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We had heard that Richard Branson’s Virgin was set to launch an iPad-specific magazine and the “Project” app has launched and we’re pleasantly surprised with it. You can download the app here and it’s free to download the reader, but you’ll have to pay $2.99 for the magazine itself. I plunked down the cash for…
Verizon must have been in a rush to bring its holiday marketing materials to the masses and skipped the oh-so-important step of proofing each graphic for accuracy. In two recent holiday marketing campaigns, the wireless carrier has made some glaringly obvious and roaring hilarious mistakes with its cell phone mock-ups. In a recent online holiday…
LG Display is teaming with QD Vision to work on the next generation of displays and the so-called QLED (quantum dot LED) screens promise to offer brighter colors while using less energy. While LG did not explicitly say what types of devices would use the new QLED screens, it would make a lot of sense…
Last month, MySpace promised that they would be bringing their redesigned socidal network to mobile, and today they’re delivering with a new iPhone app and an updated mobile site. By pulling information of your music tastes from your iPhone’s iTunes library, the app will populate your news stream with information from the artists you listen…
LG, the electronics giant who makes everything from televisions to cell phones, has announced its plan to remove its business-solutions division next year and focus on the four remaining divisions: home entertainment, home appliance, air-conditioning & energy solutions and mobile communications. LG posted some unimpressive numbers and saw a dramatic decline in profits over the…
Popular social networking service HootSuite announced that it has reached one million registered users. To celebrate this momentous event, HootSuite gave away an iPad as part of a Twitter contest and put together an infographic that details the growth and usage of its service. Among all the facts and figures presented in the infographic, HootSuite’s…
It’s been a while since we’ve seen the mysterious BlackBerry 8980 code-named Atlas, which looks like little more than a Bold 9700 with a Curve-style keyboard, but it recently passed through the FCC rigamarole. Technically, the first test results for the 8980 went through in early September, but just yesterday the user manual and external…
Verizon announced today that it will be holding a press conference on December 1st to discuss its LTE rollout plans. The press conference will begin at 12:00 noon EST and is available via teleconference and on twitter (@VerizonWireless #VZW4G). The carrier is expected to blanket 38 major metropolitan areas and more than 110 million Americans…
Multitasking, AirPlay and better handling of HTML5 weren’t the only things included in Apple’s recent update of iOS to version 4.2.1, there’s also support for Network Controlled Fast Dormancy (NCFD). What exactly is that? The folks over at Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) break it down on their official corporate blog and to make things short:…
Both France and Switzerland are set to auction off their 800 MHz band, otherwise known as the digital dividend spectrum which was once used for analog television broadcasts, at some point in 2011. Their decisions are part of a broader effort by the European Union to ensure that the entire continent is blanketed with high…