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Microsoft released the SkyDrive cloud storage app for iOS and Windows Phone back in December without any signs of an Android version coming in the near future. Sure enough it never did. Here we are eight months later, though, and Microsoft is finally releasing SkyDrive in Google Play as well as updating the current apps…
Apple is continuing its dominance in the tablet market, according to the latest numbers tallied up by IHS iSuppli. The firm found that the Cupertino based company extended its lead in the slate business shipping about 70 percent of all tablets in the second quarter of this year. Indeed, these are impressive numbers, but they…
When Microsoft unveiled the Surface tablet line back in June, many expected the lower-end ARM-based Windows RT model to retail around the price of an iPad. After all, the Windows 8-based tablet is expected to be a fully fledged mobile computer that could easily rival the capabilities offered by Apple’s market-leading iPad, and a tablet…
Google has filed a phone patent that’ll hopefully save you from those awkward moments in public. You know, that moment when you attempt to answer a call on your smartphone but find yourself talking into the wrong end? Yeah, that one. The new patent will allow users to answer their smartphones no matter which end…
T-mobile is stepping up to become the first major carrier to give Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus owners some Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). This is normally a ridiculously drawn out process because folks who happen to own carrier-connected tablets have to wait longer for their updates. Well, as of today, the fourth largest wireless provider…
Though iOS 6 may be adding offline turn-by-turn navigation when it launches next month, the service will likely be limited to the iPhone 4S/iPad 2 or newer models, leaving iPhone 4 and original iPad owners with the choice to upgrade or lose features. Fortunately for those not wanting to upgrade, Telenav has just released an…
After Facebook announced its $1 billion purchase of Instagram earlier this year, the UK’s Office of Fair Trade (OFT) announced it was launching an investigation of the deal. Today, the OFT issued a brief statement that it will not pursue the case further with the Competition Commission, effectively giving the deal its stamp of approval. The concern was…
Yeah we know the LG Optimus Vu is coming to the U.S. having seen the leaked photos of the device with Verizon Wireless’ branding and now we have that information officially confirmed by the Korean company. In a press release saying that Optimus Vu sales have passed half a million units, LG revealed that its…
We’re not sure what to think of LG’s phone updating strategy. First they said the Optimus 2X will get Ice Cream Sandwich, only to flip-flop at a later date, with their Canadian branch saying the opposite. Now we have another proof that the update will actually be released; the information comes from LG’s Korea office,…
In what seems designed as a move to fight the “Nexus 7 threat,” Samsung’s British online store, Samsung Direct, is offering up to 50 GBP cash back to customers who purchase select tablets. If you go for the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Wi-Fi, you’ll get 50 GBP cash back; or 30 GBP if grab the…