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All the signs have been pointing to a March 18th release date for the Lumia 900, the flagship device in Nokia’s Windows Phone Lumia series on its way to AT&T. A placeholder page on the AT&T site still has a secretive coming soon placeholder for some device, long after its new iPad page has gone…
As is customary with preorders of hot new Apple devices, customers who waited a few days to pull the trigger on purchasing Apple’s new iPad will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on the device. Customers who visit the online Apple store are being greeted with March 19th as the new…
Apple’s iPhone has become the top-selling mobile phone of any kind in Japan, according to IDC Japan. Yes, you read that right. Not only does Apple’s iPhone outsell all other smartphones in the country, it outsells all other feature phones as well. Apple has managed to garner a 26.6% overall manufacturer market share for the…
Ah, Loopt. The social check-in service had a fairly good-sized following, but quickly became overshadowed by the likes of Foursquare, Gowalla, and built-in offerings such as Google’s Check In with Latitude and Facebook Places. The check-in field is thinning out recently, as Facebook has recently acquired Gowalla and services such as SCVNGR have failed to…
OnLive is facing some heat from Microsoft today. The company, which provides an application that allows users of Apple’s iPad and Google Android tablets to run a hosted Windows 7 environment on their tablets, is reportedly utilizing Microsoft’s software without the proper licenses in place. In a blog post on Microsoft’s Volume Licensing blog, Corporate VP…
It appears low-end Windows Phone devices are going to be more crippled than we’d originally thought. Lost in the hullabaloo of Apple’s next iPad announcement yesterday, Microsoft put up a blog post on its Windows Phone Developer Blog which gave Windows Phone application developers guidelines for how to make their applications play friendly on devices…
The just-announced iPad HD will be making its way to both Verizon Wireless and AT&T next week, with full 4G LTE connectivity set on each carrier. This marks the first iOS device to have LTE functionality, and allows customers on the go to take advantage of these super-fast networks. Verizon obviously has the larger of…
Apple has officially taken the wrappings off the hotly-anticipated next generation iPad at its press event in San Francisco. While there weren’t too many surprises on the iPad’s spec sheet, the new iPad marks huge technological leaps beyond that in the currently available iPads, including the first true HD 1080p display. The specs: A5x dual-core…
A report out of the Wall Street Journal this morning all but confirms that the next generation iPad, the iPad 3 or HD, will feature LTE connectivity. The inclusion of LTE in the iPad could tilt sales towards Verizon Wireless, which is both the nation’s largest LTE network and currently has significant capacity due to the…
Over the weekend, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports that applications that run Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating system have access to users private contacts and photos stored on the device. Concerns were initially brought to light when it was discovered that social networking application Path had access…