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Samsung Galaxy S III gets permission to enter US, still only with HSPA+

Samsung Galaxy S III gets permission to enter US, still only with HSPA+
May
15

This is the same European version we’ve already spent so much time with, just stopping by the FCC to get its wireless paperwork in order. There’s no LTE onboard, but the phone would handle HSPA+ on AT&T or just EDGE on T-Mo if it was (now legally) carried into the States. The regulatory label also [...]

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Verizon’s 4G Jetpack Hotspot Gets Prepaid Treatment [Verizon]

Verizon’s 4G Jetpack Hotspot Gets Prepaid Treatment [Verizon]
Apr
30

Beginning May 1st Verizon will offer a new prepaid version of its Jetpack 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot MiFi 4510L with three different prepaid plans. For $ 15, you’ll get 250 MB of data a week. For $ 60 you’ll get a monthly allotment of 3 GB, and for $ 90 you’ll get 10 GB of [...]

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Star Castle finally finds a home on the Atari 2600, gets a redesigned cartridge

Star Castle finally finds a home on the Atari 2600, gets a redesigned cartridge
Apr
27

Halo may have made its way to the Atari 2600, but wouldn’t porting a retro game to this ’70s-era console be more appropriate? MAKE Magazine has the skinny on former Atari dev Scott Williamson’s port of the Cinematronics shooter Star Castle. Though Atari execs decided the title was too complicated to bring over in the [...]

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Transformer Prime gets power of reincarnation with Team Win Recovery Project 2.1.2

Transformer Prime gets power of reincarnation with Team Win Recovery Project 2.1.2
Apr
24

Known affectionately as Twrp, this handy utility allows you to backup and recover your Android world even as you flit effortlessly between different custom ROMs. Two-point-oh worked great on a limited selection of devices, like the Nexus S, Kindle Fire and TouchPad, but this latest update brings improved support for Honeycomb tablets and ICS handsets [...]

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Viddy gets celebrity backing from Will Smith, Jay-Z companies

Viddy gets celebrity backing from Will Smith, Jay-Z companies
Apr
24

Video-sharing app Viddy got a pretty nice financial boost on Monday, with backing from production companies that Jay-Z (Roc Nation) and Will Smith (Overbrook Entertainment) head. The New York Times says they join $ 6 million in funding that Viddy received from traditional venture capitalists in February. Viddy, released in 2011, lets users upload 15-second [...]

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