Nowadays, powering on a Windows 7 computer involves a great deal of waiting, even if it's just a few seconds. While the current version of Windows has made improvements in this area, Microsoft doesn't consider it enough and has completely revolutionized the way the Windows operating system is loaded up in Windows 8.
Unless you haven't watched TV or haven't used the Internet in the last few months, you're probably looking forward to the iPhone 5, which is expected to be announced any day now. According to several previous reports, the next-generation iPhone will find its way to all major four US carriers, including Sprint. In order to lure customers into the network, it's now being reported that Sprint will provide an unlimited data plan.
Released just yesterday, the developer community has already found out a way to gain privileged access (read: “root” access) to the Motorola DROID Bionic. As a matter of fact, the DROID Bionic was rooted before it was publicly released, but the method has now been tested and is confirmed to be working. If you’re interested, you can follow our guide after the break.
Two couple of months ago, Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed 'Mango', had been finalized, yet no devices running earlier versions of the system have officially obtained 'Mango'. Thankfully, official HTC ROMs have been leaked and made their way onto the Internet, enabling users of the HTC HD7 to run 'Mango' right now, one day after a similar ROM file was leaked for the HTC 7 Mozart.
These days, many major technology and internet-based companies have been trying to figure out a way to take over a slice of the music business. Google's answer, which was introduced earlier this year, is Google Music, a cloud service, currently an invite-only and US-only beta product, that stores the user's entire music library on the cloud. While initially only available for Windows, Mac and Android, an iOS version of the said service is now available.
If you've been keeping track of Nokia's steady decline over the last few years, then you can tell that the company is moving to renew itself by scrapping its own Symbian operating system and adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone OS instead. Yet, the two companies have collaborated to bring some of Microsoft's services, including several Office apps and Lync; Microsoft's VoIP solution.
The developer community is getting closer and closer to a stable Android port for the HP TouchPad. In a video uploaded recently, Redmond Pie has learned that CyanogenMod 7 for the HP TouchPad has got multitouch working, GPU acceleration has been enabled and the popular custom ROM just looks better on the TouchPad thanks to “proper pixel formatting”.
Back in July, it became known that Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed 'Mango', had been finalized. Shortly after, the factory version of Mango leaked into the wild, yet it included none of the customizations provided by device makers, such as HTC. If you own an HTC 7 Mozart and have been desperately waiting for Mango, you might be happy to know that a customized Mango firmware has unexpectedly been leaked into the wild, tailored specifically for the HTC 7 Mozart.
Another day, another iPhone 5 rumor! According to a new report published today, there are as many as 150,000 units of the iPhone 5 being produced daily at Foxconn’s factories in Taiwan.
For those hard of vision, the iPod, iPad and iPod Touch devices do provide a certain degree of accessibility options. Nonetheless, reading the small text, particularly on the smaller screen devices, can sometimes be challenging. Sure, you can pinch to zoom, but swiping across three times to read one sentence isn't exactly convenient.
