From the day of his car accident followed by the shocking disclosure of his alleged relationship with Rachel Uchitel, it is now observed that Tiger Woods is slowly disappearing from his famous commercials. It is felt that the sponsors are slowly drifting away from the best golf player in the world today. Many of his ads that used to run in prime time have almost vanished from the screens of televisions in United States. Last time that he was seen on television was in a 30 Seconds Gillette Ad on November 29, two days after the scandal broke out.
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The rumor mill for the next generation iPhone 4G is heating up yet again. According to a tweet posted by Eldar Murtazin (editor in chief of Mobile Review) on his twitter account, Apple has contacted Foxconn regarding orders for the next-gen iPhone. Foxconn is the manufacturer which Apple uses for their various products like the iPhone, Mac Mini and iPod line.
Apple has approved the official iPhone app for Playboy. This app as of today is available in the App Store for $1.99 for your viewing pleasure. If you were hoping to see nud1ty in this app then you are sure to get disappointed. Apple has very strict policy against nud1ty in their App Store and that doesn't seems to be lifted any time soon. Instead, the app focuses on other sections of their magazine which includes Interviews, Playmate intro, Preview Pictures, Cover Story, 20 Questions, Playboy advisor, Fashion and Party Jokes.
Last month we informed you about Kohjinsha’s new dual screen DZ series netbook PC that ran Windows 7. This DZ series netbook featured dual 10.1 inches widescreen displays with each having 1024×600 resolution. It was powered by 1.6 Ghz AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor with 5780MN chipset and ATI Radeon HD Integrated graphics card.
The successor to the current Wave 3 version of Windows Live Messenger has finally been unveiled. Neowin has got hold of exclusive screenshots which shows off the next version of Windows Live Messenger, that is going to be the part of Windows Live Wave 4 release. The most significant change in Windows Live Messenger 2010 is the added option for “social stream” updates, which is going to retrieve all your friends updates across various network activities like facebook, twitter and blog posts, that you have added in Windows Live.
Some units of HTC HD2 were shipped with camera problem in which a pink hue spot was noticed in the center of all the snaps taken from the 5 megapixel autofocus camera on board HTC HD2. HTC first confirmed it as an hardware issue but then later they found out that it was infact a software issue, rather than a hardware one. And now HTC has rolled out a software update which fixes this problem on all the defected handsets.
Time Magazine today has published its list of “Top 10 of Everything” in which they have picked up Motorola Droid on Verizon network as the winner for their “Gadget of the Year” award. iPhone 3GS which was released in the same year as Motorola Droid could only manage 4th place behind Droid, The Nook and Dyson Air Multiplier. This is what Time’s had to say about Motorola Droid.
Motorola Droid on Verizon has been successfully rooted for direct access to the file system. It works on both the original Android 2.0 Rom which ships with Droid, and the latest Android 2.0.1 OTA (over the air) software update which was recently released for the Droid phone. Root access will enable you to modify the phone’s firmware to whatever you want to have on your phone like themes, apps and custom Roms just like you do on the jailbroken iPhone.
Tiger Woods has been linked with several women, all claiming to have had an affair with him in this on going scandal saga. But the middle-aged blonde women who was taken to hospital this morning from Tiger’s home in Orlando may not be any of the mistresses he has been linked with. Various news sources have now confirmed that the women who was taken to the hospital was Elin Nordegren's mother (Woods’ mother-in-law), and the young women who followed her ambulance in the black Cadillac was either Elin, or her twin sister Josefin. Elin’s mother flew all the way from Sweden for the comfort of her daughter in the time of need.
An ambulance was called to Tiger Woods home in Windermere, FL which transported a middle-aged blonde woman to the hospital. The call was made to 911 at 2:36 AM from a home on Deacon Circle. Earlier reports suggested that the call made was not from Tiger’s home, but from one of his neighbors but then later it was confirmed that the call indeed came from Tiger’s address in Orlando.
Google today has announced the public availability of Goggles which can let you search the web using images, without having to speak or write anything. You can simply take a picture with the camera on your phone, Goggles will then analyze and process your image, and then it will return a relevant search results page from Google. Currently, Goggles identifies landmarks, books, logos, business cards, places, wine bottles and works of art. Support for things like food, plants, cars, animals and suggestions of move in a chess game will added in future releases.
Google today has announced the rollout of its Real-Time Search technology which will enable users to see the relevant information in search results from information published on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed and identi.ca. This new search option is also optimized to run on mobile devices such as the iPhone and other Android based devices. This announcement was made today at a news conference held at the Computer History Museum.
It looks like HTC is set to release a mini variant of HD2 in the first half of 2010. This news comes out through HTC portfolio which has been leaked online via XDA, hinting at a number of Windows Mobile and Android based devices for next year.
We reported in one of our earlier post in which Tiger Woods allegedly struck a 1 million dollar deal with Rachel Uchitel for calling off her press conference. Rachel was expected to announce her confession after her initial denial. After cancellation of this conference, it looked all calm and quite for Woods for a while. But now, yet another mistress is linking herself with the golf superstar Tiger Woods. She is allegedly his third mistress after Rachel Uchitel, Jaimee Grubbs and Kalika Moquin.
If you were looking to get HTC Sense like weather app for your iPhone and iPod touch, then look no further than World Weather app by TAPTAP Mobile. This app has by far the best animation and graphics for a weather app, and it works very smoothly on iPhone 3GS. The UI totally sets it apart from all the weather apps available on the iPhone.
