Lenovo apparently is not only innovative with their design of the dual screen W700ds notebook computer, but they are also pretty creative with their commercial. Check out the commercial below. This commercial has drawn criticism from some, like CNET. We think that the bad acting and the cheesy storyline is besides the point. The fact [...]
Yesterday, HTC announced that they will be bringing us the Touch Cruise, the first location-centric smartphone, onto the market in Q2 of 2009. The primary value proposition and differentiator from other smartphones is its HTC Footprints™, which is a software on the device that can “record every adventure in precise and vivid detail – down [...]
You may know, that we here at SkratchBoard.com, are big believers of location-based services and applications. Wired magazine seems to agree with us. The cover of the Feb. 09 issue of Wired magazine is dedicated to the “GPS Revolution”. If you have an iPhone, BlackBerry or an Android phone, we would highly recommend checking out [...]
The iPhone automatically corrects some of your spelling and add apostrophes for you already whenever it can. For example, “wont” will turn into “won’t” and “cant” will turn into “can’t”. But in some cases, it cannot disambiguate whether you really want it to insert an apostrophe. Some examples are “were” (we’re), “hell” (he’ll), “shell” (she’ll), [...]
We installed Windows 7 Beta on the Acer Aspire One netbook to see how it would run. We came away impressed. Check out the video for our review. As a bonus, we show you a couple of neat new features in Windows 7. We can’t wait till Win7 arrives. We also highly recommend the Acer [...]
Well, guess what? Apple is apparently immune to the recession. Apple announced earnings after the closing bell today and reported a quarter with the highest quarterly revenue in company history. Revenue rose to above $10 billion for the first time and net income is at $1.6 billion. Ok, it’s one thing to do well in [...]
If you are a BlackBerry user, and you have been green with envy about your friends’ sexy iPhones and awesome 3rd party apps from the App Store, your envious days may soon be over. Research In Motion has started accepting application submissions from developers to their Application Storefront and Application Center. The Application Storefront is [...]
Are you drowning in inauguration fever, but feel left out because you couldn’t be in D.C. today to witness this historical moment? Fear not, CNN has put together a virtual world using crowd sourced photos that real attendees sent in, with PhotoSynth. The technology is from Microsoft Live Labs and it is super cool. It [...]
If you have multiple computers and mobile devices, and you are tired of manually keeping the data on them in sync, we have a solution for you – and it’s free! Unless you are in the tech industry and you read C++ Language Reference for fun, you probably haven’t heard of Live Mesh. It’s a [...]
The folks Neowin posted some pretty sweet looking screenshots that they claim are from the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5. We really dig the honeycomb layout and think the UI is pretty sexy. We all know Windows Mobile needs a lot of UI improvement for it to stand a chance with the competition this time around. [...]
