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With all the patent battles going on between Apple and Samsung, it only makes sense that the world puts the new iPhone 4S and Galaxy S II up against each other as the two leading consumer devices on the market. They have been compared on every front from screen size to processor to camera. There […]

After the very public humiliation RIM suffered when a faulty switch took its services offline around the globe, the company needs to reveal some pretty amazing things at DevCon Americas this week. CEO Jim Balsillie has already promised that we’ll be impressed by what’s unveiled — and it looks like BlackBerry Android integration will be […]

Bill shock: the term given to that moment you get your latest cell phone bill and your eyes go wide because it’s way higher than you anticipated, most likely because of unexpected charges. The culprit is usually exceeding your data limit, sending too many text messages, or talking to that friend for way longer than […]

Slowly but surely, RIM is trying to catch up to its competitors with sexier, more powerful phones. Back in July, the Waterloo, Ontario company announced its intentions to release seven new phones in the coming months. In August, three new BlackBerry Curves were shown off — the 9350, 60, and 70 — as well as […]

Laser pointers seem to get more popular the brighter they get. A good example is the latest product from Wicked Lasers called the S3 Krypton that is 8,000 times brighter than the sun and has a range of 85 miles. The question I always have to ask is what use are they on a daily […]

Would you look at the size of that thing! Pictured above is the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT for short. ELT’s are a priority for the world’s astronomers because they are going to be able to reveal things that we have never seen before by giving scientists a mammoth viewing lens into the night […]

It has been the case for some time now that our world has been striving to do away with wires and cables to free ourselves from the tethering effect such things have on life. Our phones, internet, even power have become unplugged as humanity seeks to live faster and more freely. In an effort to […]

  Who hasn’t seen an amazing photo, like the one below, and wanted to be able to do it for themselves? It can now be possible using one of the most clever gizmos we’ve seen in some time: the “throwable panoramic camera”. Developed by the Computer Graphics Group in Berlin, it allows a user to […]

  ‘Tis the season for Apple fans around the world to line up (or wait for the doorbell to ring) and get their hands on a shrink-wrapped, boxed-up, shiny new iPhone. Of course the killer feature of this year’s iPhone 4S is undoubtedly the A.I. assistant, Siri. As Siri is described as Beta software, you […]

It’s official, folks: Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype is a done deal. The two companies can now forge ahead with whatever plans for dominating world communications they’ve hatched, though chances are good they were already working on them anyway. A note of apology goes out to the Italian VoIP company Messagenet, whose pleading that the EU re-examine […]