http://kool-gadgets.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.6 en hourly 1 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/htc-incredible-spotted-with-its-covering-off-and-a-verizon-wireless-tattoo-on-its-back/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/htc-incredible-spotted-with-its-covering-off-and-a-verizon-wireless-tattoo-on-its-back/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:34 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/htc-incredible-spotted-with-its-covering-off-and-a-verizon-wireless-tattoo-on-its-back/ Images and details on the HTC Incredible have emerged from the depths of Android Forums today. Most notable is the loss of the bright orange backing which has been replaced with a matte black covering emblazoned with a Verizon Wireless logo. Internally, the Incredible is rumored to have 500 MB of RAM (320 available), an 8 megapixel camera, measurements of 117.5 x 58.5 x 11.9mm, and a blinding red interior with a matching red battery. Though it packs a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, the Incredible, just like the Acer Liquid A1, has been underclocked to 768 MHz, a battery savings measure Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/htc-incredible-spotted-with-its-covering-off-and-a-verizon-wireless-tattoo-on-its-back/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/verizon-wireless-cto-hints-at-data-plan-tiers/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/verizon-wireless-cto-hints-at-data-plan-tiers/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:31 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/verizon-wireless-cto-hints-at-data-plan-tiers/ It’s inevitable, tiered data plans for mobile devices are coming.  It’s a reality that wireless providers and consumers are soon going to have to deal with. As phones add more features and become more data-centric, they tax wireless networks, and ultimately, the network provider’s bottom line. Verizon’s CTO, Tony Melone, had this to say when he was asked about unlimited data plans by the Wall Street Journal:  “As much data as you can consume is the big issue that has to change… It’s one thing to say all you can eat is gone, it’s another to have consumers Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/verizon-wireless-cto-hints-at-data-plan-tiers/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/does-adobe-flash-actually-outperform-html-5/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/does-adobe-flash-actually-outperform-html-5/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:25 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/does-adobe-flash-actually-outperform-html-5/ The battle between HTML 5 and Flash wages on with the discovery of an interesting report comparing the CPU usage of HTML 5 and Flash on both Mac and Windows platform. In the midst of all the smack talk about Flash, Flash was presumed to be a CPU hog that chokes your system to the point of death. A series of measurements performed by video compression guru Jan Ozer reveals that Flash may not be as much of a CPU killer as previously thought and that, in some cases, HTML 5 is the culprit that causes CPU overload. Ozer tested Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/does-adobe-flash-actually-outperform-html-5/feed/ 1 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/verizon-wireless-makes-the-249-casio-g%e2%80%99zone-brigade-official/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/verizon-wireless-makes-the-249-casio-g%e2%80%99zone-brigade-official/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:23 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/verizon-wireless-makes-the-249-casio-g%e2%80%99zone-brigade-official/ Available today from Verizon Wireless is the long awaited Casio G’zOne Brigade. The Brigade keeps the rugged good looks of its G’zOne predecessors but shakes things up by debuting as a horizontal clamshell instead of the traditional flip phone. The Brigade also ups the specs of the G’zOne line by offering the following: 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, video capture and LED light function Full QWERTY keyboard Push to Talk Field Force Manager MIL-STD-810F standards for Water, shock, dust, immersion, vibration, humidity, salt fog, altitude, high and low temperature storage, and solar radiation GPS with support for VZ Navigator Front facing speakerphone Text to speech capability microSD Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/verizon-wireless-makes-the-249-casio-g%e2%80%99zone-brigade-official/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/opera-mini-5-hits-android-market/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/opera-mini-5-hits-android-market/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:20 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/opera-mini-5-hits-android-market/ Our friends from Norway have dropped a little present in the Android Market — especially for all you Opera fans — as Opera Mini 5 beta 2 is available for download starting… now. Opera’s next generation mobile web browser packs tabbed browsing, speed dial, Opera Link, a download manager, and a password manager, amongst other things. Those of you who are sick of the default Android browser and can’t quite cozy up to Dolphin can go ahead and take Opera Mini 5 for a spin… and do let us know what you think about it. Read ]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/opera-mini-5-hits-android-market/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/wildtangent-cuts-ad-deal-with-social-game-firm-playdom/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/wildtangent-cuts-ad-deal-with-social-game-firm-playdom/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:10 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/wildtangent-cuts-ad-deal-with-social-game-firm-playdom/ WildTangent said today it has scored a significant new customer for its BrandBoost ad platform for social games. It is now teaming up with Playdom to integrate ads into Playdom’s popular Facebook game, Tiki Farm. BrandBoost will give Playdom’s gamers rewards such as virtual items and premium social games whenever the gamer agrees to view a video ad from inside the game. This is a big deal is since most social games are free-to-play and are monetized through virtual goods sales. But this ad-based revenue model could help balance that virtual goods model. About 85 percent of gamers told Nielsen in Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/wildtangent-cuts-ad-deal-with-social-game-firm-playdom/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/video-game-awards-night-irreverence-strangeness-and-blockbusters/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/video-game-awards-night-irreverence-strangeness-and-blockbusters/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:02:48 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/video-game-awards-night-irreverence-strangeness-and-blockbusters/ The awards night for the Game Developers Conference is always a hoot. It starts out with the Independent Games Festival, where the industry celebrates the students, amateurs, and one-person shops. One of my favorite games of the year on the iPhone, Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor by developer Tiger Style, won the award for best mobile game. But Monaco took home the Seumas McNally Grand Prize award for the best game of 2009. The indie folks are always cute and touching when they go up on stage. They thank their parents and somebody somewhere who believed in their dreams of making Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/video-game-awards-night-irreverence-strangeness-and-blockbusters/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/sequoia-backs-free-mobile-app-company-snaptu/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/sequoia-backs-free-mobile-app-company-snaptu/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:02:36 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/sequoia-backs-free-mobile-app-company-snaptu/ Snaptu, a startup bringing an iPhone-style application experience to thousands of mobile devices, just announced it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sequoia Capital. Previously known as Moblica, Snaptu says it works on any phone that can run a Java application, adding up to more than 2,000 devices. (The first question in the “help” section of Snaptu’s website is, “Does Snaptu work on my phone?” which gets answered with an unequivocal “Yes!”) Once you download the app, it opens up a catalog of other apps. Those include Twitter, Facebook, a news reader, and a TechCrunch app. Snaptu is ad-supported, so Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/sequoia-backs-free-mobile-app-company-snaptu/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/twitter-lets-users-geotag-tweets-directly-from-twitter-com/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/twitter-lets-users-geotag-tweets-directly-from-twitter-com/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:02:20 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/twitter-lets-users-geotag-tweets-directly-from-twitter-com/ Twitter has turned on a feature that lets users geotag tweets directly from the web site. So now you don’t have to rely on mobile apps like Tweetie to triangulate where you are. The move should help add location data to a greater share of conversations flowing through the microblogging network and enrich local discovery and search. Right now, the feature is deployed to only 40 percent of users, according to spokesperson Sean Garrett. In personal tests, it works on Firefox for me, but not Chrome or Safari. You can geotag your tweet to a specific point or to a general Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/twitter-lets-users-geotag-tweets-directly-from-twitter-com/feed/ 0 http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/bioware%e2%80%99s-ray-muzyka-on-how-to-build-a-game-company-video/ http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/bioware%e2%80%99s-ray-muzyka-on-how-to-build-a-game-company-video/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:02:06 +0000 Admin http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/bioware%e2%80%99s-ray-muzyka-on-how-to-build-a-game-company-video/ Ray Muzyka, chief executive of popular video game-maker BioWare, spoke at our GamesBeat@GDC conference in San Francisco about building game franchises. While onstage, Muzyka talked about his Electronic Arts-owned company’s upcoming games in the Star Wars, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age franchises — all across BioWare’s “future portfolio,” he said it’s shifting toward selling games as an ongoing service rather than a standalone product. Afterwards, I did a brief video interview with Muzyka, during which he elaborated on how his BioWare’s business model is changing, described the company’s new games and downloadable content (DLC), and offered his advice for up-and-coming game Read More...]]> http://kool-gadgets.com/2010/03/12/bioware%e2%80%99s-ray-muzyka-on-how-to-build-a-game-company-video/feed/ 0