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Find your computer’s location with Windows 7 and Geosense

Find your computer’s location with Windows 7 and Geosense

GPS enabled smartphones make it easy to get directions, weather, and many more location based services since they automatically know where you are.  With Geosense, you can bring this functionality to any Windows 7 computer even if it doesn’t have a GPS chip.
Windows 7 introduced the new Sensors and Location platform that [...]

LG to Launch Android phone with Built-in Augmented Reality

LG to Launch Android phone with Built-in Augmented Reality

In an apparent move to guard its domestic market share against rivals like Apple, LG Electronics has decided to offer a number of built-in services in its second smartphone model in South Korea, rather than leaving users to download them all from application stores, LG said Monday.
The LG-LU2300 model will be [...]

Google stands by Android despite HTC and Apple lawsuit

Google stands by Android despite HTC and Apple lawsuit

Search giant Google ‘stands behind Android and our partners who have helped us to develop it’ after Apple announces it is to sue Nexus One-maker HTC .
Google has said its Android mobile operating system is not part of the lawsuit that Apple has filed against HTC. The [...]

Visually Browse Through Your Open Tabs in Google Chrome

Visually Browse Through Your Open Tabs in Google Chrome

Do you prefer visually browsing through your open tabs as opposed to using a tab list? Then the Visual Tabs extension for Google Chrome just might be the “visual tool” that you have been looking for.
Visual Tabs in Action
As soon as you have installed the extension you are ready to go. To [...]

Google buys photo editing site Picnik

Google buys photo editing site Picnik

Internet giant Google announced Monday that it had bought Picnik.com, a website that allows users to edit and store photos online.
“Until recently, you had to edit your photos using client software on your computer,” Brian Axe, a Google product management director, said in a blog post.
“Today, we’re excited to announce that Google has acquired Picnik, [...]

Things you didn’t know Google docs could do

Things you didn’t know Google docs could do

Google Docs is slowly evolving into a set of extremely useful tools and applications. Even though it may not be able to compete on every level with Microsoft Office or the other major office suites, Google is doing a good job of adding useful functionality at a steady pace.
A lot of useful [...]

Is the Nexus One’s display inferior to the iPhone’s?

Is the Nexus One’s display inferior to the iPhone’s?

Well – not entirely. After all, it’s bright, responsive, and has a much higher resolution. But there is a lot more to making a good screen, and under a detailed analysis it’s far from a rout when you pit HTC’s bleeding-edge OLED screen against the old-school LCD of the iPhone.
Apologies if [...]

Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch (updated with video!)

Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch (updated with video!)

The iPhone isn’t the only handset getting bumped today — Google’s just outed a very, very significant update to the Nexus One that includes Google Goggles on board and a re-upped version of Google Maps that includes suggestions and a dedicated night mode. Much more significantly, though, they’ve capitulated and enabled multitouch in Browser, Gallery, [...]

Motorola Shadow is Nexus Two ?

Motorola Shadow is Nexus Two ?

Fan-made render? Very possible, but we’re intrigued by the notion. The gang at Mobile01 have laid out two more photos of what is being called the Motorola Shadow (not to be confused with the T-Mobile Shadow), which in a nutshell looks like Droid / Milestone with a white keyboard and wrist [...]

Motorola Droid: Impressive Features, Gorgeous Hardware

Motorola Droid: Impressive Features, Gorgeous Hardware

The first time you pick up the Motorola Droid ($200 with a two-year contract from Verizon; price as of 10/28/09), you’ll notice its solid feel and heft–there’s a lot going on behind the crisp, 3.7-inch touchscreen. Making good use of Android 2.0’s new features, the Droid is a powerful Web surfing [...]