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Draw Something will soon be jumping from smartphones to TV screens, with CBS securing the rights to make a pilot based on the popular drawing game. Despite the game’s declining popularity — though it still has millions of users — CBS had to compete with other media companies for the privilege, including Sony Pictures Television,…
Smartphones will drive $20 billion in aftermarket accessory revenues this year, accounting for more than half of the $36 billion that all aftermarket handset accessories will produce. By 2017, smartphone accessories will grow to $38 billion in revenues, with feature phone accessory revenues declining to $12 billion. Feature phone consumers will spend an average of…
Siri, which was founded as a company during the same year that the first iPhone launched, was acquired by Apple in April 2010. When the iPhone 4S was unveiled 18 months later, Siri was one of the key features demoed on stage. What is it? In case you’ve been living under a rock, Siri is…
SanDisk is launching a pair of new memory cards today. The marketing department went wild with the product names. They’re officially called the “SanDisk Extreme Pro microSDHC UHS-I” cards. What makes them special? They let you capture photos and videos at up to 90 megabytes per second, which is bananas considering that most folks have…
Way back in 1997 the FCC auctioned off licenses for the 2.3 GHz Wireless Communications Service (WCS) band. AT&T owns some of those licenses, but they never actually did anything with them because companies that own WCS spectrum are required to follow some archaic rules that make it nearly impossible to operate a terrestrial network.…
Watching a company launch innovative new products and services is easily one of the best parts of this job. On the flip side, watching a company’s competitors race to copy said new innovative products and services is hands down the most depressing thing we encounter on what sadly feels like a daily basis. Apple’s voice…
The first version of Windows Phone, launched in the fall of 2010, didn’t have a codename. The update that was released several months later, the one that added copy and paste support, was called NoDo. Then Mango came, and with it Nokia’s first devices to run Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Now the newest version of…
Now that every major technology publication has reviewed Samsung’s 2012 flagship handset, the Galaxy S III, it’s time to look towards the future. To be more specific, it’s time to start thinking about the devices we’re going to see during the second half of the year. According to MK Business News, Samsung is on track…
Nokia is giving many Facebook users out there the chance to win themselves a Lumia 900. This should come to no ones surprise as both Nokia and Microsoft has pushed the hell out of this phone to gain mind share from consumers. The new competition is open from June 15 to June 29, and all…
Whisper is a new app for the iPhone and iPod touch that picks up where Post Secret left off when it shut down at the beginning of January. It lets you anonymously share your secrets with the rest of the Whisper community using photos and text overlays. The app reminds me somewhat of Pinterest. It’s…