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Verizon Wireless and Comcast are teaming up to offer San Francisco customers a package of video, phone, Internet and wireless services. I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of these bundled packages being offered around the country moving forward. In the announcement, Verizon and Comcast said it will offer customers a Visa prepaid card for…
LG announced its quarterly earnings on Wednesday and the results were favorable for its mobile division. After six straight quarterly losses, the handset division posted an operating profit of 12 billion won ($10.7 million). This beats Wall Street estimates which predicted the company would lose 12.9 billion won ($11 million) and is better than the 261 billion won ($232…
Kazuo Hirai has replaced Howard Stringer as the CEO of Sony and it will be interesting to see how big a role mobile will play under his leadership, especially now that Sony is poised to completely take over the Sony Ericsson phone-making business. “I believe his tough-mindedness and leadership skills will be of great benefit…
After the smartphone version, Mint.com is out with an Android tablet app, allowing its users to more easily manage their money and visualize their spending on interactive graphs. Available as a free download (though with a Mint.com account), the application is touted to deliver a “clear picture of their overall spending by category or by…
Mac and PC users are probably familiar with the Humble Bundle. It’s a series of game bundles sold online using a donation-based system. You pay what you want, and a portion of the funds are given to the Child’s Play Charity or the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Previous bundles include popular indie and mainstream titles like World of Goo by 2D Boy and Shadowgrounds from Frozenbyte. They are…
Most handset makers sell a majority of their devices through operators, so they’ll do anything to maintain that relationship, even if it means not bringing a product that consumers want out to market. We’re talking about multi SIM devices of course, the phones that let people have more than one phone number so they can…
When Nokia reported their Q4 2011 financial results last month there was one bit of news in there that we glossed over. Marko Ahtisaari, son of Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, had his title upgraded from Head of Nokia Design to Executive Vice President of Nokia Design. His responsibilities will stay the same, he’ll…
If you haven’t already noticed, today is the first of February! For those of us in the mobile industry it’s our favorite month of the year. It’s when nearly every company (except Apple) that makes up one of the most exciting fields in consumer electronics gets together and shows off the devices that we’ll be…
T-Mobile launched the Lumia 710 for $50 on the 11th of January for $49.99 with a two year contract. Three weeks later, that price is now down to $39.99. Microsoft, who apparently has an online store that this author had no idea even existed, is also now selling the Lumia 710 … for free. That’s…
Amazon is offering a number of phones for a single cent ($0.01). And it’s not just feature phones – there are some cool smartphones included in the deal as well, such as: HTC: Freestyle , HD7S, Inspire 4G, DROID INCREDIBLE 2, ThunderBolt 4G, EVO Shift 4G, Inspire 4G, Trophy, Status Motorola: DROID X2, XPRT, Atrix 4G,…