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Introducing the “BlueDrone” an R/C car you can control with your Android phone
There is a very well known saying that comes to mind when it comes to inventions like this and it’s simply “Boys and their toys”. The above mixes our boyhood joys with our adult impulses by connecting a fully-functional R/C car with your precious Android powered smartphone via Bluetooth connection. And guess what? You have [...]
myTouch 4G Gingerbread roll-out begins today
Considering the pace the tech world moves at, it’s pretty easy to fall victim to the feeling that your handset isn’t receiving the attention it deserves. And while it’s not been the talk of the town for quite some time, today T-Mobile’s myTouch 4G will have another day in the spotlight as its highly-anticipated Gingerbread [...]
HP celebrates the launch of the TouchPad with “Gives Like Nothing Else” campaign
To celebrate the Canadian launch of the TouchPad, HP has announced it will embark upon summer-long campaign to raise money for charity. The campaign, known as “Gives Like Nothing Else”, is simple. Starting July 23rd and running until August 31st, HP will be holding a series of events in public places where consumers are invited to [...]
Senior Product Manager for PlayBook ditches RIM for Samsung
Not only are RIM inventors and fanboys jumping ship at an alarming rate, but their own staff are, too. Today word broke out that Ryan Bidan, who was the Senior Product Manger for the PlayBook, has left Waterloo to take a job with Samsung where he will be the Director of Product Marketing. Bidan isn’t the first [...]
Apple reports monster Q3 earnings
Apple on Tuesday announced its Q3 2011 earning, and boy did it ever make bank. Apple earned $28.57-billion in revenue, far above the $24.92-billion the Street was predicting. Net income came in at $7.31-billion. Sales of iPhones and iPads continued to soar, having sold 20.34m iPhones and and 9.25m iPads in three months. These figures [...]
Apple board members looking for Jobs replacement
According to a report filed by the WSJ, a number of Apple board members have been informally seeking a successor to current CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs, who has had numerous high-profile health scares, and most recently took sick leave from Apple in January of this year. Here’s a snippet from the report: “Since Steve Jobs [...]
RIM pulls buggy PlayBook update, promises fix “later this week”
It’s not been a very good day for RIM. Not long after it enthusiastically announced the release of BlackBerry Tablet OS v1.0.7, news broke that RIM was forced to pull the update after a series of user complaints. To its credit, RIM was quick to respond to calls for comments, and had this to say [...]
The Economist lands on Android
The Economist has always been a favourite read here at The Celluar Guru, so today we’re absolutely thrilled to announce that its mobile application is no longer the exclusive domain of iOS. As of today, Android users can download the application through the Android Market. The application itself is free, and subscribers of both the [...]
foursquare for BlackBerry 3.0 ready for download
Heads up, foursquare addicts, we have some news to report. Just five days after the alpha went live, foursquare for BlackBerry 3.0 has exited the testing stage and is now ready for public consumption. While it lacks the BBM integration found in the alpha, there are still plenty of other things to get excited about, [...]
RIM pulls BlackBerry PlayBook OS update [Updated]
Looking for but unable to download today’s BlackBerry Tablet OS 1.0.7 update? Well give up, because it looks as if RIM has pulled the update. We’re tying to figure what led up to the apparent decision to break out the hook, but rest assured that we’ll report back as soon as we got to the bottom [...]
