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After another successful quarter, Apple is worth more than $400 billion, which is about $6,622,516 per employee. If it was to pay a corporate tax on its massive cash reserves of $97.7 billion, that money could buy an iPad for every person in Canada and Greece. However, 2/3 of that reserve is stored offshore. Moreover,…
Sprint has started rolling out a small update for the Samsung Epic 4G Touch to fix one of the most annoying issues folks had with phones on the Now Network – Carrier IQ integration. That “minor detail,” described as “security update,” isn’t the whole story — aside from that, the new software also updates the…
The white Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch is now available for $99 at Amazon Wireless, a full $100 off Sprint’s asking price. Needless to say, you’ll still have to sign-up for a new two-year contract to take advantage of this offer. If you’re, however, upgrading – prepare to cash out $50 more; or if…
Good ol’ BBC has once again updated its Android app, this time focusing on all of you with Android tablets. Yep, the new version of the application sings along Honeycomb devices, offering “simple browsing in landscape and portrait view.” In other words, it [application] now has a new UI for “large tablets” while those of…
Canada’s Future Shop is running a neat campaign, bundling Rogers’ Samsung Galaxy S II LTE with the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and offering the package for $250, saving you $250 along the way! Of course, you’ll still need to put your signature on a carrier contract, but you would have to do it anyway. So if…
Samsung is yet again releasing “La Fleur” edition of one of its phones. This it’s the Bada-powered Wave Y which is getting a wine red battery cover adorned with flowery design. Aside from a slightly changed phone design and the new UI theme, the rest of the specs are (as it’s usually the case) unchanged.…
If you attended some event in the past few years, you’ve probably heard about Eventbrite. The web-based service helps event organizers manage ticketing and costs nothing for free events. The company has recently launched an iPhone app (the news we missed), and now they’re out with an Android version. As you can imagine, these apps…
Like the new Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX? You know it’s the DROID RAZR with a bigger battery and hence a thicker body. It’s an awesome device and if there were no for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, it would be my phone of choice. If you’re not intimidated by the world’s first Android 4.0 smartphone and…
Sprint is preparing to beef-up its tablet portfolio with a low-cost device from ZTE. The rumored ZTE Optik will have a $100 price tag, sporting a 7-inch screen and 1.2GHz dual-core processor. In addition, it will also come with a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 2-megapixel front-facing one, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, stereo speakers,…
We know that eBay is really taking mobile seriously and the company just released an update to its eBay Motors iPhone app which will let you snap a picture of a car, have it identified for you and then be able to buy inventory for it. This image-recognition technology will probably make for a great…