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After months of searching, Yahoo has announced that Scott Thompson will take the helm of the struggling Internet company. The 54-year-old Thompson comes from PayPal, where he was President of the mobile payment processing company. He held his first conference call Wednesday morning and was upbeat about the future of Yahoo. It’s too early to…
According to app tracking metrics from Distimo, the Android Market may have reached the 400,000 app milestone. This is just one of several milestones recorded for the Market in the past twelve months. About 31 months after it opened for business, the Market reached the 200K mark in April 2011 and then climbed to the 300K…
It’s been a long wait for iPhone 4S owners and an even longer wait for iPad 2 owners who want to jailbreak their devices. Released right after Christmas, the latest jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 only works for A4 devices like the original iPad and the iPhone 4. Both the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S…
Last week, Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite published a rumor that suggested Nokia will release an LTE handset for AT&T called the Ace. Additional information from PocketNow claims the Nokia Ace is the rumored Lumia 900 and will launch as a flagship handset for the Finnish manufacturer. The Ace is expected to debut sometime in the…
New information from TechCrunch suggests Apple’s rumored NYC event will focus on iBooks and publishing. Sources told the blog that Apple will reveal several “improvements to the iBooks platform.” They didn’t say what these changes were, but they will be minor. Currently, iBooks is available for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad. It lets iOS owners…
According to a report in Forbes, text messaging rates in pioneer texting markets like Finland and Hong Kong are on the decline. Christmas Eve text messaging, one of the biggest days for sending messages on Finnish carrier Sonera, dropped from 10.9 million in 2010 to 8.5 million in 2011. A similar 14% decline was observed…
A report from AllThingsD claims Apple is holding an event at the end of January in New York City. According to their source, the event won’t be about the iPad 3 or the rumored Apple-branded TV, but will be a media related shin dig. Eddy Cue, Apple’s SVP of Internet Software and Services, is supposedly…
Asus released its Transformer Prime tablet with much fanfare last month. The highly anticipated Android 3.2 tablet has a quad-core processor that, at least on paper, puts most tablets to shame. Unfortunately, the company decided to lock the bootloader on the device and neutered what could have been the best Android tablet to date. According to…
The developers behind ChevronWP7 confirmed they sold out of unlock tokens this past weekend. The tokens were part of an agreement with Microsoft that let the group unlock 10,000 Windows Phone handsets. This was an official unlock solution that lets Windows phone owners unlock their phone and install custom, homebrew software. Each token sold for…
Verizon reversed its decision and will not charge customers a $2 convenience fee for single-time online and telephone payments. This change of heart was likely the result of customer outcry and a FCC statement earlier today that confirmed the regulatory agency was looking into this billing change. This story is developing and we will add more information as it…