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BuyVia, an app and website that provide smart shopping experience across devices, released results from its Holiday Mobile Shopping survey, revealing that 40% of consumers will be “showrooming” this holiday shopping season. In other words, they’ll be examining products in retail stores with apps, before making a decision to buy in store or online depending…
The Blackberry 10 gold SDK release has revealed something interesting – RIM will integrate its latest platform with Evernote, the world’s most popular note-taking service. Evernote is placed as one of the so-called Notebook options listed under the “App Integration” heading, allowing users to organize “actionable and non-actionable items into separate folders or topics.” By…
Mobile apps stores had collectively distributed a cumulative total of 81 billion smartphone and tablet applications as of end-September 2012, 89% of which were downloaded from native storefronts that come with the device’s operating system. According to ABI Research’s senior analyst Aapo Markkanen, storefronts that the operating system vendors provide as part of the OS…
Prepaid carriers Leap Wireless and MetroPCS are offering a financing program for its handsets. This new strategy is meant to be an enticing option for those who are strapped for cash and hate being locked into two-year contract agreements. The two prepaid company’s believe that their new approach to make buying devices easier will encourage…
Since its debut, the Facebook application for Android has been met with much scorn. Not only has the application been buggy throughout its existence, but it’s also been excruciatingly slow at times. Finally, it looks as if Facebook decided to give a damn, and today updated its application to 2.0. The update brings a nice…
Apple has rounded up its list of the best iPhone apps and games of 2012. Every year Apple posts its list in iTunes, giving its pick for the best app of the year, best game of the year, and runner-ups for each. iPad apps get their own separate list, which we’ll also cover. Best-sellers are…
If you have a Samsung Galaxy S III from Verizon in your pocket, then we have some great news for you! It looks like Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update will be hitting devices starting tomorrow. As per usual, you can expect the update to roll out in waves, so don’t be surprised if the update…
A few days ago, we had the 16GB Kindle Fire HD as our top deal, and now it’s time for one of its biggest rivals, the Nexus 7. Now, if you’ve been following our Daily Deals this past week and have been looking for a nice 7 inch tablet, then you have no excuse if…
Patents are confusing. Like you, many of us in the industry try our best to make sense of it all. What we do know is Apple has been taking full advantage of a patent system that’s well overdue of some reform. So the irony that the ultimate patent troll (Apple) has been found of infringing…
AT&T is moving at a rapid pace in delivering its 4G LTE to new regions across the country. The second largest wireless provider in the United States announced today that it has brought high-speed LTE data to seven more metropolitan areas (with 8 locations total). The list of places include the following: Little Rock, Arkansas Pullman,…