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Verizon Wireless launched its next-generation 4G LTE network a little over a year ago, but unfortunately most customers are still using 3G. Wall Street Journal reports that only 5 percent of all Verizon customers are taking advantage of LTE speeds a year after the nationwide rollout began. As of the end of last year, Verizon Wireless…
Operation PayPal in every Home Depot is near completion, as the e-commerce giant has rolled out its in-store payment service to nearly 2,000 stores. This push further into mobile shouldn’t at all be surprising, especially when you consider how its parent company (eBay) has gone big on mobile. Both companies have worked close together since its…
The recently announced Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 and Galaxy Mini 2 are not the kind of phones you wanna sweat over. Quite the contrary, with these two Sammy is targeting first-time smartphone buyers who can or don’t want to spend a lot on their next mobile device. However, they still offer quite a bang for…
Jabra is using this year’s Mobile World Congress to celebrate its decade in Bluetooth business, during which they emerged as Europe’s number one Bluetooth hands free communications provider. Needless to say we had a chance to see all of their latest products in Barcelona, including: Jabra FREEWAY – which is the first in-car speakerphone with…
Morpho and INSIDE Secure have team-up to launch a first product that has the potential to bring NFC functionality to the mass market, reaching even those users who don’t have the latest smartphones. The new “SIMply NFC-Revolution” product incorporates INSIDE’s core NFC chip technology with SIM technology from Morpho and the end result is an…
Video sharing service Vimeo launched a new version of its application to address the problems users had with the previous app release, and introduce a couple of new features. As far as we’re able to check it out, no longer will Vimeo crash, at least not that often (we haven’t been able to test it…
Samsung and Toyota are teaming up to create Samsung Car Mode Application, an in-car solution that connects Samsung smartphones to Toyota’s In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system. As a result of this collaboration, an array of Samsung’s mobile technologies will be integrated into Toyota’s IVI to add enhanced connectivity, multimedia capabilities and internet services. In addition, the…
Apple is all set to official unveil the iPad 3 next week. The Verge and other publications just received an invitation to the announcement event, which will take place on March 7th at 10am PST in San Francisco. The iPad 3 is widely expected to be a huge leap forward for Apple, with significant hardware improvements over…
The big story coming out of Mobile World Congress 2012 is the launch of multiple phones with the quad-core Tegra chipset made by NVIDIA. Consumers may see “quad-core” and immediately think it’s much better than a dual core but Qualcomm is saying that it’s more complicated than that. While it has its own quad-core chips…
SmarterAdServer prepared a neat infographic to show us the key things apparently all of us should know about mobile advertising in 2011, to get us ready for the Mobile World Congress. The key findings include: 50% of mobile traffic is done after 5pm. Average CTR (click-through rate) on standard mobile banner across mobile web and…