A week after releasing its iOS app, Readability is now launching its Android version. In the US, the app will be available in the Amazon Appstore, not in Google Play (formerly Android Market). Outside the US, the app will debut in Google Play and should be available for you to download to your Android device…
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Mobile World Congress 2012: LG Booth Photo Tour
While it’s pretty late to be posting Mobile World Congress stories at this point, we still have a few more photo booth tours we wanted to share with our viewers and this time around, it’s LG’s turn. With the Optimus 4X HD, 3D MAX, Vu, and L-Style line, it’s definitely a booth you didn’t want…
Mobile World Congress 2012: Samsung Booth Photo Tour
While it may have been overshadowed by Apple’s new iPad, Samsung announced the new Galaxy Note 10.1 at Mobile World Congress this year. Essentially a larger, tablet version of the 5.3 inch note, Samsung was pushing its newest device as hard as it could but still made room for some other devices you’d expect to…
Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G will be available in select T-Mobile stores starting Mar. 21
While you wont find the guts of a Galaxy S II inside the Blaze 4G, be rest assured that its Galaxy branding is well deserved. This handset will soon be landing on T-Mobile shelves with a price that’s just as stellar. At $149, the Galaxy S Blaze 4G may be right up your alley. We…
Game developer Mika Mobile halts work on Android titles
When it comes to building an app for a ridiculously large amount of users only iOS and Android fit the bill. Both OS’s share hundredths and thousandths of apps, but they have different mechanisms when it comes down to development. Well, for some developers those internal differences are too much, as Mika Mobile, developer of several…
DOJ gives green light to Nortel patent bid from Apple, Microsoft, RIM et al
Well, the group known as Rockstar Consortium, a team that includes the most powerful tech companies Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Ericsson, and Sony, has announced that the U.S. Department of Justice will give the green light on its purchase of the majority of Nortel’s patent portfolio. The five companies splurged about $4.5 billion on a collection of about 4,000…
SXSW: A quick tour of the conference floor [Photos]
If you’ve been following our coverage of SXSW, you know that it’s not your average conference but it does have a traditional conference floor. I took a walk through the floor and wanted to share some of these with you. The SXSW Interactive festival is all about the intersection between art, technology and creativity, so…
Analyst: Apple will sell about 1 million iPads on first day of sales
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is forecasting that Apple will sell over one million new iPads this Friday when it goes on sale for the first time. Munster has been fairly on target with Apple predictions in the past compared to other analysts. There’s no reason to not believe that figure. Shipment dates for the new…
SXSW: AT&T helps you charge your gear [Photos]
I’m still lounging in Austin for the SXSW conference and one of the worst things about it is the lack of outlets and power. Luckily, AT&T if offering a pretty solid solution in an eye-catching way. These lockers you see above have chargers inside for various devices including an iPad, iPhone, microUSB and others. You…
iOS 5.1 increases OTA download limit to 50 MB
While the new features found in the iOS 5.1 update were fairly minimal, one that snuck under the radar was an increase to the maximum download file size over 3G/4G networks. The new version of iOS allows downloads of up to 50 MBs to be conducted over cellular networks, a fairly sizable increase from the previous 20MB…









