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Click A Taxi is now available in the UK and Ireland, allowing users to book a taxi without making a single phone call. The application — which up until this point was available in Denmark, Norway and Sweden — works both in major cities and small towns alike, and is in that sense different than…
The A5 chip inside Apple’s iPhone 4S has two ARM Cortex A9 processors and a PowerVR 5 series GPU. MediaTek’s new chip, the MT6577, is built the exact same way. According to the company’s press release, their chip will enable handset vendors to build “premium” $199 Android smartphones. The MT6577 also has a built in…
SOS Online Backup launched a new version of its Android app for smartphones and tablets. Available as a free download, the application has two primary functions: My Cloud and Protect. The former provides users with access to all of the files in their personal cloud including those from other devices and computers. The Protect tool,…
Google announced so many things at I/O yesterday that I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around everything they talked about during their keynote. There was one thing however, something they didn’t talk about on stage, that has completely and utterly blown my mind. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which hit the market late…
Two weeks ago Nokia announced that they would slash 10,000 jobs by the end of 2013. Buried in that press release was the terribly upsetting news that Nokia’s offices in Ulm, Germany would be shut down. According to the Finnish business site Taloussanomat, Ulm was where development on Meltemi was taking place. Meltemi was supposed…
During a 2010 keynote at the IFA in Berlin, Eric Schmidt described a Google that “can suggest what you should do next” and “what you care about” because Google knows where you are and what you like. Schmidt went on to describe a “near-term future in which you don’t forget anything, because the computer remembers.”…
Sprint is working double-time to finally get its LTE network rolled out to the masses. The company today announced the launch of its long awaited 4G service in the following cities: Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, and San Antonio. This is an aggressive move to speed up the process of overhauling its 3G and 4G…
Remember when Sprint issued a statement about its delayed Galaxy S III due to “overwhelming demand?” Well, it looks like The Now Network has finally gotten the situation taken care of and is now prepared to launch the device July 1st. At the moment, only the 32GB version is available for pre-order on the web,…
One thing that has become synonymous with the iPhone is the fact that everyone who owns the handset thinks they’re a photographer. In a gutsy move, a Swedish startup hopes to capitalize on this new wave of mobile phone camera shooters. The company today released an iPhone app called Foap for both the U.S. and…
Splashtop launched version 2 of its popular remote desktop software along with the new “Bridging Cloud” infrastructure, consisting of high performance clusters of secure Internet relay servers that bridge users with their computers and mobile devices all around the world. First thing existing Splashtop iPad users will notice is a redesigned UI, which is (obviously)…