For those who are daring with their Android smartphones, you can now get a working Alpha launch of Android 2.2 for the T-Mobile G1 / Dream, Magic / Sapphire.
The build comes courtesy of Cyanogen, Chiefzreloaded, Zenulator (XDA), ts0cha0tik, punkkaos and Azuske who have worked on the G1 port since the ROM was available for download.
With the build being alpha, there’s obviously some things that do not work just yet. The list of things that do work includes calls, 3G, LEDs, call audio, gapps and the notification bar. [Read more…]
The Apple iPad has now launched in the UK and several other international locations. The device went on sale this morning in Apple stores in the UK at 8am. Currys and PC World also have stocks in some areas for the iPad.
Earlier today some rumours were going around about 
Check out this little CD player/FM Radio. It’s shaped like the green aliens from Toy Story and features a CD player and radio.
The Apple iPad started showing up a day early here in the UK and many other international locations from what we hear. You might have thought this was good news though, but according to sources this has caused a lot of upset customers who booked tomorrow off and missed today’s deliveries.
Matias Duarte was the webOS design guru at Palm up until recently. We now hear he has moved over to Google [GOOG] to become the User Experience Director for Android.
BGR has a long history of getting things right in terms of getting inside information about new products.
Yesterday we heard a few bits of information about an Android smartphone spotted at the Google I/O event last week. The phone is the Acer Stream where we found out very basic details in that when it launches it will run Android 2.1.
In a couple of weeks time on June 7, the Apple [AAPL] WWDC 2010 will kick off. The event will start with 
Yesterday Apple [AAPL] took over Microsoft [MSFT] in market capitalization. The company sat below Exxon Mobil in terms of US companies. However, things have bounced back the other way today with the data changing constantly throughout the day.
Vodafone has put up an information page about the Nokia N8 with details of the new smartphone. Right now the page only lets you register your interest in the device which is scheduled for launch in August.
LaCie has created a new rugged portable storage hard drive that adds not only ruggedness on the outside, but increased data security. The new drive has a biometric fingerprint scanner built in. To access the data on the drive the user needs to swipe a finger. If the fingerprint matches, access is allowed. If not, the data stays encrypted.
