BlackBerry Bold 9900 Turns Up For Pre-Order On Vodafone UK

Last week RIM announced its latest BlackBerry smartphones, one of those was the new BlackBerry Bold 9900, and Vodafone just dropped us an email to let us know that they now have the BlackBerry Bold9900 up for pre-order.

The BlackBerry Bold 9900 features a 2.8 inch touchscreen display and a QWERTY keyboard, processing is provided by a 1.2GHz processor and it also features a 5 megapixel camera.

Other specifications on the BlackBerry Bold 9900 include WiFi, Bluetooth and voice activated dialing. Vodafone haven’t given an exact launch date, although the representative we spoke to said it should be available later this month some time between the 15th and 20th of August.

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Archos G9 Tablet Can Be Equipped With Optional 250GB Hybrid Drive

Archos has today announced that their new Android G9 tablet arriving in September, for a staring price of $300. Will now come with the option to fit it with a 250GB hybrid drive for additional storage.

The base model Archos G9 tablet will come equipped with 8GB of storage and include SD card slots to add additional memory if required. However if you feel the need for even more storage space, Archos have today announced the addition of a new option that allows you to upgrade to a 250 GB hybrid drive.  Combining a 250GB hard disk drive with a 4GB flash drive.

The new 250GB upgrade option will be available on both the Archos G9 8-inch and 10-inch models, and will cost $370 and $470 respectively.

As expected upgrading to the much bigger 250 GB hybrid drive will add a little extra weight and size to your Archos G9, increasing its weight from 599g or 755g and increasing its thickness from 14.7mm or 15.6mm.

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Seagate Unveils GoFlex Turbo External USB 3.0 HDD Complete With SafetyNet

If you are looking for a secure external hard disk drive to store critical data on, the new Seagate GoFlexTurbo announced by Seagate this week might well be worth a look as it comes with 2 years of SafetyNet protection included.

The Seagate GoFlex Turbo drives are equipped with USB 3.0 interfaces providing 40% faster data transfers than current USB 2.0 drives. SafetyNet is also included with all new GoFlex Turbo performance drives and covers the owner for 2 years with one recovery attempt on your drive.

Just in case the worst should happen and you are unable to access the data on your drive because of physical damage to the drive, human error or software viruses, to name a few. For more information, visit the SafetyNet terms and conditions page. SafetyNet service currently is available only to legal residents of US.

The new GoFlex Turbo Drives with SafetyNet data recovery services are now available for $120 for 500GBs and $140 for 750GB of storage

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Apple Sued Over OS X Fast Booting

According to the guys over at Patently Apple, a Florida based company called Operating Systems Solutions, has filed a patent lawsuit against Apple, and the company is alleging that Apple’s fast boot feature is OS X is infringing their patent.

It looks like the patent originally belong to LG back in 2002, and then another company called Promitus Technologies in 2008, there are no details on how OSS got their hands on the patent.

The original owner/assignee of this 2002 granted patent is shown to be LG Electronics Inc. Note that the inventor of the reissued granted patent under RE40,092 is the same but assigned to Protimus Technologies LLC in 2008. It’s the very same patent that is being quoted in the court’s document.

It isn’t clear as yet whether LG still has anything to do with the actual patent in question, you can find out more information over at Patently Apple.

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10 Year Old Hacker Finds iOS And Android Gaming Security Flaw

A 10 year old called CyFi has announced a flaw which she found in some Android and iOS games at this years DefCon hacker conference in las Vegas. CyFi discovered the bug whilst playing farming games, she was bored with the game taking so long and wanted to find a way to speed things up.

Simply by advancing the clock on her tablet or smartphone, she was able to find a way to speed up these farming games, for example when the clock was changed CyFi was able to produce crops within the game more quickly than she normally would have been able to.

Many games normally detect changes in the clock time, to stop this sort of thing within the games, but CyFi managed to find a way around this as the BBC points out.

While many games detect and block clock-based cheating, CyFi found ways round these security measures. Disconnecting a phone from wi-fi and only advancing a clock by a small amounts helped to open up the loophole as it forced the game into a state not tested by its original creators.

No doubt the developers of these games will be looking for a way to close the hole in the games which has been found to work on both Apple’s iOS devices and also Google’s Android devices.

