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Already home to one of the biggest airport shopping malls in the country (not to mention being smack dab next door to the Mall of America), the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) is about to get a few thousand more reasons to fly through. The airport is remodeling Concourse G, a concourse exclusively used by Delta…
A new survey from the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) paints a potentially troubling picture for Android. CIRP looked at new iPhone sales for the month of April, and found that a whopping 38% of new iPhones sold in the month were to people who already owned a smartphone. Nearly 1 in every 4 iPhones…
Verizon is making a case to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in hopes of getting the FCC to approve Verizon’s purchasing of 20-30 MHz-worth of AWS spectrum to build out its LTE network. In a statement to the FCC, Verizon stated that refarming its PCS spectrum would not give it the capacity it needs to…
RIM is officially killing of the 16GB PlayBook, according to an N4BB report. Engadget suggests that low margins on the 16GB tablet are to blame for RIM’s choice to discontinue the tablet, though sluggish sales of any tablet that doesn’t have the Apple logo on it probably played a role as well. RIM and its distributors and retailers…
We knew it was in the works, but today Sprint has officially confirmed that the iPhone 4 and 4S will indeed be landing on Virgin Mobile on June 29th, making Virgin Mobile the second prepaid carrier to offer the iPhone. Cricket Wireless, a subsidiary of Leap Wireless, announced earlier this month that they would carry…
Nokia has announced an update that they’ve made available for AT&T Lumia 900 devices. The update contains a host of bugfixes that Nokia has identified by way of user feedback from the popular Windows Phone device, and the update should squash most, if not all, of those pesky bugs on the device. The update is…
LinkedIn is having one hell of a Wednesday. First, the company faced scrutiny after it was learned that LinkedIn’s iOS application stores some calendar information in plain text on their servers. LinkedIn collects names, email addresses, and meeting notes from your calendar appointments. Of course, giving LinkedIn access to your calendar is completely optional, and…
Apple is sitting on a ton of cash, with nearly $100 billion in cash on hand. The tech industry has been looking to Apple to see just what it’d be doing with all that dough, and a report out of The Next Web gives us a good idea of one of Apple’s expenditures. The Next Web spoke with an…
The iPhone is sweeping across the United States, coming to several smaller, regional carriers. Just a few days back, the iPhone was tipped for Cricket Wireless, marking the first time Apple’s top-selling smartphone was available on the prepaid market. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sprint will announce later this week that their Virgin Mobile…
RIM is betting its entire future on BlackBerry 10, a product many in the industry frankly aren’t that excited about. The former king of smartphones is struggling immensely of late, with over $1 billion in unsold inventory sitting in its warehouses, at least 2 more quarters of abysmal returns, and market share dipping below the 10% mark.…