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Welcome to another episode of “As the Patents Continue,” where Samsung remains in an ongoing battle with everyone’s favorite tech company, Apple. The richest company in the world has been obsessed with burying all things Android, focusing its rage mainly on Samsung, which the company believes is a copycat. Let’s backtrack for a second. Not…
AT&T is opening shop in a few new areas that lacked the company’s 4G LTE network. These new markets include Wichita, Kan.; Burlington, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem, N.C.; and Corpus Christi, Texas. The second largest wireless provider in the US also spread out its LTE 4G network in Charlotte, N.C., and recently launched in Buffalo, N.Y.…
Carriers have reported for the first time the number of instances they’ve been asked to provide some form of subscriber information to law enforcement officials. Nine carriers in the U.S., including Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, released information in response to a Congressional inquiry, and revealed that they responded to a whopping 1.3 million requests for…
If you want access to the latest beta software from Apple, one workaround to signing up for a $99 developer account is actively being shut down. Several services have popped up over the last few years that offer regular Joe’s the ability to activate their device on someone else’s developer account, usually for a small…
If you own a device that runs Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, and if you use Twitter as your primary means of consuming up to date information, then chances are you don’t use Twitter’s official Twitter app. Why? Let’s cut straight to the chase, it’s shit. Power users don’t get all the advanced features they’re…
Mobile itinerary management and travel booking app WorldMate just got better, at least for iPhone users who got the completely re-designed hotel booking experience. The enhancements, which are a result of WorldMate’s exhaustive study of the booking behavior of millions of its customers, should make the process easier while at the same time offering more…
Microsoft is doing something incredibly bold this year. They’re launching three new operating systems. Two of them you’ve already heard about, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. The third is one that’s set to confuse consumers all around the world, Windows RT. What is it? It’s Windows 8, but made to run on ARM compatible…
Nokia has this really cool service for developers called “Remote Device Access”, RDA for short. Instead of making developers pay top dollar for smartphones to test their apps on, they can instead secure some time to remotely play with a handful of devices that sit in one of Nokia’s offices. According to GSM Arena and…
Google Wallet was announced in May 2011. It’s now been 14 months since the company said they would change the way we pay for things. Have they? Absolutely not. Then there’s ISIS, a mobile payments company setup by three of the four major American operators. They announced their intent to replace the calfskin bifold in…
Richard Kerris, Nokia’s Global Head of Developer Relations, recently sat down with Neowin and told them a few things that are worth repeating here. First, he confirms what many of us already know, that Verizon Wireless will be carrying Nokia’s Windows Phones. When? “It wont be long,” which is about as vague of an answer…