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About a quarter, or 25 percent, of all of Wolfram Alpha’s traffic now comes from Siri on the iPhone 4S, according to a report from the New York Times. The fact that Siri has had such a large impact on Wolfram Alpha in only a few months not only proves iPhone customers are actually using…
Today at BlackBerry’s DevCon Europe event, executives from Research in Motion got to the chance to spin the company’s current state. According to Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, the Canadian phone maker is grabbing six million daily downloads from the BB App World, totalling 174m per month, for an overall tally of over two billion. This…
Sprint is finally beginning to phase out its less attractive half, Nextel, as the company enters the first stage of transitioning customers off its iDEN cell towers. The Now Network put up a site that maps out where and when towers are being shut down. So for instance, if you live in my area of Hartford,…
Samsung in an Apple-like way has cut its cost for components, with the installation of a cheaper LTE baseband chip that went into the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. This dirty little secret was exposed when the wildly popular phone was stripped down to its innards, revealing the newer chip. The new chip has the same high-speed data performance as…
Google just released the Chrome for Android beta this morning for Ice Cream Sandwich devices and you just knew other browser makers would have something to say about it. Mobile browser powerhouse Opera has chimed in and it appears to playing nice but emphasizes the fact that its products will use less data than Google’s…
Developer Arun Thumpi was building a Mac app for the social network Path when he discovered something startling. The Path app for iOS was phoning home with the contents of his address book. This was done without his knowledge or consent. He parsed the API calls Path made to its servers and discovered a POST request…
While new Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins has to fix a lot of things with the company’s BlackBerry smartphones, I think it’s safe to say that durability isn’t going to be at the top of the list. Besides the old trackball nightmares, BlackBerry handsets are known to be pretty durable and that’s not an…
While we assumed it would be out some day, Google has officially released its Chrome browser for Android. While still in beta (surprised?), Chrome for Android brings some great features to the table and we’ll likely never look at another mobile browser again if it keeps it up. As you’d expect, the browser is hardly…
Verizon announced the Motorola Droid 4 at CES and we got an early look at the LTE phone. It’s now a month later and the wireless carrier has finally given us a release date. The latest iteration of the popular Android model will hit Verizon stores and online starting February 10th. The phone will retail…
We don’t have an official launch date for the Nokia Lumia 900, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from accepting pre-orders for the Windows Phone handset. According to recent reports from SlashGear and wmpoweruser, it’ll cost you $25 to secure yourself a Lumia 900, which is available in black, cyan and, surprisingly, white. The original press release for the 900 says the handset will be available in…