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Valentine’s Day is coming to an end and so is T-Mobile’s Facebook poll which asks people how they are sending sweet nothings to their loved one on this day. Not surprisingly, more than half of the poll’s 10,000+ respondents used text messaging to proclaim their undying love. Another thousand or so made a phone call and actually…
HTC may be turning to music to help its struggling handset business compete with popular mobile phones from Apple and Samsung. Last year, the handset maker acquired a majority stake in Beats Electronics, an audio accessory maker founded by rap artist Dr. Dre and Interscope-Geffen-A&M Records chairman Jimmy Iovine. Branded as “Beats Audio”, this audio…
Siri likes to talk, and it seems her chattiness has leaked some information about one of her upcoming features says a report from 9to5Mac. It all started when someone asked Siri what languages she speaks, and she answered with a simple German, Japanese, French and English. That’s a great answer except Japanese is not officially supported by…
It’s back to the drawing board for LightSquared after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration said LightSquared’s proposed mobile broadband network would negatively impact both consumer and aircraft GPS services. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, NTIA’s Lawrence Strickling sends a crippling blow to LightSquared when he writes “that LightSquared’s mobile broadband network will impact GPS…
If you know anything about teens today, you know that they text … a lot. Many of them abhor phone calls and even think that e-mails are old-fashioned when compared to texts or instant messaging, so OnlineSchools put together a neat infographic which helps you put into perspective just how much these young’ins text. Some…
Do you play something like Scramble with Friends every day? If you do, you’re one of the more than 15 million daily active users of a Zynga mobile game, the company announced during its fourth-quarter earnings. The overall earnings were pretty good, as it reported $306. 5 million for the quarter and bookings for the…
Facebook is updating its Windows Phone app to version 2.3 today with new features, bug fixes, and some redesigned features. It brings Facebook Pages, Groups, the ability to view likes, news feed filters, banner images, and privacy settings for individual posts to your WP7 device. Aside from new stuff, Facebook redesigned profile pages and panoramas…
Believe or not, we’re still a quarter or so away from the long-awaited launch of the first RIM device to run the BlackBerry 10 operating system. Well, today, we at least got a sneak peek of what to expect from the Canadian phone makers upcoming OS, thanks to some leaked documents that landed in the…
Verizon today announced the launch of its very own In-Store, Trade-In program for handsets, as it tries a new strategy to keep people coming into the store during a slow time of the year. This news comes after the number one wireless provider in the United States recently brought back its double data promotion. The…
White or Black. That’s currently the only two color options if you want to pick up an iPhone 4 or 4S for yourself. If you’re someone who likes to add a little pizazz to your phone, but don’t want to rely on a case, then Bricson’s Color Shields might be what you’ve been looking for.…