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To coincide with today’s release of DreamWorks’ Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted in theaters, Amazon is offering the storybook app for free as part of its Free App of the Day promotion. It follows the humorous story of Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman, the four main characters always off on various adventures together. They are…
Do you lust after a luxury cellular experience from your favorite import car maker, and the Porsche-branded BlackBerry just didn’t cut it for you? Lamborghini and Android may be the perfect combination for you, as the Italian-based sports care manufacturer has announced an Android smartphone and tablet for the Russian market. The Lamborghini TL700 handset…
Apple owners have one more day to grab a discounted iTunes gift card from Best Buy. The retailer has taken 15 percent off the price of each denomination, which means you can grab a $100 gift card for $85, a $50 card for $42.50, a $25 card for $21.25 and a $15 card for $12.75.…
Are you sitting down? Because what we’re about to tell you something doesn’t make any sense to us whatsoever. Nokia’s stock price is up over 7.5% 11% on the Helsinki Stock Exchange because there’s a rumor going around that Samsung is interested in buying the company. Think about that second. If you were to combine…
The millions of iPhone users who have unlocked iPhones on the T-Mobile network may soon be in for a treat, according to a report from 9 to 5 Mac. As you probably are aware by now, Apple is gearing up for WWDC 2012, set to kick off in San Francisco’s Moscone Center next week. A…
Already home to one of the biggest airport shopping malls in the country (not to mention being smack dab next door to the Mall of America), the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) is about to get a few thousand more reasons to fly through. The airport is remodeling Concourse G, a concourse exclusively used by Delta…
Text messages cost operators little to nothing to send through their networks, yet they charge some pretty hefty fees for customers to use them. Looking to get around that problem, WhatsApp was born. It’s an application that uses your data connection to send messages and it works extremely well because it runs on nearly every…
Samsung quietly swapped out its CEO, replacing the mobile-oriented Choi Gee Sung with the display and chipset chief Kwon Oh Hyun. According to a Bloomberg report, Kwon helped Samsung become the top computer-memory chip manufacturer in the world. He was rewarded for his excellence with a position that puts him in charge of Samsung’s global business, which…
Apple has agreed to pay $2.5 million worth of fines in Australia because they called their new iPad “4G” capable. While the third generation iPad does indeed come with a 4G LTE cellular radio, said radio can’t connect to Australia’s 4G LTE networks because it doesn’t have the right bands. And in Australia you can’t…
Microsoft’s next version of Windows, dubbed Windows 8, is going to ship later this year; probably in October. There are going to be two versions of the OS, one called Windows 8 that runs on traditional x86 machines, and another called Windows RT that runs on the ARM architecture. Whereas anyone can go out and…