I have this pair of shorts that I really love to wear. They look nice and are comfortable. The only problem is that the zipper slides down during the course of the day. I don’t want to look like a slob and so I’ve gotten into the habit of checking the zipper every so often
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So after rooting my Nook Color that came pre-installed with Android 2.1, and playing with SD bootable versions of Android 2.2 and honeycomb 3.0, I finally decided to check out Android 2.3 in the form of CyanogenMod 7. According to their “About” page, CyanogenMod is a “customized, aftermarket firmware distribution for several Android devices”. CM
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The WoPhone OS is a Chinese-government backed operating system for smartphones and tablet devices that is said to be ready to go head-to-head with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS.
I’ve been spending a great deal of time playing around with my Nook Color lately. As you may have read in an earlier post, I tried out running my NC with Android 2.2 Froyo but the experience wasn’t all that great. Since then, I simply have rooted the stock Android 2.1 and have been very
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I’ve been to plenty of lunches and dinners with various friends, family and business associates where the conversation hits one of those common yet uncomfortable lulls in the conversation.
Smartphones and tablets are cool, useful and sadly, fragile. I remember the first time I dropped my brand new iPhone about an hour after I purchased it. This was the original model and it had a nice big dent in metal backing the upper left hand corner. It was at that point that I fully
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Mobile computing has grown by great lengths in the past few years and looks to continue that trend into the future. The mobile market is now filled with smartphones and tablets that are tasked with taking on more and more of our daily computing tasks. For those applications that cannot yet be run on smartphones
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It’s official…The NOOKcolor has been rooted so you can access the Android app store and install all your favorite Android apps. The instructions to root your NOOKcolor can be found here. I will get my NOOKcolor when I return to the States next month and will report back how the hardware functions. A couple of
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Do you hate having to take your gloves off to use your iPhone? I do too. That’s why I was happy to see some new advancements in touchscreen technology.
Everyone knows that kids love video games. They’re on nearly every child’s wish list between the ages of 7-17. But at some point, you have to wonder if kids play video games just a bit too much. So this year, instead of getting them another Xbox 360 or Wii game, consider these electronic alternatives to
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This week Barnes and Noble released their latest flagship E-Reader named the NOOKcolor. As one would expect from the name, this latest devise sports a full 7 inch color screen. It might seem strange to go with a full color E-Reader as opposed to the easier to read E-ink gray-scale screens but this is not
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Just days after the announcement that Sony will retire their fabled Walkman lineup after 30 years, rumors formed in Japan about Apple Inc. purchasing the Sony Corporation. The buzz is purely speculation but it is the same buzz that caused Sony’s previously stagnant stock price to jump three percent this morning.
Palm has a great smartphone OS. It’s too bad nobody bought one. Perhaps with the HP merger of Palm fairly far back in the review mirror, the marketing department for the Pre 2 will do a little bit better job of promoting the newest Pre with webOS 2.0.
Verizon seems to be one of the few US wireless carriers that “get’s it”. It was recently revealed that Verizon will specifically target their LTE wireless broadband network in 30 Cities that have NFL football stadiums. The goal is to have these 30 cities blanketed in 4G wireless by the end of the year.
Cisco has been pushing Telepresence to large corporate customers for years. The full-blown Telepresence solution costs several hundred thousand dollars per-site and requires the room to go through a complete “Cisco makeover” so it feels more like you are taking to someone sitting on the other side of the table rather than looking at someone
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Cisco Systems and Jawbone will team up to create hands-free wireless headsets that can transparently move from mobile devices to Cisco IP phones. This is a very small but cool feature for those of us that have Cisco IP phones and like to use Bluetooth headsets for both our mobile and desk phones.
It seems that just about every major telecommunications and computer manufacturer is presenting their tablet this quarter. This week the honor goes to Research in Motion (RIM) and their BlackBerry Playbook. That’s great, but what does it bring to the table that is different from the others?
Cisco has been progressively active in the consumer market over the past few years. The first few acquisitions made sense for the network giant as they bought up Linksys and Scientific Atlanta. A few eyebrows were raised however with purchase of Pure Digital Technologies in early 2009. Pure Digital Technologies sold small and easy to
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