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A new iPad commercial by Apple highlights some of the new features of iOS 4.2, like printing and AirPlay. Couple these new features with a strong backing from Oprah and our insatiable urge to shop this holiday season and it looks like Apple might see some good numbers before the year’s end. It’s really impressive…
While we were looking at the numbers that Pingdom had commissioned from StatCounter regarding global smartphone OS marketshare based on web usage by region, we noticed that StatCounter also had some more recent mobile web usage data that showed BlackBerry being more popular than iOS (which includes iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) in the U.S.…
eBay has taken a look at the numbers, and it looks like Cyber Monday was huge for shoppers using their mobile devices to make purchases. Could there be a better signifier than the future of mobile commerce? After all, PayPal has been saying for weeks that it will see close to $700 million in mobile…
We’re all pretty excited about the upcoming PlayStation Phone and now a tech blog out of Greece has some supposed spy footage of the device in action. As you can see from the video below, the device in question could definitely be a PlayStation Phone made by Sony Ericsson because it kind of looks like…
The Motorola Olympus is one hotly anticipated Android device, and it looks like we could be seeing it some time soon. After all, one managed to find its way into a flea market for an unsuspecting and lucky person to purchase. Whether that’s the actual story seems irrelevant at this point, because the lucky new…
It’s time for a quick little iPhone tip. Let’s call it my tip of the day, shall we? It comes to us from our friends at the iPhone Download Blog, and it’s a simple tip for sure, but it’s a goody. Have you ever wanted to quote some text from an email and use it…
RIM tweeted yesterday that the BlackBerry App World portal is now home to 15,000 apps, up from 10,000 in September. It’s still a far cry from the iOS App Store’s 300,000-ish and the Android Market’s 100,000-odd apps, plus Windows Phone isn’t that far behind BlackBerry with 3,000 apps after just a few weeks. Also, as…
Verizon confirmed that it will launch its LTE network on December 5th. The wireless carrier will kick off its 4G campaign by rolling out the high-speed mobile broadband service in 38 cities and 60 airports this Sunday. The service will blanket 110 million people at launch. Southern California will be its largest launch market with coverage…
Rovio confirmed this morning that its highly anticipated Christmas version of Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, is now available for Android and iOS. The Android version is available now from the Android Market or GetJar for free. This version is still ad-supported but Rovio confirms that it is working on a paid version of Angry…
Hooboy, I think we’re starting to see why Kik Messenger was booted out of App World and had its developer tools revoked. As of yesterday, Research In Motion is suing the makers of the instant messaging app for patent infringement. RIM had said that Kik was breaching contractual obligations, and that they had tried to…