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Those of you who are a part of theSwype beta for Android, you’ll be happy to know that you have an update waiting you. You need to be a registered beta tester in order to get access to this updated version of Swype, but if you are, you can expect many bug-fixes across the board.…
It seems like only yesterday that the Apple iPhone 4 was released, and rumors are already abound for the next iPhone. Apple is apparently going to be ditching its long-time partner Infineon for Qualcomm according to China’s Commercial Times. But this rumor is two-fold, since Qualcomm does manufacture CDMA chipsets, it could make that Verizon…
Traditional publishers are facing disruptions from all over the place, as the Internet and mobile apps are becoming increasingly popular and disrupting business models. At the App Nation conference in San Francisco Monday, representatives from ESPN, TIME and Samsung offered some interesting takes on how mainstream publishers can adapt to the new world. “What’s most…
While we know that many upcoming Android tablets may not sport the application marketplace, there were even more worries if applications developed for the platform would even run efficiently on a screen larger than a smartphone. It looks like applications, if available on the tablets, should run rather well. We know that Android 2.2 Froyo,…
One of the features in Apple’s latest version of iOS, currently up to 4.1 with 4.2 due in November, is the ability to take high dynamic range photos. According to MacRumors this feature was added not because Steve Jobs told a few Apple employees to work on improving the camera application, but instead it was…
Wal-Mart announced today that it is stepping forward in the wireless business and is going to offer cellular service branded with the Wal-Mart name. The service will run on T-Mobile’s network in the US and will be available in 2,500 Wal-Mart stores nationwide starting September 20th. As expected from a discount retail chain, the Family…
Apple has sold millions of iPads, and some would call that a success, at least a business success, especially since the market is set to be flooded with a whole raft of clones running Android, Chrome OS, or who knows what else, but I’m still on the side of the fence that thinks the space…
My eyeballs nearly fell out of their sockets after watching a video posted by the boys and girls over at Engadget that shows a demonstation for “Nokia Swipe”, a mobile payments system that uses NFC based technology, but then I clicked through to where the video was hosted and was saddened to see that it’s…
We saw the HTC Trophy late last year when it appeared as an upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 handset in an HTC roadmap leak. Things have changed in the intervening nine months and the Trophy has apparently morphed into a Windows Phone 7 handset. The handset is unusual as it is candy bar with a front-facing keyboard, a form factor that harkens back to the Motorola Q and…
Discount Canadian carrier Koodo Mobile has been pretty busy launching some new 3G+ devices as of late. Recently the Nokia 7230 and Samsung Elevate hit their shelves, and now (by the looks of things) it looks like the LG Breeze is going to join the party… that is, if you believe the screenshot posted by…