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Nov

Kim Dotcom’s Mega cloud storage service gets an official iPhone app


Now that Kim Dotcom’s cloud storage service Mega is available to the public, it’s finally found time to launch the iOS app it’s been promising. With its Android app already four months old, the new Mega iPhone app includes many of the same feature…

28
Nov

US carriers can now block activation of stolen smartphones if they head abroad


US wireless industry group CTIA has announced that a stolen phone database launched last year by T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon is now final, including integration with international carriers. That’ll let foreign operators block stolen US …

28
Nov

US judge throws out Apple location-tracking lawsuit


Remember all the fuss a couple years ago about Apple storing your location data from iPhone 4 handsets and the subsequent privacy lawsuits that resulted? Well, that’s all amounted to nothing for four of the plaintiffs, as all their claims have jus…

28
Nov

Dual-SIM HTC One with expandable storage comes to the UK


Just days after it unveiled a second gold One, HTC is releasing another variant of its Android flagship in an attempt to boost sales in the UK. Today, the company announced the availability of the HTC One Dual SIM, which you may already know as HT…

28
Nov

Brazil wants to know why Apple bills its citizens in US dollars


Brazil’s national currency is the real, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at its iTunes storefront. Apple prices everything there in US dollars, which has led Brazil’s Consumer Protection Secretariat to write a formal letter to the company req…

28
Nov

KitKat arrives on Nexus One via feeble custom ROM


If you’re still rocking a Nexus One, but are jealous of all the new devices running KitKat, you’re in luck. The folks on the XDA Developer’s forums have hacked together a custom Android 4.4 ROM for the three year-old device. Unsurprisingly, the pa…

28
Nov

PopCalc – Light spreadsheet, powerfull calculator, free for iOS 7


Hi there, I’ve designed a new kind of calculator that takes full advantage of the benefits of a modern touchscreen interface. Try it and you’ll never go back to the default iPhone calculator.
Features:
Calc Sheets
Instant computation
Single click memory numbers
Edit calc lines
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28
Nov

Faulty connectors push Retron 5 game console into early 2014 launch


Everyone who wants to snag Hyperkin’s Retron 5 this holiday season may want to look elsewhere for now, because the retro gaming console won’t arrive in time for Santa’s visit. Unfortunately, Hyperkin scrubbed the (already delayed) December 10th la…

28
Nov

MLB releases Franchise MVP for Android, lets you live your baseball fantasies


The World Series is over, and it’s a long three months before Spring Training begins. What’s a baseball fan to do until then? Well, if you’re an Android user, you could pick up Franchise MVP, a new game released by none other than Major League Bas…

28
Nov

Facebook tests ‘save-for-later’ feature for the second time, makes it better than the first


Beware, Pocket and Instapaper: the folks at Facebook HQ are testing a feature that encroaches upon your “save-for-later” territory. This new function currently appears for some mobile users as an iBook bookmark-esque button next to status updates …