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Corning recently hit a milestone that shows just how prevalent its popular Gorilla Glass has become. During its earning conference call this week, the company confirmed its scratch-resistant screen covering material is now present on over 1 billion devices worldwide. Gorilla Glass was made famous when it appeared on the original iPhone and is now present…
Samsung held a big Galaxy Note 2 event on Wednesday to celebrate the US launch of its 5.5-inch smartphone. While Sprint and T-Mobile have announced their launch details, Verizon has taken the unusual strategy of launching its pre-order page without confirming the phone’s launch details or pricing. Earlier rumors suggested Verizon would start accepting pre-orders…
Sprint is adding the iPad and iPad mini to its device lineup and will offer a set of new LTE data plans that’ll complement these incoming tablets. The plans do not include a contract and are not tied to any device or brand, so you don’t have to buy an iPad or a Galaxy Tab…
AT&T announced its earnings for the third quarter of 2012 and its wireless business continues to show strong performance. Wireless revenue for the company was up 6.6 percent to $16.6 billion and wireless churn was at an all-time low for the quarter. The carrier also posted its strongest ARPU (average monthly revenues per subscriber) boost…
As noticed by MacRumors, Apple has added a new Apple Events application to the Apple TV that’ll offer a live stream of today’s iPad mini event. This will be the first live stream since the 2010 Back to the Mac event which was used to unveil OS X Lion and a new version of the…
Struggling BlackBerry handset maker RIM suffered another blow when the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said it would end its contract with the Canadian company. ICE officials plan to replace 17,000 BlackBerry handsets with iPhones in a deal that is worth as much as $2.1 million. The agency used RIM’s handsets for eight years,…
Google is rumored to be working with Samsung on a 10-inch Nexus-branded tablet, but details on the device are few and far between. A recent image spotted on Picasa, though, confirms the existence of the device and hints that it has a 5-megapixel camera. The image, shown above, is not overly interesting, but its exif…
A 20-year-old Android developer in France is behind bars after he was caught spreading a virus via an Android app that stole user’s passwords and sent text messages to a premium phone number. The unnamed developer created fake apps that mimic original ones in order to trick people into downloading them. Once on a user’s smartphone,…
Motorola’s Punit Soni told Bionic customers earlier this year that they had “gotten a raw deal” and promised the company “could do way better.” This “way better” comes in the form of an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update which should start hitting Bionic handsets on Friday. The update will rollout in phases and should…
Verizon Wireless announced its quarterly earnings on Thursday and the company had an exceptional three months. Service revenues grew 7.5 percent year over year to an impressive $16.2 billion. Total revenues climbed to $19.0B, another 7.3 percent yearly increase. Retail postpaid bills also increased 6.5 percent from last quarter, with the average customer now paying…