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LG announced today that since the Optimus G smartphone hit the market, it has reached the coveted milestone of selling one million handsets. I use the word “coveted” because unless your company is selling a Galaxy line of Android smartphones or the iPhone, you wait quite a while to get there, if ever. The Optimus…
Instagram released some interesting statistics about its users and how they use the app. The photo-sharing app now has 90 million monthly active users — a pretty impressive feat for a mere app, and one that blossomed and thrived for quite some time without compatibility with Android. Those 90 million people are sharing 40 million photos…
HTC was waiting a bit longer to let the public feast their eyes on its latest flagship handset, but the device fell into the hands of @evleaks at UnwiredView a little earlier than expected. Pictured above, it seems to be a prototype rather than a smartphone that’s ready for market due to the lack of any…
Despite promising that it would no longer require contracts for tablets capable of using cellular data, AT&T is requiring a contract in its latest offer for the Nexus 7. The carrier found (or perhaps knew all along about) a loophole in saying that it won’t require contracts. For a limited time, if you buy a Nexus…
Despite facing intense pressure from the competition and even just critics to deliver a solid new product that will patch up the holes in RIM’s sinking ship, the company is off to somewhat of a good start filling its app marketplace with BlackBerry 10-ready apps. RIM gave developers a few incentives to get their apps…
Google’s making an interesting and creative move with its Chrome browser for Android and one that I applaud. Just like the version of Chrome for desktop use, Google is adding a separate beta “channel” for Chrome so that users get can early access to new features and performance improvements while being aware of and/or testing…
Wall Street Journal’s report yesterday that Apple is secretly working on building a less expensive iPhone to compete with the cheap Android devices that are selling like hot cakes in emerging markets struck me as odd. This rumor has been flying around for years — that Apple would eventually expand the iPhone line with an iPhone…
Microsoft just couldn’t stay away from CES 2013 as planned. The company announced last year that 2012 would be its final year delivering the opening keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show, a tradition that started in 2003 with Bill Gates. That didn’t stop current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to giddily run on stage during Qualcomm’s…
Undoubtedly a cleverly timed press release during what is arguably the peak day of CES 2013, Apple nonetheless announced some impressive milestones for the iOS App Store. It has now passed 40 billion app downloads (excluding re-downloads and app updates) and the rate at which apps are being downloaded increases each day. In fact, half…
MADFINGER Games released additional details of Dead Trigger 2 today, the sequel to the popular and award-winning mobile game, Dead Trigger. It was first previewed with a live demo at NVIDIA’s press conference yesterday at CES 2013 as a game optimized to take advantage of the new Tegra 4 processor. Without getting very deep with…