RIM opens BlackBerry 10 app submissions

BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha B hands-on

Any BlackBerry 10 developers sufficiently entranced by their Dev Alpha units can now make good on the work they’ve accomplished so far. As promised, RIM is accepting app submissions for the platform ahead of its launch early next year. Fast-acting teams who jump in today should see their titles at the front of the queue when BlackBerry App World starts supporting the modern platform. They’ll have to focus on full-touch hardware rather than mixed QWERTY and touch devices, however. There’s no guarantee that RIM will see a flood of apps after opening its doors, but the company reminds us that there’s incentives to move quickly — 10,000 incentives, in fact.

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A Tiny Foosball Table Means You Can Play Almost Anywhere [Desired]

Why drop hundreds of dollars on a regulation-sized freestanding foosball table that’s just going to take up space, when for a mere $75 you can get XD Design’s beautiful Gol table that you can plop and play anywhere? More »

HTC backing out of US tablet market

The tablet market has been fierce recently. The battle between Google, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and of course Apple has been making it more difficult for other manufacturers to gain traction with tablets of their own. HTC, specifically, has been having a hard time, which is why they’ve announced they’re intention to back out of the tablet game.

While the company will stop selling tablets, it said it may not be for good. HTC mentioned that it could possibly end up re-entering the market if it comes up with a tablet idea that it believes could shake up the tablet market. HTC’s global online communications manager, Jeff Gordon (no, not the Nascar driver), says that selling tablets “was a great learning experience for us, and they definitely met expectations.” He also mentioned that HTC is “watching that market very, very closely.”

Throughout the past two years, HTC has offered only a total of three tablet models in the US: the 7-inch Flyer and Evo View 4G, as well as the 10-inch Jetstream. All three tablets will be discontinued by HTC and no longer sold to users. It could be considered a sad day for HTC tablet lovers, but hopefully the company will continue to support these three models.

It’s not yet clear as to what strategy HTC might implement if they ever do end up returning to the tablet market, but Gordon said that the company would most likely try to compete with the budget tablets like Google’s Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD, but he also mentioned that the company could build a more powerful tablet that would take on the iPad.

[via FierceWireless]


HTC backing out of US tablet market is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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3 Lessons Learned From FailCon – Failcon San Francisco – Oct 22


FailCon is a one-day conference for 500+ technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to study their failures and prepare for success.  As an entrepreneur, you will inevitably encounter failure; it is overcoming it that is the biggest challenge.

At FailCon, we help you do just that. At intimate, relevant, and personal sessions, you’ll join founders and partners from Gina Bianchini, Chip Conley, Ben Huh, Cindy Alvarez, Scott Berkun, Sean Ellis, Danielle Morrill and more as they share advice on how to overcome failure and reach success.  For more information, check out http://thefailcon.com.

Failcon will be held in San Francisco on October 22, Ubergizmo readers get 15% off the registration fee, click here to register with the discount.

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Slickdeals’ best in tech for October 10th: SSDs, Sennheiser in-ear headphones and more

Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.

If the mid-week blues have you down, perhaps a new batch of discounted tech will be just the thing to cheer you up. This time around, solid state drives from both Samsung and Intel make the cut alongside a pair of in-ears from Sennheiser that will allow you to use that Yacht Rock playlist to drown out your coworkers. Jump past the break to view the whole group, but remember to be mindful of those coupon codes and rebate forms.

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Legend of Zelda Link’s Swords Wallpaper: Take These. All of Them.

Link may have headed out alone for most of his adventures, but he always had his trusty weapons by his side. deviantART member James aka BLUEamnesiac made a huge wallpaper that contains all of the canonical swords, grouped according to the game that they appear in:

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The original image has a 3,200 x 2,000 resolution. I chopped some of its parts down so we can appreciate James’ art a bit better. Hardcore fans of the series will see that James slightly tweaked the art of some of the swords, particularly the less ornate ones.

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Head to deviantART to see the full size of the wallpaper. And yes, James also compiled all of Link’s shields.

[via Geekologie]


Who Knew That Takeout Containers Made For Convenient Little Greenhouses? [Plants]

If your green thumb is itching for a garden that your cramped apartment can’t facilitate, it turns out those takeout containers in your fridge can double as clever mini greenhouses. Or at least, these specially designed translucent plastic boxes that look like takeout containers, but still let sunshine in. More »

iPhone ownership hits 40% in US Teens

It’s time for Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster to break the news on Apple‘s dominance of the market once again, this time showing a report of 7,700 teenagers in the USA working with the iPhone in massive amounts. The survey showed that this most recent period of study showed iPhone use up 6% over the last time it was conducted, that being 6 months ago. At the moment, it appears that a whopping 40% of teens in the USA own at least one iPhone.

This study’s results from the Spring of 2012 showed 34% of respondents saying they owned an iPhone, the same number of respondents saying they owned a tablet of one sort or another. Regardless of if they had a tablet at the time of questioning or not, 19% of these US-based teens said they’d planned on buying a tablet (or a different tablet than the one they owned) within the next 6 months (that being the period we’ve just completed now).

This number jumped to 20% in this most recent time period (Fall 2012). The amount of responses for owning a tablet at the time of the survey jumped significantly upward to 44%. That includes all tablets of all types, including the possibility of Android, BlackBerry, and Windows, amongst other operating systems backing their unit up.

A whopping 72% of US teens who owned tablets here in this most recent study said they owned an Apple iPad of one generation or another. Of the 20% of those respondents that said they planned on purchasing a tablet in the next 6 months here in the Fall of 2012, 74% said they’d be buying an iPad specifically.

The amount of teens responding that they do not currently have a tablet was roughly 35%, this leaving a gap of about 20% of the total sample that either did not know if they owned a tablet or simply did not answer the question. The iPad mini was also included in this study even though it does not yet exist – the question regarding that specifically, of course.

The group of respondents that said they’d planned on buying a tablet in the next 6 months was also asked if they’d be more likely to buy an iPad if Apple were to launch a smaller device [as shown above] for $299. Of those asked 43% said yes, they’d go for that value proposition. Now we must see if the iPhone ownership numbers roll up on the iPad once the smaller version exists – we shall see soon!

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iPhone ownership hits 40% in US Teens is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Canada vaguely hints it’ll block Huawei from government projects, cites security concerns

Canada mulls blocking Huawei from government projects citing security concerns

After the hammering Huawei received from the US Congress, it was probably hoping to catch a break north of the border. Unfortunately for Huawei, Canada’s government has obtusely hinted that it, too, would block the company from bidding to build its new secure network. Spokesman Andrew MacDougall said it would use national security provisions to avoid international trade laws, and when asked directly about the Chinese company, was quoted as saying “I’ll leave it to you if you think… Huawei should be a part of a Canadian government security system.” The telecoms business may think it can get around the any obstacles because it has a locally incorporated subsidiary — but given the clout of those lobbying against it, it probably shouldn’t get its hopes up.

[Original image credit: The Canadian Press / Sean Kilpatrick]

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10 Future-Proof Gadgets You’ll Still Love Next Year [Gear]

When it comes to tech shopping, sometimes it pays to wait for a new-and-improved model. But this fall, too much procrastination will turn you into a high-tech Hamlet wondering whether to be or not to be a Galaxy S III owner while your digital Denmark rots. Here are 10 products you can pull the trigger on today, without regretting your decision six months or a year from now when the next big thing arrives. More »