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Google unveiled its new Google Music service in a live event held in Los Angeles today. This music service is an extension of what Google kicked off with its Music Beta service earlier this year. Music Beta was solely a digital music locker service that let you upload and stream your music from Google’s cloud.…
In the final hours before launching its music store, Google has reportedly signed licensing agreements with three major record labels. A report from the Wall Street Journal claims Google will have deals in place with Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and EMI when it kicks off the service at a Wednesday event in Los…
It’s going to be a tablet-filled holiday shopping season and two of the lowest priced models to hit retail shelves are the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. We’ve already seen several close-ups of the Kindle Fire and now some early reviews of the Nook Tablet are starting to hit the wire.…
The engineers at mobile development company Applidium spent some time tearing apart Siri and discovered what makes her tick. Besides understanding the ins and out of how Siri works, the team figured out a way to hack Siri and let it potentially run on other devices. While using a proxy server, the team discovered that…
ARDIC Technology is an up and coming startup whose recent video has the Android world talking about big screens and little green robots. A recent video from the Turkish company showcases a new prototype system that lets you interact with Android on a big screen, a very big 65-inch screen. The group has created a…
Google announced this afternoon that it has released the source code for Ice Cream Sandwich into the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository. These files contain Android 4.0.1 which is the version that will ship on the Galaxy Nexus. As expected, these Galaxy Nexus files are the only build available; builds for other handsets will…
AT&T is preparing a series of updates for the Atrix 4G and the Inspire 4G. The two updates include several bug fixes and stability improvements, most notable is he unleashing of HSUPA speeds on the Android handsets. Confirmation of this HSUPA upgrade comes straight from AT&T which released the following information on its website: Today,…
The HTC Incredible 2 and Casio G’zOne Commando arrived today at Verizon Wireless. Noticeably absent was the Samsung Droid Charge which was supposed to land on retail shelves today. According to Verizon Wireless, the launch of the Droid Charge has been delayed. Reasons for the delay were not provided but many suggest it may be…
Sprint announced its quarterly earnings for the period of January to March 2011 today. The #3 wireless carrier had its best ever postpaid churn of 1.81%, which is down from 2.15% in the same quarter of 2010. Sprint also added new 1.1 million new customers and now has over 51 million customers at the end…
Today is the day that Verizon adds not one, but two new Android handsets to its smartphone lineup. Making their official retail debut is the HTC Droid Incredible 2 and the Casio G’zOne Commando. Both Android handsets feature 3G EVDO connectivity and run Android 2.2. The Droid Incredible 2 has a slight leg up on…