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A report in Reuters confirms China Telecom and Apple have reached a deal and the carrier will start selling the iPhone next month. China Telecom joins China Unicom to become the second wireless carrier to sell the iPhone in the Asian country. The carrier will start accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 4S starting March 2…
Android or iOS owners should check their respective app stores because Twitter has a fresh, new update for you to download. It’s a modest improvement which includes support for a new, time-saving gesture that lets you swipe a tweet and then reply, retweet, favorite or share it right from your timeline. You can now swipe…
MIC Gadget claims to have seen and handled the shell for the iPad 3. The part was supposedly given to them by one of their “most reliable sources.” The shots provided by the blog show a case with the familiar side volume rocker, bottom charging port, and rear-camera of the iPad 2. Some shots suggest…
LightSquared is at the end of its rope and needs a solution to get its mobile broadband network off the ground. The FCC recently rejected the company’s plan to run a mobile broadband on spectrum that lies close to consumer GPS. A report from the NTIA claimed LightSquared’s network would interfere with current GPS technology…
For a company that took a great mobile OS like webOS and let it whiter and die, HP sure has a lot to say about mobile OS strategy. When speaking at HP’s global partner summit in Las Vegas, CEO Meg Whitman told attendees that Google’s acquisition of Motorola would cause Android to move from an…
Motorola was dealt a major setback today when a German court ruled that most of Motorola’s products infringe on Apple’s slide to unlock patent. This patent covers the process of swiping on an image to unlock a device. According to a report at FOSS patents, the ruling is a permanent injunction that Apple could choose…
Last August, HTC said all its phones going forward would be released with an unlocked bootloader. It also promised to unlock bootloaders for some older models as well. We thought the Taiwanese company meant the Incredible 2 or other recent phones released in the last year or so. Leave it to HTC to surprise us…
It feels weird writing about a desktop OS on a mobile blog, but Apple forced my hand. Today, the Cupertino company released its developer’s preview of Mac OS X Mountain Lion and brought over many features that are familiar to iPhone and iPad owners. The next version of OS X will include iOS-style Notifications, iMessage support, GameCenter…
Adobe released an advisory bulletin about several particularly nasty security vulnerabilities that let an attacker gain control over a person’s device. In addition to the desktop version of Flash, the vulnerability affects Android users on both Android 3.x and 4.x. The versions affected include Flash Player version 11.1.112.61 and earlier on Android 4.x devices and…
AT&T made it clear that it wanted T-Mobile’s spectrum holdings to help build out its 4G LTE network. Now that the T-Mobile deal has collapsed, the carrier is on the hunt to find more spectrum. According to the Wall Street Journal, AT&T is talking with a variety of companies including Leap Wireless, MetroPCS and Dish Network as it looks to increase its access to these…