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Like its smaller brother the HTC Touch Diamond, the Touch Pro adopts a decidedly angular case and HTC’s own TouchFLO 3D interface, but adds on a slide-out QWERTY keyboard in an attempt to pitch the phone to more serious business users. While the sturdy keyboard certainly helps speed up data input, the phone’s interface still chugs along at an unbelievably sleepy pace, which will prevent professionals from working at the speed they need to.

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Blizzard Partners with Game Ad Firm MassiveYesterday

Blizzard may not quite be ready to slap Coca-Cola ads on the side of cottages in World of Warcraft, but its Web pages and Battle.net interface are another issue. On Wednesday, the company inked a deal with Microsoft-owned advertising outfit Massive Inc. to offer up both venues to advertisers. Massive is a leader in the emerging in-game advertising market, offering access to everything from billboards in racing titles to destructible ads in first person shooters. Though Blizzard has a strict policy barring in-game advertising,

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HTC Snaps up Fashion-Savvy U.S. Design FirmYesterday

Though HTC’s Touch Diamond and Touch Pro smartphones may have been stylistically well-received, the company’s flagship G1 proves that the company still has a long way to go to master fashionable design. The Taiwanese company took a major step in rectifying that on Wednesday with the acquisition of One & Company Design, Inc., a design firm based in San Francisco. One & Co. has worked with a number of other high-profile consumer electronics companies in the past, including Apple, Dell, Motorola, Plant

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Cloud OS Runs a Browser, That's ItYesterday

Good OS may be best known for gOS, the operating system wrapped around Google services that has appeared on many ultra-budget Everex machines, but the company proved on Monday that it wasn’t just a one-trick pony in the OS game. The company has announced on a new operating system, dubbed Cloud, that makes the browser the center of the user experience. Unlike gOS, which included both a browser and many other free desktop applications, Cloud has only a browser that runs on top of an extremely condensed Linux kernel. As a result, it boo

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Amputation Instructions By TextYesterday

The Guardian has reported that a British doctor volunteering with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo amputated the arm of an injured teen, receiving instructions by text message from a colleague in London. The youth had been bitten by a hippo, and his left arm was ripped off and gangrenous. Vascular surgeon David Nott, who volunteers for MSF one month each year, had never performed the necessary operation, but a colleague at Charing Cross Hospital in London had. "I texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do it,&

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