that easily; Vlingo for Android, on… Read Full Story
MagicJack announces software for completely free internet-to-phone calls, places femtocell on hold
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For $40 (plus $20 per year), MagicJack’s USB VoIP dongle will let you make free unlimited telephone-to-telephone calls, but this week the company’s announced MagicTalk, a piece of software for internet-connected phones and computers that will wave even those upfront costs. The Associated Press trac… Read Full Story
App review: The Incident
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Like its contemporary, Canabalt, The Incident is a game that knows exactly what it is — and is not — and plays to those strengths to a T. The basic premise of this iPhone title is simple enough, and in that simplicity (as with many great games) lies its power. You are Frank Solway, a [...] Read Full Story