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This morning I was excited to find a new version of Angry Birds in the iTunes store. It’s a Halloween special edition that’s available only for iOS. Of course, there were no surprises here as it was announced yesterday that the new version of the game would be arriving today. What do I think so…
Australia’s Optus has joined Canada, the U.S., U.K., and others by launching the BlackBerry Torch 9800 today. Optus is offering the Torch for free with a $AUS 79 monthly plan on a two-year contract. For now, it’s only available to small and medium business customers, but seeing as their only personal BlackBerry for sale is…
Verizon confirmed today that Charleston, West Virginia will be among the first metropolitan areas to roll out LTE in 2010. The press release is short on details but confirms that portions of the traditionally rural state will receive LTE connectivity by the end of the year. Additional details on the LTE rollout in West Virginia…
RIM has been displaying the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in an untouchable plastic prison since launch, which hints that, as you might expect, the Neutrino OS by QNX is still very much a work in progress.This picture was snagged at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, where it looks like the PlayBook was somehow derailed from its…
Microsoft began its highly anticipated Windows Phone 7 launch in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand earlier today. Microsoft kicked off Windows Phone early last week with a series of highly publicized events that showcased both the carrier partners and the hardware being offered at launch. Despite its advertising push, early reports out of these regions suggest…
In a research note released on Wednesday, analyst Ashok Kumar addresses Motorola’s current financial state and its future prospects in a post-Verizon iPhone market. According to Kumar, Motorola will miss analyst’s estimates for handset sales in Q3 2010. Lower than expected sales are the result of display shortages that slowed production, diminishing sell through of…
Recently, a colleague of mine tipped me off to a new sleeping aid for iOS. Well, not an aid exactly, but an app that measures your sleeping patterns, and analyzes the data to determine the best window of time for you to wake up. Called ‘Sleep Cycle‘, so far I’m having nothing but success, and…
Two press releases were issued right after Nokia published their Q3 2010 financial results, and there’s some good and bad news. Let’s start with the bad. Around 1,800 jobs will be eliminated, mainly from the teams working on Symbian smartphones and the folks working on Ovi services. It’s not mentioned how many will be cut…
A survey commissioned by dotMobi, the people who are trying to push the world to register URLs that end in .mobi so that users know that a specific site is going to work properly on their mobile phone, has found that the amount of mobile websites has increased from 150,000 in 2008 to 3.01 million…
Nokia has just posted their Q3 2010 financial results and while they’re not as bad as people thought they’d be, they’re still a little bit full of hurt. On 10.3 billion EUR worth of revenue, up 5% compared to last year, the company made 403 million EUR, which is fantastic considering the same quarter last…