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Oh how the tables have turned… and then turned again. Nokia is now selling more Windows Phone-based Lumia phones than BlackBerry is selling of its own phones. Nokia said that as of last quarter it sold a record high of 7.4 million Lumia smartphones. Meanwhile, BlackBerry shipped 6.8 million smartphones. For the first time, the…
I very much love and enjoy writing about technology news for a job. Every so often there are shining moments in my career and today happens to be one of them. I get the privilege of reporting to you that scientists in Britain have discovered a new way to recharge your smartphone — and it’s…
T-Mobile is wasting no time calling out AT&T for copying its own Jump upgrade program just announced last week. T-Mobile’s program is quite simple: pay $10 per month per phone and you’ll be able to upgrade your device every six months. While other carriers have recently been shying away of letting customers upgrade, especially with…
The Little League World Series is adopting an interesting new method for keeping score of the games. Rather than using the traditional method of pen and paper, officials are moving on up to technology such as the iPad to keep track of the game. They’re getting 35 iPads all equipped with the free GameChanger score-keeping…
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop recently participated in an interview with UK publication The Guardian. A large chunk of the interview focused on Nokia’s decision to adopt Windows Phone as the primary OS it would deploy on smartphones, rather than sticking with its own Symbian OS or hopping on the Android bandwagon like the competition. Elop…
Pacific Rim is a science fiction film that hits theaters Friday, July 12th. It takes place in the 2020s when monsters called Kaiju rose through portals in the sea and began attacking our civilization. To defend ourselves, humans created giant robots called Jaegars. Together with a heroic former pilot and trainee, the team must defend…
T-Mobile announced today that its 4G LTE network is rapidly expanding. Coverage now blankets 157 million people in the United States, which is far beyond the initial goal of reaching 100 million people by the middle of 2013. Additionally, the LTE switch has been turned on in 116 metropolitan areas throughout the country so far,…
Instagram is making another move to expand its content past the viewing barriers of its iOS and Android apps. Starting today, it’s introducing photo and video website embeds to put Instagram media on any website. When you visit a photo page on your desktop browser, a new button shows up on the right under the…
Let’s all give a warm “happy birthday” to the Apple App Store, which turns five years old today. The store officially opened on July 10, 2008 through an iOS software update, a few months after Steve Jobs gave it a proper unveiling at the iPhone SDK keynote address. It started out with a mere 500…
An interesting bit of code was discovered inside the recent iOS 7 betas by 9to5Mac that suggests a new camera feature coming in the next-generation iPhone, rumored to be the iPhone 5S. The camera feature, codenamed Mogul, will allow for 120fps (frames per second) video recording. 120 fps captures so many frames per second so that…