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Windows Phone Senior Director of Business Development Robert Williams has left his post at Microsoft to take on the role of App Store Director for Amazon, according to a Win Gadget News report. This is not the first high-profile Windows Phone employee departing Microsoft recently; Windows Phone’s Director of Developer Experience Brandon Watson made a similar…
Maintaining data connectivity while traveling abroad is often painstakingly expensive, extremely difficult to achieve, or both. Even with roaming rate decreases recently implemented by Verizon Wireless and AT&T, mobile users who elect to use their smartphones while traveling to Europe often return home to hefty smartphone bills, especially if they go over their allotted limits. Tep Wireless is hoping…
The life of luxury is over at Research in Motion. According to a Bloomberg report, a company insider had indicated that the company plans to sell off one of its two luxury jets as part of a plan to save $1 Billion in operating costs by the end of fiscal 2013. If true, RIM will only…
Over 5% of all free mobile applications contain some form of overly aggressive adware, according to a report released by Lookout. These aggressive ad networks can access personal information on your device, such as email, phone number, and contact information, and can also change some phone settings and deliver ads in areas outside of the…
China, your new iPad is coming. Apple has confirmed this morning that it will begin selling both the WiFi and Cellular models of the Retina-display iPad and the iPad 2 starting July 20th in the China mainland. No details of pricing have yet been revealed by Cupertino, save for the notion that pricing will largely follow…
iOS developer Cody Cooper did a code dump of the new Apple Maps app from the iOS 6 beta, and found some interesting pieces of information that could point to OSX integration with Intel-based Macs. More specifically, Cody found a reference deep within the altitude_manifest.xml file to a set of Intel-based chipsets for which certain…
Carriers have reported for the first time the number of instances they’ve been asked to provide some form of subscriber information to law enforcement officials. Nine carriers in the U.S., including Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, released information in response to a Congressional inquiry, and revealed that they responded to a whopping 1.3 million requests for…
If you want access to the latest beta software from Apple, one workaround to signing up for a $99 developer account is actively being shut down. Several services have popped up over the last few years that offer regular Joe’s the ability to activate their device on someone else’s developer account, usually for a small…
Apple has been threatened with temporary closure of all Apple stores in Italy if does not offer customers a free two-year warranty as required by Italian law. Instead, Apple offers a one-year guarantee with the opportunity for customers to purchase an additional year of coverage for a fee. In addition to a potential temporary closure,…
Okay, I’m convinced. RIM leadership is delusional. CEO Thorsten Heins gave an interview to CBC’s Metro Morning program, where the leader of the struggling smartphone maker made some puzzling remarks about the state of the company. “There’s nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now… I’m not talking about the company as I,…