Bubble Shuffle is a word game from Astraware.  It challenges your brain through four different games to see how many words you can construct with the bubble letters given.  I have to admit that this game was a big adventure for me.  My Scrabble skills consist of words like HAT, BAT, MAT, CAT or CHAT.  So, word games are not exactly my strong point.  I had to call in the support of my partner, super Scrabble player extraordinaire, “Iris”.  She’s one of those people that you see use a word you had no idea even existed.  I figured the only true way to test this game is to let a novice and an expert have a go at it.  See the exciting conclusions after the break.

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If we were to have a really deep philosophical discussion about what our devices mean to us, we might come to the conclusion that the devices we carry are a reflection of ourselves. However, thanks to Artwizz we don’t even need to have that conversation. With a Mirrorfilm on your iPod you can even enjoy other reflections (including, but not limited to colourful elephants).

Hit the jump for a completely symmetrical review made up completely of palindromes. (Kidding!)

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I started a little adventure recently. One which I mentioned lightly a little while ago, and that’s my trek into the e-book world. I have bought a nice Sony e-book reader and so far I’ve been pretty happy with the purchase. But what just happened today has got me a little miffed about how open of a platform e-books can continue to be. To be honest one of the reasons I bought the Sony was how open it was. I can dump almost anything on it and nobody can take the stuff away or turn off my account. The ability to tell me I’m not allowed to read something (like can happen with the Kindle) just isn’t an issue (mostly) with the Sony. But today, the chances of this nice open world for e-books and their readers just got a whole lot smaller.

Lexcycle has been acquired by Amazon.com!
Mon, 04/27/2009 – 13:00 — marc

We are very excited to announce that Lexcycle has been acquired by Amazon.com!

It has been an amazing experience to see Stanza grow out of our brainstormed ideas into one of the most downloaded iPhone applications. Throughout this period we have attempted to listen to and innovate for our customers to provide a great ebook reading experience.

We are not planning any changes in the Stanza application or user experience as a result of the acquisition. Customers will still be able to browse, buy, and read ebooks from our many content partners. We look forward to offering future products and services that we hope will resonate with our passionate readers.

We are excited to join forces with a company that has innovated on behalf of readers for over a decade and is a pioneer in ebooks. Like Amazon, we believe there is a lot of innovation ahead for ebooks and we could not think of a better company to join during this exciting time.

As always, we encourage people to ask questions or provide feedback through our forums at http://forum.lexcycle.com or directly to us at info@lexcycle.com.

Best,
Marc, Neelan and Abe

So I’m wondering where the purchase of LEXCYCLE by Amazon is going to lead Stanza. I mean lets be perfectly honest here, there’s very little to gain by Amazon from leaving Stanza alone. So, I see this going one of two ways:

1.) Is Amazon going to roll the Stanza application (desktop & iPhone) into their existing Kindle infrastructure… ie. take the desktop app, the ePub technology and toss the rest away or

2.) Is Stanza going to gain the ability to read the .azw format and purchase books OTA from Amazon?

What do you think? Can this possibly be good for the e-book industry?

Could it finally be true?  Are all those long suffering Verizon users going to get an iPhone of their very own?  Well, those are the rumors out there.  There have been talks between Verizon and Apple about a possible Verizon iPhone in 2010.  For those not paying attention, that’s next year!!!  The twist to the story is that the phone would be for Verizon’s new LTE network, not CDMA.  With all carriers going to LTE at some point, there had to be an iPhone version.  It looks like Verizon is making up for the fact that they passed on the first iPhone.  You know they have to be kicking themselves for that.  As a Verizon user, I am SO excited about this news.  I do have some iPhone envy when it comes to all the apps, and the fabulous internet capabilities. 

Via Engadget

This is very funny, because it’s true, and considering lot’s of us are on plans that we don’t fully utilise, or for that matter completely understand, physical measures like this are probably realistic options, to help minimise our mobile expenditure!!

av u got ur sped tokking down pat, like your speed texting language?