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Wi-LAN, a company known for its patent trolling, has filed a new lawsuit against Research In Motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Wi-LAN is suing the Waterloo company because it feels that RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,260,168, which relates to Bluetooth implementation. Devices that supposedly infringe on this patent include…
And just like that, Twitter drops its latest update that brings Instagram-like photo filters within the app. This comes after Instagram rolled out an update of its own, which included features such as a redesigned camera, a new photo filter called “Willow,” improved Tilt-Shift function and Foursquare integration to name a few. The new Twitter app…
The Android developer blog just announced some good news about Version 3 of in-app purchasing. Now this is some nerd stuff that has to do with a bunch of coding normal folks like us can’t comprehend. These improvements to the Play Store include the following: Streamlined code. Google says what used to take several hundred…
There’s been a lot of news this week about the online rift between Instagram and Twitter. This is after word got out that the photo sharing site planned to stop supporting pictures showing up in Twitter’s feed/timeline. Nevertheless, the Facebook owned company followed through with its plan and killed support for all its photos showing…
AT&T is trying to end the year strong by expanding its 4G LTE network to as many locations as possible. The Death Star lit up four new areas with some high-speed goodness. These places are Wilkes-Barre, Penn., Nashua, N.H., Grand Rapids, Mich and Auburn-Opelika, Ala. All four can be added to the long and impressive list of locales the…
We’re hitting the homestretch in this holiday season, so getting your friends and love ones something special is imperative. This week I decided to talk about 5 must have shopping apps for Windows Phone 8. Contrary to many skeptics, WP8 does have a respectable collection of mobile applications. Nevertheless, here’s my list of five apps…
RIM has been all in the news this morning. First, we reported that the company released a WiFi calling feature within BlackBerry Messenger 7 called BBM Voice. Now the Waterloo company has shown what seems to be a glimpse of its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone in a recent press release. If you look at the…
Bitter rivals Apple and Samsung are driving holiday sales, according to the latest IDC report. Both companies are the big winners in the quarterly Worldwide Connected Smart Device report that IDC released today. In the report, the rivals scored big when it came to PCs, smartphones, and tablets, as those numbers grew to 27.1 percent…
Research In Motion has some great news for you loyal BlackBerry users out there. The Waterloo company has finally released BlackBerry Messenger 7 with BlackBerry Messenger Voice available in the App World. BBM Voice is coming to users straight out of beta, and it allows users to have free Wi-Fi calling between BBM users by…
Just when Apple thought news about its Maps app couldn’t get any worse, think again. Australian police are telling fellow Aussies who own iPhones not to use the tech giant’s mapping system. This came about when police in Victoria, Australia, issued a warning today discouraging iPhone users from relying on Apple’s map app after rescuing several people…