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As expected, the RIM layoffs continue. The BlackBerry maker just a week ago was reportedly cutting 3,000 jobs, which goes accordingly with its reconstruction plan that’ll save the company $1 billion in operating cost by the end of 2013. Now we have learned that 94 folks employed in the company’s Halifax location, will no longer…
Great news for you Xperia P owners out there. Sony has started to roll out your update to Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) ahead of schedule. In this update users can expect the same ICS goodness that graces just about every phone such as resizable widgets; a new task switcher; and updates to Gmail, Calendar,…
Good ol’ Google keeps improving its products and services. Their latest gig involves the Voice Search, which just got support for 13 new languages, including Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, European Portuguese, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak and Swedish. This brings the total language count to 42 languages and accents in 46 countries. Pretty…
The super-sexy Samsung Galaxy S III in black has been caught by the folks of Techno Buffalo, who managed to spend few minutes with the device. Apparently they were able to try out the model that’s made for T-Mobile, which consequently denied such a phone will ever hit their portfolio. And this is despite the…
After few delays, Huawei will finally launch the Ascend D Quad in late August, starting with China. The smartphone that uses Chinese company’s own quad-core CPU was originally announced in February during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and ever since gathered interest from mobile fans all around the world. Aside from the powerful processor, it…
The ever-successful OUYA project has informed its Kickstarter backers that they will be able to reserve their usernames on the upcoming gaming platform in September. The cool part is that those who invested in the company at the time when their product was still in the development phase will get a “Founders Emblem” that will…
It seems Microsoft will release the Windows Phone 8 SDK on September 7th, just before its developer conference in Australia, which goes from September 11th to 14th. Needless to say, part of the conference will “deal” with Microsoft’s mobile platform so we guess that companies and individuals attending the show will be the first ones…
NAVIGON has updated its Windows Phone app to make it on par with its iOS and Android offerings. New version of the application(s) come with few handy features which provide users with a better navigation experience. First, there’s Traffic Check that informs drivers of current traffic conditions with an easy-to-read gage graphic appearing after entering…
Popular augmented reality browser Wikitude has been updated with several handy features, including the ability to scan your money and instantly get exchange rates. Yup, you can test it out with your dollars and euros and see how much they’re worth today. Alongside the app update — which BTW is now in version 7.5 —…
In another mobile payments study, Juniper Research predicts that these transactions will rise nearly fourfold over the next five years to more than $1.3 trillion. The report titled “Mobile Payments Strategies: NFC, Remote Purchases & Money Transfer 2012-2017” found that growth would primarily be driven by sales of physical goods by both remote purchases and…