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.
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.
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.
This afternoon, Tom Brokaw and his wife survived a fatal three cars accident on a busy New York City highway. While avoiding a spool of wire, a woman lost control of her vehicle and hit a mail truck in the left lane. She got herself killed in the process and injured the mail truck driver.
Did you ever got jealous of your friends with HTC HD2 which has this beautiful animated weather background which changes automatically with real weather forecast? Comes in Let It Snow Widget theme which brings snowy animation background right on your iPhone and iPod touch screen. The main purpose of this theme is to display snowflakes which falls on the home screen right behind all the icons. The overall effect is really nice as can be seen in the screenshot below.
Robert Gibbs who is the press secretary got some what annoyed with April Ryan, a White House correspondent for the American Urban Radio Network. During the course of an interview where she was questioning Gibbs regarding Desiree Roger, who is the social secretary at White House for having attended a diner sans invitation at White House, Gibbs got offended by it on Ryan. Although the transcript of the interview has not yet been released on the White House website, a segment of the interview has been leaked and can be read as follows.
Draw for 2010 FIFA World Cup has been announced today in a star-studded event held at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre in South Africa. Jerome Valcke, who is the FIFA secretary General chose the balls along with the Hollywood superstar Charlize Theron from the four pots to create the eight groups for the World Cup event which is scheduled to be held next year. The draw, which consists of the top 32 teams in the world has been divided into 8 groups, which can be seen as follows.
