At long last, the Helio Ocean 2 is now available online. Many will just chuckle and give this bubbly handset a pass (especially for those who gave up after waiting for so long), but for those few die-hard Helio fans left it’s better late than never. If you have been lusting after this device a...

I’ve never caught more than a couple of episodes of Dancing with the Stars – and the most I’ve ever watched was during the season with Hélio Castroneves. That was largely due to the Indy Racing League connection. It’s not that I don’t find it fascinating and entertaining – because I abs...

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Right in line with reports we heard earlier, it looks like Helio's second iteration of the Ocean could be going on sale as early as next month. Silicon Alley Insider has it that the Ocean 2 could be loosed in America "sometime this quarter," though sooner rather than later is looking mighty promisin...

Helio fans have had enough torment for the last year. First, there were rumors that the company was going to go completely bankrupt. Then there were mixed feelings about the MVNO being acquired by another MVNO - Virgin Mobile. To top it all off, die-hard Ocean lovers kept getting their hopes and dre...

It’s time for our annual review! Here are my picks for the top stories on taxgirl.com for the year: 10, Dancing With The Stars champ and race car driver Helio Castroneves is indicted on federal tax evasion charges. In a related story, my mother is stricken with grief and may never samba again ...

NPR’s All Songs Considered has given us a list of “overlooked gems” released this year. It includes music from Flobots , Department of Eagles , No Age , Helio Sequence , Human Highway , Vivian Girls and Deerhunter . I know that everything is relative in terms of exposure and what n...

Well, things are slowly returning back to “normal” … I was greeted this morning with 600+ emails in my work Inbox, 100+ in my personal, and ~3000 feed entries waiting to be read. LOL! Miss me much did they? I see that WordPress has released 2.6 finally. The blogosphere is all a-buz...

Filed under: Cellphones So we heard from a very reliable source that mobile user interface guru Matias Duarte -- who you may know as the man behind the Sidekick and Helio UI / user experiences -- actually left Helio late last year to join up with Palm. Although no announcement was made, we hear he a...

There have been rumors about the pairing circling around the internet for the past couple of months. Heliocity had even commented on this, but the two companies had stayed mum denying the rumors — until last Friday. I received an email from Helio announcing the upcoming merger. Heliocity cover...