Best Buy is teaming up with Clearwire to offer the WiMAX provider’s broadband services to its customers under the Best Buy Connect brand. Starting in 2011, the electronics retail giant will offer a 4G option to customers wishing to purchase its branded broadband service. No markets have been specified (where the new service will be…
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Samsung Wave 2 (525) and Wave 2 Pro (533) will cost 299 EUR each in Germany
After Russia, Samsung is announcing the Wave 2 (525) and Wave 2 Pro (533) in Germany, with other European markets to follow shortly (one would assume). As you know, we’re talking about mid-range devices that run Samsung’s own Bada OS. Both phones will have the same price of 299 EUR, which is kinda weird considering…
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile team up with Discover for NFC payments
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are teaming up with Discover and Barclays to test NFC payments in the Atlanta area as well as three other cities. The operators have been searching for a CEO for this new venture. AT&T and Verizon will get equal stakes in the company, with T-Mobile having a smaller chunk of the…
Coastal Angler Magazine launches fishing and boating app for Android and BlackBerry
Coastal Angler Magazine is out with its smartphone app, initially available for Android and BlackBerry with the iPhone version set to hit the Apple AppStore in the near future. Called FishOn, the application allows users to access up-to-the minute local weather, marine conditions, tides, catch photos, fishing reports, information on conservation, towing, and fishing licenses,…
TripAdvisor launches mobile app for Nokia phones, integrates with Ovi Maps
TripAdvisor is teaming up with Nokia to launch a mobile app and include its travel content into Ovi Maps. Using the dedicated application, TripAdvisor for Nokia, travellers can search for popular hotels, restaurants and attractions in their vicinity, as well as find the cheapest airfares available. The app is available in 12 different languages, providing…
Asphalt 5 gets iPhone 4 Retina display update
Another Gameloft game has got an iPhone 4 treatment, as expected. It’s Asphalt 5, which as you may know is an awesome lookin’ racer title. And it just got better with included support for the gorgeous Retina display iPhone 4 rocks. In addition, there are gyroscope-based controls that should apparently provide you with an even…
Namco Networks brings Firemint’s Flight Control to Windows Mobile, Brew and Java mobile phones
Just as we expected, Namco Networks is bringing Firemint’s highly popular Flight Control game to more mobile phone users. The original iPhone title is one of the best-selling games in the AppStore, so we were not surprised when we’ve heard Namco wants to port it to other mobile platforms. And that’s exactly what they did,…
Smith Micro’s SendStuffNow allows iPhone and iPad users to manage files while on the go
Smith Micro Software unveiled SendStuffNow for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, allowing users to send large files from their iDevices. In addition, users can track the status of pending file deliveries and create new invitations to allow other users to access files that have already been uploaded. In a nutshell, the same company that brought StuffIt…
Smartphones shipments grew 64% world wide, Android grew 886% too
Analysts at Canalys have crunched the latest facts and figures from everyone’s Q2 financial results and have unearthed that smartphones shipments grew 64% world wide compared to Q2 2009, and that the number of Android device that have shipped in the same year on year period has increased a startling 886%. Nokia has maintained their…
How is Gorilla glass made? It’s actually almost 50 years old! [Project Muscle]
Gorilla glass, the impossible to break, impossible to scratch, material that has shipped on devices such as the Motorola Droid and LG’s X300 notebook, started out as “Project Muscle” in a Corning laboratory in the late 1950s. The goal was to make a sheet of glass as strong as that of steel. The technique, if…