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When you think of a housewife, your mind conjures up stereotypical images of home-cooked food, a loving home, and clean linens. In China, this congenial image is being perverted from loving homemaker to international smuggler. According to a recent report, customs officials have detained 14 housewives suspected of smuggling electronics into China. The seized bounty…
Pricing wars on the Apple iPhone 3GS may be heating up with Best Buy possibly beating Radio Shack’s $25 deal with a deal of its own. According to a rumor out of BGR, Best Buy is pulling out the stops on this promotion and is reportedly offering the 8GB version for free with a two-year…
ABI Research polled 2,000 consumer technology users and asked about their mobile shopping habits. The results show that almost 50% of smartphone owners have shopped in the past or intend to shop in the future using their mobile phones. The survey also revealed that 53% of the respondents use their smartphone for mobile banking. More…
The latest Android 2.2.1 update for the original Motorola DROID is rolling out now, according to reports from users that have received the update. This update is presumably the last Android 2.2 Froyo version that will hit the original DROID. The next update should bring Gingerbread, Android 2.3, to the handset sometime in the future.…
European operators are swamped by data-hungry customers and want Internet companies to help pay for network upgrades to handle this demand. The operators are targeting Google, Apple, and Facebook with their threats for additional compensation. The idea has been bounced around by France Telecom, Telecom Italia, and Vodafone. All three carriers are considering usage-based fees…
Popular twitter application, Touiteur, has been updated to version 2.0. The application supports widgets and is one of the top twitter applications available for Android. Touiteur offers a free version so you can try it out; with this latest update, the free version is now ad-supported. A Premium, add-free version is also available for €1.99…
The Nexus S broke cover and was made official yesterday by Google and Samsung. The successor to the Nexus One was confirmed to be an unlocked GSM handset that supports T-Mobile’s 1700MHz flavor of 3G. Today, a rumor fresh from the Android-o-sphere suggests the handset may rock a CDMA/LTE radio and land on Verizon Wireless.…
LG and VMware are partnering to bring Android to the enterprise using virtualization. VMware announced its Mobile Virtualization Platform back in November 2008 and promised to created a handset environment that would provide a customer with true multiple profiles. Profiles, when applied to current handsets, refers to a set of ringtones and alert settings that…
After a day’s worth of Android and enough Gingerbread news to keep us full until Christmas, it’s time to take a look at the lighter side of the news. Today we have an entertaining video from the BBC’s Comedy division that will delight Beatles and Apple fans alike. The short parody retells the story behind…
The Android 2.3 SDK was made available to the public yesterday and the source code has yielded its first surprise. Spotted in the code for the “android.view.KeyEvent” are several new inputs key including A, B, C, L1, L2, Mode, R1, R2, Select, Start, ThumbL, ThumbR, X, Y, and Z. It does not take a rocket…