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As folks ring in the New Year across the globe, reports are surfacing of a troubling alarm clock bug affecting iPhones. According to a growing number of tweets, iPhone alarms that are set for New Year’s Day are failing to go off as scheduled. For the merry reveler with nothing to do on a Saturday,…
More difficult news for Clearwire today. A SEC filing confirmed founder and board chairman Craig McCaw will be resigning from his position effective today. Clearwire did not reveal the reasons for McCaw’s departure but confirmed it did not involve a disagreement over company policies, operations or procedures. This is not the first high-level departure from…
Earlier this week, a hack was unveiled that let Windows Phone owners bypass the DRM security of installed applications. The FreeMarketplace application would strip the application’s DRM wrapper and let users copy files to a computer and then to another Windows Phone handset. The details behind this hack were not revealed but the proof of…
In a report released on Wednesday, eBay confirmed its mobile sales are on the rise. The online auction destination boasts of 30 million downloads of its mobile applications across the globe. People are not letting this app sit idle on their handset, they are using it to buy and buy in volume. U.S. mobile sales…
An infographic courtesy of ElektricForest details Microsoft’s complete lineup of Windows Phone handsets. All the minutiae details are available including weight, height, ROM/RAM configuration and more. Once you get past the big picture and dig deeper into the handset specifications, there are some interesting tidbits that can be gleaned from the chart. Take, for example, the Samsung…
Windows Phone Marketplace is growing by leaps and bounds. In less than eight weeks, the Marketplace boasts of over 3,000 apps and 15,000 developers. Early last month, Windows Phone launched in the US and we looked at the top games and the top launch titles. We have been using Windows Phone since launch and have,…
Microsoft produced a promotional video with T-Mobile that highlights Windows Phone development and its integration with Windows Azure. Windows Azure is a cloud computing platform that supports wide variety of Internet services and remote applications. The back-end datacenters are hosted by Microsoft and the platform offers both an API and a client-side managed class library…
Good news for San Francisco Bay Area residents, Sprint 4G is now available in your locale! Right on time, the WiMAX service officially launched today in San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto and Oakland. Residents should expect 4G coverage similar to their Los Angeles counterparts who had their 4G service switched on earlier this month.…
Peter Vesterbacka, one founding developer of Angry Birds, is assuming the role of Rovio Mobile’s public face. In this latest public showing, Vesterbacka, also known as the “Mighty Eagle,” has comments on a wide range of mobile development topics and discusses the background history of Angry Birds in an interview he did with Tech n’…
Samsung has had success with its Galaxy S series of smartphones and its popular tablet, selling millions of each device during 2010. Now, the manufacturer is going to try its hand at the digital media player market with the future launch of the Samsung Galaxy Player (YP-GB1). Samsung confirmed today that it will be introducing…