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New Composites Could Revolutionize Wireless Power (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - You might be reading this on a wireless Internet connection, and whether you're on a laptop or an iPhone, you're most likely relying on a battery or plugged into a wall outlet.
Fresh iPhone Apps for June 3: CountCon, ONE Campaign, Velocispider, Feed Me Oil (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Next week is a big one. Monday sees the beginning of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, and Tuesday is the beginning of the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. So while you’re killing time waiting for all the latest news out of those two massive yearly events, use our leading fresh iPhone app, CountCon, an app that drops countdowns on your iPhone’s home screen, so you always have a handy timer. ...
Users avoid iPad 2’s camera, but love to browse the Internet (Appolicious)
Appolicious - The iPad 2 has a lot of great features, but its on-board rear-facing camera is not really one of them.
RIM loses more U.S. market share to Apple, Google (Reuters)
Reuters - Research In Motion has given up more ground to Apple and Google in the hypercompetitive U.S. smartphone market, a report shows, while two brokerages cut their price targets for the BlackBerry maker on concerns it can no longer keep pace.
Adobe CEO: Android tablets will beat iPads (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - During his interview at the D9 Conference on Thursday, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen downplayed the rift between his company and Apple, but may have sowed the seeds of another. According to Narayen, tablets running Googleâs Android mobile operating system will surpass Appleâs iPad line, just as Android smartphones have overtaken the iPhone.
Samsung, Toshiba anxious to launch Honeycomb 3.1 tablets (Appolicious)
Appolicious - News about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 spread across the web yesterday, leading to more questions about the upcoming tablet’s actual release date, its supported Android OS version, and its interface. The Galaxy Tab is expected to hit some Best Buy stores on June 8, with widespread availability on June 17. With Wi-Fi and 4G versions, an NVIDIA (NVDA) dual-core processor and an even thinner design than the iPad 2, Samsung’s upgraded quite a few features in its latest tablet offering. But questions still linger around its support of Honeycomb 3. ...
US Army testing iPhones, Androids for combat (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Apple often likes to call their products things like âmagicalâ and ârevolutionary.â But âdeadlyâ could soon be added to the list. According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States Army will soon begin field testing Appleâs iPhone and iPad, as well smartphones and tablets based on Googleâs Android operating system to see whether they can withstand the pressures of combat.
Apple fronting $100+ million to launch iCloud (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Apple wants to launch its cloud music storage service and the labels arenât going to get in its way. The NY Post reports that the Cupurtino company will pay somewhere between $25 and $50 million, in advance, to each of the four major music labels. Doing the math, that means somewhere between $100 and $200 million dollars to get the service off its feet. CEO Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the service this coming Monday at WWDC, along with a new version of iOS and Mac OS X.
Sorry RIM, Smartphones Users Snap Up iPhones, Android Devices (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - The continued popularity of the iPhone and Android-based devices helped Apple and Google maintain their lead over RIM in the first three months of the year, with Android smartphones snapping up 36.4 percent of the U.S. market.
Research Firm Says Apple iPad 3 Coming This Christmas (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Research firm CLSA claims Apple will unveil the iPad 3 just in time for the peak holiday shopping season.
Paramount brings Star Trek reboot to video games (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - The shadow of the Star Trek franchise is enormous, not just in film and television (where it has generated nearly a dozen feature films and half a dozen TV series) but in technology and gaming as well. Star Trekâs original flip-open communicators were an inspiration for the mobile phone; the ubiquitous âpadsâ that littered Trek series from the 80s and 90s are in some ways the predecessors of todayâs iPad and Android tablets. And Star Trek has an enormous history in computer gaming: some of the first true computer games were actually Star Trek games designed to run on time-sharing mainframe computers, and innumerable Trek titles have littered the shelves, hard drives, and game consoles of gamers for generations.
$15 Program Tracks Stolen Mac, Nabs Alleged Thief (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Call it digital sleuthing in the high-tech age. A man's MacBook is stolen. He activates a $15 application, snaps photos of the alleged thief, posts them on a blog, and, two months later, the computer is retrieved and the suspect is arrested by the cops.
TechLife on superhero taser gloves, robot presidents, iPhone apps for the unborn and more (Yahoo! News)
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How Zipcar turned the ignition on its Android app (Appolicious)
Appolicious - You might say Zipcar had a bit of publicity when it launched its first mobile application on the iPhone two years ago at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Kno textbook app released for iPad (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - College students, rejoice! Access to massively discounted textbooks just got a little easier with Fridayâs late-night release of the Kno textbook app for the iPad. The Kno app offers customers âthe worldâs largest selection of over 70,000 titles at 30-50% off the list price.â As we all know, 30 to 50 percent off a text book can buy a lot of Ramen.