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As Oprah named the Apple iPad her favorite thing, it looks like the day-time television shows are the latest battleground in the mobile war. Not to be outdone, Microsoft had its Windows Phone 7 devices prominently featured in a recent Ellen Degeneres show. Devices like the HTC Surround with Windows Phone 7 were part of…
Yahoo! News just announced the iPhone 4 as the number one obsession of 2010. It’s not terribly surprising given the attention the Apple smartphone received thanks to the story of its leak back in April, the “Antennagate” issue that caused a media stir and the subsequent whispers of the reason why we don’t have a…
Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha spoke yesterday at the Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference. As part of his presentation, the CEO said Motorola’s Q1 2011 guidance will be negatively impacted by a new “competitive dynamic” developing at Verizon Wireless. This new competitor must be the iPhone as only the iPhone could garner enough demand to hurt…
Zynga is taking the mobile space seriously, as it has just announced that it has acquired the mobile game developer Newtoy. Newtoy is probably best known for the mobile game Words with Friends. It’s a really nice Scrabble clone that has made our list of must-play iPad games. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.…
It’s been a little over a year since Rock Band was released on the iPhone and completely blew us away with its 4-player multiplayer mode allowing players to play each instrument on their respective iPhone via Bluetooth. It looks like the rockin’ won’t be stopping any time soon as EA Mobile has released a new…
The BBC iPlayer iPad app will be adding subscription services and will be going global. The app provides users access to on-demand video and audio content from BBC and the iPlayer iPad app could be seen as a competitor to Hulu. Like Hulu though, the app had been hamstrung by licensing deals and that’s why…
Gowalla‘s check-in app for iPhone has just had a major update, the most prominent featuring being the ability to check-in and view check-ins from Foursquare and Facebook Places. There are a few other new features too, like a revamped user interface, spot prediction on check-in, highlights of the top picks in town, bookmarks for finding…
We all know that Android 2.3 Gingerbread will bring some user interface improvements and Google has released a video which shows us what this will entail. The video below is from the Hong Kong branch and it is showing off Google Voice Search. It’s not a massive overhaul – we weren’t expecting this from a…
Clearwire is looking to raise more than $1.1 billion to build out its WiMax infrastructure as the competition in 4G is heating up. Clearwire will be offering debt securities in private placement transactions and the funds will help it build out its mobile data infrastructure. The company provides the service behind Sprint’s 4G network for…
Lookout Mobile has well over two million users now, but I bet it never imagined that its security application would help locate a stolen car. That’s exactly what the mobile app did for a man who had his car stolen at gun point with his cell phone still inside the vehicle. Stalin Guzman, a father…