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Cricket has teamed-up with TuneCore, which is the largest distributor of digital music with “one of the highest revenue-generating music catalogs in the world.” As a result, Muve Music‘s library will be increased by up to 2 million tracks, while TuneCore artists will get access to over 600,000 Muve Music customers. Under the deal, Cricket…
Iliad’s Free Mobile, which launched its mobile services in France at the beginning of the year, signed up 2.6 million subscribers by the end of the first quarter or almost 4% of the country’s mobile market in just 80 days. According to Free Mobile’s figures, the total French market had grown by 854,000 subscribers in…
Whole Planet Foundation and BlueAvocado have teamed-up to launch a “Make Change. Not Waste.” iPhone app that rewards Whole Foods Market shoppers with coupons for green lifestyle actions, while at the same time raising awareness and funds for poverty alleviation. Shoppers get to earn badges and coupons from a catalog of 45 green lifestyle behaviors…
There’s a new iPhone app made for job hunters that will help them prepare for their next interview. Called Mock Job Interview, it’s designed to simulate real job interview, featuring most commonly asked interview questions. Moreover, the application also takes advantage on the iPhone/iPad’s built-in video recording feature to capture all aspects of the user’s…
Buffalo Technology recently started shipping the world’s first 802.11ac WiFi router. It’s notable because it can move data at 1300 megabits per second. If you buy that router and then connect it to your ADSL modem that provides you with a 3 megabit per second connection to the internet, then you’re obviously not going to…
Nokia has had an office in White Plains, New York since 2005. Roughly 300 people worked there, and their job was to make the Finnish handset vendor relevant in the United States. They obviously failed to do that, so now the office is being sold to the tune of $12 million. That sounds like a…
Finnish people are good at many things, but there are two things that they do that gets them world attention: playing ice hockey and driving Formula 1 cars. Heikki Kovalainen, while not the best driver, at least compared to Kimi Räikkönen, is a guy that most Finns know and respect. You can’t really miss him…
Samsung’s Galaxy S III, which was announced just two weeks ago, has already secured 9 million preorders according to Reuters. They say that an unnamed Samsung official says the Galaxy S III is being made in South Korea at a factory that’s able to produce 5 million phones per month, and that said factory is…
We all know about Samsung, the mobile handset maker, but how many of you know about Samsung, the component maker? They make the screens, processors, memory chips, and storage solutions that are found in a majority of the phones on the market today. This week the South Korean company is announcing that they’ve begun production…
Apple’s going to release a new iPhone this year. Everyone knows that. According to several anonymous sources who have spoken to Bloomberg, the sixth generation iPhone was one of the last things Steve Jobs worked on before he passed away last year. The exact quotes from the piece: “Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had worked closely…