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Okay, so Justin Bieber may not be the average teenager, but he is rocking an iPhone just like the majority of teens these days. Piper Jaffray’s survey of 5,600 teenagers in the United States finds that interest in the iPhone among the high school demographic continues to rise. 34 percent, or a hair over one-third,…
MetroPCS has put into effect a price hike on its top-tier data plan. A plan that once costed $60 per month to receive unlimited calling, texting, data including 4G LTE, email and either MetroStudio on-demand video or Rhapsody now costs $70 but it throws both the MetroStudio and Rhapsody music. Considering all you get, it’s still…
Perhaps you can recall the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 tablet line that the aforementioned vendor announced in February and promised to ship in March. Today is April 3rd. Still no Galaxy Tab 2. Samsung finally confirmed today the tablet will be delayed all the way until the end of April, but it is still…
Shazam is out with what is self-described as a “major update” to the app, version 5.0. It delivers a groundbreaking new feature thanks to rewritten software that enables users to tag audio and Shazam will identify it within a single second. Now, you can launch the Shazam app, put your phone up to a speaker…
Mad magazine fans can rejoice because the magazine is now available on Newsstand for iPad as of yesterday. It’s filled with all the usual rude and satirical humor it’s best known for, yet you know you just can’t help but laugh at it. Best of all, it’s really cheap. Each new issue is $4.99, old…
Apple and Samsung, though normally sworn enemies in the courtroom, are mighty forces when they combine powers — and by powers, I mean profit. It turns out the two smartphone vendors account for a whopping 95 percent of profit in the entire mobile industry. Canaccord Genuity proclaimed these results just recently in a new study.…
Google Play, formerly the Android Market, apparently isn’t pleasing developers in the same way the iOS App Store or even Amazon’s Appstore are. According to data from Flurry Analytics, Amazon generates nearly four times more revenue from in-app purchases than Google Play does. Flurry compared the iOS App Store, Amazon Appstore and Google Play by…
Bump Pay is a new experimental app from the makers of Bump that instead of pounding fists to share contact information, lets you share money. It works by initially connecting to your PayPal account. Then you launch the app, type in the amount of money you want to transfer and bump hands with the person…
Wild predictions are being made about the future of 4G speed by CTO of Nokia Siemens Networks Hossein Moiin. He thinks that by 2020, significant advancements will be made to the technology that will allow for speeds to become 1,000 times faster than they are today while costing as little as $1 per gigabyte, which…
The Fair Labor Association is back from a thorough investigation of Apple device supplier Foxconn in China. It found, as many have reported, numerous labor-rights violations such as long overtime hours and salaries that aren’t enough to cover basic needs for living. The average monthly salary for factory workers ranges from $358 to $455. Over…