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AT&T is at it again! The carrier that has stolen the hearts and wallets of millions is revamping its smartphone data plans. You’ll be getting more data but for a higher price. Luckily, the changes aren’t all that bad this time around. The current data plans look like this: 200MB for $15 per month, 2GB…
Motorola Mobility has announced that it will be investing in a hot new startup that will probably grow dramatically in 2012: Shaker. Shaker is a different kind of social networking experiences that brings your friends together in a virtual environment (think Habbo Hotel or IMVU but in a bar setting) to chat with friends and meet…
LetsTalk.com and YouMail struck a deal that will benefit each of the company’s services — an even exchange, if you will. LetsTalk.com, will soon begin preloading the YouMail visual voicemail service on select Android and BlackBerry devices. In return, the new YouMail online store for phones and accessories will be powered by LetsTalk.com. Both parties…
Wal-Mart and T-Mobile have had their unlimited talk and text plan for families in place for a while, but today they are expanding it to include unlimited access to the Internet, too. This makes T-Mobile one of the first carriers to have a shared data option for families, albeit you’ll have to shop at Wal-Mart…
Back in February, rumors circulated that Apple would unveil the iPad 3 in February and recently, we heard the more specific date of February 24th, right on Steve Jobs’ birthday. Now, yet another report is in stating February is the target month for the tablet’s debut. What is it going to feature? Well, just about…
Okay, so maybe 2011 wasn’t a good year for the BlackBerry PlayBook but RIM isn’t giving up on the tablet market yet. N4BB claims its hearing from voices on the inside that RIM is preparing to launch not one, but two PlayBook-branded tablets this year. One will be a lower-end 7-inch model and the other will…
Samsung is releasing an alternative to its original Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 in Germany, after the line of tablets was banned from being sold in the country as a result of a long legal battle with Apple. Dubbed the Galaxy Tab 7.0N Plus, it has a redesign to reflect what Apple and the court considers…
Cupidtino, a dating service made for Apple fanboys and fangirls, launched its own iPhone and iPod touch app. Now the hot singles that Mac nerds tend to be can keep in touch with their potential matches on the go. The app includes most of the features of the website. Members can browse through fanboy and…
Most of us use our smartphones at a healthy rate, occasionally checking email, talking or texting friends, surfing the web, or playing some games throughout a regular day. Some smartphone users, however, obsessively cling to their phones night and day. This smartphone addiction gets so intense that these users are reporting hearing “phantom vibrations” —…
It’s one thing to have some of your customers want to switch to a different brand. It’s another thing to have three-quarters of your customers unsatisfied and planning to make the switch. What company could possibly have 75% of its mobile phone users plotting to abandon it? You guessed it: RIM. According to data from Drippler,…