It’s time for Gadgetsteria Good News/Bad news. Today, we’ll be looking at the newly leaked screenshots showcasing a newly Honeycomb’d HTC Puccini. Good: Screenshots of the HTC-ified Puccini tablet have hit the web! Bad: The Puccini is loaded with overpriced and gimmicky AT&T software. Hardware manufacturer and carrier-branded apps are nothing new. What’s unfortunate, however, is that the aforementioned outfits still fail to realize they...

Love it or hate it, VZW bloatware Vcast apps and services will soon be coming to a Droid Incredible near you. The news was announced via an official statement to Droid Incredible owners… “Verizon Wireless will begin pushing a software update to the DROID Incredible next week. The update includes software enhancements that will pre-install V CAST Apps on the phone. We said earlier this year that we’d be expanding V CAST Apps to the Android platform, and the DROID...

Now before we go any further, I’ll make known that I understand Google isn’t Android and Android isn’t Google. Google just so happens to be one of the biggest OHA members who puts the bulk of marketing dollars behind the mobile OS. With that said however, so far Google has been Android. Any Android device you pick up that’s been labeled a “Google Experience” device as been stuffed full of Gmail, Google Maps, Googlve Voice, etc. A...

Purchasing your computer at any retail location or online is hardly the same PC once you actually get a working model back to your house. When booting up your new PC for the first time, you go through normal set up with accounts and such. But one thing that has been a pain for years is the pile of crapware that comes pre-installed on your PC. Anything and everything you can think of has at some point taken the role of crapware. Such junk is called crapware because the...

I’ll start off by saying I hate AOL software. Besides looking old and outdated, it runs like it’s outdate – slow, clunky, and extremely invasive. Not to mention, no one should need a “program” to access the internet anyway. A simple browser is all that is needed. I say this as I just finished spending 25 minutes removing AOL’s ability to auto-start after a system restart. For a company that isn’t doing so hot, one would think...