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One company you wouldn’t expect to find on the cutting edge of technology is Cumberland Farms. Known for its inexpensive milk, the regional gas and convenience store is also ready to launch a mobile payment system. The Framingham, Mass-based chain has partnered with PayPal to produce a mobile app called SmartPay which lets you pay at…
Yesterday, a report from PC World suggested that Dell was terminating its smartphone line. The author was not sure if Dell was abandoning smartphones completely or whether the company still had new phones on its end-of-the-year roadmap. A company spokesperson reached out to PC World again to clarify this point and confirmed that Dell will produce…
RIM posted its quarterly earnings and the results are grim as expected. The company announced a loss of $125 million on quarterly revenues of $4.2 billion, which is down 19% from the previous quarter. The company shipped 11.1 million handsets in the quarter, down 23 percent from the previous quarter. It also shipped 500,000 Playbook tablets.…
A report by The Globe and Mail suggests Thorsten Heins will layoff some of RIM’s executive leadership. Executives at the senior vice-president and vice-president levels are the positions targeted in a layoff that, if true, will shake up RIM’s top brass. Sales and marketing departments will bear the brunt of the bad news says Globe and…
You have to feel for Sprint. Its plan for an LTE network with LightSquared went down the tubes when the FCC would not grant LightSquared the license it needs to operate. It still has a partnership with Clearwire, but the WiMAX company is struggling financially. According to a report by Fierce Wireless, Bob Azzi, senior…
A report from PC World suggests Dell may kill its smartphone line. According to PC World, Dell’slast remaining phones, the Windows Phone-powered Venue and the Venue Pro, will no longer be sold in the US. A few remaining models will continue to be sold in India, China, Japan and South Korea. An unamed Dell spokesman…
Starting today, Amazon is pushing out version 6.3 of its Android software to the Kindle Fire. This latest update adds several new features including book passage and note sharing, book extras, movie rentals and other performance enhancements. The new sharing feature lets readers select their favorite passage and share it with other Kindle users who…
Microsoft announced today that it’s opening the Windows Phone Marketplace in thirteen new countries including Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela. With these openings, the number of countries that have a Windows Phone marketplace now totals 54 and this number will continue to climb in 2012.…
Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales put on a performance during MIPIM 2012 using several iPads that’ll put any Powerpoint presentation to shame. The duo crafted a three-minute performance which includes magic, showmanship and perfectly synced iPads. The wonderfully creative presentation covers the benefits of living and working in Stockholm, but the iPads really take center…
The iPad’s battery issue began when a DisplayMate report said the tablet’s battery continued to charge after the meter on the screen read 100 percent. This opened up a can of worms that led to reports that excessive charging would damage the iPad’s battery. Vice President of product marketing Michael Tchao finally put an end to this iPad battery…