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The Samsung Galaxy Note has been available for a little bit outside of the United States but it could be landing on Sprint soon. According to rumors, Sprint and Samsung are planning to announce pricing and availability of this rather odd device at CES 2012 and Sprint would be joining AT&T as an additional carrier…
Google released the latest numbers showing off all versions of Android. In the Android Platform Version chart, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) has a 0.6 percent share of Android Market visitors, which is the same amount for Android 1.5 (Cupcake). ICS is split into two versions, 4.0.2, which is on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and Android…
As of yesterday, the iPad has been on the market for 21 months and in that relatively short amount of time, iPad users managed to pass three billion app downloads, according to ABI Research. Apple iPhone users took two years to accomplish such a feat, yet the iPad already accounts for 19 percent of all…
After months of searching, Yahoo has announced that Scott Thompson will take the helm of the struggling Internet company. The 54-year-old Thompson comes from PayPal, where he was President of the mobile payment processing company. He held his first conference call Wednesday morning and was upbeat about the future of Yahoo. It’s too early to…
CES 2012 is just a few short days away, but already news is starting to come out of the show before it even officially starts. Today’s bit of news is a teaser of an upcoming gaming tablet called “Project Fiona” from multi-platform peripheral and gaming laptop manufacturer, Razer. The teaser video states Project Fiona isn’t…
One of the most appealing features of the Amazon Kindle Fire is the Silk browser because it is supposed to use Amazon’s cloud infrastructure to deliver a faster and potentially better browsing experience. Well, those wonderful tinkerers have ported the Silk browser to some other Android devices. This was first reported by Electronista and it…
The iPhone 4S will be landing in China and 22 other countries starting Jan. 13 and this represents the fastest iPhone rollout ever for Apple. The iPhone 4S sports a similar physical design as the previous year’s model but it boasts an improved processor, an 8-megapixel camera, the voice-controlled Siri and the new iOS 5…
According to app tracking metrics from Distimo, the Android Market may have reached the 400,000 app milestone. This is just one of several milestones recorded for the Market in the past twelve months. About 31 months after it opened for business, the Market reached the 200K mark in April 2011 and then climbed to the 300K…
Effective immediately, Marc Montagner is the new Chief Financial Office of LightSquared, the wireless operator that’s trying to get approval to turn on their network, but can’t seem to prove that they don’t break GPS. Now Marc’s name may not sound familiar, but he used to work at Sprint where he orchestrated the merger with…
Back in July of last year Google bought over 1,000 patents from IBM. Just a few short months later, in September, they picked up another bundle of over 1,000 patents. Now thanks to SEO by the Sea we can report that Google has called IBM yet again to buy some patents, though this time it’s…