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Google I/O 2013 is officially a go, as the dates for the developer conference have just been announced via the +Google Developers page. Thousands of people will be hitting the Moscone Center West to see what Google has in store. Google I/O 2012 was by and far the most popular conference, as not only did…
Here’s the story of an iPhone-stealing, gibberish-texting fox that you are not likely to forget. The tale starts in Norway when 16-year-old Lars Andreas Bjercke and his friends noticed a fox hanging around the outskirts of his yard. To get the animal to come closer, he installed an app that attracts foxes by simulating the sounds…
Verizon Wireless lost an appeal that sought to overturn the FCC’s 2011 roaming agreement rule. This FCC mandate requires mobile carriers to offer roaming agreements to its competitors at commercially reasonable rates. Verizon objected to this rule and unsuccessfully argued that the Federal Communications Commission did not have the authority to enforce this rule. The appeals court…
Clove, a smartphone retailer located in the United Kingdom, has the blue HTC 8S in stock and ready to ship. The mid-range Windows Phone 8 device is priced at the affordable cost of £224. At this price customers don’t get the quality of the flagship 8X, but some pretty reasonable specs instead. The HTC 8S carries a 1Ghz dual-core…
Nokia has tried to do as much as it can to separate its Windows Phone handsets from the rest of the competition. The company has released a number of exclusive apps over the past few weeks which include Groupon, ESPN, Nokia Maps, Drive, Transit, Music and City Lens. Now the Finnish company is releasing yet another exclusive…
Apple is ramping up its inventory of the iPhone 5 and making it readily available for the holiday shopping season. As noticed by CNET, ship times for the iPhone 5 have dropped to 2-4 days, down from one week. At its peak, ship times for the handset ballooned to three to four weeks due to…
News Corp’s London Times has thought of a creative way to offer new customers a deal on membership to its paper. The Times is dangling a 32GB Nexus 7 tablet for just £50 when you sign up to a £4 per week subscription to its tablet edition. If you do some quick math that would…
ZTE confirmed in a press release that it has signed a financing agreement with China Development Bank. The deal will bring the company $20 billion over the next five years. The financing will be used for ZTE’s overseas projects and credit facilities for the company. China Development Bank is a policy bank of the People’s…
Bloomberg is reporting troubling times for Windows tablets this holiday season. According to one industry analyst, early demand for Microsoft Surface, the company’s self-built Windows RT tablet, has been disappointing, leading Microsoft to allegedly reduce the number of Surface RT units ordered from its distributors. The same can be said of alternative Windows-based tablets, with the…
Nokia has cut back its workforce, cut its spending and now the company is selling the building that houses its headquarters in Espoo, Finland. Nokia confirmed in a press release that it is selling the building for EUR 170 million to Finnish real estate investment company Exilion. Nokia expects to complete the sale of the…