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Bump Pay is a new experimental app from the makers of Bump that instead of pounding fists to share contact information, lets you share money. It works by initially connecting to your PayPal account. Then you launch the app, type in the amount of money you want to transfer and bump hands with the person…
Wild predictions are being made about the future of 4G speed by CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks Hossein Moiin. He thinks that by 2020, significant advancements will be made to the technology that will allow for speeds to become 1,000 times faster than they are today while costing as little as $1 per gigabyte, which…
We all know that Google is working on a tablet of its own. We also know that it will likely debut within the next two or three months, possibly be cheaper than the Amazon Kindle Fire, and likely made by Asus. However, what we haven’t heard before today is that it looks like Google just…
The Fair Labor Association is back from a thorough investigation of Apple device supplier Foxconn in China. It found, as many have reported, numerous labor-rights violations such as long overtime hours and salaries that aren’t enough to cover basic needs for living. The average monthly salary for factory workers ranges from $358 to $455. Over…
In an aggressive move to raise some more dough, T-Mobile is looking at selling some of its cell towers to help finance its ambitious vision of an LTE 4G network. Apparently, the fourth largest cell phone company in the United States has gotten the ball moving already, obtaining the services of TAP Advisors to explore…
RIM posted its quarterly earnings and the results are grim as expected. The company announced a loss of $125 million on quarterly revenues of $4.2 billion, which is down 19% from the previous quarter. The company shipped 11.1 million handsets in the quarter, down 23 percent from the previous quarter. It also shipped 500,000 Playbook tablets.…
While the upcoming launch of the Nokia Lumia 900 will be AT&T’s largest by far users may want to be wary about how future-proof the device will be. I visited Nokia’s sparkling headquarters in Sunnyvale to discuss the upcoming launch of the Lumia 900 and I asked how confident can people be that this handset…
A report by The Globe and Mail suggests Thorsten Heins will layoff some of RIM’s executive leadership. Executives at the senior vice-president and vice-president levels are the positions targeted in a layoff that, if true, will shake up RIM’s top brass. Sales and marketing departments will bear the brunt of the bad news says Globe and…
Yesterday on Google+, it was announced that the roll out of Android 4.0.4 would begin to hit GSM Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S, and Xoom Wi-Fi devices. The update is modest but comes with some welcomed tweaks. We’ve started rolling out Android 4.0.4, Ice Cream Sandwich, to UMTS/GSM Nexus S, Xoom Wi-Fi, and HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus…
Everyone knows the world of technology is constantly evolving, and it’s almost impossible to predict what might be the “next big thing.” Even though most experts may not know the future, one thing they do know is soon most people in the world will carry some sort of smartphone as their daily driver. Well, that…