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THIS PHONE IS REAL.  So I’ve been following Gizmodo’s Liveblog of the android press event right now and they’ve finally gotten to the details I desperately wanted to hear about.  The phone ships TODAY.

So I’ve been seeing a lot of commercials for Verizon’s DROIDDOES recently.  Taking a look at it, it looks like the rumors of the Motorola Sholes going to Verizon were very true. 

I’m sure everyone already knows about, but the event is so big that I’m going to post it here anyway.  Windows 7 has finally officially been released today for the general public!  That means anyone can now purchase Windows 7 and begin using the glorified savior of the MS operating systems. 

Apple are now attempting to halt jailbreaking for the time being.  Latest 3GS models are now loaded with a new booting firmware update, iBoot-359.3.2 which fixes the popular 24kpwn exploit. Another exploit will have to be found in order to jailbreak future iPhones, but fear not there will always be a way around this.

So omg!ubuntu! has decided to give us a small peek on the current ChromeOS build from google.  A few things about ChromeOS that you may like to note are that it is debian-based and will be an OS that seamlessly stitches together the web-browser and OS.

So, as many of you know, Google Voice is currently invite only.  Until just recently, the invites had to be requested through Google Voice itself.  Well, if you have a friend who has an account and you were too lazy to sign up and wait for yours, it might not be long before you can [...]

Are you worried about swine flu in your area (even though you really shouldn’t be)?  Then be worried no longer cause lifehacker has found a nice flutracking web app that gives you an easy to read overview of where there are outbreaks and whatnot. 

Earlier today, Verizon Wireless and Google announced that they were going to partner up!  Even better news is that before the end of this year, Verizon is planning to release two Android phones!

TechCrunch has noted today that google maps on the iPhone has recently incorporating ads and user-generated content.  I’m not very surprised about the ads, but the user-generated content does seem slightly odd.

Google’s Chrome Frame is an open source plugin for Internet Explorers 6, 7, and 8 that essentially replaces the built in rendering engine with WebKit and Chrome’s Javascript VM. Get it here. What’s the point? The only reason anyone ever uses IE is to download another browser or view web pages that were foolishly designed [...]

Wireless ISPs like Verizon and AT&T are up in arms against the FCC’s new Net Neutrality rules. The FCC plans to formally adopt six principles – the first four generally enforced since 2005, plus two additional rules: 1. Consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice. 2. Consumers are entitled to [...]

GoogleSync has already been on iPhone for a while but not in its entirety.  Just until recently, GoogleSync only synced calenders and contacts but now finally mail support has been added with Push support.

Today is the day AT&T will finally roll out MMS free of charge to it’s users (about time!).  However, don’t expect things to go smoothly the first day, there are already reports of the network being overloaded and texts not even working today.

The founder of the infamous social networking site, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has released the statistic that Facebook has reached 300 million users worldwide.  And it doesn’t stop at that; they are also cash-flow positive now.

So apparently LG is going out on their own and has begun to produce the GW620: their very own Android running mobile device!  Unfortunately for us, US dwellers, it is only going to be released in Europe for the time being. 

As you may have known, school has started for both Jacob and I recently.  For me the first week has just passed and going forward from here, our schedules will be packed pretty tight. So some things I have been planning to do are videos and LOTS of them.  To accomplish this, I have purchased [...]

With a superconducting magnet, scientists have been able to generate a field powerful enough to lift the water inside living animals.  The most amazing part is that the field can operate at room temperature! Researchers have setup a plastic cage that keeps the mice in during levitation.  The results so far seem to be pretty [...]

So this caught my attention today because, quite frankly, I’ve hungering for a new phone and refuse the iPhone trend.  Not for any particular reason, other than just to satisfy my ego.  I am also highly dissatisfied with the selection of phones Verizon has to offer, but unfortunately I am stuck with this provider until [...]

So what’s really creating problems for Microsoft right now?  It’s the users who do not want to give up on their dated machines that are still running Windows XP.  With 71.8 percent of the market share still running XP, things look pretty bleak at the moment. 

So, Amazon has finally come out and taken a huge step in their fight against the Google Books settlement.  They have filed a brief with the U.S. District Court (of which you can read here).

So according to the Telegraph.co.uk, twitter and other social networking sites have been used as a means to add hundreds of new words to the Collins English Dictionary.  They note words such as ‘hmm,’ ‘heh,’ and ‘meh’ as having been added due to the younger generation using them in common speech as well as online. 

Getting Snow Leopard today?  Then you will probably want to know which applications will work with your fresh OS.  Snow Leopard will automatically move your incompatible applications into a separate folder, as well as prevent incompatible software from launching until they are updated.

People are finding out that the $29 dollar Snow Leopard upgrade actually installs whether you have Leopard or not.  Essentially what you’re getting is a full Snow Leopard disc for $29, a hell of a deal! So far the reviews from the press have been extremely positive with Snow Leopard numerous under the hood improvements [...]

So apparently IBM has taken pictures of atomic bonds for the first time ever.  The picture below is an image of an actual molecule with carbon and hydrogen atoms sticking together.  Kind of like something you would see out of an organic chemistry class. I think this is very exciting news.  We all know that [...]

News has just come out from Apple that Snow Leopard, the next iteration of OS X is set to ship August 28th.

It seems like AT&T are answering the numerous service complaints by rolling out 850 MHz 3G to areas that need it most, in this case Atlanta and in San Francisco.  These improvements according to AT&T will offer more speed capacity and coverage.  Other areas will have 850MHz  at later date.

So recently at [Pocketables], there were a bunch of images released of an unidentified Android MID (Mobile Internet Device).  So far I haven’t been able to find any information on this device, aside from the pictures, but it looks like it will be pretty awesome. 

Sony has announced at GamesCom a PS3 slim that is debuting the first week of September! The slim will boast a significantly smaller form factor which is over 30 percent smaller, lighter and more power efficient than its old bulky version.  Not only that, but it will include a 120GB hard drive.

It seems like the iPhone 3GS 32GB model is at the moment the most popular cell phone in Japan.

In the last few days I’ve been reading about the gas mileage of the Chevrolet Volt, a hybrid vehicle that can run as an all-electric for a range of 40 miles. My local newspaper and various articles place it at 230 miles per gallon. Two hundred thirty? What does this actually mean? When you put [...]

Daynah over at [PHP-Princess] has figured out a neat workaround for getting that 11th+ page to display.  It involves having all 11 pages of iPhone apps and moving one of the stock apps to the last page to boot an icon to the 12th page where it would then appear.  Apparently it doesn’t work every [...]

So utorrent has released a 2.0 beta with UDP support.  I assume you all already know that utorrent as one of the best bittorrent clients on the web for Windows (along with a mac beta client), so adding this just reinforces their position.  Whether on my PC or hackintosh, I love to use utorrent and [...]

Finally push notifications for gmail have come via a third party applicationgpush which is now available on the App Store. The application will notify you when a new email has gone through to your gmail account through sounds/vibrate and text pop up alerts.