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If you have an iPhone or an Android device, you’ve got apps. Games, organizers, calendars and various trackers can be found on virtually any mobile device. But do you have apps for your car? There are tons of apps for drivers; some are free and some will cost you but they are all useful. Here are our favorites: G-Park While it can be difficult to lose your car in the parking lot of an amusement park with their lot markers and landmarks, it is incredibly easy to misplace your car at the mall....

So you finally gave in – you finally decided that it’s time to invest in an e-book reader. But which one? Apple’s iPad? Amazon’s Kindle? Noble’s Nook? Choosing an e-reader may seem like an overwhelming task, but with the right information and the awareness of your particular needs, the choice should be a simpler one than you may think. Reader or tablet Are you looking for just a book reader, or do you want access to magazines and newspapers as well?...

A company with name ‘GRAPHISOFT’ has commissioned a bronze statue of Steve Jobs in Budapest. Gabor Major, founder of Graphisoft met Jobs in 1984 at a trade show in Germany where the company was demonstrating its 3D modeling software on a Lisa computer. The statue is being sculpted by Hungarian artist Erno Toth and will reside in Graphisoft Park, a Budapest commercial complex that houses several technology companies. [via]

When Steve Jobs claimed that Google “stole” Apple’s innovation, today, the United States Trade Commission (ITC) agreed and all those HTC infringing products are banned from the US. This rule applies to several popular HTC products including Evo 4G, Droid Incredible, G2, etc. The rule applies to all Android HTC devices running 1.6 to 2.2 in the United States effective April 2012. Before reading all those long pages of patents and infringements, here is the main ‘copycat’ reason....

Since Apple’s iPhone 4S launch, everyone has been talking about one awesome feature: Siri. This feature was the first of its real kind of piece of software using normal talking language. We had many voice command software before, just like Microsoft’s Tellme, open source, commercial software, but Siri lit a fire. Even though Siri is technically still in beta, it impressed us in many other ways. Now, everybody started copying it....

Microsoft is doing decently good with their recently launched Windows Phone 7.5 platform. I had a chance to test some of its exciting features on Samsung Focus i917. Just like Apple’s iOS App Store alternative for jailbreakers – Cydia, Windows Phone 7 users get an alternative apps distribution platform to Windows Market Place, known as Bazaar. These alternative platforms let in apps that are rejected from the official App Store or Market Place....

Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced that its not so hit platform webOS to be available to the open source community. In a press release that is posted today, the company announced that webOS is the only platform designed from the ground up to be mobile, cloud-connected and scalable. Few days ago, HP started selling its Touchpads for $99 which was a huge flop product in the tablet world. This drastic price decrease is to cut down its manufacturing losses....

Apple was right to dismiss Samuel (20), an employee who criticized his iPhone and job in a series of his Facebook posts. One of his Facebook friends, who was also his colleague told his boss about these posts. The employee posted against one of the apps - ‘F***ed up my time zone for the third time in a week and woke me up at 3am? JOY!!’ The same worker also made one more fun comment at the company’s tagline on Beatles songs on iTunes - ‘Tomorrow’s just another day that hopefully I will forget....

The latest buzz about Carrier IQ is all around tech and non-tech world. Yesterday, we learned how to verify and remove Carrier IQ from your Android device. But, that method requires you to root your device. Now, we learn how to detect about this spying software, but not yet remove, and no rooting of your Android device is required. While this Carrier IQ crap develops, battle between OS developers and mobile carriers continues, a free app Voodoo Carrier IQ Detector lets you verify whether your Android device is infected or not....

We have seen many security loop holes in Android related to either malware, apps, custom carrier modifications. Now, 25 year old Android developer Trevor Eckhart has discovered an interesting piece of software that comes pre-installed on most Android, Blackberry and Nokia phones. It records everything you do from your phone. It can even grab your passwords and queries! Worse! The below embedded video recorded by Trevor shows how it works. The spying software called Carrier IQ (developed by www....