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Research In Motion was able to avoid a BlackBerry ban in the United Arab Emirates and it has now struck a deal with regulators and mobile operators to bring a variety of mobile services to the region. The deal could bring mobile payment and banking services to BlackBerry smartphones in the region and it’s a…
The Verizon iPhone rumor just won’t stop and now we’re hearing reports that Apple is in the late-stage testing for its smartphone on the largest mobile operator in the United States. The Boy Genius is reporting that Apple has a CDMA smartphone which in in “AP” testing mode, which is the last stage before a…
At the GITEX conference in the Dubai, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie talked up their new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. After whipping out what looked like a working device, he showed off a full spec sheet that not only confirmed that the PlayBook would have a 5300 mAh battery, but that a version with 64 GB of…
The fabled Project Emerald, which we have gotten wrong plenty of times, is finally on its way in the form of the new myTouch. We’re not sure if Magenta will add in HD or 4G to the name but it’s set to be a killer handset. We can expect the device to ship with a…
HTC is set to have quite a massive lineup of Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. With five WP7 phones, and a handful of Android phones hitting shelves in the new future, expect a heavy uptick in the “YOU” ad campaign for these device – that campaign is picking back up with the T-Mobile G2…
Steve Jobs jumped into the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call today and didn’t sound too impressed with the potential iPad competitors. The company shipped more than 4.1 million iPad units this last quarter and this was still below what analysts were expecting. Perhaps that peeved Steve Jobs off a bit, as he tore into the potential…
By most common-sense accounts, Apple had a strong fiscal fourth quarter with $20.3 billion in revenue and more than $4.3 billion in profits. The company did sell more than 14 million iPhone units and more than 4.1 million iPad devices but some of these marks were below analysts’ expectations. “We are blown away to report…
After a lengthy private beta, HootSuite is now available on BlackBerry, offering enterprise-grade social networkers to manage Facebook and Twitter accounts, schedule tweets, review metrics, and make use of custom searches. As a corporate phone, BlackBerry is a great home for HootSuite, which has always targeted PR and marketing professionals. As such, it supports task…
Well, we knew that Verizon would be offering some tiered mobile data plans and it looks like the pricing information has leaked out. It appears that by the end of the month, you’ll be able to pay $15 for 150 MB of data or stick with the unlimited plan for $29.99 a month. This news…
This doesn’t quite stack up to my Michael Jackson “Beat It” parody standard set by both Weird Al Yankovic and some creative Team Fortress 2 modders, but it’s still pretty funny for those in the mobile space. Tweet It takes rival gangs of iPad owners and iPhone owners, and pitches them into an unlikely battle…