There are a few choices for ebook apps on your smartphone and my personal favorite is Kobo because of the fact I can buy their books and read them on various dedicated ebook readers. Shortcovers launched on Android and now we see the updated Kobo application available and working well.
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Review: Kobo ebook reader app comes to Google Android
Did you pre-order online for in-store pickup next week? If so, you may find you are only authorized and will be second priority to a different level of pre-order customer when you arrive. Please help me get to the bottom of this
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Check your iPhone 4 in-store pickup email, there may be multiple lines
Today I have managed to download the beta application of Swype for a Nexus One and will be putting through its paces and comparing to normal touch screen text input. As someone who sends over 1000 texts every month the idea of an application to help speed up this process is most welcome and Swype appears to be the answer. I have only just installed the application and will be giving some feedback in a few days time once I have managed to master the technique to make the head to head fair.
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Swype Beta Trial
There’s not much chance of this one appearing outside of Asia but the Altek Leo has definitely caught our eye. Powered by Android 2.1 it has a 14 megapixel camera with a pop-out 3x optical zoom lens so should, in theory, send your normal digital camera packing.
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Altek Leo – 14mp camera and HD recording
The soft input keyboards from Google and HTC are both quite good, but I personally find Swype to be even better and faster for most text entry situations. You can sign up for the public beta for a limited time so go get it on your device
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Public beta of Swype text entry system open for a few days
We’ve just had word that the all conquering HTC Desire is due to travel to America very soon. Our sources state that the handset will be available in the US “via select regional operators” and it’ll be in shops as early as August. It’ll carry the same 1GHz CPU, Android 2.1 and Sense interface and HTC state that this is the “next step for HTC in bringing the power of Android to even more consumers” after the huge success of the HTC Hero in the States
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HTC Desire – Coming to America
The Google Android super smartphone news just keeps getting better and better with Engadget getting some hands-on time with the upcoming Verizon Motorola Droid X that rivals the Sprint HTC EVO 4G. Which of these two would you choose from?
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Which would you choose, Sprint HTC EVO 4G or Verizon Motorola Droid X?
Buyers are bringing down the AT&T and Apple online stores trying to preorder the iPhone 4, but this smartphone enthusiast is planning to skip this version for a number of reasons. Anyone else satisfied with their existing device or looking forward to something else?
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Smartphone satisfaction, network concerns, and iOS limits mean no iPhone 4 preorder
Your Royal Highness, Your Grace, My Lord Bishop, Your Excellencies, Honoured President, Academicians, Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen, artists, art lovers, friends, trustees, donors, distinguished guests and assorted media scum. I rise to my feet on this occasion with a due sense of the honour that has been accorded me and not a little fear and an – I hope – becoming sense of unworthiness. For I am not an artist
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Speech Given at a Dinner for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – 8th June 2010
There can be no easy answer to this. Both the Android and Apple iPhone OS are competing for mind space and increasingly green bucks from the paying customer. Both of them have “redefined” the word “cool” and increasingly, the focus has shifted on to advertising platforms
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Smartphones: The next wave of computing?
Wherever and however you are reading this, welcome. It might be that you are, like me, the kind of early adopting sillyhead who has already got their hands on an iPad and, having naturally rushed to download FryPaper the App, is now reading this on your new slidey-smooth device. Perhaps you have an Android or iPhone and are making use of WordPress’s rather superior on-the-fly mobile formatting
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A more powerful protest would be to let Pakistanis use Facebook and Twitter to oppose ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ Since “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” was announced on 20 May, those associated with its creation have been rushing around to distance themselves from the ensuing controversy…. CNET News – Facebook page tied to Pakistan ban now down news.com.au – Facebook denies Mohammed page delete The Atlantic – Pundits and Cartoonists Split on ‘Everbody Draw Muhammad Day’
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Pakistan’s Facebook ban is not the answer | Bilal Baloch and Nadia Naviwala
The Dalai Lama tried to hold a rare direct conversation with people inside China on Friday, answering questions live on Twitter about the fate of Tibet. The hourlong session with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader was conducted by Wang Lixiong, a Chinese writer and convert to Tibetan Buddhism..
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World Briefing | Asia: China: Dalai Lama Tweets
SAN FRANCISCO — After an intensive six-month review, Google won approval from the Federal Trade Commission on Friday for its $750 million acquisition of the mobile advertising company AdMob.As recently as last month, F.T.C. workers appeared ready to urge the agency’s five commissioners to… PC World – FTC Won’t Block Google Acquisition Reuters – Google gets U.S.
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F.T.C. Approves Google’s Deal for AdMob
The flaw was reported Wednesday by Steven Abbagnaro, a student at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was patched Friday afternoon, Pacific time, after the IDG News Service notified Facebook of the issue. The bug was a variation of an earlier vulnerability that Facebook learned about…
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Facebook Fixes Bug That Allowed Friend Deletion
AT&T on Friday made some significant changes to its early termination fee (ETF) policies that affect all of its contractual customers. The new prices–raised for some phones, lowered for others–go into effect for new and upgrading customers on June 1, 2010.
