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Best Buy Mobile is in the midst of promotion, offering HTC EVO smartphones with savings of $50 – $99.99. It’s a limited time offer that goes through Sunday, March 4, so if you’re in the mood for some HTC Android love, you better hurry. He’s what they got: Sprint HTC EVO Design (FREE) – Save…
Samsung won’t give up on Bada, no matter what the world think of it. Quite the contrary, the Korean giant plans to “significantly” increase its investment in its own mobile OS and pitch it as an alternative to Android. According to Sammy’s Juha Park (senior vice president of product strategy), Bada is a “good platform…
Hardly a well-known company Storage Options is launching what it says is the world’s most powerful 10-inch Ice Cream Sandwich tablet with a price tag under 200 GBP. Called Scroll Extreme, it is the “cheapest high quality tablet of its type” at only £189.99, initially exclusive with eBuyer.com. Aside from a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen, the…
Cloud services provider SugarSync completed a $15 million series D financing round, with a plan to use the new cash to further grow its team and “dramatically expand” its datacenter footprint as the company continues to scale globally. This brings SugarSync’s total funding to $50 million. The round was led by new investor Coral Group,…
A company called NantWorks launched the LookTel Recognizer app, enabling blind or visually impaired users to recognize an object instantly by simply pointing their iPhone camera at it and listening to the phone tell them what it is. Recognition happens in real time, with no need to hold the camera still or take a photo,…
As we sit here eagerly awaiting the March 7th launch of the iPad 3 (or iPad HD), Ars Technica has some interesting bits of information about Apple’s next iPad device and a new version of iOS for later this year. According to Ars Technica’s server logs, some folks in Cupertino are accessing Ars Technica’s site with iPads running…
The Great Outdoors may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about downloading iPhone apps. But for rugged types that revel in all that is the outdoors, apps can make enjoying time off the beaten path a whole lot easier, safer and fun. Whether it’s tying the perfect knot to…
The number of employees bringing their own devices (BYOD) to the workplace has grown exponentially in recent years; a full 80% of employed adults use some kind of personal device (smartphones, tablets, or PCs) for work-related functions. While a large proportion of this 80% is likely attributed to personal computers, the ushering in of the…
Google Wallet is ready to expand its influence thanks to Sprint. Speaking at a Mobile Payment Services panel at Mobile World Congress 2012, VP of Google Wallet and Payments Osama Bedier told those in attendance that Sprint has plans to release ten Google Wallet devices this year. The next one to hit the retailer will…
Earlier today I filed a report that said Nokia’s Lumia 800 was the most popular selling device on Elisa’s network. Elisa being Finland’s largest wireless operator with 2,879,700 subscribers. For shits and giggles I went ahead and took a look at their Q4 2011 financial results to get a sense of how the company is…