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Samsung has long been the biggest maker of memory chips, but now they have aspirations of getting into the logic chips market. Logic chips is the “brains” of computers and other digital devices. The Korean-based manufacturer is looking to keep last year’s momentum going, and what better way to do that than become an even bigger competitor to…
Amazon Wireless is known for some rockin’ deals when it comes to new smartphones but its latest offering is a doozy. You can grab the Samsung Galaxy Nexus for a mere $100 on a new two-year contract with Verizon. The Galaxy Nexus was officially released on Verizon just a little over a month ago, so…
We know that the strategy ultimately ensures success in some ways but we’re still surprised with the number of Android tablets in the world. The latest numbers for Q4 of 2011 have arrived and tablets running Google’s mobile operating system has risen to 39%. While the Android tablet market is gaining steam, it’s probably safe…
Distimo, an analytics provider, has come out with its latest report and it has some interesting facts about what happens when mobile apps go on sale. The report shows vast improvements to an app’s ranking once it achieves “featured” status in both the iTunes and Android Market app stores. For instance, when it comes to…
Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition was made available on iOS & Android in mid-December and the company has just dropped some details on the latest update for the Android version of the game. First off, version 1.3 of Grand Theft Auto III will now support the Asus Transformer Prime and Medion LifeTab…
Netflix said that its movie-streaming service is now on more than 800 devices and that viewing on tablets has surpassed viewing on PCs. The tablet space will likely continue to be important for Netflix and it has done a good job of tailoring its apps to fit better on these types of devices. The value…
Anyone who’s ever owned an iPhone knows that Apple for the most part has a pretty good track record when it comes to customer service for the wildly popular iOS handset. The Cupertino-based company runs a faith-based customer service which allows any phone under warranty to be fixed — a process which ties the phone…
We all know that Google’s Android operating system is leading in market share when it comes to new smartphones around the world but the latest earning reports from AT&T and Verizon show that Apple’s iPhone is quickly closing the market share gap. AT&T just had a record-breaking quarter for smartphone sales with 9.4 million sales…
Nokia reported its quarterly earnings today and while most of us are wondering how many Windows Phone handsets it sold last quarter, our friends at PhoneScoop picked out an interesting fact: Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million in the quarter for “Platform Support Payments.” We had heard that Microsoft was paying Nokia billions to adopt Windows…
In the past years, Pope Benedict XVI urged priests to blog and asked Catholics worldwide to remain virtuous while they embrace social media. As reported on Yahoo News, the Pope is kicking off 2012 with a completely different message. Now, the Pope is promoting silence, silence and more silence. In his annual communications message, the…