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AT&T Raises Some Early Termination Fees
This graphic shows a sharp spike in clicks over a 30-day period allegedly from click laundering, which Microsoft estimates represents about $250,000 worth of fraudulent advertising payments.(Credit: Microsoft)Microsoft filed a lawsuit this week accusing a Web site of engaging in a new type of…
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Microsoft sues over new "click laundering" fraud
Why a robo-butterfly? Some robotics experts build buglike or birdlike machines, also known as entomopters and ornithopters, to serve as tiny airborne spies. Japanese researchers had a different purpose in mind: Harvard’s Hiroto Tanaka and the University of Tokyo’s Isao Shimoyama wanted to figure..
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Cosmic Log: Flight of the robo-butterfly
Mayor Francis Slay “tweeted” on Twitter that the city turned in “an impressive application,” but his staff and the Convention Exploratory Committee declined to provide further details, citing competitive reasons.Think the convention itself would be at the expansive Edward Jones Dome, which is… St. Louis Beacon – Local Republicans help out McCain, under fire from the right in Arizona primary St.
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St. Louis officially files for 2012 Democratic convention, Phoenix no longer among likely rivals
Google will be investigated by more European countries, including France and Czech Republic, after revealing that it accidentally collected data from unsecured WiFi networks while photographing streets around the world for its Street View application.
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Google Faces More European Investigations Into Street View
Earlier, we wrote about the ruling against Perfect 10 in its attempt to get a temporary restraining order on Rapidshare. As we mentioned at the time, the only details we had were based on Rapidshare’s press release, that obviously presented it in the best possible light to Rapidshare…
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Details Of The Rapidshare Decision: No Search Engine, Plus Efforts To Takedown Copyright Material Helped
The Facebook page that encouraged users to post images of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed was taken down globally on Friday, following an order by a Pakistani court for ISPs in that country to block the social networking site. Facebook officials tell the Associated Press they played no role in the… MSNBC – Facebook page that led to Pakistani ban removed Montreal Gazette – American cartoonist condemns Mohammed Facebook page
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‘Draw Mohammed’ page removed from Facebook
J Allard was the design brains behind almost everything cool that came out of Redmond in recent years, from the Xbox to the Zune. Now there’s a report that he may be resigning from the company because one of his favorite new projects, a tablet computer called Courier, got axed. Allard is the…
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Is Microsoft’s one-time star J Allard leaving the company?
Intel’s restrictions on its CPUs are thought to have been intended to prevent the netbook market from fully cannibalizing the notebook market. But according to Digitimes, Intel will lift the restrictions with the release of its N550 dual-core Atom processors. Intel appears ready to lift…
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Intel to Lift Atom Netbook Display Restrictions, Report Says
Did the sun rise this morning? Then there must be a new privacy scandal. Bringing today’s event are Facebook, MySpace (NWS), and some other social networking sites that have been sending data to advertisers in such a way as to let them uncover user identities and personal information
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Facebook and MySpace Beg Congress for Restrictions in Privacy Debacle
Apple has ended its long-running and highly successful “Get a Mac” ad campaign, and this week the company finally pulled the series of commercials from its website. Actor Justin Long first revealed in April that the ads, which began with his trademark “Hello, I’m a Mac” tagline, were finished…. 9 to 5 Mac – Apple ends the ‘Get A Mac’ campaign 9 to 5 Mac – Apple ends the ‘Get A Mac’ campaign
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Apple removes ‘Get a Mac’ ads from site, finalizing end of campaign
Orange UK now have the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini down on their books as ‘Coming Soon’ and what is an interesting move is the fact it also shows as coming soon to PAYG!. The X10 Mini was announced back at this yeard Mobile World Congress where I was able to attend on behalf of Sony Ericsson and blog for them live from the event so got some hands on time with the Mini before its official announecment.
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X10 Mini Coming To Orange UK
Nokia E-series Phones are packed with a range of welcoming features. They are the smart phones well-known for their business oriented applications that come along with the mobility in communication. These E-series phones are common to high-end consumers and corporate users, as they enable them to track a range of business activities
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Nokia E-Series Phones – Most Powerful Business Handsets
The latest release of Google Android addresses several enterprise concerns and makes Android a more attractive business solution. Will Android become the new Windows Mobile of the business world?
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Is Android Froyo the update needed to encourage enterprise adoption?
Adobe’s Flash has been in the news a lot lately with Apple and Adobe going toe-to-toe. Adobe just released the public beta of Flash Player 10.1 for Android 2.2 devices and now we just need 2.2 devices to try it out.
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Adobe releases public beta of Flash Player 10.1 for Android 2.2 devices