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The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the Michigan State Police questioning them about their usage of cellular data extraction devices. Manufactured by Cellebrite, these devices can connect to a wireless handset and download personal data such as text messages, call history, contacts and photos from the phone’s internal storage and SD card.…
Samsung and Verizon Wireless made the Droid Charge official today. The 4G handset was originally introduced during Verizon’s CES press event in January. The Droid Charge will join the HTC Thunderbolt in Verizon’s LTE handset portfolio and includes the following specs: 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display 1 GHz processor Rear-facing 8 megapixel camera with LED…
Hot on the heels of AT&T’s quarterly earnings report, Verizon announced its earnings for the opening quarter of 2011 this morning. Overall, the wireless division had a strong quarter and added 1.8 million new connections. About 906,000 of these new subscribers were retail postpaid customers, while the remaining 897,000 were wholesale and other connections. Verizon…
TuneIn Radio released a new version of its Windows Phone app that lets users access the FM radio on a device. The music application moves beyond the world of Internet radio and lets users listen to content from local FM radio stations. Besides its FM radio functionality, TuneIn Radio has its own directory of Internet-only…
Trying to leverage social media to its advantage, Motorola asked its Facebook fans to name apps they would like to see next from Android. Undoubtedly, Motorola was expecting answers like an updated Netflix or game titles such as Angry Birds 2. Instead, the Android handset maker received almost 20,000 votes for an unlocked bootloader. Over…
Starting today, T-Mobile customers can stroll down to their local wireless store and walk out with a brand new Sidekick 4G. As announced earlier this month, the Sidekick 4G is now lining the retail and virtual shelves of the wireless carrier. For those expecting another Danger handset, think again as the Sidekick has been completely…
As announced earlier this week, the G-Slate is now officially available in T-Mobile stores. The Android tablet takes a middle of the road approach to the tablet form factor by offering an 8.9-inch display instead of the standard 7-inch or 10-inch. Besides an 8.9-inch screen with 3D capability and a 1280 x 720 resolution, the…
A small gaffe on Verizon Wireless’ mobile website confirms the legal wording of its two-year customer agreements are long-winded. While the frank honesty is refreshing, this is undoubtedly a mistake on someone’s part. Whomever is in charge of this tiny part of the website forget to insert the proper legal terminology and left the developers…
CNN announced it is making its popular news application available globally for free from the Android Market. The app lets Android users tap into the vast amount of news generated daily by CNN. Multimedia-rich, the CNN app includes photos, live video feeds, on-demand video and breaking news stories. Android owners can also browse content generated…
It’s a happy day in WiMAX land as Sprint and Clearwire have reconciled their differences and are now back together again. The two are so buddy, buddy that Sprint is going to invest $1 billion in Clearwire and the two companies will share 3G and 4G network resources. It won’t overtake the sheer size of…