With Windows making a huge splash in the cell phone industry this year with all they have been releasing like Windows Phone 7, to the Project Pink phones that have been getting a good amount of chatter recently. Making their way into cell phone news with the Turtle and Pure devices, which are both part … Read More

Aurora Feint started out as a puzzle game developer for the iPhone platform but has since evolved into the maker of a comprehensive social gaming platform dubbed OpenFeint that continues to attract independent iPhone game developers to join its rapidly growing community . Today, the startup is launching the private beta of OpenFeint X, which … Read More

A new video emerged this week which supposedly showcases an individual playing Half Life 2 using Project Natal, Microsoft’s upcoming motion control platform for the Xbox 360. The video is blurry and crudely recorded but you can see places where the player is moving objects in the game by gesturing with his hands. This Half … Read More

Filed under: Hardware , Cult of Mac , Odds and ends , Mods This is great, and highly appropriate for the tick-tocking away of the year — Japanese modder Nobon had an old Power Mac G5 (case, it looks like, though this would be cool on a working Mac as well) sitting around, and he … Read More

Today’s dose of overly ambitious tech research comes from the physics lab over at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , in a proposal titled “Digital quantum batteries: Energy and information storage in nano vacuum tube arrays.” It’s like a who’s who of undelivered promises got together and united to form one giant and impossible … Read More

Unless you’ve been sucked into the iBubble, you’ll probably know by now that Cowon makes some pretty terrific PMPs, like the S9 . Its latest model, the V5 HD, has just been outed and promises 720p viewing on its 4.8-inch screen. It’s not just video playback which gets a look-in with the V5, as Cowon’s … Read More

Look at what a Motorola source code invasion gave us! A Motorola handset dubbed “La Jolla”, meaning Jewel in English, was found in the Motorola system. Along came a description and the set is expected to be a “low-end Android clamshell”. So, if you would, picture the Verizon Voyager powered by Android and that’s what … Read More

Bell, solely holding the title of Android-lacking Canadian carrier, allegedly will be another carrier in the Galaxy to home the green midget’s goodness. Introducing the Samsung Galaxy, the handset with which Bell is equalizing the competition. Let’s rerun the specifications for all those that missed them the first time; the Samsung Galaxy boasts a 3.2” … Read More

Motorola is making a leap into the future. They have a subsidiary company called Motorola Ventures, which has thrown a load of money at a French company, Sensitive Object. They have created a technology that makes any surface into a multitouch interface. What this means is that you could take a glass table top and … Read More

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just published the results of a study on distracted driving behavior amongst teenagers which shows that teens are aware of the dangers of texting while driving, but they choose to do it anyway. After surveying 800 teens in 4 US cities over the summer of 2009, Pew … Read More

Where has Nokia been in the midst of all these new Android-based creations, or even in the past year? It seems to have been left in the dust and has stayed there brushing it out of their eyes ever since. The Neo 8110i were the last rays of public attraction that Nokia has achieved. Fortunately … Read More

A new iPhone application will now allow the translation of any phrase your heart desires to express in Spanish, or vise versa given you’re a native Spanish speaker. This tool would definitely come in handy for anyone constantly seeking a Spanish-English dictionary or even someone simply interested in expanding their foreign communication skills. I wouldn’t … Read More

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced today that Twitter will launch two wines – a Pinot Noir and a Chardonnay – in partnership with Room to Read, a San Francisco-based non-profit that helps improve literacy rates in poor countries. Stone describes the project, titled “ Fledgling Wine “, in the video below. It’s certainly a departure … Read More

It’s time for a quick primer on the proper way to interact at conferences and other business events. Since I just came back from one of those types of events, this is on top of mind for me. What’s surprising is how few people get it right and move a conversation towards their business goals. … Read More

Anyone who has ever shopped around for insurance knows that the project is far from fun. The same can be said about sitting down to tweak your monthly budget, rarely does good news come from these two tasks. A new app for the iPhone called Budgeter has turned up on the app store that is … Read More