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  • This Week’s Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]
    By Gizmodo on March 12th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    In this week’s bipolar app roundup: Foursquare, squared! Slow ISPs, tattled on! Videos, easily streamed! Street Fighter fans’ high standards, met! Twitter apps, set free! Your entire life, documented! Your every plan, shared! And more… This Week’s Apps To view the gallery as a single page, click here . This Week’s iPhone News …

  • Say Goodbye to Unlimited Wireless Data Plans [Opinion]
    By Gizmodo on March 12th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    You know how you pay a fixed monthly fee for your phone, and can check email and Twitter, surf the web and the Yelp app anytime you like without counting minutes or megabytes? Yeah, well that’s all gonna end. Yesterday, Verizon CTO Tony Melone said that the days of all-you-can-eat …

  • 17 Modern-Day Gadgets Dragged Back to the USSR [PhotoshopContest]
    By Gizmodo on March 9th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    For this week’s Photoshop Contest , I asked you to turn today’s user-friendly gadgets into cold, utilitarian Soviet-era relics. It’s probably for the best that these don’t actually exist. First Place —Bobo the Teddy Second Place —Paul Vasco Third Place —Goodie to You Dot Com

  • Foursquare iPhone App Vanishes from App Store Due to “Hiccup”
    By Mashable on March 7th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    The iPhone and iPod touch app for the popular location check-in service Foursquare has temporarily dropped from Apple’s App Store. The Android and BlackBerry versions are still available, but the iPhone is by far the most popular platform for Foursquare users. This is just a temporary technical setback, though. …

  • Oscars Live Video Stream – Watch Online [Academy Awards]
    By Mashable on March 7th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    As a result of failed contract negotiations, Disney pulled New York affiliate ABC7 off of cable company Cablevision’s channel lineup early this morning, leaving over 3 million people without a channel to watch the Oscars on tonight unless they tune in over the air. We’d like to offer those 3 million …

  • 54 Awesome Action Sequences [Photography]
    By Gizmodo on March 2nd, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    What happens when Gizmodo readers capture action at 3-5fps? Why, the results of this week’s Shooting Challenge: Action Sequence Photography . Read on for the winners. Second Runner Up “Shot in my New England backyard during the lull in a snowstorm on February 26, 2010.” Camera: Canon EOS 7D Lens: Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS…

  • Olympic Twitter Tracker Visualizes Tweets [VIDEO]
    By Mashable on February 20th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    NBC has set up a fun Twitter tracker for the Winter Olympics, representing Tweets about each sport in a visual interface. The Olympic Twitter Tracker , developed by Stamen Design, is an interesting addition to the standard stream of Tweets, which NBC also provides. The feature was announced on the Twitter blog…

  • The Week’s Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]
    By Gizmodo on February 19th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    In this week’s porn-free app roundup: Expensive instant messaging apps, humbled! Cars, leered at! Zombies, organically defeated! Enigmatic Japanese game developers, being enigmatic! The sun, closely monitored! Malls, fearlessly navigated! And more… More??

  • Venezuela’s Chavez: Twitter Messages Are Terrorist Threats
    By Mashable on February 5th, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    Venezuelans have been taking to Twitter to protest threats to journalism and freedom of expression, leading the hashtag #freevenezuela to become one of the largest trending Twitter topics this week. President Hugo Chávez has responded to the outpouring of messages — many of which call for his resignation along with expanded freedom of …

  • 77 iPad Updates That May or May Not Please the Critics
    By Gizmodo on February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments Comments

    For this week’s Photoshop Contest , I asked you to make some improvements to Apple’s iPad. Some of these entries are definite improvements. Others? Uh, not so much. First Place —Ron Cassel Second Place —Jay Goebel Third Place —Ken Grey