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Android vs. IPhone Is No Easy Call
(PC World)
PC World - Google's Android mobile operating system proved a formidable rival to the wildly popular iPhone in a recent real-world test.
09/07/2010 - 06:50 PM
Court: Judges can demand warrant for cell locales
(AP)
AP - Judges have the right to require warrants before police get cell phone records that could suggest a customer's likely location, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a novel electronic privacy case.
09/07/2010 - 06:27 PM
iPod Now Accounts for 40% Of iOS Devices
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Steve Jobs called it the iPhone without the phone. And it seems to be giving the iPhone a run for its money.
09/07/2010 - 05:18 PM
Best camera stores in Houston
(Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Get a little dust on your sensor at the rodeo? Need a lens filter before hitting the water wall? Want to grab a tripod to take the blur out of the Lights in the Heights? Our favorite Houston-area photo shops offer all of the above (and cleaning for your speckled sensor), plus print supplies, used lenses and even grip equipment.
09/07/2010 - 02:17 PM
Yikes! Coming to TV This Fall -- Google And Its Ads
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Google, the company that seems intent on becoming a force in anything that uses electrons, said Tuesday that it expects to expand its Web TV service across the globe. CEO Eric Schmidt said at the big IFA consumer electronics show now in Berlin that he expects other TV set manufacturers to join Sony, which is scheduled to launch Web TV in the U.S. beginning this fall. Samsung has recently said it is considering releasing TV sets with the Google software.
09/07/2010 - 01:53 PM
Wireless SD Card Maker Eye-Fi Announces Developer Program
(Mashable)
Mashable - Eye-Fi, maker of the popular wireless SD card for digital cameras, has just announced a new developer program for its line of memory cards.
09/07/2010 - 01:40 PM
NY lawsuit seeks to halt suspicionless searches
(AP)
AP - A New York lawsuit seeks to stop the government from snooping in the laptops, cell phones and cameras of international travelers when there is no probable cause.
09/07/2010 - 01:27 PM
Text No More app rewards users for obeying the law
(Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - A new app called Text No More has been released with the goal of stopping people from texting on their cell phones while driving, thus hopefully saving lives.
09/07/2010 - 12:48 PM
ACLU, Other Groups Sue U.S. Government Over Border Laptop Searches
(PC World)
PC World - The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) practice of searching laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders.
09/07/2010 - 12:40 PM
Android now powers 25 percent of mobile operating systems
(Appolicious)
Appolicious - Android continues to poach away market share from the iPhone and other mobile platforms, now accounting for 25 percent of mobile operating systems in North America. That?s a 2 percent increase, month-over-month, and an 18.6 percent increase year-over-year.
09/07/2010 - 12:25 PM
Send HTML e-mail from your iPhone with MarkdownMail
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - If you’ve ever wanted to spice up your iOS device’s e-mail messages with a little styled text, you’ve run up against one of the limitations of Apple's mobile software. But if you’ve got proficiency with the Markdown markup language—invented by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber—then you’re in luck, thanks to Second Gear’s new MarkdownMail app.
09/07/2010 - 11:49 AM
Nike releases new Nike+ GPS app for runners
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Nike has released Nike+ GPS, a new app for runners, in the App Store. As the name promises, this new app’s main advantage is live GPS tracking while you run. It can track your route and upload it—along with the rest of your run data—to Nikeplus.com, Nike’s Web service and community for gadget-enabled runners.
09/07/2010 - 10:59 AM
Japan reporter tricked captors into using Twitter
(AP)
 AP - A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out a message via Twitter that he was alive when his captors asked him how to use a cell phone.
09/07/2010 - 10:47 AM
Freed Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access
(PC World)
PC World - A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.
09/07/2010 - 10:40 AM
New QuickBooks for Mac Adds Multi-User Support
(PC World)
PC World - Intuit announced the release of QuickBooks 2011 for the Mac Tuesday, targeting small businesses that want to spend less time on bookkeeping and more time on making money. New features in the latest version of the software include multi-user support, the ability to set user permissions, improved handling of everyday tasks like tracking vehicle mileage and better integration with Apple's spreadsheet program, Numbers.
09/07/2010 - 10:22 AM
PlayStation 3 firmware update blocks PSJailbreak?
(Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Sony has quietly released a firmware update to the PlayStation 3 that, according to initial reports, blocks the now-infamous PSJailbreak exploit that enabled users to copy games to local storage devices and run home-brew applications on their game consoles. Sony is offering no specific information about the update, saying only that it ?includes additional security features.?
09/07/2010 - 09:33 AM
New Nike iPhone app: just download it
(Appolicious)
Appolicious - Just in time for marathon season comes the just released Nike+ GPS iPhone app to help runners in all skill levels in their training.
09/07/2010 - 09:18 AM
Sony's PS3 Update Expected to Stop Jailbreaking
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - On Monday, Sony issued what it called a "minor" update for the PlayStation 3, which the company touted as one that added "additional security features". Sony has also said that it plans new updates to Google's YouTube service in its browser.
09/07/2010 - 09:05 AM
Blancspot puts social twist on visual news
(Appolicious)
Appolicious - News app Blancspot is truly taking advantage of iPhone 4?s retina-display and giving visual news a social twist. In addition to headlines, Blancspot ($1.99) offers specialized categories in the areas of sports, business, politics, culture, war and the environment. Within each category, users will be treated to high-resolution images displayed with a ?Ken Burns?-style movement and backed with a variety of songs, available for purchase through the iTunes cart icon. ...
09/07/2010 - 09:00 AM
iPhone App Video Review: iMockups
(Appolicious)
Appolicious - Create simple project mockups quickly and effortlessly right from your iPad. iMockups brings a complete concept design experience to the device in an easy app that can quickly produce results.
09/07/2010 - 09:00 AM
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