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Android: There are a lot of apps out there that can send text messages using your voice, including Google’s own in-built Voice Actions. However, not many read your incoming messages out loud when they arrive. That’s where Sonalight’s new app, Text By Voice, comes in. More »
Richard Branson has officially declared that the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space (previously known as the Spaceport America) is open for business in the New Mexico desert. Spacemen, rev your engines. More »
The Honda Civic is still Canada’s best-selling passenger car, but is in danger of losing that title to Hyundai’s fast-charging Elantra, industry figures show.
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The zombie drama based on the long-running comic by Robert Kirkman gets a fast pickup after shattering basic cable ratings records with its second season premiere.
Right on schedule the Galaxy Player 4.0 and 5.0 have made their way into retail channels and are ready to deliver their particular brand of phone-less Gingerbread right to your greasy little fingers. Both devices sport a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage, which can be expanded via a microSD slot as well as the usual bundle of Sammy customizations, like TouchWiz and Media Hub. The only difference between the two PMPs is size and price, with the 5-inch model coming in at $270 and the 4-inch a more modest $230. You can pick both up at your local electronics retailer, such as the one that claims to be the best, right now.
Galaxy Player 4.0 and 5.0 land on shelves, deliver Gingerbread without the phone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Prepare for your 88 miles per hour of infamy. Announced Friday night at the DMC Texas Open House, DMC said it plans to work with electric car startup Epic EV to get an all-electric DMC-12 into production by 2013. On the heels of the Nike Mag, it seems like nothing is more in vogue right now than Back to the Future accessories. Early reports say the Electric DeLorean will have a maximum speed of 125 miles per hour, boast 260 horses and will retail for $90,000-100,000 USD. Word is that the flux capacitor will be sold separately.
Source: Autoblog
Although Bill C-11 appears to be more flexible than the previous attempts at copyright reform, this bill is flawed to its core by the inclusion of strict, anti-circumvention provisions. Understandably, Canadians are concerned at how easily their rights are trumped by the overriding protection for digital locks included in this legislation and it is to this effect that the CCER has updated its online letter writing tool. It is essential that Canadians speak out about their concerns with Bill C-11 while it is still open to amendments.
Among the big enhancements to iOS 5 is Apple’s new iCloud suite, which keeps your mail, contacts, calendars, documents, and other data stored in the cloud and synced to all your Apple devices. Most people currently use Google services for these features, so we played with iCloud for a few days and looked at how they stacked up against one another. Here’s what we found. More »
If you read/watch one iPhone 4s vs Samsung Galaxy S II comparison, make it this one. It’s the only one that really matters in real life anyway.
Samsung and Google are getting ready to finally show the next device in the Nexus family, the “Nexus Prime”, which will rock Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. That alone is exciting but some glorious news for us Canadians today! We’ve been sent an email from Samsung Canada that encourages us to tune in to the live webcast at 10:00 p.m. EDT tomorrow night, but the beauty is at the bottom that stated “The coolest Samsung smartphone will be coming to Canada soon. Stay tuned for additional information regarding launch date and availability in the coming weeks”. Such great news!
This news, along with the earlier report of the model number GT-I9250M that popped up in the Wi-Fi Alliance database, is a solid indication that we can expect this on Canadian land soon.
Samsung & Google Prepare to Unbox an Ice Cream Sandwich
“With temperatures falling across the country, it may seem like an odd time to be talking about an Ice Cream Sandwich. But as all first-to-knowers are aware, the classic snack is trending on Twitter because Samsung and Google are about to serve up what could be the most anticipated Ice Cream Sandwich ever! If you are among those that can’t wait to learn more, tune in to the live stream of the official Hong Kong Unboxing event @ http://www.youtube.com/android. The webcast will begin at @ 10:00 p.m. EDT.
The coolest Samsung smartphone will be coming to Canada soon. Stay tuned for additional information regarding launch date and availability in the coming weeks.”
Awesome news and I’m looking forward to seeing the confirmed specs. It’s been rumoured that the Nexus Prime/Galaxy Nexus will have a 4.65-inch HD display (resolution of 1280×720), 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 8-megapixel that captures 1080p HD videos, 9mm thin and packs a 2050mAh battery.
