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Norton is out with a new mobile app for Android smartphones – Norton Safety Minder, allowing parents to keep track of what their kids are doing on their mobile phones through Norton Online Family. Although the application itself is free to download, Norton Online Family does come with a price tag, offering such benefits to…
HTC’s Ville is quickly becoming one of the worst kept secrets in the mobile industry. Last week a video surfaced on the internets showing off the unannounced smartphone, and while it was good enough to demonstrate how thin the Ville is, it wasn’t exactly what one would call sharp. Now though, thanks to the Chinese…
David Tupman, another Apple employee who not many people know about, has just left the company. His last title at Apple before resigning was “Vice President of iPhone and iPod engineering”, he has over 70 patents in his name, and he spent over a decade at what is now considered the world’s biggest smartphone vendor.…
As operators around the world look to curb people’s data usage by rolling out confusing pricing plans or just simply raising their rates, things are going a little bit differently in Russia. MegaFon, the third largest operator in the country, recently held a contest whereby the person who could use the most amount of data…
Earlier this month Samsung announced that they would not be showing off the Samsung Galaxy S III at Mobile World Congress. Their reasoning was that it doesn’t make sense to announce a device so early in the year when it’s due to hit store shelves during the end of the second quarter. Some of you…
It’s bad enough that the Nokia Lumia 800 looks exactly like the Nokia N9, now rumors suggest that Nokia is going to release a Symbian running device called the Nokia 801. Said smartphone is a picture perfect image of the N9 and Lumia 800, except that it has a 4 inch screen that does 640…
The DROID RAZR MAXX is obviously selling like hot cupcakes these days with Verizon Wireless at one point as out of stock (along with the LG Revolution and Motorola DROID X2). However, the carrier and Motorola must’ve been working round the clock to fix this “injustice” and now the DROID RAZR MAXX is back with…
Sprint’s affordable 7-inch tablet, ZTE Optik, is now available for $99.99. The device is pretty capable, delivering quite a bang for the buck. It comes with a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 2-megapixel front-facing one, 3G (EV-DO Rev. A) and Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, while Android 3.2…
Like Jawbone’s JAMBOX Bluetooth speaker? If you’re not carrying it around that often, you may like the soon-to-be-announced BIG JAMBOX even more. As you can imagine from its name, the new speaker will deliver all of the benefits its smaller brother does (wireless music streaming) in a bigger package that is able to “fill up…
Third-party social networks for games are cool, but big publishers want to control the end-user experience more closely. To that end Gameloft launched the Gameloft LIVE! app for Android, allowing players to keep up with their friends across a number of Gameloft titles. Here’s what you can do with the free to download application: Stay…