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Hey, Hey, HEY! Today is BlackBerry Torch Day! That’s right, if you’re a BlackBerry aficionado like myself, chances are you have been waiting for the new vertical slider to go live on AT&T… and now it has. Packing a brand new form factor (for RIM), a new operating system (BlackBerry 6) and much more, the…
Simon Property Group, which owns 370 shopping malls all across the United States, is teaming up with a Silicon Valley startup called Shopkick to try and make mobile coupons work. How long have we been hearing about mobile coupons, and how successful have they been? Anyway, I digress. Beginning this month 25 malls in New…
Two unnamed winners of the Darwin Award, ages 26 and 32, were planning to parachute off a cell tower in central Indiana. Police were alerted, they arrived, shined their spotlight at the two buffoons, who then proceeded to climb down before potentially killing themselves. They’re currently facing charges of preliminary misdemeanor trespassing. Maybe the cops…
Dell is getting into the smartphone space in a very big way in the near future. With plans to launch a Windows Phone 7 handset, plus a major leak back in April that showed the Austin, Texas based company was planning on releasing several Android powered devices, the battle to get an expensive piece of…
Come one, come all, registration for the 2010 MeeGo Conference, previously called the Maemo conference, is now open. There are only 600 spots, it’s free to join, and trust me when I tell you that you want to act on this right now since this event tends to fill up pretty quickly. Having gone to…
Ericsson, the world leader in wireless telecommunications infrastructure, announced yesterday that they’ve just sold their 2 millionth cell site. They deployed the Ericsson RBS 6000, which does GSM/EDGE/WCDMA/HSPA/LTE and takes up only 25% of the space required by previous generations, to an unnamed operator working on expanding their mobile broadband capabilities. AT&T perhaps? The world…
Let’s assume for a moment that the blasphemous exploitative pieces of horrid cinema known as Star Wars Episode I, II and III didn’t exist and focus on the rest of the films in the epic space saga. The original trilogy that was, continues to, and will forever be loved by millions upon millions of people.…
Gesture Search for Android is a useful tool to search through your entire phone just by drawing on the screen, and it’s just become even easier to use. The Gesture Search application has just been updated with a new feature, called Double Flip. Double Flip is used to launch the Gesture Search application from where…
There is a lot riding on the new operating system RIM announced at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium this spring. This is the first significant operating system upgrade BlackBerry has had since Android and iPhone have exploded in popularity, and will mark RIM’s first concerted defense as reigning champion of the North American smartphone market. AT&T…
Sprint made it official: the Samsung Epic 4G is slated to drop August 31 and will become the nation’s second Android-powered WiMAX handset. The Samsung Epic 4G is the Pro variant of the Galaxy S and includes a QWERTY keyboard and 4G connectivity, two features which set the Sprint Epic 4G apart from the other…