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• Power Up: Photon 4G Lives Up to Its Name
  A photon moves at the speed of light, shines brightly and has a resting mass of zero. That said, it's a damn good name for Motorola's latest Android phone.
  08.02.11

• This Is Why We'll Never Have Innovative E-Books
  Push Pop Press, an e-publishing startup founded by ex-Apple engineers Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris, has announced its acquisition by Facebook. Push Pop published one multimedia book for the iPad, Al Gore's Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. At that time, Push Pop, as Wired.com's Brian Chen wrote, sought to create a ...
  08.02.11

• Google Rallies Tablet Troops With App Workshops
  Beginning Tuesday, Google is hosting a series of workshops tailored specifically for programmers who want to bring their apps to Android tablets. Dubbed Android Developer Labs, or ADLs, Google will host the one-day workshops in three different cities in the United States, as well as one in India.
  08.02.11

• Adobe's New HTML5 Tool Is Web-Designer Duct Tape
  Nobody likes Flash. In 2011, this is an axiom. For years, we tolerated Flash because it worked; it could do things that HTML either couldn't do at all, couldn't do well, or couldn't be made to do easily. Flash gave us YouTube. It gave us Homestar Runner. It gave us casual gaming beyond flipping cards ...
  08.02.11

• Happy Birthday, MTV
  Wait, I'm how old? Yep, MTV -- that's "Music Television" for those of you who may have forgotten what the acronym "MTV" stands for -- just turned 30 years old yesterday. It was on Aug. 1, 1981 that MTV aired "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. Since that time, MTV indeed did sort of kill ...
  08.02.11

• Tough Case Makes iPad Look Like 1990s Laptop
  If you have been looking for a case that would protect your iPad against anything short of a nuclear explosion, and at the same time make it look like a really tacky Dell laptop from the late 1990s, then today is your lucky day.
  08.02.11

• Two Apps to Enhance Discovery's Shark Week
  I hope everyone is having a great Shark Week on the Discovery Channel! If your family is enjoying Shark Week and you happen to have an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch here are a couple of apps I have discovered that can help enhance your experience - Shark Week Live and Ultimate Sharks. Shark Week Live The ...
  08.02.11

• Skype for iPad Launched, Immediately Pulled
  Skype made a premature launch of its iPad-native VoIP app last night, and quickly removed it from the App Store, claiming it was pulled "To ensure your best Skype experience." That didn't stop the lucky few who downloaded it from posting lots and lots of screenshots to the Internet, or grabbing the official promo ...
  08.02.11

• ICloud.com Goes Live, Betas and Price Plans Revealed
  Apple's iCloud.com Web site has gone live, allowing developers to test out the online version of MobileMe's replacement. At the same time, beta versions of the iWork suite for iOS and iPhoto have also been made available. And inevitably, many details have already leaked to the web. ICloud is Apple's new "sync" service. When you create ...
  08.02.11

• Verizon Subscribers Holding Out for iPhone 5
  Of Verizon customers planning to buy an iPhone in the future, many will skip the iPhone 4 and go straight for the yet-to-be-released iPhone 5. According to a small survey by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, 74 percent of Verizon subscribers are holding out purchasing an iPhone until the iPhone 5 comes out. "We believe that ...
  08.01.11

• Two-in-One Tablets Sport New Looks to Lure Customers
  If you've seen one tablet, you've seen 'em all: a flat slab with a glass front. Some hardware companies want to break that image with a different kind of slate: the hybrid.
  08.01.11

• iPhone Maker Foxconn Employs 1M Robots to Do Grunt Work
  Foxconn has a reputation as maker of our much-beloved iDevices. It also has a reputation for inhumane living and working conditions for employees in its Shenzhen-based plants. One way to potentially fix that tarnished image: Replace some of those workers with robots.
  08.01.11

• Apple Halts Samsung Galaxy Tab Launch in Australia
  As part of the ongoing lawsuit between Samsung and Apple, the launch of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been delayed in Australia. A court injunction has been won by Apple which will prevent Samsung from selling the tablet "until [Samsung] wins court approval or the lawsuit is resolved," according to a report by Bloomberg. The lawsuit ...
  08.01.11

• Colorware Barfs Paint Onto Once-Stylish Leica D-Lux 5
  Given that Leica's D-Lux 5 is little more than an overpriced re-badging of the Panasonic LX5, there might actually be a market for Colorware's re-painted version. If somebody is willing to pay an extra $370 just to get Leica's red-dot logo on their camera, surely they'd also be dumb enough to pay another $400 ...
  08.01.11

