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You guys! The first week of submissions have been excellent ; the pool of webcomics we pull from for the Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is growing exponentially, as we hope the chuckles produced by the feature will. The Thirty-Second Annual Weekly Webcomic Wrapup Hyper Webcomic Submission Tournament is far from over, however, which means that if you draw, know of, or write an extremely excellent webcomic, send a link to Jordan at Joystiq dawt cawm and tell us about it. Be sure to include the word “webcomic” in the subject so our filters can keep it out of the spam folder. For now, check out our (expanded!) favorites from last week, including some new comics made possible by readers like you, and vote for your favorites after the break. Note: If you submitted a comic and it’s not below, fret not. Just because it’s not here now doesn’t mean it never will be, so keep at it . Does this get to count as one Pokemon? ( Manly Guys Doing Manly Things ) Rygar ( Blow The Cartridge ) “Smart” Phone ( GameoverNation ) Lady Parts ( Life in Aggro ) Footloose ( Awkward Zombie ) Expecto Patronum, it’s Super Effective! (…

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Ubergizmo is joining forces with NVIDIA to bring you TWO great giveaways:  each “uberpack” contains: 1 Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Tablet, powered by NVIDIA Tegra 1 Jambox wireless speaker 1 $25 AMEX gift card that you can use to try the just-released ShadowGun game, for example. If you want to thank NVIDIA, follow Tegra on Twitter and retweet this post. If you like this Ubergizmo giveaway, click on the Facebook Like button just below the Ubergizmo logo at the top of the page. If you want to know more about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, you can head to its official home page . Read the rules in the full post to enter. Uber Giveaway: Galaxy Tab 8.9 + Jambox wireless speaker + $25 gift card , By Ubergizmo . Top Stories : iPhone 4S Review , Epic 4G Touch Review ,

Nokia had something to prove at its annual event , and an eight-month turnaround of its smartphone arm is certainly nothing to be sniffed at. While Nokia’s first Windows Phone devices were undoubtably the stars of the two-day expo, there was plenty more to investigate — Nokia’s legion of development labs certainly didn’t let us down. Check out a veritable world of coverage neatly arranged below the break for everything Nokia World had to show us, and few more tidbits we found for ourselves. Nokia World 2011 wrap-up gallery Hands-on Nokia Lumia 800 hands-on (video) Nokia Lumia 710 hands-on (video) Nokia Asha 200, Asha 300 and Asha 303 hands-on (video) Mythical snow-white N9 spotted at Nokia World Nokia Drive with MirrorLink on Toyota Touch Life hands-on (video) Nokia Lumia 800 unboxed: we shed some light on what’s inside Nokia’s kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface (video) Apps and accessories Nokia Asha brings Angry Birds to the developing world, Mighty Eagle soars (video) Nokia unveils Purity HD Stereo Headset with a…

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Mobile app monetization and distribution network  W3i  is announcing the results of its tests to determine whether or not an iPhone’s MAC address can serve as a replacement to the UDID (the unique device identifier), which Apple is phasing out as a way for developers to track an app’s users. According to W3i, developers can and should begin tracking the iPhone’s MAC address as a UDID alternative, as it has successfully seen Apple approve its own application where this is the case. Unfortunately, this advice is arguably premature. Apple may let slip a single app, but if a large number of iOS developers began doing the same (tracking the MAC addresses, that is), Apple may certainly change its position on the matter. For background, in August, Erick reported how  Apple sneaked a major change into iOS5: it was deprecating developer access to the UDID. The UDID, an alphanumeric string unique to each …

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Today in Italy, a new energy technology called the E-Cat is undergoing its first independent test of energy output. The E-Cat supposedly uses low-energy nuclear reactions to produce massive amounts of cheap and clean power, and if it works, it could completely revolutionize our entire society. If it works.