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Popular social networking service HootSuite announced that it has reached one million registered users. To celebrate this momentous event, HootSuite gave away an iPad as part of a Twitter contest and put together an infographic that details the growth and usage of its service. Among all the facts and figures presented in the infographic, HootSuite’s…
Verizon announced today that it will be holding a press conference on December 1st to discuss its LTE rollout plans. The press conference will begin at 12:00 noon EST and is available via teleconference and on twitter (@VerizonWireless #VZW4G). The carrier is expected to blanket 38 major metropolitan areas and more than 110 million Americans…
In conjunction with Microsoft, AT&T launched a Windows Phone buy one, get one free sale for the holiday season. Starting on Black Friday, this sale kicked off less than a month after the handset officially launched in early November. The sale may have delighted holiday shoppers, but its timing raised the ire of the early…
Good news for WordPress fans with a Windows Phone handset. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is rumored to be working on an official WordPress client for your mobile platform. While Automattic has remained silent on the possibility of a Windows Phone client, its website is a bit more revealing. The folks at The Blog Herald…
Rovio’s twitter account is an excellent place to find the latest and greatest news about Angry Birds. Unlike many companies that keep information under wraps and use Twitter as a one-way marketing conversation, Rovio is up front about its future product plans and is engaged in conversation with its followers. The latest series of tweets…
The subsidized iPad is poised to take the UK by storm in the upcoming months with Orange, Three, T-Mobile, and possibly Vodafone expected to carry the tablet device. The only remaining holdout is O2 UK, which is reportedly not in talks with Apple to carry the popular tablet device on a contract basis. While several…
There is no better way to kick off the weekend than with a rousing discussion on jailbreaking and piracy. This current round of discussion focuses on the ChevronWP7 unlocking tool which hit the Windows Phone community earlier this week. At the heart of this issue is a camp of people who see the tool as…
Apple reportedly rejected an Android magazine from its App Store because its content focuses on Google’s competing mobile OS. The Android mag was developed by Mediaprovider, a small Danish magazine publisher that also publishes an iPhone magazine. The Android-based magazine was developed as a counterpart to the iPhone magazine which is available in iTunes for iOS…
A recent tweet from Cyanogen suggests the team is adding lockscreen gestures to future CyanogenMod ROMS. As the name implies, lockscreen gestures allow you to launch an application or activity by drawing a gesture on your lockscreen. While the tweets give a superficial description of lockscreen gestures, a post over at the CyanogenMod forums details this…
A tweet from Rovio Mobile suggests the Windows Phone version of Angry Birds will not be available until 2011. Earlier this week, Rovio hinted that it would provide information on the progress of its Windows Phone version as part of Angry Birds Day, a worldwide, fan-sponsored event slated for December 11th. Excitement was high and most…