We now know it won't be at Mobile World Congress, but that hasn't stopped the steady trickle of rumors relating to the Samsung Galaxy S III. The latest round of unconfirmed nuggets comes from Korean site ETNews, which cites its own &quo…
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Latest Galaxy S III rumors suggest May launch, 7mm thickness
February 6th, 2012 
Alex Dobie 
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Tags: 3d, Asia, galaxy s iii, international, korea, Rumors, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S III, Smartphones, thin 
No Comments »Google wants people to ‘Solve for X’ with new conference [video]
February 6th, 2012 Dan Graziano Google unveiled its new “Solve for X” website early Monday morning, and it looks as if the Mountain View-based company is planning a TED-like think tank to encourage problem solving and teamwork. “Solve for X is a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems,” reads the Solve for X website. “Radical in the sense that the solutions could help billions of people. Radical in the sense that the audaciousness of the proposals makes them sound like science fiction. And radical in the sense that there is some real technology breakthrough on the horizon to give us all hope that these ideas could really be brought to life.” One of Google X’s chief scientists, Richard DeVaul,
Posted in News Tags: Business, google, Google X, Google X Labs, problem solving, solve for x, We Solve, We Solve for X No Comments »Verizon and Redbox announce video rental and streaming service to launch later this year
February 6th, 2012 Kevin Krause An announcement that Verizon and Redbox will team up to offer consumers a streaming media and Blu-ray/DVD rental service hasn’t done much to expound upon details first rumored last year. The new content distribution service will focus on the power of Verizon’s network, an element of support lacking from Netflix, the media provider the two [...]
Kayak abandons BlackBerry, will support ‘Googlerola phone’ — or other Android devices
February 6th, 2012 Phil Nickinson It's bad enough that when Kayak.com announced it was dropping support for its BlackBerry app that it said it was a "practical decision." That's gotta sting, right? (Even if it's true. Or especially if it's true.) But what rea…
Posted in News Tags: Android, app, Applications, Apps, BlackBerry, google, googlerola, googmoto, kayak, motorola, smartphone, support No Comments »ShopAndroid.com Deal of the Day: Case-Mate POP! Case w/ Stand for Motorola Droid RAZR
February 6th, 2012 ShopAndroid.com The Feb. 6 ShopAndroid.com Deal of the Day is the Case-Mate POP! Case w/ Stand for the Motorola Droid RAZR. The case features co-molded materials of plastic and soft rubber unite to create a hard case with a soft touch. The lightweight plastic bo…
Report: Samsung Galaxy S III to be just 7mm thick, launch in May
February 6th, 2012 Kevin Krause Korea’s Electronic Times News is adding to the speculation surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S III, citing unnamed sources in a report claiming the phone will measure in at just 7mm thick and launch in May. The new flagship device is said to house an 8MP rear camera and 2MP front-facing camera, a Super AMOLED Plus display, [...]
Doctors use 3D printing to rebuild a woman’s jaw
February 6th, 2012 Aaron Souppouris A team of researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands has replaced a patient’s lower jaw with a 3D printed model. After an 83-year old woman was diagnosed with progressive osteomyelitis, an infection affecting almost her entire m…
US Cellular’s new Voice Mail to Text service is free for the first 30 days, then $3 per month after
February 6th, 2012 Phone Arena Today, US Cellular announced that they’re bringing Voice Mail to Text service to its customers, which is powered by Nuance’s fully-automated Dragon Voicemail-to-Text platform. Essentially, rather than doing it the old fashion way, the new service a…
An iPad with keyboard dock might be coming to blur the tablet boundaries, says analyst
February 6th, 2012 Phone Arena A Citigroup analyst sat with Tim Cook last week and asked whether Apple intends to lose the Intel silicon and Mac OS X in the MacBook Air line, and replace them with ARM-based processor and iOS at some point. Apple’s main man apparently answered in suc…
Rdio app updated with new interface, lock screen track control
February 6th, 2012 Simon Sage Rdio, a big-name streaming music service (and my personal favourite out of the bunch), today updated their Android app with some significant changes. The last update was this summer, and simply optimized the app for Ice Cream Sandwich. With the latest…
Posted in News Tags: Applications, music, music streaming, rdio, stream, streaming, streaming music No Comments »
