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Thanks to the wide adoption of smartphones, social networking is quickly making the jump to mobile. According to eMarketer estimates, by the end of this year, nearly 82 million US mobile users will use a social networking site on their phone at least monthly. In other words, that’s more than a quarter of the total…
Allrecipes has crossed a long way from a site with a single cookie recipe to the world’s largest digital food brand, with 17 sites and 9 apps. To illustrate how much has changed over the past 15 years, Allrecipes recently re-ran its very first on-site survey and here we present you the results. Unsurprisingly more…
In an effort to ensure modern voters have resources and tools to fully participate in elections, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Association of Latino Appointed and Elected Officials Education Fund (NALEO), New Organizing Institute (NOIEF), Rock the Vote and Verified Voting Foundation are launching a smartphone app to educate and empower…
If you’ve been using a Sony Android smartphone, you know their picture gallery and music player (Walkman) apps look awesome. Thanks to the savvy hackers from the XDA-Developers community, now you can try them out on your non-Sony Ice Cream Sandwich device. The Sony Album (picture gallery) highlights the most recent pictures in the top…
There are a number of different backup tools out there and it’s not easy to pick the one that works for you. Recently I stumbled upon Clickfree and instantly fell in love. And no – they don’t pay me to write about them. What I like about this solution is that it’s super easy to…
Remember the Acer Iconia Tab A110, which the Taiwanese company unveiled at Computex in June? Well, it will be available in the UK in September, when it will face Google’s Nexus 7 with aggressive pricing. The 7-inch tablet will cost 179 GBP, packing pretty much the same guts as Google’s tablet plus a microSD card…
Motorola may be looking to refresh its handset lineup for Verizon Wireless later this year. According to a rumor out of Hot Hardware, Motorola will release its Razr HD and Razr Maxx HD phones in October . This launch, says Hot Hardware’s sources, is a moving target and dependent on Motorola selling enough inventory of…
After presenting all the evidence in its possession, Apple rested its case in the patent dispute case against Samsung today. In the case Apple brought against the South Korean consumer electronics giant, the burden of proof fell on Apple to prove that Samsung knowingly copied the design of the iPhone when designing its Galaxy line…
Sony announced that it will be releasing a dark silver version of the Xperia S, which is the company’s flagship device at the moment. The Xperia S isn’t the only handset expected to get a color change, as Samsung plans to release a black version of its Galaxy S III. Sony deserves props for trying…
Finally, the long awaited Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update for the Motorola Droid 4 is here. First, we thought that Verizon was going through the usual bells and whistles with a soak test procedure. As it turns out, a few folks out there are beginning to receive their helping of ICS despite not hearing…