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BlackBerry has announced a handful of applications that will become BBM connected over the next few weeks. Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry Travel, BlackBerry App World, and BlackBerry Music will all see apps updated in the next 10 days that will allow users to interact with BBM friends within these applications. You’ll be able to do things…
Apple finds itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit today, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. Following reports that the company was involved in an e-book price-fixing scheme surrounding books for Apple’s iPad, the US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Macmillan Publishing today in New York District…
Nokia is going to announce their Q1 2012 financial results on April 19th, today though they issued a press release that gives investors and analysts a hint of what sort of numbers they should be expecting. Here are the important figures: 83 million mobile phones were sold during the quarter, of which 71 million were…
Intel’s desperate to get into the mobile game. Their chips power desktops and laptops, but the future is obviously smartphones and tablets. When it comes to that space, Intel has 0% market share. Now that’s going to change this year thanks to Orange, an operator who has committed to launching a smartphone based on an…
Google is steadily conquering the world with its Android platform. It’s not just the Western hemisphere that’s under the strong influence of the search giant – users on the Far East love it, too. In fact, at the end of last year, Android had 68.4 percent of the Chinese smartphone market by the number of…
Sony announced that the Xperia S will soon be available at its stores across Canada. Beginning April 17th, fans of the Japanese company will be able to get the unlocked device and use it on Rogers’ network. Unfortunately we don’t know the price and can only speculate how much this powerful smartphone will cost —…
Bloomberg launched its Businessweek+ app for iPad in April of last year and has since saw more than 100,000 users downloading it. Now they’re out with an updated version that works on all iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPod Touch. As you can imagine, the application gives you access to all of the content…
People give me a lot of shit for saying that the only Android devices worth buying are the Nexus handsets. There are few exceptions to that rule, namely the Samsung Galaxy S II and the Samsung Galaxy Note, but for the most part … I simply can’t deal with the atrocities that handset makers commit…
You know about Pinterest, right? At the moment it’s holding the third most used social network spot and it keeps growing like crazy. I love it and I want to use it more, but I need an app for that. Lucky iOS users can already do their pin-schmoozing while on the go, whereas the rest…
If you live in the UK and want the HTC One X badly (who doesn’t), we have the deal for you. Online phone retailer Affordable Mobiles has what seems as the best offer for HTC’s flagship smartphone around. The device could be yours on Three’s two-year contract for 118 GBP (exactly: 117.99) and a 25…