This is an awesome story. Blogger Jesse Bearden and his buddy Sean had a not-so-chance encounter with Shaquille O’Neal at a local diner the other day. The two friends were trying to decide whether THE_REAL_SHAQ was indeed the real basketball player, or just someone out there having a little fu...

Lots of respectable geeks have been looking into their crystal balls, foreseeing the day, sometime soon, when Google Android, the Google OS for phones — the gPhone — moves up the developmental totem, jumping to the netbook, then to the laptop, and finally to the desktop, resulting in an integrat...

In a great little report over at DVICE I read this morning, blogger Kevin Hall pointed out that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has grand plans for the Android OS… and it isn’t limited to the mobile scene. Mark Hamblin, CEO of Touch Revolution and one of the key players in re-jigging Apple (NSDQ: AA...

als ich zu weihnachten in amerika war, hat mein xda in las vegas einen neustart nicht überlebt. er wollte einfach nicht mehr booten. das hat mich leicht in panik versetzt, da ich mir extra für das tomtom-navigationssystem auf dem xda eine USA-karte besorgt hatte und ich im glauben an die technik a...

Sure, you could just use your T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) G1 as an Android smartphone and call it a fulfilling day. But then you’d be missing out on the geekery that is booting your PC from your T-Mobile G1! The fine folks over at Logical Tech have figured out a way to use the T-Mobile G1 as a bootabl...

Just this morning we saw HTC’s 2009 product lineup leaked out to the various corners of the web. And, as these types of things usually go, everyone and their sister are speculating as to what the unreleased devices are packing under the hood and to what carriers they’re ultimately destin...

Think to yourself a moment about features that you like to have on your personal telephone. For me, the list is probably more demanding than some of you, and less demanding than others. It would go something like this: Has to be a cell phone. I need it for emergency use. I need it on the go. I&...

What the!? Huzza? Wha? No monetary Christmas bonuses for Google staffers this year!? That’s right, even the ever-powerful Google is feeling the squeeze of this worldwide economic tumble. Instead of the usual $$$ bonuses that have been a wonderful tradition, Google is ‘trying something di...

The T-Mobile G1 has distinction of being the world’s first-ever Android-powered smartphone. With an all-glass capacitance touchscreen and finger-friendly Android UI, the T-Mobile G1 is about as good as it gets in the Android-space. Today, we’re hearing that the T-Mobile G1’s succes...

If you’re an uber-geek and love taking apart devices to see what they’re made of, and what makes them tick… Then you might want to get your geeky little hands on the HTC Dream Service Manual for disassembly techniques, part numbers, testing methods and more. It’ll help you th...