February 25, 2012 at 2:11 pm 
Amanda Wang 
Apple may be planning to replace the dock connector that’s been synonymous with iPhones, iPods and iPads for almost a decade with something new.
That’s the latest rumor from a smartphone enthusiast site, which says Apple is on the verge of ditching the familiar 30-pin jack for a smaller “micro dock.”
The site, iMore, claims Apple is looking to ditch the connector in its upcoming iPhone 5. The reason: to make room for more stuff on the inside. (more…)
February 24, 2012 at 8:58 pm Amanda Wang 
Tiny Hearts, the Toronto-based studio behindPocket Zoo, a top 50 iOS app (and one of my kid’s personal favorites), has just released a new title that turns Instagram into a game. The new app is called InstaMatch, and it’s a modernized take on the classic memory matching game. In InstaMatch, instead of using images of duplicate items, the photos users match up come from Instagram.
Using real-world photos of animals, trees, clouds, cities, food and other similar, but not identical, items makes this matching game just a bit more difficult than its traditional counterpart, which is typically aimed at children. While kids will clearly enjoy InstaMatch, too, there’s no need to limit its appeal to that demographic. (more…)
February 24, 2012 at 2:53 pm Amanda Wang 
There have been a few walkie-talkie mobile apps that have come out on iOS and Android over the last year or two, but it wasn’t until last fall that one of them had a breakout moment. Voxer suddenly hit it big with the young black community in Cleveland and a few other big cities last November. Since then, it has spread to the rest of the world, topping the app store and gaining a wide range of users – including venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road here in Silicon Valley.
By which I mean, lots of VCs are both using it, and looking at investing in it. Voxer has spent the last couple months working on closing an angel round that it had left open, according to industry sources, while also working on its first venture funding. It’s raising $15-20 million at a pre-money valuation of $150 million, says one person. Another counters, saying that the valuation is going to be at least double that. (more…)
January 29, 2012 at 7:37 pm Amanda Wang 
This retro-style mashup of Tron and Snakeputs players in control of a wisecracking yellow line that’s trying to collect dots and avoid collisions with other lines. There are six game modes to enjoy — ones with tons of lines on the loose, as well as a classic Snakemode. (more…)
January 26, 2012 at 1:07 am Amanda Wang 
We know. We know. Everyone still hasn’t stopped talking about how many iPhone 4Ses Apple sold last quarter, and here we are reporting on new rumors about the next one. But this most recent iPhone 5 rumor has piqued our interest more than usual.
9to5 Mac reports that a Foxconn worker told them that the next-generation iPhone, tentatively called the iPhone 5, is gearing up for production. According to the report, there are several different samples, each of which varies slightly from the others, so it’s impossible to determine which will be final. (more…)
January 20, 2012 at 2:06 am Amanda Wang 
One of the world’s most popular file-sharing sites was shuttered Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content.
An indictment accused Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders at least $500 million in lost revenue. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to make it easier for authorities to go after websites with pirated material, especially those with overseas headquarters and servers. (more…)
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January 17, 2012 at 9:53 am Amanda Wang 
The singer was photographed rolling what appears to be a blunt and smoking outside while relaxing in Hawaii Sunday. For those questioning just what exactly she’s inhaling, we’ll let her own tweet speak for itself:
“Kush rolled, glass full…I prefer the better things!” she wrote, quoting lyrics from Drake’s “Up All Night.”
Hey, maybe she’s smoking some hand-rolled tobacco.Or maybe it’s Blue Ivy. We guess we’ll never really know for sure. (more…)
January 16, 2012 at 10:13 pm Amanda Wang 
Japan’s mobile landscape is currently in the midst of an Android revolution, and today KDDI au (the country’s second biggest carrier) announced another 5 smartphones with that OS on board for the local market. The most interesting model in the new line-up is the so-called INFOBAR C01[JP], a candy bar coming with a heavily customized UI (based on Android 2.3).
Posted in Gadgets, Google, Mobile Tags: Android, google, infobar co1, japan, kddi, mobile, new tech man, newtechman, revolution, smartphone January 11, 2012 at 9:49 pm Amanda Wang A Motorola smartphone with Intel inside is due to arrive in the second half of 2012, the two companies announced at the Consumer Electronics Show.
The phone will be the first product of a multi-year agreement that will extend to not only smartphones but tablets too, Intel said. (more…)
January 11, 2012 at 7:24 am Amanda Wang 
More people tweeted about Microsoft than any other tech brand Monday at CES 2012, but people who tweeted about Google had the most followers on average. Ultrabook computers, tablet devices and OLED display technology were by far the most-mentioned digital trends on Twitter. AndMashable had the second-most tweeted domain name at the industry’s showcase event. (more…)
