Apps I uninstalled this week – II

And the spring cleaning continues. After getting rid of quite a few apps from my Galaxy Tab 10.1 last week, I've decided it's time my phone gets the same treatment. If you want to check out last week's post, you can catch it here. Analog Clock Collection: I’m a sucker for good analog watches, and their round form factor (I’m even working on a concept design for a round smartwatch). Yet the geek in me still wants these watches to do more than just show the time.

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Notion Ink releases ICS beta for the Adam

Not too long ago, Notion Ink released the alpha version of Ice Cream Sandwich for their Adam users, but as aspected there were quite a few issues. But the hard work of the team is starting to show results as Founder/CEO Rohan Shravan has shared the links to the beta files that should improve your WiFi and HDMI output, amongst other things. You can find the files through the blog post here.

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Memory on Hand Band is fashionable and functional

Are you constantly leaving your flash drives at home or in the office because you're so forgetful. Or are you looking for a flash drive that you can have with you all the time for convenient access. Well, this new USB flash drive could be just for you. Called the Memory on Hand Band or MoH Band, it is literally like having Memory on your hand: a colorful wrist strap that's actually a USB flash drive. It's one of those ideas which makes you go “how come nobody thought of this earlier?”

Available in a whole range of colors, and in sizes of 2GB up to 8GB, this is one cool USB drive to have with you at all times.

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HTC Fireball, Samsung T999, i535, and L710 get Wi-Fi certified, may be announced soon

Four new devices have received Wi-Fi certifications, three Samsung models and one from HTC. Judging by its model number, this must be the HTC Fireball, a smartphone that was seen in a Verizon system back in December. Also then we heard that it could be a global roaming LTE device, but since that point there has been nothing new to report on the Fireball. So now we know that HTC is still working on the Fireball. Let's hope this handset will get unveiled soon.

The Samsung T999 is clearly a model headed to T-Mobile, because of its model number. This model number has been rumored to belong to the Galaxy S Blaze 4G.




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Apple counts down to 25 billion App Store downloads

. Apple on Friday initiated a countdown to 25 billion iTunes App Store downloads. The running total currently sits just under 24.3 billion downloads and Apple is offering a prize to the user who downloads the 25 billionth application. “As of today, nearly 25 billion apps have been downloaded worldwide. Which is almost as amazing as the apps themselves. So we want to say thanks,” Apple wrote on its website. “Download the 25 billionth app, and you could win a US$10,000 App Store Gift Card.

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Investment firm buys 5.8% of GM

. General Motors stock is down 45 percent over the last year, which would lead the uninformed to think that the automaker is still losing money by the bucketload. On the contrary, The General pulled in a healthy $7.6 billion in 2011.
Does that mother lode of cash make GM a buy for 2012? Capital research Global Investors seems to think so. The Detroit News reports that the investment firm has purchased 5.8 percent of the Detroit automaker. That's 92 million shares, which translates to about $2.3 billion at $25 per share.

The investment firm claims GM stock is a strong buy even though its European sales are lagging.

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Chrysler abandons plan seeking more federal loans

The Detroit News reports Chrysler is walking away from the company's pursuit of low-interest Department of Energy loans. The automaker originally applied for an $8.55 billion loan when it was still under Cerberus Capital Management, though the figure had since shrunk to $3.5 billion. The DOE, meanwhile, said it was considering a much smaller $2 billion loan with additional restrictions than were previously negotiated. The loan period would also be significantly shorter.

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