Several star commenter have noted recently that the troll factor is rising again. This post is reminder that all comments wasting words and the comment moderator’s time wondering about such issues as “why does gizmodo love/hate/get paid by company XYZ?” may result in zero warnings and then a ban. And whatever happens to your comment … Read More

Typically we don’t write a great deal of cell phone news about the FCC as their actions are behind the scenes and rarely affect our day to day lives in any significant manner. However the big guys over at the FCC have taken an interest in testing the validity of the promises made by mobile … Read More

Newly released Palm Pre Plus is an updated version to the original release of the Pre. With a improved keyboard, and more memory the Pre Plus will deliver a better overall mobile experience to its user. The CDMA smartphone features Palm’s proprietary mobile operating system called webOS. The finger touch display has great sensitivity, and … Read More

March 23-25 are a tremendous few days in the wireless world. The International CTIA WIRELESS show is a premier wireless event that represents a $1 trillion dollar global marketplace. Some of the industries involves are wireless and converged communications, wireless broadband, mobile web computing and data industries. Over the three day event those present undergo … Read More

Some more dismal cell phone new today as Google’s online-only sales model for the Nexus One is not living up to the expectations originally set by Goldman Sachs. The Nexus One was estimated to be on pace to sell 3.5 million units in FY2010 and after their atrocious sales in the first month of only … Read More

Back in January 2009, as Vodafone was preparing to close a

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Even though Microsoft’s big MIX event is still days away, the Windows Phone 7 Series development platform is already pretty well defined. It’s also clear that Microsoft wants to keep things tidy for developers by requiring all WP7 phones to meet a certain base-level spec . Now, thanks to a post from Microsoft’s Shawn Hargreaves, … Read More

Kwedit , the innovative and suddenly controversial payments platform for virtual goods, is releasing some early data. The service lets users promise to pay later in lieu of a direct credit card payment when they want virtual currency for social games like Farmville. It’s not a legally binding promise, but users have an incentive to … Read More

What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like. For me, personally, it’s quite a chore, as I need to log into over 10 different services before I start doing anything. Now, Mozilla … Read More

Raising its stake in the heated battle over the local smartphone market, LG Electronics, the world’s third-largest mobile phone maker, yesterday opened a smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system. Korean clienteles have access to merely one other Android-based smartphone, the Motoroi from U.S.-based Motorola. That makes LG’s latest handset the first locally made Android-based … Read More

Web browser Opera has hurled a beta version of its Mini 5 software on the Google Android operating system. The browser, popular because it bandages web pages and makes them knowingly quicker to load, is the first to rival the official Android browser and is available via the Android Market Opera claims more than 50 … Read More

Unless they’re incredibly quiet or potentially explosive , you won’t find us waxing poetic (or even prosaic) about leaf blowers. But if a company that produced leaf blowers made a motorized calendar that tore off its own pages? We’d tell you about that in a heartbeat — even if the wonderfully wasteful contraption turned out … Read More

Considering the fact that Windows XP is still the most-used OS worldwide, anyone considering swapping out their old hard drives for a new one should heed this advice: be careful. You may want to even consider not doing it. More

Remember the HarmoNESica ? A brief refresher, then: it’s what happens when you’ve got a copy of Super Tecmo Bowl , a Pocket Pal harmonica, and the desire to create a unique musical instrument. But if you don’t have any of the aforementioned ingredients and just want the end result, eBay’s got you covered as … Read More