What a fitting product to remember the day by! While previous royal weddings have seen tie-in tea trays and biscuit tins, it is only natural that a royal wedding in the “age of the information super highway” be marked by this: a high-tech personal telephone. Should one part with ones’ hard earned gentry government hand out for one? Let us investigate.
The rumours around an Apple cloud service have been ramping up in recent weeks. Now, Om Malik of GigaOM suggests Apple has snapped up iCloud.com from its previous owner, a Swedish cloud provider called Xcerion. It’s renamed its service CloudMe and handed the iCloud domain to a mystery buyer. Well, not so mysterious actually…
Doing it big, day after day, it’s your US Update. Today we jump right in with details on the official launch of Fring group video calling, bringing four-way calls to the masses. We head on over to a leaked presentation from Qualcomm which showcases the company’s 2011 and 2012 Snapdragon processor line up. Then we head on over to take a look at the new and improved Motorola Droid Bionic, dubbed the ‘Targa’.
The Motorola Droid Bionic we graciously handled at CES earlier this year is no more – at least according to an internal Motorola press release. Tracked down by the folks at droid-life, today’s press release provides some insight on what went wrong and how the future Droid Bionic will look to correct this.
Short of looking into a crystal ball, it’s a crap shoot trying to guess the future of mobile technology — that is unless you’ve been given access to Qualcomm’s presentation. It just so happens our friends at Electronista happened to come across a set of slides from such a presentation, outlining the entire 2011 and 2012 Snapdragon roadmap. Ready to meet the processors powering your future smartphones?
As the PSN outage continues and emails are sent out warning users their personal information has been compromised, the legal battle against Sony is just beginning. A class action lawsuit has been filed in a California court, alleging the company “failed to take reasonable care to protect, encrypt and secure the private and sensitive data.”
LG is showing some love to its home turf. The new LG Optimus Big will debut in Korea tomorrow and with it comes a feature set to rival the best HTC and Samsung have to offer. Without dishing all the dirt, let’s just say there’s something for everyone to love in the Optimus Big.
Mobile video calling is a nice feature, three-way video calling is impressive, but today Fring raised the video bar. The company released an updated version (previously beta) of its app for iOS, adding four-way mobile video calling. Don’t worry Android users, Fring has updated your app as well.
