News that popular photo-sharing service Instagram coming to Android has been talked about by fans for a while now. Now, its creators are opening up registrations in preparation for its coming release. The registration provides owners of Android devices the chance to be the first ones to get Instagram, reported tech news website The Next Web. “Using nothing more than a single form, Instagram fans can enter their email address to sign up for what could be a beta release of the app before it hits Google Play, Amazon’s Appstore and...
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A new Angry Birds game has been released today and is set to take mobile app developer Rovio to places beyond one’s reach. Angry Birds Space was released concurrently on iOS and Android devices, as well as Mac and PCs. The new game takes place in Space, where players launch birds whose trajectory can be altered by nearby planets’ gravitational pull. “We’ve been working with NASA for quite a while already and they’re very keen in cooperating with us,” said Tiina Mikkonen, Rovio’s senior account...
According to a new research, children from the United Kingdom aged 10 years and below spend almost an hour per day using tech-based products. The survey commissioned by educational entertainment company Leap Frog reveals that 63 percent of children aged 10 years and below now own a digital camera, gaming or mobile device. Six percent of those own a tablet PC such as an iPad. The survey also reveals that 70 percent of kids use their parents’ laptop or PC regularly, while 16 percent have their own computers. With electronic devices...
The new iPad, or iPad three as many are calling it, was launched on 16 March 2012 in the UK and worldwide. One of the newest features is dictation, a new way to write or search for things on your iPad using just your voice. This post documents my first thoughts on the new iPad using the dictation feature. The first thing you will notice is a few typos, this isn’t a mistake on my part (honest) it’s simply a few minor mistakes from dictation. It’s only natural after all. The new retina display The new iPad boasts screen...
Apple has just announced the company’s latest (and best, of course) tablet offering, the new iPad, just a few hours ago in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. Just like what countless rumors say, the new iPad tablet comes with a 9.7 inch high definition Retina touch screen display that has a whopping 2048 x 1536 resolution. That’s one million pixels more than an HDTV! For a screen as big as 10 inches, that’s too much, just the way we like it. “Today we’re launching the new iPad, and...
Apple has announced the lucky winner who downloaded the 25 billionth app from its iTunes store. Qingdao’s Chunli Fu, a Chinese iOS device owner, won a $10,000 iTunes gift card by downloading the free version of Disney’s hit game Where’s My Water? This feat only shows how good Apple’s iOS ecosystem is currently performing. “We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Apple’s Senior Vice President of Internet...
Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry smartphones, has finally got to see the fruits of its hard work as its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet outscores the Apple iPad in Best Buy Canada and its sister chain Future Shop. The BlackBerry PlayBook, which has been regarded to as a tablet joke by many, has managed to outsell the market leader last week, although the exact figures have not been released to the public yet. It is still unclear what factor or factors that have triggered this jump in sales, but the late February release of...
Earlier this week, Apple Inc. has sent invites to its event next week, March 7th, in San Francisco. To the delight of millions of its users, this event is clearly for the unveiling of its upcoming tablet, the iPad 3. This week, Apple has sent out invites for a special event that shows an iOS device being touched by the hand. The company did not officially announce that it is for the iPad 3, but it seems that its clear that we’re going to see the iPad 2’s successor. Placed at the bottom of a photo of an iOS device/tablet is...
Best Buy, a United States-based retailer, has slashed $50 off the selling price of the Apple iPad 2 tablet, making it a clear indication that Apple will ship the much-awaited third-generation iPad very soon in the country. With the third iPad offering expected to be announced next week, the retailer cut all iPad 2 models’ prices by $50 on Sunday. Retailers often decrease their prices on older electronics models to clear its stocks, so this move by Best Buy shows that Apple may have a new iPad model in their hands. Other news show...
If you have speakers just collecting dust in your basement just hanging around the house and you want them to support wireless audio, a new device has been created for you. Designed to be easily set up, the Air DAC Wireless System from NuForce lets convert your old speaker system to wireless in just a few steps. The NuForce Air DAC wireless system is composed of the Air DAC receiver and two transmitters (the uTX USB dongle that can be used on computers and the iTX dongle for Apple iOS devices like iPods, iPhones and iPad). According to...