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Yesterday, President Obama met with Steve Jobs to talk technology and economics. Today we’re seeing images of Mr. Obama signing Jobs’ finest creation – the Apple iPad. And taking a look at the crowd gathered around him (especially the girl with the ZOMG face), it looks like our President has a slight edge over Steve…
RIM has steadily been calming down the governments of the world about lawful interception over the last couple of weeks, but they’ve been tight-lipped about the specific solutions they have been implementing to meet security demands. There was some talk about setting up local servers, or forwarding decrypted e-mails from corporate mail servers to ISPs,…
Viper’s car control system for iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android is getting a little more accessible, and tacking on some new features today. Firstly, they’re knocking $100 off the price of the SmartStart car add-on to $199, meaning you’re looking at $399 rather than $499 for the whole shebang. You still have to pay $30/year for…
It was during this year’s Mobile World Congress when a newcomer to the mobile world — Copenhagen, Denmark-based Lumigon — unveiled its Android smartphone line-up. Now one of their devices is about to start selling and we’re somewhat excited considering just how cool it looks (and sounds). The name of the model is T1 and…
Just as we expected, Japanese NTT DoCoMo will start selling the Samsung Galaxy S (model SC-02B) this month. The date is set at October 28th, when interested folks will be able to grab the slightly customized version of Sammy’s popular smartphone from the country’s leading mobile operator. Speaking of customizations, we know the device will…
Walmart and their no contract mobile service Straight Talk has finally started offering smartphones and the first two they’re bringing to the market are Nokia’s E71 and 6790, the latter most Americans know as the “AT&T Surge“. Both devices are immediately available, will cost $245 each, and require the $45/month plan that gives users an…
Some quick iPhone 4 case news for ya here. This one comes to us from the good folks at CAZE. They’ve just released a brand new case for the iPhone 4 called ‘ThinEdge’. Available in four colors (black matte, white matte, blue shiny matte and pink shiny matte), it looks a heck of a lot…
Parachute Panic, one of the most popular titles in Apple’s AppStore, will be ported to Windows Phone 7. The game, which has been downloaded for more than 4 million times by the iPhone and iPod Touch users and has been also ported to Samsung’s Bada OS and Java ME platforms, will definitely find its audience…
Samsung Galaxy 5 (i5500) has been launched by Australia’s Telstra and offered for AU$199 on pre-pay. That’s right folks, no contract signing is required if you opt to grab Samsung’s mid-range Android smartphone – simply pay 200 bucks and you’re ready to go. Of course, we’re talking about a device that is far from the…
According to Informa Telecoms & Media a historial moment has been reached in the wireless space with femtocells outnumbering macrocells for the first time in the United States. Now what exactly does that mean? The word macrocell is just a fancy way of saying cell tower. Conservative estimates put the number of cell towers in…