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On the eve of the launch of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is acknowledging that getting back to the top of the mobile computing world will not be an easy trek. “We have a lot of work to do to get back into the game,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, according to the Wall Street Journal.…
Ever since we heard the rumor that the Gingerbread SDK may drop sometime this week, we’ve gotten quite a few morsels of information on the impending update. This time around a video of what just might be a new lock screen animation for Android Gingerbread devices. Mimicking older television sets, the animation shows light coming…
We know that Apple is bringing iPhone features to the Mac but it looks like the FaceTime on Mac feature may have a small security flaw. Once you’ve logged in to FaceTime on the Mac, other people can monkey with your Apple ID or change your passwords while FaceTime is still running. There’s also reports…
The web media-savvy Skyfire web browser has finally gotten real on the iPhone. This is great news for all you iPhone users who just can’t live without embedded videos and interactive websites based on Adobe Flash technology. But, before you get all worked up trying to find the Skyfire browser in the iPhone AppStore, you…
You may recall some of us being upset with how some carriers are describing its next-generation mobile networks as “4G” even though standards bodies didn’t designate technologies as such. Well, the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunications has finally designated which wireless technologies should be called 4G but don’t expect that to clear up the confusion. The…
Remember the Old Spice Guy, Isaiah Mustafa? Of course you do. And you probably remember that we mentioned he was commissioned by Microsoft to advertise Windows Phone 7 down in Australia. Wasting no time at all, Mustafa was on an Australian radio program talking Windows Phone 7 and seducing the ladies of the room —…
T-Mobile confirmed via Twitter that the HTC HD7, its flagship Windows Phone handset, will be available in stores starting November 8th. This date is a pleasant surprise for HD7 fans as the 8th is a bit ahead of its previously announced mid-November availability. This super-sized smartphone will be priced at $199.99 with a two-year agreement and…
While Nokia is suffering a mass exodus of execs and its latest flagship – the N8 – received horrid reviews, it’s still managing to outsell Apple’s iPhone 2 to 1 in terms of smartphones. Of course, this isn’t a surprise since the Finnish company has a tremendous global presence and is the world’s largest mobile…
AT&T has posted one killer quarter thanks to the Apple iPhone. We already knew that Apple had strong numbers after getting news from its earnings call that it sold 14.1 million iPhones over the summer. Now AT&T is announcing that it activated 5.4 million iPhone smartphones during that time. These numbers are a record in…
The official YouTube application for Android has been updated and is now available as a standalone app in the Android Market, but only if you’re running 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo). There are a ton of features, like portrait and landscape viewing, channel info, commenting, liking, sharing on Buzz, Facebook, and Twitter, in-page viewing (so you can…