The first CDMA Windows Phone 7 handsets to launch are the Samsung Omnia 7 and HTC Mozart

Microsoft confirmed recently that its brand new phone line, Windows Phone 7, will be coming to Verizon and Sprint in thefirst half of this year. This move by the Redmond behemoth was both long expected and extensively leaked. However, until this morning we were unsure as to which WP7 handsets were to be sold in CDMA form, or if new phones were to be released. We are unsure as to the potential of new hardware, butwe do now knowwhich handsets will be up for purchase first: The Samsung Omnia 7 and the HTC Mozart....

2 min · 335 words · Linda Alexander

The first email was sent 40 years ago this month

It’s become a firm fixture of everyday life, loathed by some but essential to nearly all of us, and yet its future is far from certain. Email is forty years old this month, with the first message having been sent in October 1971. The birth of email Like many technological innovations, email has its roots in military technology. In the late 1960s, MIT graduate Ray Tomlinson was working at research and development firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman....

6 min · 1227 words · Margaret Mendez

The first musical album that’s also a location aware iPhone app

As the power of location based mobile technologies improves, so too do the seemingly limitless creative potentials of their uses to enhance the human experience. Imagine walking outside, listening to music and having the music change based on your location, exploring a unique listening experience every time you hit play. That is exactly whatBluebrain, a D.C. based band has done. The 2-year-old group is comprised of Ryan Holladay and his brother Hays, whose latest album is an iPhone app that changes its rhythms and beats as the user walks around The National Mall in Washington, D....

4 min · 647 words · Robert Jarvis

The first part of the Google+ API has just been released

It’s been the talk since Google+ launched a few weeks ago – in order to really get the traction with the outside world, it had to have an API. Now, according to a new page in theGoogle Developers section, the first part of that wait is over. There’s ablog postthat describes how developers can get started with the Google+ API, but here are the high points that you’ll need to know:...

2 min · 371 words · Gina Chen

The first restaurant to rely completely on iPads in New York City

In New York City’s West Village,De Santos, a high-end Italian restaurant inhabits a unique space that was once home to legendary New York rockers, writers, and artists such as Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Edward Albee and Jean Michel Basquiat. If they only knew what their beloved haunt would turn into over 30 years later, I imagine even Basquiat might have been surprised. As of August 1st, the rustic restaurant is now the first in New York completely run on iPads....

2 min · 350 words · Michael Carrillo
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