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Today was a relatively busy day at blargKABOOM, but you might not have noticed it. The overall changes were internal and as of now, all of our changes have been made. The changes won’t affect you directly, but overtime more new features will be added due to today’s switch. Periodically through the day, some users [...]

AT&T announces iPhone 3G plans; buy it at 8:00 am

With iPhone 3G launch date getting closer, AT&T decided to give us even more information to chew on. Not only have they given us the plan information (detailed after the break, but we now know that AT&T’s doors will swing open at 8:00 am on July 11th for iPhone 3G customers. Besides that nice tidbit [...]

AIM application to be free via App Store

After watching the iPhone 3G What’s New video, you can see AIM listed as an application available via the App Store. The app was demoed back in March at Apple’s iPhone SDK event and is now confirmed to be available for FREE in the App Store. The video gives a caption: “Some applications are not [...]

Happy Birthday dear iPhone! Happy Birthday to you!

iPhone turned one today. June 29, 2007: the day iPhone was released to the public. In less than a year, iPhone has received multiple software updates, had a price drop now and then, increased storage space, and launched in multiple countries. iPhone has even become one of the top phones in the country. So a [...]

@me.com emails working for some

Apple has flipped the switch and activated Me.com email addresses for some .Mac customers. In other words, if a current .Mac customer has username@mac.com, email sent to username@me.com would be forwarded to their .Mac account. @me.com emails are part of MobileMe, Apple’s upcoming replacement to .Mac. For more information on MobileMe – check out me.com [...]

Virgin Mobile acquires Helio for $39 million

Rumors started surfacing of Virgin Mobile buying Helio recently, and the companies confirmed that today. Virgin Mobile is buying Helio from SK Telecom and Earthlink for $39 million worth of Virgin Mobile USA stock. The deal is set to close in Q3 2008, but Helio customers will mostly not be affected. Helio’s 170,000 customers will [...]

iPhone news: Apple releases iPhone SDK beta 8 and iTunes 7.7 beta to developers, iPhone 2.0 firmware out on July 11, and more

Today was a relatively big day for iPhone news. Let’s wrap-up today’s news:

Apple released the eighth iPhone SDK beta today, providing a new, more stable release of iPhone 2.0 beta firmware. Alongside the release, Apple seeded iTunes 7.7 to developers in the iPhone Developer Program. According to developers, iTunes 7.7 shows Applications and related options [...]

Sprint offers $20 for YouTube videos featuring new Instinct

This is one marketing campaign that’s never been done before, and it could just be one of the most brilliant yet. Sprint is offering the first 1000 people that create a video with it’s new flagship device, the Samsung Instinct, $20. The rules are pretty simple: create a video with the new Samsung Instinct, upload [...]

BlackBerry Bold demo video is fake and iPhone copy-cat

Cell phone guided tours didn’t really exist before the iPhone’s way back in June of 2007. Even now, most companies don’t have guided tour videos. RIM thought to itself, “hey, let’s try and show the customers how to use our new BlackBerry Bold.” This idea may have been a good one, but after watching RIM’s [...]

BlackBerry Bold’s AT&T release delayed until mid-August

Sad news BlackBerry fans: the BlackBerry Bold’s launch on AT&T has been delayed until August. AT&T and RIM need more time to deal with overheating and software issues with battery life, according to The Boy Genius Report. The BlackBerry Bold is still on target to launch on Canada’s Rogers Mobile shortly.

iPhone 2.0 firmware going Gold Master on Friday

According to Gizmodo’s inside sources, the upcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware will hit Gold Master (ready for public release) this Friday. This is only a tentative ‘planned’ date, but it would be great for developers to get a final version of the software a while before iPhone 3G launch. Now this Gold Master date doesn’t necessarily [...]

Honda FCX Clarity: first commercially available hydrogen-powered car

A hydrogen car has seemed like a thing of the future for a while now, but Honda announced that they are going into limited-production on the FCX Clarity. The FCX is, you guessed it, a hydrogen powered car that only emits water vapor, unlike current cars. “These car simply do not pollute,” reads the official [...]

TestFreaks.com – a new review site

It may not be technology ‘news’, but it does relate to technology and gadgets. After doing some searches on the ‘net, I recently came upon Test Freaks. The interesting fact about this site is that it doesn’t have one review, but it grabs tons of reviews from all over the web. It lets users see [...]

Firefox 3 out now, ‘Download Day’ is here

Firefox 3, the latest version of Firefox, was released today after the final beta was released last week. The latest version adds features like easier bookmarking, a new smarter address bar, and performance improvements. Mozilla is really pushing this launch with what they call ‘Download Day.’ Mozilla is trying to make a Guinness World Record [...]

LG Decoy lands on Verizon, includes removable Bluetooth headset

LG released a new slider phone, the LG Decoy, onto Verizon Wireless today, bringing a new feature that no other handset has: a built-in, detachable Bluetooth headset on the back. Perfect timing to announce a phone with a Bluetooth headset built-in, considering California will start enforcing a hands-free only law while driving starting July 1. [...]