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LG Versa (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:LG VersaThe LG Versa from Verizon Wireless is a touch-screen phone with a difference. Promising to be the most versatile phone we've ever seen (hence the "Versa" moniker), it comes with the option of adding external modules to increase its functionality. Out of the box, for example, the Versa...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Verizon Wireless, display, LG Versa, LG Electronics Inc., home screen

Product reviews 2009-03-03

FaceCall 1.3 (Mobile)

FaceCall is a new cool dialer that allows you to call your favorites contacts by simply tapping the photo icon on the home screen, just like your other apps. You need internet connection to create the icons. FaceCall allows you to select a contact from your Address Book, pick one...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Photograph, Icon, Wuonm, FaceCall, Home Screen, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2008-12-11

Nokia N97 announced; QWERTY keyboard and touch on a Nseries device

Nokia World 2008 is taking place this week in Barcelona, Spain and the event kicked off with the keynote announcing the Nokia N97 multimedia computer. The Nokia N97 brings a QWERTY keyboard and touch screen to the Nseries or you could say it brings a phone and S60 to the...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Nokia World 2008, Home Screen, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Social Networking, Handhelds, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Screenshots: Google's Android comes to life

Google shows off the ins and outs of its new open-source mobile platform at I/O conference in San Francisco.Google demonstrated its Android mobile-phone software Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The project, under development by Google and a number of partners in the Open Handset Alliance, is...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Phone, Home Screen, Notification Service, Telecom & Utilities, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-28

Developing Smartphone Home Screens

This webcast provides information about customizing home screens on Smartphone 2002. It also discusses the relationships between layouts, color schemes, and background images. The webcast gives more details about the plug-ins included with Smartphone 2002. It will discuss how to write the custom plug-ins to display data on home screens.

Tags: Smartphone 2002, Smartphone, Home Screen, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

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Android set to launch in Japan, 1.5 deployment "nearly complete"

The first Android-powered phone will launch in Japan on July 10th. New Japanese customers will have immediate access to free applications in the Android Market, with paid apps following sometime later. That's according to a notice sent from Google's Eric Chu to Android app developers late Wednesday. Bulgaria and Romania...

Tags: Google Android, Japan, App, Publisher Website, Mobile Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-07-03

GameEx 10.17 (Windows)

GameEx is a graphical DirectX based front-end for MAME, Zinc, Daphne, PC games, and all command line based game emulators, along with being a good Home Theatre PC solution HTPC. It has support for LCD/VFD displays, the MCE remote control, game pads, full mouse control, wide screen displays, volume control,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Spesoft, GameEx, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-03

See why one CIO is migrating all Treos to iPhones

See why one CIO is migrating all Treos to iPhonesLater than Apple?[i]because they always do what apple does only later and worse.[/i]Better check that timeline of yours. HTC, Nokia, and Samsung all had full screen touch screen cell phones [b]before[/b] Apple did. Sorry but history doesn't support you, it is...

Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Touch Pro, Palm Treo, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Atrise Terminal Video Player 1.1.1 (Windows)

Atrise Terminal Video Player is a fullscreen loop video player for public places: terminals, shops, casino, home, etc. Atrise Terminal Video Player plays one of more video files from a playlist text file in a loop mode on your main screen, or on the last connected screen on a multimonitor...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Video Player, Atrise Software, Atrise Terminal Video Player, Corporate Communications, Media Players, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-01

Sony Vaio FW480J/T

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores.In a growing field of Blu-ray-playing laptops, it's important to take note of Sony, who created the Blu-ray format in the...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-06-30

HTC Touch Pro2

In the summer of the Palm Pre, Apple iPhone 3GS, Nokia N97, and T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, the Windows Mobile camp has been pretty quite on the touch-screen smartphone front. However, there's been one WinMo device that keeps popping up in comment threads, forums, and e-mails when this group is mentioned...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, accelerometer, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, HTC Touch Pro2, Touch Pro2, smart phone

Product reviews 2009-06-30

Desktops aren't dead (yet)

Laptops have long since overtaken their desk-bound brethren in terms of revenues, and more recently unit sales. In the first quarter, desktop unit sales dropped 23 percent, while notebook sales actually increased 10 percent compared with the same period last year, according to iSuppli. Gizmodo even penned an obituary for...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hewlett-Packard Co., Memory, Configuration, HP Pavilion, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Dell Inspiron, Aspire M800 Series, SX2800-01, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Speed Download 5.2 (Mac)

Speed Download 5 combines four amazing products; a turbo-charged download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a fully featured secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity; into one small and easy to use application. Speed Download 5 also introduces a stunning new user interface option...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, SD Card, File-sharing, Yazsoft, Peer To Peer (P2P), Memory, Desktops, Flash Memory, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-06-30

IOGear Wireless Audio/Video Kit

It's no secret we're inching ever closer toward ditching our cable or satellite television services in favor of Internet-only content consumption. With services such as Hulu and YouTube, the computer has become the video entertainment hub of the home. Getting that computer's desktop screen onto your television seems like...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, PRODUCTIVITY, Corporate communications, TV, IOGEAR, computer, video, USB, adapter

Product reviews 2009-06-29

HP Deskjet D2660 Printer

It's no surprise that the printer industry is making a calculated shift toward all-in-one printers featuring copiers, scanner, and fax machines all built into one device, and the transition is win-win: consumers benefit from lowered prices for more capable machines, and manufacturers can sell us more ink cartridges and paper...

Tags: Printers, Fax, Hewlett-Packard Co., printer, Deskjet D2660

Product reviews 2009-06-29

Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder 4.5.1.1 (Windows)

The slideshow software for creating slide shows with motion effects, music and captions to watch on big-screen TV, laptop, and share on website, iPod, iPhone, Zune and more. The features are followed: 150+ transition effects, including dozens of cool 3D effects; Add Hollywood drama with pan, zoom and rotate effects;...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Effect, Wondershare Software, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-28

LG LX370 - silver (Sprint)

Recent LG phones for Sprint like the LG Rumor 2 and the LG Lotus have been very messaging-centric, but that doesn't mean LG doesn't have other form factors up its Sprint sleeve. The LG LX370 has a far more traditional slider style, and not in an unattractive way either. We...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Instant messaging, slider mechanism, LG LX370, LG Electronics Inc., Sprint Communications, phone

Product reviews 2009-06-26

HTC Snap (Sprint)

Sprint is keeping on with its busy summer of phone releases. In addition to the Palm Pre and upcoming RIM BlackBerry Tour 9630, the carrier was the first to offer the HTC Snap. Announced at CTIA 2009, we were glad to see the sleek QWERTY device from HTC (it's been...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, number button, Snap, High Tech Computer Corp., Sprint Communications, smart phone, CTIA, GSM

Product reviews 2009-06-26

SlingPlayer 1.0.9 (Mac)

SlingPlayer for Mac, Version 1.0, includes photo-realistic remote controls as well as the ability to program favorite channels with a full range of viewing modes all leveraging the iconic Mac OS look and feel. Slingbox owners can now view their television directly on their Macintosh computer screen. With full remote...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Sling Media, Home Entertainment, Desktops, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Hardware, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-06-26

Cybercrime doesn't pay: well it does, and very well

A large part of me is worried about writing this post because in some way, I could be considered as promoting the idea or inciting people to commit cybercrime. Well, that's not my intention as such - instead I'm taking a more back seat approach to denounce why people commit...

Tags: Cybercrime, Web Site, Hacker, Cybersecurity, Attack, Security Industry, Web Site Development, Government, Phishing, Web Technology, Security, Hacking, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-25