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Hands-on with BBM Channels: BlackBerry’s trojan horse social platform
Posted On 16 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
"It's more like Tumblr." That's how one BlackBerry rep described BBM Channels to us, the company's new social networking service announced this past week at BlackBerry Live in Orlando. While Channels, alone, may initially seem like nothing new -- ...
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Google intros Play for Education, a curated portal for apps and books
Posted On 15 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
Google's making it easy for educators and their students to discover and recommend applications and books with Play for Education. Announced onstage at this year's I/O by Chris Yerga, Google's Android Engineering Director, the new Play storefront ...
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BlackBerry Q5 hands-on: an affordable BB10 device in a QWERTY shell (update: video)
Posted On 14 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
It's not the most exciting hardware launch to come from the newly reinvigorated (and rebranded) BlackBerry, but the Q5 is a device with a mission. Announced formally this morning by CEO Thorsten Heins on stage at BlackBerry Live, the Q5 is in some...
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BlackBerry to offer BBM as standalone app for iOS and Android this summer
Posted On 14 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
Thorsten Heins just broke what has to be the biggest news out of BBLive this morning: BBM is breaking out of its walled garden. Starting this summer, users running iOS 6 and Android ICS or higher will be able to download the BBM app for free and j...
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Skype and Moog now available for BB10.1
Posted On 14 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
Amongst the flurry of announcements this morning at BlackBerry Live in Orlando, CEO Thorsten Heins finally made good on an app promise from this past January. Yes, Skype is now available on the Z10. Users that want to make VoIP calls will have to ...
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BlackBerry Q5: a QWERTY handset built for emerging markets
Posted On 14 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
This morning at BlackBerry Live in Orlando, Thorsten Heins kicked off the company's major annual event with a brief mention of the latest BB10 device, the Q5. It's a handset Heins is convinced will be a "big hit" for its target audience. The portr...
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Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon hands-on
Posted On 13 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
The Lumia 928 isn't the first of Nokia's Windows Phone 8 handsets to hit Verizon -- that distinction goes to the 822 -- but for all intents and purposes, it's the first true flagship Lumia to bear Big Red's branding. From the jump, you'll note tha...
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US Navy’s Ion Tiger drone leans on liquid hydrogen for longer-lasting spy flight
Posted On 10 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
The US Navy's quieter way to spy, the Ion Tiger, just bested its own 2009 flight record with a key assist from liquid hydrogen. The unmanned aerial vehicle had previously relied on 5000-psi compressed hydrogen for fuel, but for its latest flight t...
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Lockheed Martin’s ADAM laser blasts enemy rockets with its HEL beam
Posted On 08 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
Enemy rockets go up. ADAM makes'em go down... safely and in a grand explosion of fire. That's the name of Lockheed Martin's Area Defense Anti-Munitions system, or badass laser for short (to us, anyway), created to intercept and "negate" airborne r...
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LG Optimus G Pro for AT&T: what’s different?
Posted On 08 May 2013 By Joseph Volpe. Under: Uncategorized.
Two Galaxy Notes and two Optimus Vus later, LG's ready to tackle the giant-sized smartphone niche, this time without the category's defining accessory: a stylus. The Optimus G Pro, part of the company's performance line, was a surprise when we fir...
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