• Electric Bike Becomes Stationary Bike, Charges Itself
  Here's pretty much the weirdest electric bike idea I have ever seen. It's called the OneBike, and it combines an exercise bike and an electric bike into one. If that sounds ass-backward, read on: it gets worse. It works like this. At home, the bike folds and fits into a base-station, turning it into a ...
  08.01.11

• Pocket Zoo Goes HD, Celebrates With Custom Panda iPad Case Giveaway For GeekDad Readers
  I reviewed a very cool iOS app called Pocket Zoo just about this time last year and thought quite highly of it; Pocket Zoo subsequently made it into the pages of Wired magazine as a "must have" app, so I wasn't alone. The one downside I saw to the app during my initial review was ...
  08.01.11

• Lazer Bike Helmet Coddles Your Noodle
  We hit the trails (and the road) to test the Oasiz, one of Lazer's mountain-specific bike helmets.
  08.01.11

• Toontastic Summer Cartoon Competition (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  Summer + Roadtrips + Cartoons = Awesomosity. At GeekDad we love things that allow us to make things. Whether than is soldering arduinos or creating complete worlds for roleplaying. And, we love making cartoons! So, today we at GeekDad are please to announce  that we are partnering up with one of our favorite iPad Apps, ...
  07.31.11

• Super Powered Love is a Super Powerful Album (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
  Kirby Krackle's 2010 release E for Everyone was, hands down, my favorite rock album of the year. Since its release I've reviewed it, played it on my podcasts, interviewed founding members Kyle Stevens and Jim Demonakos, scrutinized both their live band setup and their team of crack studio musicians and pretty much pimped the group ...
  07.30.11

• Software Update Causes Headaches for Some Droid Customers
  A software update is supposed to deliver the latest and greatest features to your device. It's not supposed to cripple your device. And yet that's exactly what happened to a number of customers who received the most recent update to their Droid X phones.
  07.29.11

• Can You Charge Your Phone by Typing?
  I heard about this some time ago on Buzz Out Loud. They were talking about the possibility of charging your phone through a piezoelectric charger. The basic idea is that by just typing on the screen, your fingers would essentially charge the battery. It seems the idea came from this study by ...
  07.29.11

• School-Friendly Case Puts iPad in a Bind(er)
  When I first saw the product shot of ZooGue's BinderPad Case I let out a short bark of laughter. Who on earth would want to clip their tablet into a ring binder? And then I started to think. The BinderPad is a stiff, woven polyester slip-case with three metal-grommeted holes for securing it into a ...
  07.29.11

• Nerdapalooza 2011: A Community-Building Event (With Music)
  Hindsight being what it is, I find myself looking back at the thoughts I shared regarding Nerdapalooza 2010 with a knowing grin. When speaking of the dissatisfying elements of that year's festival ¿- the scheduling woes, sound issues and overall setup ¿- I referenced the challenges facing Hex and his team of organizers. I spoke ...
  07.29.11

• Motorola's Android Tablet Sales Fizzle Out
  Motorola announced dismal device sales in its earnings report on Thursday, with tablets faring near the worst among the company's products. The company shipped 11 million mobile devices over the past three months, according to the quarterly statement. Yet only 440,000 of those were tablet devices. In other words, the Motorola Xoom Android tablet flopped big ...
  07.28.11

• Obscure Chinese Company Debuts OS on Obscure Chinese Phone
  Alibaba Cloud Computing announced the development of a cloud-based mobile OS dubbed "Aliyun OS." It'll debut later this month in China on a new smartphone, the K-Touch Cloud-Smart Phone W700.
  07.28.11

• Opinion: $170 Nintendo 3DS Is Still Too Expensive
  As millions of iOS and Android phones turn into legit videogame machines, pricey handheld systems like Nintendo's 3DS face enormous challenges. Here's what today's 3DS price drop means -- and why it's not good news for Sony and its upcoming PlayStation Vita.
  07.28.11

• Army Hits Pause on 'Wearable Computer' Program
  The Army's long-awaited program to outfit soldiers with wearable computers isn't exactly dead. But it's in a state of suspended animation while Pentagon officials figure out if it needs a brain transplant. Debi Dawson, a spokeswoman for the Army office overseeing the Nett Warrior program, confirms that the Army has put the multi-million effort on pause. ...
  07.28.11