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It’s official. Apple reviewers have evaluated the latest version of the Consumer Reports app and have confirmed that there is a problem with the app’s performance. The latest version of this app crashes when click on a review, crashes when you click on Electronics, and crashes when you look at it funny. Reviewers have reached…
Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn backpedaled on his statement that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs. According to Dunn, reports claiming a precipitous decline in notebook and netbook sales are grossly exaggerated and are not an accurate depiction of what Best Buy is currently seeing. These reports cited by Dunn are based upon…
Remember that mysterious iProd2,1 device that appeared in the underlying codebase of iOS 4.1 ? The first iPad was labelled as ‘iProd” so everyone assumed this was a new reference for the rumored iPad 2G. Color us wrong as the recent iOS 4.2 beta 1 build reveals that this is the recently announced Apple TV. Deep…
Microsoft has no plans to develop a new smartphone, according to Microsoft’s CFO of mobile communication. In response to a question about new mobile phone hardware, Microsoft’s Tivanka Ellawala told a group of investors during a San Francisco conference that “We are in the software business and that is where our business will be focused”.…
Last week, former Google China head, Kai-Fu Lee, confirmed that he is launching a new mobile OS called Tapas. Similar to China Mobile’s OPhone OS, Tapas is based upon Android and is designed specifically for the Chinese market. It includes software that identifies the geographic origin of incoming calls and syncs with popular Chinese social…
In a Wall Street Journal article, Best Buy’s CEO dropped the shocking statistic that the iPad is cannibalizing sales of notebook PCs by as much as 50%. Though this figure is exceptionally high, this idea has bounced around since Apple’s tablet device debuted back in March. Since that “magical” day, people have been combing through…
According to Microsoft senior product manager Greg Sullivan, Microsoft has decided to delay the production of its CDMA Windows Phone 7 handsets until 2011. All Windows Phone 7 handsets released in 2010 will be GSM-only, limiting the US launch to AT&T and T-Mobile only. This disclosure follows a statement by Verizon Wireless that suggested the…
Motorola confirmed on Thursday that it has acquired Aloqa, a technology firm that specializes in delivering location-aware content to mobile phones. Based in Palo Alto, California and Munich, Germany, Aloqa will join Motorola Mobility, the mobile division of Motorola that will be spun off from the new Motorola Solutions, Inc in early 2011. Aloqa’s technology and services uses…
An accessory list for T-Mobile reveals several upcoming handsets including the rumored HTC HD7 and the BlackBerry Bold 9780. This latest leak matches up with the previous roadmap leak which has proven to be fairly accurate at identifying upcoming handsets. The exhaustive list of handsets and the expected arrival date for their accessories include the…
A LinkedIn profile suggests that Acer is working on a Windows Phone 7 handset. The profile belongs to an unnamed Microsoft hardware engineer who boasts of having worked with Acer to “enable WP7 keyboards, touch, and sensor drivers”. Though most of the profile is deliberately blurred to protect the identity of this engineer, it is readily apparent…