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Yesterday, news broke that the fourth largest carrier in the U.S. were misleading folks about its latest myTouch brand of phones. The word came from Consumer Reports, when the agency discovered the rear facing cameras on the myTouch and myTouch Q devices were being misrepresented as carrying 5 megapixels. In fact, the handsets were found…
Spotify, the wildly popular music streaming application, may be headed to our neighbors up in Canada, according to a report. The publication who broke the story, The Wall Street Journal, claims to have gotten its hands on a filing made by Spotify Technologies, which shows the company’s intentions of launching in Canada. As of late,…
Last week we learned of Motorola officially filing a suit against Apple for patent infringement. Though, at the time, we had no idea what the claims were. Now details have surfaced from the ITC on each of the patents the Google subsidiary owned company is going after Apple on, which is information that has been…
Yesterday evening Square suffered an hour long outage, which caused some payments from going through. Not only did the company’s mobile application get hit with the outage, but so did its site Squareup.com. This news comes after the company recently struck up a partnership with coffee giant Starbucks. The Next Web reached out to Square…
RIM is ceasing development on BlackBerry Enterprise Servers for all current devices according to BGR. Apparently, the company has grown tired of trying to make QNX work on its older NOC system that currently runs on all its java-based devices out today. The site heard of this move through a trusted source, which added RIM’s…
Uh oh, it looks like T-Mobile has been caught fabricating camera specs on its new smartphones. According to Consumer Reports, the fourth largest wireless provider in the United States wasn’t being all the way truthful with the shooters on its myTouch and myTouch Q devices. Both handsets hit the market earlier this month, and are…
The mystical unicorn that are the Google Play Store gift cards have been outed by the search giant itself. Apparently some astute reader out there stumbled upon a support page (which has since been pulled down) through search that confirmed the existence of the gift cards. The page showed the gift cards being available for…
The word of an imminent launch of Apple’s next generation iPhone has been swirling around the interwebs for weeks. Many sites have all but assured the tech giant will launch the new iPhone sometime in the month of September. Of course, Apple in typical fashion has yet to officially confirm the phone’s launch date. Well,…
Oovoo, a popular video chat service, has updated its iPhone and Android app with four-way video chat capabilities. Not too long ago, the company added Facebook video chat to its list of features. The update brings its mobile application up to speed with its desktop and iPad offerings. Now users will be able to not…
Panasonic is doing some pretty cool things with its smart home appliance line. The Japanese based manufacturer has announced a new Android app for home automation bringing along a range of smart appliances, including refrigerators, air conditioners, and healthcare products. The new system is called Panasonic Smart App, and it is build on NFC functionality,…