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Following up on an expansion to Chicago, Colorado Springs, Ft. Wayne, Louisville, and Raleigh-Durham, T-Mobile has opened up their HSPA+ network in Detroit, Grand Junction, Harlingen, Lafayette, Montgomery, Roanoke-Lynchburg, and Youngstown. On paper, HSPA+ can reach up to 21 Mbps, but the standard is 3-6 with peaks of 9 or so. That’s as fast as…
If you thought Skyfire was happy making a few million on its iPhone app, you’d be wrong because the mobile browser maker has just released Skyfire 3.0 Facebook edition for Android phones. Dubbing it the “world’s first social browser,” the Skyfire Facebook browser gives you one-click access to the world’s largest social network. Another cool…
RIM and CollegeHumour teamed up for a funny little game show where they offered a hundred bucks cash to folks who would spin this wheel and send whatever message it landed on to a BlackBerry contact of the hosts’ chosing. Flipping a coin determined whether it would be a BlackBerry Messenger or text message, and…
Next year we’re going to see two things in smartphones that are genuinely new and exciting: dual core processors, which will enable performance increases that we’ve yet to fully understand the ramifications of, and near field communication, an enabler of mobile payments and a totally new way of interacting with the real world. NVIDIA, looking…
Kenya is trying something radically different in terms of business models relating to infrastructure. Instead of selling spectrum to operators, which there’s an extreme shortage of, the government may just built out an LTE network on their own and then sell access to said network to various operators. “We have close to 19 operators lined…
Just in time for the Thanksgiving travel season, FlightView launched a more powerful version of its mobile app FlightView Elite for Android users. The application keeps the core elements of the original FlightView app, allowing users to track their flights in real-time, plan for delays and call the airline directly to re-book flights. In addition,…
Snapfinger has added two restaurant chains with more than 700 locations combined to its online and mobile ordering platform – Bob Evans and Mimi’s Cafe. Bob Evans’ 569 restaurants operate in 18 states across the U.S, primarily in the midwest, mid-atlantic and southeast regions. Mimi’s Cafe is known for its French-inspired meals and “quaint cafe…
Google’s upcoming Chrome operating system was supposed to come out by the end of this year, but that’s officially not going to happen says eWeek. It’s a shame since we were really looking forward to looking at what the Mountain View, California based company could do given complete control over the BIOS and other system…
And I thought the Nokia E7 will hit the market (or at least select markets) by the end of this year. That still may be true, but it seems not all retailers (and I guess not all carriers) will get it at the same time. Take Expansys for instance – one would think they will…
As part of the efforts to jump to the mobile game, Expedia announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Mobiata, creator of popular mobile travel applications like FlightTrack, which was ranked a Top 5 best-selling iPhone travel app for 18 months straight. In addition, Mobiata also makes itinerary manager app TripDeck and…