When Phones Are Just Too Smart

Despite the availability of over 140,000 apps on iTunes, researchers have found that the average iPhone or iPod Touch owner uses only 5 to 10 regularly.
IF Caroline Cua’s iPhone looked anything like her closet, where she keeps her dozens of pairs of shoes, she would have screen after screen of applications.
But instead her iPhone is [...]

AT&T to invest $2B in mobile network

AT&T said Thursday that it will invest an additional $2 billion in its network in 2010 to make sure it keeps up with the growing demand from new smartphones and other 3G data devices, such as the Apple iPad, on its network.
During its fourth quarter 2009 conference call, Chief Operating Officer John Stankey said AT&T [...]

2011 BMW 1-series Updated with Single-Turbo N55 Inline-6

The 1-series menu now includes a new engine, a new transmission, and—hooray!—free leather upholstery.
Give us leather upholstery any day. It’s easy to clean, is almost always paired with seat heaters, and we hate cows. (OK, we don’t really hate cows. Well, we hate the rude ones.) Nowadays, extended leather packages can be selected to cover [...]

Google Nexus One for AT&T Practically Confirmed

A device that’s almost certainly an AT&T-compatible version of the Google Nexus One has been approved by the FCC.
Currently, the only version of this very high-end Android OS-based smartphone available offers full support for just T-Mobile’s network. Versions for Verizon and Vodafone have been promised, but this leaves users of other carriers out in the [...]

Midnight Launch for Mass Effect 2

Midnight Launch for Mass Effect 2 at GameStop stores nationwide.
If you are picking up Mass Effect 2 (and you should be…) then you’ll have the chance to have it a few hours earlier than everyone else, courtesy of GameStop. The software retailer has announced that Mass Effect 2 will be available today for PC and [...]

Motorola Split Could Be an Android OS Phone that Lives Up to Its Name

AT&T may be getting a smartphone with an unusual design featuring a split keyboard that slides out from either side of the touchscreen.The Motorola Split will supposedly be one of the five smartphones running Google’s Android OS this carrier is prepping for release this year.
This is the first report on this smartphone to come to [...]

Chrome OS gets faster Zero build

Chromium hacker Hexxeh has released a faster, USB-bootable build of Google’s Chrome OS called Chromium OS Zero. Meanwhile, ArsTechnica interviewed Google’s Engineering Director for Chrome OS, Matthew Papakipos, regarding the past and future of Chrome OS.
Hexxeh’s final build of Chromium OS Zero follows earlier, well-regarded releases of versions including Chromium OS Diet and Cherry. Based [...]

Using your iPhone to save your life

A man caught in the rubble in the Haiti earthquake for 65 hours claimed that his iPhone saved his life.
39-year-old Dan Woolley of Colorado Springs, CO owes his iPhone a huge debt of gratitude because it saved his life.
Woolley, a film producer who was in Haiti filming a documentary on the nation’s poverty-stricken children, became [...]

Dunes of Mars

Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. This is one example, from a crater in Noachis Terra, west of the giant Hellas impact basin. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this view on Dec. 28, 2009. The dunes here are [...]