TomTom has announced its latest entry level sat nav – with the TomTom Start2 ’shifting car navigation up a gear’. TomTom bills the Start2 as having premium features to its entry-level device which includes things like advanced lane guidance, spoken street names and compatibility with RDS-TMC traffic. The latter offers traffic information to the device, including what’s happened,... 

Looks like Amazon has come up with a fancy patent that will help it eliminate those oh-so-irritating finger pointing scenes where one party says the goods have been included, but the receiver claims to not have received it. In the patent awarded to Amazon, the company will film outgoing packages being boxed up, and stills from these videos (or the entire clip) can be sent to the buyer, thus verifying... 

Yellow Media, owner of Yellow Pages Group, is acquiring Canadian Phone Directories Holdings (aka Canpages), a national local search and directories publisher. The seller is a consortium of investors led by PE firm HM Capital Partners, and the purchase price is approximately $225 million. While subject to working capital and other adjustments, the $225 million purchase price will be comprised of $75... 

The confusion over whether Windows Phone 7 Series will be coming to older phones continues to rage as the HTC HD2 was shown running the OS. Admittedly it was a hacked version of the operating system running on the device, with HTCPedia forum member Tom Codon behind the port. But, apart from a slight amount of lag in certain operations thanks to some incompatibility issues with the graphics processor... 

Europe’s first on-console show FirstPlay will launch its first weekly episode on Thursday April 8 on the PlayStation, bringing high definition video reviews and previews every week, plus exclusive downloadable content and much more. Brought about by TechRadar’s publisher Future, FirstPlay will be available to UK gamers through Sony’s PlayStation 3 console from the PlayStation Network... 

In an article published today on Joystiq.com a survey found that over 88% of gamers have purchased online virtual goods. According to the article by Richard Mitchell, “88 percent of gamers have purchased digital content over the last several years. The study was conducted by market research firm DFC Intelligence using a survey of 5000 gamers from the US and Europe during the first two months... 

Abode may have a new ally in its battle with Apple over Adobe Flash: Google Chrome. According to a report from ZDNet, GoogleGoogle intends to bundle the embattled Flash platform into future builds of the ChromeChrome browser — no plugin installs necessary. Chrome is the world’s third most popular browser — surpassing Safari earlier this year — but still trailing Internet Explorer... 

Considering that BlackBerry phones are generally viewed as business devices, it’s actually a little surprising to see that the iPhone LinkedIn app has been around for a good 18 months and there wasn’t a LinkedIn BlackBerry app in sight. Now that is set to change as LinkedIn has just released a free dedicated BlackBerry app. The company said the reason for the delay is that they wanted...