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Apple TV (2nd Gen) Running HTML 5 Based Game (video)

Apple’s 2nd generation TV device as yet won’t officially allow any applications to run on it. But one industrious hacker named appletvblack has been able to jailbreak the device and run a simple HTML 5 based card game.

Adding to the speculation that Apple’s TV device could one day eventually be able to play non jailbroken applications. Watch a brief video after the jump to see the hack in action.

The game used in the demonstration is hardly the most graphical or engaging, but it’s a great example of what is capable with Apple’s TV and HTML 5.  Apple has always said that their Apple TV device was merely a “hobby” and explains why the company hasn’t pushed it further.

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JAVOedge iOS Mini Stylus

A new mini iOS styles has been created called the JAVOedge that has been designed to plug directly into the sync port on any of your iOS devices, for easy carrying and availability.

The JAVOedge is a mini stylus designed to make doodling scribbling and sketching on any of your iOS devices much easier and more enjoyable. The JAVOedge stylus is roughly the same thickness as a chalk stick and is portable making it convenient to carry around.

The new JAVOedge stylus is now available to purchase from the JAVOedge website for $9.95 and comes in either black or white finishes.

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Apple’s iTunes Replay Service Delayed By Movie Studios?

The other day we heard that Apple intends to launch a new movie streaming service, which will be callediTunes Replay, and it looks like the service may be suffering from some of the earlier problems that Apple had getting their iTunes Match music service off the ground.

Apple’s iTunes Match is scheduled to launch in September at the same time as Apple launches iOS 5, it took Apple quite some time to come to agreement with the record labels on the service and now it looks like the company is having similar problems with the movie studios.

Apple has yet to sign cloud agreements for feature films with at least four of the top six film studios, according to multiple film industry sources who spoke to CNET. Apple has indeed pursued such agreements, which CNET reported in May, but Apple’s negotiations could drag on for months before the company acquires cloud rights from all six film studios, the sources said. A launch is not imminent, the sources said.

So we can expect to see iTunes Replay launch in the near future, when really depends on how long it takes Apple to come to agreement with the movie studios, and we suspect it won’t launch at the same time as iOS 5 and iTunes Match.

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Official Ghostbusters Ghost Trap Arriving In October (video)

If you are the Ghostbusters movie fan you might be pleased to know that Mattel will be launching an official Ghostbusters ghost trap, that will be arriving in stores during October for $135.

The highly detailed Ghostbusters trap features two different modes ‘prop’ and ‘movie’, that use lighting and special sound effects to provide ghosts catching routines. Even after the imaginary ghost is caught the trap will continue to vibrating and light up.

Watch the video after the jump for a run through the special modes and features of the Ghostbusters trap.

The $135 price tag seems fairly reasonable  considering what you get, as Mattel seemed to have pushed the boat out on detail and effects with their new Ghostbusters ghost trap that will launched a couple of months.

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LockCircle Aluminum DSLR Cap (Video)

If you want something a little more sturdy than the standard plastic DSLR body cap that came with your DSLR, then you may want to have a look at the LockCircle.

The LockCircle is an aluminum DSLR cap for your camera body and it has been machined from solid billet aluminum, the video below shows how they are made.

It certainly looks very well made from the video and would definitely be an improvement over the standard plastic cap, although they aren’t cheap as it will set you back $100, you can find out more information over at LockCircle.

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Stabile Pro iPad 2 Stand (video)

Thoughtout has this week unveiled their new Stabile Pro iPad 2 stand, which has built on their original Stabile stand design. The stand provides an easy way to transform your iPad 2 into a monitor which can be used in conjunction with the Bluetooth Apple keyboard, or view media.

The new Stabile Pro iPad 2 stand is now fitted with a ball joint which allows you to pivot and tilt your iPad 2 while on the stand, either in landscape or portrait orientation and provides 80 degree motion left to right, forward and back.  Watch the video of the Stabile Pro iPad 2 Stand in action after the jump.

Stabile Pro iPad 2 stand is constructed from solid steel and is available in 3 finishes black, silver and white.  it currently available to pre-order for $85 directly from  the Thoughtout  website.

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