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There’s no secret that Research In Motion’s future has been cloudy for awhile now, but underneath the fog is a company who’s quietly been equipping many of its devices with NFC capability. Although a chip resides in some of it devices, a mobile wallet application has yet to appear on the BlackBerry OS until now.…
Recently, we wrote about the progress the folks over at CyanogenMod were making on baked ROMs for the extinct HP TouchPad. Today the super hackers released CM9 for the TouchPad, but in alpha form. This is awesome for owners who are stuck with a tablet that’s no longer receiving any major firmware updates for its…
Last week, Sprint rolled out an update to its HTC EVO 3D handset but what many people didn’t know was the upgrade removed the controversial software Carrier IQ. Before this upgrade, The Now Network was reported to having somewhere north of 26 million devices carrying Carrier IQ, so this maintenance update shrinks that number down…
It’s Friday the 13th, and what’s more appropriate than some grim Research in Motion news? Rumors are swirling that the BlackBerry maker has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to help actively shop itself to potential buyers. According to Reuters, one unidentified trader said yesterday that RIM is “up on Goldman,” but cautioned that it doesn’t mean a…
A couple of days ago we posted a story which had Morgan Stanley predicting 37 million Nokia handsets will ship in 2012. I wrote my concerns about numbers I felt were potentially too optimistic. Well, the folks over at TechRadar spotted a completely different spin on the story, which brings some validations to such a lofty prediction.…
Great news for you Motorola Xoom owners out there. The handset maker has started rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) updates to both WiFi and LTE versions of the tablet as of yesterday. Everyone knew the Xoom would get the ICS upgrade when Motorola outlined its plan of devices to receive the latest and…
Since 2006, we’ve come accustomed to the usual Apple iPhone rumors as the new year rolls in. Well, the latest “report” claims the Cupertino-based company’s next-generation iPhone will be slimmer than the current iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S models. This has been talked about for months as many have suggested a new redesign of the…
California, in an effort to be more Eco-friendly, yesterday voted to require handset makers to ship energy-efficient battery chargers starting in 2013. This new requirement includes cellphones, tablets and hundreds of other electronic devices. Of course, such a progressive move was rejected by consumer product makers, but that didn’t matter as the California Energy Commission…
We have good news for those of you out there who were able to grab yourself an HP TouchPad during the fire sale in hopes of one day running Android on it. The folks over at CyanogenMod have been diligently working to resurrect the dead webOS tablet, and their efforts seem to be finally paying off. The…
Just when you thought this LightSquared situation with the feds couldn’t get any weirder, think again. For months, LightSquared has been trying to close a 15-year agreement it struck with Sprint in an effort to roll out a new LTE network. Well, it turns out such a delay by the FCC may be due to…