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AT&T has announced the September 1st grand-opening of its flagship retail location in Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. In addition to the customary showroom where AT&T displays the latest devices it has for sale, AT&T has added several themed rooms aimed at showing customers what they can do with AT&T technology and connected services. An “Apps room”…
While we’ve been working under the assumption that Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 would both be released on October 26th, a rumor out of ZDNet suggests this might not be the case. According to anonymous sources, Windows Phone 8 will be launched three days after Windows 8, at an event to be held on October…
Not to be left out in the Windows 8 tablet cold, Samsung has officially taken the wraps of the Samsung ATIV Tab, a 10.1″ tablet based on the upcoming RT version of Windows 8. The ATIV will come complete with a 1,366 x 768 display, 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor, 32 or 64 GB…
Apple has 375 stores around the world, which tend to be focused in large, metropolitan areas. This makes it difficult for customers in rural areas to receive the same level of training and attention unless they’re willing to travel (sometimes several hundred miles) to get to their nearest Apple Store. Recognizing these issues, Apple is…
The FCC gave a formal blessing last week of Verizon’s deal with multiple cable companies that saw Big Red acquire lots of AWS spectrum the company needs to build out its LTE network. One of the contingencies in the deal was that Verizon would need to agree to spectrum swaps with T-Mobile USA and Leap…
Facebook’s Camera standalone iOS application received an update today, bringing a few welcome additions. Users of Camera will now be treated to a notification in the iOS notification center whenever someone likes, tags, or comments on your photo. More importantly, the update now allows you to choose specific albums to upload pictures to, instead of…
AnandTech has effectively laid to rest the rumor that the new iPhone will tote an NFC chip, and we probably should have seen it coming. Backings for the new iPhone have been leaked multiple times over the last few months, complete with the two-toned metal backing. NFC doesn’t play too well with metal, though some were…
Tmonews’ David Beren was sent two leaked memos reportedly out of T-Mobile’s internal systems yesterday which suggests that T-Mobile USA might once more be on the outside looking in when it comes to the iPhone. In a training document obtained by Tmonews, T-Mobile is educating its customer sales team on “selling against the iPhone” starting September…
UK carrier Everything Everywhere, the joint venture between T-Mobile and Orange, has announced a 5 year deal with MasterCard that will bring NFC payments to customers at over 100,000 retail outlets in the UK. The move will also bring person to person (p2p) payments to Everything Everywhere, a feature that will roll out at a…
Last week was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Samsung. The company expected at least some successes in its counter suit against Apple Inc. in the patent infringement case in San Jose, yet were handed a lopsided loss, including in the all important 3G wireless technology patent Samsung holds. Company executives were…