Gameloft’s Dungeon Hunter 3 may have been greeted with less than stellar feedback from its hardcore fans for not only going the free-to-play route, but also taking the beloved mobile hack-n-slash RPG franchise and stripping it down to nothing more than an arena-style game. I personally rather enjoyed my experience, but one thing I felt…
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Setster’s API helps merchants using daily deal sites schedule appointments
Setster released an appointment scheduling API for DailyDeal companies, which could then provide the capability to their merchants. The problem merchants face when using DailyDeal sites is that they often find their manpower unable to tackle-on the vast interest these deals bring in, thus generating negative feedback for both the deal company and the merchant.…
Australian consumer watchdog group wants Apple to change the name of the iPad
O iPad WiFi + 4G, iPad WiFi + 4G, wherefore art thou iPad WiFi + 4G? As you might recall, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is up in arms about the name of the iPad, specifically that pesky 4G moniker. Apple’s 3rd-generation iPad does indeed have a 4G LTE chip built into the…
Spotfiy for iPad spotted, coming soon?
Spotify took the US by storm last year after a successful launch in Europe. The music service offers free PC/Mac streaming for all users, with mobile listening added when you sign up for a $10 per month account. While $10 per month certainly sounds like a lot of money to shell out when there are…
Samsung now giving Galaxy Note buyers in India a free pair of Sennheiser headphones
Deep down inside, I have a thing for ultra low end phones. How little money can I spend on a device that will do damn near everything my high end smartphone does? Earlier today I was delighted to find out that the Samsung Galaxy Pocket is now available for preorder here in Finland. At 140…
LG says it’s now ready for smartphone battle
Life’s not that good for LG’s mobile arm right now, as the company has fallen from its third-largest cell phone manufacturer slot, it has been outpaced and outclassed in the smartphone market while also being squeezed in the entry-level side. In a meeting at its Seoul headquarters, the company admitted its failings but believes it…
AT&T’s CEO checks the company’s stock price every few minutes
Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s CEO, is a man who can’t sit still. He recently spoke to CNN about the company’s current situation, how they can’t find enough skilled labor in America. We’ll get to that in a second. The thing we want to highlight is an account that Alex Elizardo, a student at the University of…
HTC replaces their Chief Financial Officer, the one responsible for the Beats deal
Winston Yung, an Americanized name if we ever heard one, is no longer HTC’s Chief Financial Officer. He’s been replaced by Chia-Lin Chang, who is not only a former Motorola engineer, but also a former Goldman Sachs partner. So why did HTC do this? These next few weeks are going to be absolutely vital for…
Asus starts offering free GPS dongles for Transformer Prime users
Yep, we’ve told you Asus will offer a free GPS dongle for Transformer Prime to fix positioning issues some users had with the tablet. The company has started sending out the following email to its customers: Although the TF201 is not a professional GPS device, as part of our unwavering commitment to our customers we…
Nokia to announce a new Vietnamese factory next week, set to employ 10,000 people
Nokia’s smartphone unit doesn’t make any money. In fact, if it wasn’t for the feature phone division, there wouldn’t be a Nokia. Now during the past year or two we’ve heard about the Finnish handset maker closing their factories in Germany, Finland, Romania, and several other countries. Why? Because at the end of the day…









