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Steve Ballmer envies iPad, says tablets are “job one urgency”

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a room full of Wall Street analysts that Apple has done a swell job with iPad and stressed his company is hard at work to make Windows 7 tablet computing a reality. According to a transcript by CNET, Microsoft sees that tablets are maturing beyond the niche market. Praising Apple’s

Defcon hackers release Android rootkit, total control of smartphone possible

The annual Defcon conference usually brings with it a handful of suprises and cool hacks/devices. We’ve already seen the best conference badge design, but now we’re seeing a rather worrying release for anyone owning an Android smartphone. In a bid to highlight a security flaw in the Android OS, two attendees have released a rootkit that

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Online video shows Bold 9780 with BlackBerry 6 OS

A website dedicated to BlackBerry users, driphter.com, has posted a hands-on review of the BlackBerry Bold 9780. While a video review of a new BlackBerry model is always interesting, the one offered by driphter.com has received considerable interest since it also shows the BlackBerry running the new BlackBerry 6 operating system. Hardware wise it seems

HTC EVO 4G to get Android 2.2 update next week

If you’re the proud owner of Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G we’ve got some good news for you. Your smartphone will soon be getting Froyo, Android 2.2. Sprint seems to be pretty big about being first to the gate so naturally it wanted to be the first carrier to offer the latest version of Android to

Motorola’s Q2 handset sales drop, but Droid X pushes smartphone numbers up

Motorola on Wednesday posted its earnings for the second quarter ending June 30. The company raked in $5.4 billion in total sales, representing a 1.5 percent decline from $5.5 billion a year ago. The GAAP earnings topped $162 million, or seven cents a share, versus GAAP earnings of $62 million, or one cent a share,

Verizon Wireless launches Samsung Intensity II

Verizon Wireless announced this week that it has launched the sequel to the Samsung Intensity, a handset simply known as the Samsung Intensity II. Some highlights of the phone include a horizontal slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 1.2 megapixel infrared camera with night vision, a music player and one-touch access to social networking sites. The social

Sprint sees subscriber growth and improved customer services

Things are looking up for Sprint Nextel. In the face of crushing competition from Verizon Wireless and AT&T, the wireless company has had one of its best quarters in more than five years for year-over-year quarterly growth for postpaid gross subscriber additions. The company netted 111,000 subscribers in the quarter led by the introduction of

OpenGL 4.1 catches up with DirectX 11, plugs into mobile

OpenGL 4.1, released earlier this week, links with OpenCL and OpenGL ES 2.0 more than ever before, simplifying cross-platform development and bridging the gap between mobile and desktop development. More than four months after Khronos Group enabled a bunch of speed tweaks and graphic improvements in OpenGL 4.0, paving the way for next-gen graphics on the

Droid X can be rooted with a single click of your mouse

It didn’t take long for the Motorola Droid X smartphone to be rooted. The original method used required a 12-step process. Not too difficult, right? Well, today it got ridiculously easy. Over at the AllDroid forums a member by the name of Sil3ntKi113 has posted a program that both roots and unroots your Droid X with

Sprint gets branded Android Market aisle

Sprint has its own aisle in the Android Market store. jkOnTheRun is reporting that Sprint customers will now see a Sprint branded tab in place of the Downloads tab to the right of Apps and Games. James Kendrick, who wrote about the latest change to the Android Market, took a photo of a Verizon and

White iPhone 4’s biggest problem is light leakage

The white version of the iPhone 4 has been delayed twice now. The reason speculated as to why there have been delays bounces between problems with getting the right color white in the glass case, and an antenna re-design. But there’s another issue. According to someone familiar with the manufacturing process of the phone, the white

Best Buy to give away “military-grade” side coverings to iPhone 4 owners?

Forget Apple’s free bumpers, their retail partner Best Buy is apparently jumping on the Antennagate bandwagon by luring iPhone 4 owners with a free antenna fix by Zagg, normally a $10 value versus Apple’s $30 bumpers. In a way, it’s another blow to Apple’s $175 million case program and their stubborn insistence there’s nothing wrong

You can order wine in a NYC restaurant using an iPad

We saw this one coming, honestly… With strong sales and awesome apps written specifically for Apple’s 9.7-inch multitouch tablet, using iPad as a wireless wine catalogue is a natural progression of its e-reading and digital print features. 9to5Mac explained that “a swanky” restaurant in New York City named South Gate is offering customers a posh way