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Stephen Owens, a UPS sorter at the company’s Springfield, Virginia location, was allegedly stealing unopened Apple products by stuffing them in his pants or otherwise concealing them. Owens reportedly stole up to 60 iPhones, iPads, iPods and MacBooks over the course of six months, says a report in WUSA9. The investigation that led to Owens’…
FreedomPop announced today that it will soon add voice minutes and unlimited text messages to its free smartphone data plans. The new plan will be available to Android owners and will include 200 VoIP-based calling minutes. Calls and texts will not count against the user’s 500MB allotment of data. According to Fierce wireless, FreedomPop will also…
WWDC kicks off next week in San Francisco and developers around the world are gearing up for the conference. Just in time for the event, Apple has released the official WWDC app, packing it full of tools that’ll let WWDC attendees track conference events and watch session videos each day. The app lets developers browse…
According to Reuters, the US International Trade Commission has issued a limited exclusion order and a cease-and-desist order against the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 3G and iPad 2 3G. This ban only applies to devices that run on AT&T’s network. This ruling is the result of a decision for Samsung in a patent infringement…
Samsung is known for releasing a variety of Android devices at different price points and with different features. It recently added the Galaxy S4 mini to its handset lineup, and today it refreshed its Galaxy Tab lineup with the affordable Galaxy Tab 3 8-inch and the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1-inch. The 8-inch Tab 3 features a WXGA resolution…
Twitter today has released Vine for Android, bringing the video recording and sharing service to Google’s mobile OS for the first time. The version for Android is not as feature complete as the iOS version and is missing push notification, access to the front-facing camera and more. Vine launched earlier this year on iOS after…
Samsung confirmed the hardware specs for the long rumored Galaxy S4 Mini. The Android handset will ship with a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, a 1.7GHz dual core processor, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, a 1.9-megapixel HD front-facing camera, and an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera. Connectivity options include 4G LTE, 3G HSPA+ or 3G…
AllAboutSamsung.de posted several screenshots allegedly taken from a Galaxy S4 mini that reveals some details about the handset’s internal hardware. Similar to what we have seen in the past, the Galaxy S4 Mini may have a dual-core Qualcomm processor, Adreno 305 GPU, possibly 2GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 2.1-megapixel front camera and…
Tim Cook opened the D11 Conference with a casual interview hosted by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg from AllThingsD. The conversation covered iOS 7, Apple’s contentious tax status and the company’s future products. Not surprisingly, Cook was forthcoming on some issues like taxes and tight-lipped on what Apple has in its pipeline. You might have…
Reddit member vizionx1208 describes a frightening experience in which his Galaxy S III started smoldering in the bed next to him as he slept. He was awoken by the terrible smell of burning electronics and was shocked to see smoke and fire coming from his phone as it charged. It was a stock Galaxy S…