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• Tough and Lovely: The Tuff-Luv In-Genius Case for iPhone 4S
  After damaging the screens of my trusty iPod Touch and my iPhone within the span of a single week, I began to realize that I may be the kind of user who requires a bit more coverage from a device case. Sure, the shells I had in place on both units did a fine job ...
  10.19.11

• The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality
  Ken, Matt, and Jonathan talk about New York Comic-Con, the Apple iPhone 4S , and more. Enjoy! This episode of The GeekDads was sponsored by Rocksmith, the new XBox/PS3 game from Ubisoft that lets you learn and play great music with a real guitar. For more information, check out Rocksmith online. GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at ...
  10.19.11

• Only 3.8 Million Honeycomb Tablets Sold So Far
  Android developer Al Sutton crunched some Google numbers and came up with the following result: Only 3.4 million Android Honeycomb tablets have been sold. That's less tablets than Apple sold iPhones this last weekend. Sutton took Android's "current distribution" numbers, which show the various slices of the Android pie occupied by the various version. V3.x, the ...
  10.19.11

• Google Unwraps Ice Cream Sandwich, the Next-Generation Android OS
  After months of anticipation and leaked software screen shots, Google finally unveiled Android 4.0, also known as "Ice Cream Sandwich," the latest update to the search giant's Android mobile platform.
  10.19.11

• Hands-On With Motorola's Droid Razr, World's Thinnest Smartphone
  Tuesday morning, Motorola announced its new flagship Android smartphone, the Droid Razr. Now, after spending quality hands-on time with the phone, we can say it's poised to become a formidable competitor in the Android space -- if not also a challenge to Apple's much-lauded iPhone 4S.
  10.18.11

• Apple Closing Some Stores During Wednesday Memorial Service
  Apple has scheduled a company-only Wednesday memorial service for former CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away two weeks ago. Employees at Apple's Cupertino campus will attend in person, and various retail stores will close for at least an hour in order for employees to view a live broadcast of the service.
  10.18.11

• Apple Misses Q4 Earnings Estimates, Blames Excessive Rumors
  For the first time in six years, Apple's quarterly earnings missed analyst estimates. Apple's explanation? iPhone sales slowed down as consumers entered a holding pattern in anticipation of Apple's next smartphone release.
  10.18.11

• iPhone 4S 1080p Video Is Great, But Can't Beat a DSLR
  The iPhone 4S is receiving rave reviews for its fantastic camera, which can record surprisingly good video at 1080p. One videographer, in fact, was so impressed with the camera's performance, he decided to test how it measures up to a full-fledged DSLR camera used for HD video capture.
  10.18.11

• Sci-Fi Tech: New Adobe Plugin Removes Photo Blur
  There are two things that work with photos in sci-fi movies that still don't work in real life. One is saying "enhance" to your computer and having it magically zoom in and conjure new pixels from nowhere. And the other one is removing the blur from an image. Thanks to the brainiacs at Adobe, the next ...
  10.18.11

• Instapaper 4 Completely Redesigned for iPad
  Instapaper, our favorite read-it-later app for the iPhone and iPad, has just gotten a huge update to version 4.0. This is the first major update since the developer, Marco Arment, started using his own app on the iPad. And man does it show. Instead of being little more than a scaled up iPhone app, the ...
  10.18.11

• Pee-ew! MacBook Air Factory Stench Could Cause Shipment Delays
  Shipments of MacBook Airs could be slowed a bit due to a factory closure in eastern China. That in itself isn't all that newsworthy. It's the reason for the closure: The factory is really, really smelly. Local residents complained to local authorities of a "strange odor" coming from Catcher Technology's factory, so it was partially closed, ...
  10.17.11

• LG DoublePlay Phone Touts Two Screens for Multitasking Fiends
  We 21st century humans are busy creatures. Bombarded by a constant stream of data flowing into our smartphones, we struggle to respond to text messages, tweets and e-mails in a timely fashion. But LG's latest smartphone, exclusive to T-Mobile, may provide a solution.
  10.17.11

• What Apple's Big Weekend Means in the Global Smartphone Market
  The new iPhone 4S went on sale Friday. In three days, Apple sold over four million of them — half as many iPhone 4S copies as the Xbox Kinect sold in two months. But what do these numbers really mean?
  10.17.11

• Firefox for Android Plans to Go Native
  Mozilla is thinking of ditching Firefox's familiar appearance on Android mobile devices and instead adopting Android's native look and feel. The change would mean a very different flavor of Firefox, but one that's faster, uses less memory and is more suited to the mobile world.
  10.17.11

