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It seems Dell wants to do everything but get its new Venue Pro, a Windows Phone 7 smartphone, into the hands of the masses. Even now, most friends and acquaintances are telling me that tracking one down has been difficult. Microsoft stores, of which there aren’t very many, seem to get sporadic shipments of them…
The Amazon MP3 store has been on Android and webOS since their respective beginnings, and now they’re adding BlackBerry to their roster. Using the new app, users will be able to search, browse, buy, and download (over Wi-Fi or 3G) any of their 14 million songs. Every track has a 30-second sample so you can…
Things aren’t looking terribly bright for Nokia in the coming months as executives are either on their way out, or their absence is already being felt by those missing the long-time Nokia heads. Now there is word that the Finnish mobile manufacturer is planning to cut 800 jobs in Finland, where Nokia has its home.…
According to IDG News, who sat in on a presentation given by Nokia Senior Manager Gunther Kottzieper at the 2010 International Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, Nokia is planning to do the following things over the next 12 to 15 months: In Q1 they’ll release a software update for their Symbian^3 devices that features an…
Mobile phone applications are the hottest things since sliced bread, but you don’t need me to tell you that. Earlier today we published a report from IDC that said 10.9 billion applications were downloaded in 2010 alone and that number is expected to hit 76.9 billion in 2014 when the market for smartphone software is…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is reportedly ready to unveil a handful of tablet devices when he takes the stage to deliver his keynote presentation at CES 2011. The devices to be presented include tablets from Samsung and Dell. The Samsung device is thought to be a 10-inch device with a form factor that is slightly…
Nokia announced a successor to the highly popular, and insanely expensive, E90 at Nokia World back in mid September of this year. Today, exactly 3 months after the announcement of the E7, they’ve told Reuters that their highly anticipated smartphone is no longer shipping by the end of this year, but has instead been delayed…
DailyBooth is a novel service that asks users to snap a picture of themselves using the webcam that comes built-in with many of the new laptops that are hitting the market. Apple, deciding to put a front facing camera on both the iPhone 4 and the new iPod touch, gave the folks at DailyBooth a…
Little is known about Zetawire, a company that Google just purchased according to The 451 Group. They’re Canadian, based out of Toronto, trademarked a yet to launch product called “Walleto”, and have a patent for creating a “mobile banking, advertising, identity management, credit card and mobile coupon transaction processing” solution or in other words: Google…
If your iPhone is jailbroken, you may’ve heard of Jay “saurik” Freeman. If not – you should know he’s the main brain behind the popular Cydia app store where folks who want more from their iDevices go for the latest apps and iOS modifications that don’t sing along Apple’s iOS development policies. Well, Jay said…