We’ll be following the event as it unfolds tomorrow.
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Apple may have succeded to successfully block the sales of select Samsung devices in a couple countries around the world but that hasn’t stopped the Galaxy series of phones from becoming an international hit. South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung, announced that sales of the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II have sold a whopping 30 million units worldwide between the two devices. The first generation Galaxy S has reached nearly 20 million, while its sequel, the Galaxy S II recently passed the 10 million mark.
Samsung also reports that the GSII is Sammy’s fastest selling device to date, only taking five months to break 10 million units sold. Adding to the success story, the GSII received various accolades such as the ‘Mobile Choice’ and ‘Consumer Award’ 2011, and the ‘Phone of the Year’ title from the Gadget Awards 2011.
30 million consumers can’t be wrong, if you are one of them sound off in the comment field below.
Samsung sells 30 million Galaxy S, Galaxy S II phones
At last count RIM reported BlackBerry PlayBook shipments reached 700,000 in 6 months. This number is certainly not up to par with all the other tablets that saturated the market in the last year, but RIM always stated the PlayBook is the “world’s first professional-grade tablet”. The price points of all models recently received a price drop, which was well accepted, but owners are still waiting for native email, calendar and contacts to appear. The last rumour was from Bloomberg’s sources who pegged a September availability for these features.
The good news is that RIM is “highly committed to the tablet market” and will be releasing new versions of the PlayBook, most notably a 4G LTE PlayBook that should drop sometime “during the second half of 2011” (time is quickly running out). We’ve been given word that the 16GB version has been placed on the “to be discontinued” list. The screenshot is from TELUS and the doc shows the final date of returns is on November 8th and the last day to place orders is on October 10th. Finally, the date the PlayBook will no longer be available is currently blank, most likely will be that way until stock reduces. Bottom line, the 16GB is being discontinued and no indication of the 32GB or 64GB models.
(Thanks tipster!)
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If you envision Ice Cream Sandwich — the latest iteration of Android — as a revolutionary update that satisfies every single one of your geeky lusts, we sure hope you’ve been aching for a photo editor. It appears that AndroidPolice has hunted down a variety of icons and logos presumed to be associated with the feature, but it’s not certain if these will actually appear in the final build. The icons hint at a smattering of image editing tools: crop, sharpen, flip, rotate and a selection of 19 possible photo effects are among the options. Again, this is highly speculative, and rumors such as these will likely ramp up as we approach the official announcement. ‘Course, we won’t scoff at the idea of a native photo editor in Ice Cream Sandwich, but we’re sincerely hoping this won’t be the coolest thing about the new OS at Tuesday’s announcement in Hong Kong.
[Thanks, Paul]
Ice Cream Sandwich may have a built-in photo editor to help your pictures turn out halfway decent originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Android: GTD-style to-do manager Remember The Milk announced a major update to its Android app today, including an overhauled interface with new features, and a free version of the app with basic features for all users. Remember The Milk 2.0 now allows you to edit multiple tasks at once, offers a dashboard that lets you skip quickly between items due today, tomorrow, or later, and even a reminders bar so you’re always aware of what’s next. More »
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RIM offers free apps to make up for that whole BlackBerry outage thing originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The last time we saw the plucky survivors of The Walking Dead — way back in December 2010 — they were trapped in Atlanta's Center of Disease Control by a very depressed scientist, shatter-proof glass, and an invisible force field of melodrama. More »
So it looks like Halo: anniversary will have some additional goodies to go along with pre-order skull and 3D support. Namely, voice commands via Kinect.
In addition to smack-talking your friends, you’ll be able to make use of some very useful-sounding single-word commands, including ‘reload’, ‘analyze’, which will let players capture elements from the game to review in Halo: Anniversary’s ‘library’, and best of all, ‘grenade’, which will no doubt be the source of endless lulz. Naturally, you’ll need a Kinect to use them, but cool nonetheless.
Via Kotaku.
TorrentFreak recently published a list of the most pirated movies over BitTorrent of all time and apparently, what we watch in theaters is what we like to pirate off the Internet. All of the most popular movies have been illegally downloaded a gazillion times. More »
