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We received a Phantip this evening about some growing concerns around Mobage, a mobile gaming publisher in the Android Market, who’s games have mysteriously been asking for super user permissions on devices that are rooted. Understandably, there’s cause for alarm given root permissions are typically used for gaining access to features — whether legit or [...]

While most of us are happy with the two most common touchscreen options on tablets and smartphones – touching with our finger and with a capacitive stylus – TapSense believes there’s value in recognizing many other “taps”. They claim to have technology that can sense whether you’re tapping with your finger, your knuckle or your [...]

Well it looks like we have two major OEMs hosting their own shindigs coinciding with IFA in Berlin, Germany. Along with Samsung, HTC has announced an event titled “Join us to see what’s next,” set to kick off on September 1st, the day before the massive conference is scheduled to kick off. So what could [...]

With all the cool stuff coming out of the internet these days, (Justin Beiber, Rebecca Black) its rare when something truly grabs hold of my senses and wows me. Luckily, I came across this truly remarkable video from the guys at Vodaphone. The video is made using a technique called 3D Projection Mapping not unlike [...]

It was recently announced by ITU – an authority in cellular technology – that most high speed data networks today aren’t really considered 4G as most advertisers would have you believe. In the US alone, ITU’s IMT-Advanced specification – what grants a network the right to be called 4G, 3G, or whatever “G” – does [...]

We’re about to close in on 24 months since the first Android phone has been introduced – the T-Mobile G1 – and I think we’re all in agreeance on one thing: the phone market is right where it needs to be. Android’s been itching to soar higher than just phones, however, with a slew of [...]

Samsung’s got another one of their “experience” events coming up in the middle of the month, and this time we know Android will be on hand. We know they’re about to unveil the Samsung Galaxy Tab in a couple of days at IFA in Berlin, so what other new device could it be? For starters, [...]

Members of the press have been invited to “see what HTC has dreamt up” this September 15th in the great city of London, England. We figured it wouldn’t be too long before at least one of these devices received some official unveiling love after all of the leaks we’ve seen from their camp as of [...]