Good news for EVO 4G owners! Sprint will begin rolling out Android 2.2 to the lucky EVO users starting August 3: Sprint is the first wireless carrier to bring Android 2.2 to customers using the award-winning HTC EVO™ 4G beginning Tuesday, Aug. 3 Android 2.2 offers HTC EVO 4G feature enhancements including Bluetooth® voice dialing, built-in Flash, the ability to store apps to the memory card and much, much more The award-winning HTC EVO 4G just got that much better. We are excited to announce that beginning the week of Aug. 1; Sprint will begin rolling out the Android 2.2 upgrade to its HTC [...]

Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn’t sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested. Reader Clint discovered that all you had to do is use something like Peer Block, which grabs the IPs of the other users also downloading the torrent and identifies which company or university or organization they belong to. You can check this yourself by hopping on the torrent and doing the same thing. Here are the major companies [...]

The Crossfade LP is V-Moda’s first over-the-ear headphones, branching out from their traditional in-ear headsets they’ve been known for. V-Moda says, at $250, they’re competing with headphones like Dre’s Monster noise-cancellation set—so that’s what we compared it to. The Price $250 The Verdict Alright, but not great, and not really worth $250. The Monster Beats Studio might be $50 more, at $300, but we can clearly recommend those over the V-Modas. The Sound Muddy, and a bit bass heavy is how I’d describe the Crossfade LP’s audio reproduction. And this [...]

The gang over at TechSpot loaded up the newly-released StarCraft II on what seems like a hundred different PC setups to determine what the best hardware setup for the insanely popular real-time strategy game is. Here are the results: The good news is that basically any modern graphics card will be able to run the game very smoothly on Medium settings, so even if you’re not someone with a water-cooled monster gaming rig, you’ll be fine. This isn’t the most graphically-intensive game in the world. But if you’re in the market for a new card, want top-notch performance [...]

YouTube has announced the 15 minutes video time limit which is increased, as before users can upload 10 minutes duration video to YouTube. According to YouTube’s official blog: “We encourage you to take full advantage of this new time limit by making a video of your “15 minutes of fame.” Imagine that this video is all the world will ever know about you: what would you want to communicate? What will be the enduring stamp you’ve left on us all? Tag your video with “yt15minutes,” upload it by Wednesday, August 4, and we’ll select a handful of people to truly gain their 15 minutes [...]

Over the weekend we alerted users to the return of profile spy, a tool that promises to let users see who’s viewing their profile. As we said last week, the tool is fake, however it isn’t preventing thousands of users from participating in the scam once again. Rather than using a different strategy than last time, the only thing that the scammers have changed is the URLs. Do not complete this scam, instead share this article and let your friends know of the scam. As before, here is the message that’s being posted when users complete the scam: OMG OMG OMG… I can’t believe this [...]

Let’s be honest — you saw this one coming, didn’t you? Today Amazon is introducing a new reading device for e-book aficionados dubbed simply… the Kindle. The new handheld — slated to be released on August 27th — is 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter than the previous model, has a 20 percent faster refresh rate on its E Ink (yep, still E Ink) screen, and will now come in two colors (graphite, like its big brother the DX, and the original white). In addition to the color changes, there will be two radio configurations available: a $139 WiFi only [...]

Nokia’s Symbian^3 flagship — the 3.5-inch N8 with 12 megapixel camera — just went up for pre-order on Espoo’s Italian storefront showing an end of September availabilty. Now before you get up in arms about the €469 price tag (about $610), remember, the €370 estimated retail price announced was pre tax and pre carrier subsidy. That’s just how Europe does things, deal with it. We’re not seeing the preorder available elsewhere but we’ll update you if that situation changes.

Pandas, East Asia, wood. Nope, “laptop” hasn’t ever been on the list of words we typically associate with “bamboo,” but ASUS sure has us willing to tack it on with the introduction of its U Bamboo Series. The company’s newest 13-inch U33Jc is covered in one of the most durable and recyclable materials on earth, and its internals are made of equally strong parts. Sure, the laptop looks incredibly traditional, but the $999 machine actually packs an incredible amount of new technology, including a fresh Core i3 processor, NVIDIA Optimus enabled graphics, [...]

If you’ve got a hankering for some battery-sipping Core i3 ULV processors and live south of a certain 38th parallel line, you’ll probably want to take a close look at one of Samsung’s new designs. We hear on good authority that Sammy’s refreshed its X Series laptops with the 1.2GHz Core i3-330M processor, including the 11.6-inch X180 (with the same 3GB of DDR3 memory, 320GB hard drive and most everything else included in the X170 that came before) and the 14-inch X430, which leapfrogs its predecessor the X420 with dedicated GeForce 310M graphics. Both actually report [...]