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According to a Globe and Mail report, RIM’s top lawyer, Ms. Karima Bawa, has resigned from the struggling handset maker. Bawa joined RIM in 2000 and became Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel in 2010. Her resignation follows the departure of Patrick Spence, RIM’s head of global sales, last week. To make matters even worse,…
According to a tweet from the Chronic Dev team, the Absinthe 2.0 jailbreak tool has been used to jailbreak over 1 million iOS devices. The group has logged over 211,401 jailbroken iPad 3 tablets and 973,086 jailbroken devices. The lasest version of Absinthe was released on Friday May 25 and these figures were announced two days…
We’ve already told you about the special Batman edition of Nokia Lumia 800; the Lumia 900 will get the same treatment, with such device soon hitting retailers in few European countries, including the UK, Germany and France. While we don’t know the price and the exact date when you’ll be able to get the new…
KDDI is about to add a novel Android smartphone to its AU portfolio. Kyocera’s Urbano Progresso dumps the traditional speaker for a vibrating display that conducts sound up your ear canal, making it easier to hear the person on the other end of the line even in loud environments. Moreover, the device also improves audibility…
Samsung is launching the Samsung Mobile PIN, a pop-up shop that promotes the company’s new flagship device, Galaxy S III, as well as other devices from Samsung’s portfolio. The first such spaces are rolling out in London (from May 29th) at Westfield Shepherd’s Bush and Old Spitalfields Market, and during the summer two additional PINs…
Facebook has updated its Windows Phone app. While it’s still not on par with iOS and Android version, it’s steadily getting better. Version 2.5 introduces a number of enhancements, including: Ability to like comments Full-threaded Facebook messaging including group messaging Ability to tag friends using “with” and “at” formats Delete posts and comments via long…
Millennial Media released a special Q1 edition of its Mobile Mix report, which not only includes data on the top mobile devices, manufacturers and operating systems, but also a new section on global tablet trends. From here we learn that the top 3 tablets used on Millennial Media’s network are Apple’s iPad, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab…
Bank of America proudly announced that it has reached an important milestone, with more than 10 million customers now using its mobile banking services. Of that number, nearly 3 million started doing so over the last 12 months. The banking giant was among the first to launch mobile banking services, and the first financial institution…
It’s likely that we won’t see a ton of fake mobile games in the Android Market (Google Play) in the future. Nope, Google won’t introduce an app review process, but developers should now be more wary, since they could end-up paying for their deeds. According to a BBC report, an unnamed Latvian developer who posted…
Orange UK is in the midst of a mobile ticketing trial with rail and bus operator, Stagecoach. The two companies unveiled the mobile contactless transport ticketing system, which could lead to a nationwide rollout across select bus and rail services during next year. Trial participants in Cambridgeshire, each of which got a Quick Tap enabled…