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After much speculation about Microsoft’s plans to bring its Office productivity suite of software to iPhone and iPad, it seems that it has been all but confirmed at this point. Now, even Microsoft has — albeit unintentionally — revealed some information about Office on iOS. On a support page of Microsoft’s French website regarding accessing…
Android is in the news yet again for a bit of a security blunder. Google’s most recent operating system release, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, is under fire for its poor recognition of malware with the use of a new featured called app verification. According to a study conducted by North Carolina State University computer science…
AT&T is trying to end the year strong by expanding its 4G LTE network to as many locations as possible. The Death Star lit up four new areas with some high-speed goodness. These places are Wilkes-Barre, Penn., Nashua, N.H., Grand Rapids, Mich and Auburn-Opelika, Ala. All four can be added to the long and impressive list of locales the…
We’re hitting the homestretch in this holiday season, so getting your friends and love ones something special is imperative. This week I decided to talk about 5 must have shopping apps for Windows Phone 8. Contrary to many skeptics, WP8 does have a respectable collection of mobile applications. Nevertheless, here’s my list of five apps…
RIM has been all in the news this morning. First, we reported that the company released a WiFi calling feature within BlackBerry Messenger 7 called BBM Voice. Now the Waterloo company has shown what seems to be a glimpse of its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone in a recent press release. If you look at the…
Bitter rivals Apple and Samsung are driving holiday sales, according to the latest IDC report. Both companies are the big winners in the quarterly Worldwide Connected Smart Device report that IDC released today. In the report, the rivals scored big when it came to PCs, smartphones, and tablets, as those numbers grew to 27.1 percent…
Research In Motion has some great news for you loyal BlackBerry users out there. The Waterloo company has finally released BlackBerry Messenger 7 with BlackBerry Messenger Voice available in the App World. BBM Voice is coming to users straight out of beta, and it allows users to have free Wi-Fi calling between BBM users by…
Just when Apple thought news about its Maps app couldn’t get any worse, think again. Australian police are telling fellow Aussies who own iPhones not to use the tech giant’s mapping system. This came about when police in Victoria, Australia, issued a warning today discouraging iPhone users from relying on Apple’s map app after rescuing several people…
Some men you just can’t reach… I understand we’re living in tough economic times, but there’s a line no one should cross. Like stealing from disabled person. And that’s exactly what happened to William Washington, a quadriplegic man with cerebral palsy whose iPhone has been stolen by some teenager. William Washington, 38, is unable to…
LG announced that its L-Series of affordable smartphones has crossed the 10 million sales mark. The series includes 4 devices, three of which have been announced in February at Mobile World Congress (Optimus L3, L5 and L7); and Optimus L9 which was unveiled later in the year. The Korean company admits this is a “modest…