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The Android Market is dead. Google has just announced that the Android Market is out, at least in name, replaced by the more wide-reaching Google Play. With the rebranding, Google hopes to showcase that the Android Market has grown beyond the application marketplace the current name entails. They’ve since added Google Books, Google Music, and…
Nokia has officially announced the dates for the 2012 Nokia World Conference. The annual conference for all things Nokia will take place September 25th and 26th at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre in Helsinki, Finland. The timing of Nokia World at the end of September lines up quite nicely with the expected Q4 2012…
Samsung’s Israel Facebook page may have jumped the gun a bit today, announcing that the most-popular Android phone of 2011 – the Samsung Galaxy S II – will see the update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on March 15th. The fact that Ice Cream Sandwich will be coming in March should come as no…
Google has introduced a new way to do search from your iOS and Android devices. Android users are probably already familiar with the handy Chrome to Phone tool, which allows Android users to install an extension on the Google Chrome (or Firefox) browser on their PC, and click a button to send the webpage you…
Apple will be unveiling the iPad HD (or, iPad 3) in two short days at an event set for March 7th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. As has been the case with other iDevices in the past, Apple plans to have the iPad HD up for sale very soon…
Earlier today, we reported that Nokia’s PureView technology, which took the press world by storm at Mobile World Congress last week, will be landing in Windows Phone 8 devices later this year. While we would certainly have to wait until around the holidays to get our hands on Windows Phone PureView goodness, little was known…
China has quite a smuggling crime syndicate on its hands, and a high-tech one at that. Instead of smuggling the usual lot of illegal drugs and other not-niceties we’re accustomed to hearing about, some folks in China are attempting to smuggle iPhones from Hong Kong to mainland China. In mainland China, iPhones sell for about $125…
Nokia’s PureView camera technology captured the hearts of the tech bloggers at Mobile World Congress last week. The camera technology featured in Nokia PureView results in images far better than we’ve ever seen in a camera phone, especially in the standard 5 to 8 megapixel output modes that occur when PureView mode is engaged. Interestingly,…
Personal data stored on smartphones has become quite the hot-button topic of late. With Apple and Google playing the defensive after it was outed that applications are allowed to have access to contact information or all your photos stored on the device (among others), smartphone users don’t always know what their rights are when it…
As we sit here eagerly awaiting the March 7th launch of the iPad 3 (or iPad HD), Ars Technica has some interesting bits of information about Apple’s next iPad device and a new version of iOS for later this year. According to Ars Technica’s server logs, some folks in Cupertino are accessing Ars Technica’s site with iPads running…