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TeleNav, the fine folks behind the GPS navigation apps for AT&T, T-Mobile, Rogers, and Bell, have announced a new advertising program that points users to sponsored search results. It sounds an awful lot like the Poynt announcement made earlier today, but TeleNav’s existing partnerships with carriers will likely give them a leg-up. There’s something to…
Another day, another Android home replacement. Well, that’s not entirely true when speaking ofHipLogic’s new Android “Super App,” Spark (Beta) – you can use it as just any other application or a full-fledged home replacement if you so choose. Spark is aimed for two kinds of people: Those who are social networking fanatics and those…
We’ve been anxiously waiting to see what Hewlett-Packard will do with Palm and the webOS platform since the $1.2 billion acquisition but it looks like we may have to wait a bit longer. On his blog, HP’s “innovation czar” Rahul Sood said HP Palm is working on webOS smartphones and connected devices but it could…
It may not be actual branded hardware, but we’ve got confirmation the Samsung Galaxy Tab coming to Verizon. The Tab will be announced on the 16th, but pricing and availability will likely be a no-show. Hot on the heels of the AT&T branded Galaxy Tab, the leaked Verizon document confirms that Big Red will indeed…
Usually when operators talk about cell towers they mention how they’ve deployed them in areas of weak or no coverage in order to better serve their customers. Not so with Sprint, who according to Walter Piecyk, an analyst at BTIG, is going to decommission about 20,000 cell cites or roughly a third of what they…
Few people realize that Windows Phone 7 will be launching with a standard onscreen keyboard that can not be changed by developers. Until Microsoft loosens this restrictions, Windows Phone owners are stuck with the stock keyboard and can not explore alternatives like Swype; unless of course you scoop up that HTC 7 Trophy with its…
You’ve heard it once before, and I’m going to tell you over and over again until you learn to switch your damn phone off when you go abroad. Two Houston, Texas children, brother and sister, Sam age 13, and Sarah age 11, went on a trip to the Dead Sea in Israel, and even though…
Chalk this bit of news as an awesome sign of what the future of Nokia under Stephen Elop. Peter Skillman, the dude who made the user interface for the Palm Pre, you know, the whole instant search, cards, awesome notification system, synergy, and a boat load of other sweet things that we’re seeing Google throw…
Even though Apple said the antennagate problem was smaller than it thought, Consumer Reports still won’t recommend the Apple iPhone 4. Consumer Reports, the shopping watchdog, originally gave the Apple iPhone 4 an extremely high rating but once the hubbub about antenna attenuation, the agency took away its recommendation. Apple then began giving out free…
Poynt, a location-based search app for BlackBerry, Android and iPhone, has announced a new service for vendors called the Offer Engine, which integrates with their app to offer those nearby with promotions in an effort to get users to swing by. With the help of a dashboard, merchants can determine the radius in which their…