• Apple Sells Four Million 'Disappointing' iPhone 4Ss In Three Days
  You know the lame new iPhone 4S? The one that almost every tech writer called "disappointing," or "not a real upgrade." The iPhone that "only" added a great-seeming new camera, a way faster brain and a startlingly clever AI assistant? Well, Apple shifted four million of them in three days. To put that in perspective, the ...
  10.17.11

• Nikon iPhone App Streams Photos, Documents to COOLPIX Projector
  Nikon has released a handy little app, although its audience will likely be pretty limited -- you need to own an iOS device and also the projector-equipped Nikon COOLPIX S1200pj camera. And even then you may want to hold off this free app, thanks to its horrible design. iP-PJ Transfer -- which sounds like something copyright ...
  10.17.11

• Hydra Cable: Is the "Six Headed Monster of MP3 Cables" Worth the Price?
  With seemingly everything going wireless these days, what's the point of cables when it comes to portable devices and audio? While it's true that AirPlay and other technologies have gone a long way toward reducing the need to physically connect an iDevice or other gadget to an audio system, the vast majority of systems currently ...
  10.17.11

• Kindle Update Adds Read Position Sync, Cloud Storage
  A somewhat innocuous update for the Kindle looks like it's not even worth a press release, but a closer look reveals it to be a pretty big deal. Kindle Keyboard Software update v3.3 brings Whispersync and cloud storage to personal documents. While some might frame this as an answer to Apple's iCloud, it seems like an ...
  10.17.11

• Moog Debuts an iPad Synth From the Outer Limits
  Not content to stop at creating some of the world¿s best synthesizers, the big brains at Moog Music have built an iPad app.
  10.17.11

• Like iOS 5? Thank a Hacker
  Apple fans hypnotized by their shiny new iPhones and mobile operating systems owe thanks, in part, to the work of jailbreakers, whom Apple once said would destroy their business model. Now the blockbuster iOS 5 incorporates some of the great hacks introduced by jailbreakers.
  10.14.11

• Game|Life Podcast: Catwomen For Sale, $10
  On today's episode of the Game|Life Audio Podcast Extravaganza, Chris Baker, Peter Rubin, Marty Cortinas and I discuss the week in news and games: Nintendo's redesigned Wii; Scribblenauts on iOS; Infinity Blade in the arcades; and paying up for Catwoman levels in Batman: Arkham City. The Game|Life Audio podcast, posted every Friday, can be found on iTunes and is embedded ...
  10.14.11

• With iOS 5 You¿ll Be Stalked Like Never Before
  New tracking capabilities in iOS 5 let apps send you really cool or really creepy messages targeted to your location. A new kind of feature creep?
  10.14.11

• Traffic Brings iPhone 4S Activations, iOS 5 Downloads to Standstill
  With the launch of iOS 5 on Wednesday and the iPhone 4S today, excited iOS users have queued up to make the transition to Apple's latest and greatest. Unfortunately for many, the transition hasn't been as smooth as they'd hoped.
  10.14.11

• Hard-Core Android Geek With an HP TouchPad? Check Out the Alpha Release of CyanogenMod
  If you were lucky enough to score one of the $99 HP TouchPads back in August, then you'll be interested to know that the CyanogenMod team have announced an alpha version of CyanogenMod 7.1.0 for the TouchPad. CyanogenMod is an aftermarket version of Google's Android operating system, designed to replace the crippled -- er. "streamlined" ...
  10.14.11

• MythBusters Duo Present iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World This Sunday on Discovery
  In the wake of the (early) death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs last week, Simon & Schuster have brought forward the publication date of Walter Isaacson's official biography "Steve Jobs" to the 24th October, and rumour has it that Sony are buying up the rights to turn the book into a film as well. However, ...
  10.14.11

• Computer Scientists Build Wireless Bike Brake. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
  Computer scientists at Germany's Saarland University have worked long and hard to rid your bike of that pesky one foot of brake cable which used to curve, short and graceful, down to the front wheel. Instead of a simple system of super-reliable levers and cables, the Saarland team uses a wireless transmitter to brake the ...
  10.14.11

• Does Apple's Patent Win Against Samsung Put More Android Devices at Risk?
  There's been gnashing of teeth between Apple and Samsung in courts across the globe for a while now, but Australia's temporary injunction against the sale of a Samsung tablet is a huge win for Apple, and could be very bad for the Android platform.
  10.13.11