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The BlackBerry 9000 gets official with the new name of Bold.
Official Spec are the same as rumored but we can recap here:

624 Mhz Processor
Mini-SD slot
HSDPA (3G)
GPS
Wi-Fi
2 Mega-Pixel Camera w/ flash and Video capabilities
New OS with tons of new features

All in all this will be one of the most exciting new phones to be released by [...]

The developers over at Schmap.com have release a neat little web-app that lets you browse for a variety of locations and events through most major cities from your iPod Touch or iPhone.
Its easy, just browse to http://www.schmap.com from either of those Apple devices over Wi-Fi or EDGE. Select the city you wish to peruse and [...]

Though tfr has only gotten Leopard to work at a fixed 800×480 resolution and hasn’t tried to get WWAN networking working, Mac OS X running at all on the VIA-based hardware is interesting nonetheless. Another curiosity is that OQO was founded by ex-Apple employees who left the company when their idea for an OQO-like device [...]

A program to create a nationwide alert system using cell phones and other mobile devices was approved Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission.
The system would send text messages to Americans when an emergency occurs.
The FCC said cell phone companies that voluntarily opt into the system would send text-based alert messages to subscribers in response to [...]

Canadian game developers HermitWorks, creators of the rather cool Space Trader, have just posted a short blog entry showing a ridiculously impressive video of Quake III Arena running on two iPod Touch units. Yes, I said two. Network play, baby! The game appears to run at a very impressive frame rate, and it uses the [...]

Guitar Hero® is now available on mobile! Rock out anytime, anywhere with this rhythm-based, three button game that stays true to the original. Open with 15 jamming tracks, all taken from the Guitar Hero console series.

* Grow your set list with 3 new songs monthly
* Play through 3 venues each with 4 set songs and [...]

The Boy Genius Report has done it again and provided us with yet another super secret preview on an upcoming BlackBerry device.

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A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer [...]