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While we’re used to seeing Apple get sued by everyone under the sun, the Cupertino based company is now suing Nokia. It has been an ongoing legal battle between the two, but Apple is suing the Finnish smartphone maker in the U.K. for nine cell phone technologies. According to Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant, “We are…
Firefox Home has been somewhat of a hit with iPhone users who use Firefox on their computers. Soon, BlackBerry and Symbian users will get a little bit of Mozilla love, too. If you’re unfamiliar with Firefox Home, it basically stores your browser info in the cloud so you can access it elsewhere. Whether it’s bookmarks,…
Best Buy Mobile sure has a way of enticing smartphone buyers. If the pre-order options, exclusive products and no-mail-in-rebate deals aren’t enough, it’s kicking things up a bit in October. The mega retailer has just announced Free Phone Fridays, a fun alliteration for an even more fun promotion: in the month of October, Best Buy…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab had just been announced, followed very shortly by the BlackBerry PlayBook, and now we’re hearing rumors of the second Apple iPad. What a time for tablets! While it’s blatantly obvious what the iPad has been missing – like a camera or USB ports – it looks like the second generation of…
It’s time for another Nielsen study, and this one takes a quick look at iPad owners. Apparently, of the 400 Apple tablet owners in this survey, 65 percent were male. Compared to Sony PSP and Amazon Kindle owners, who were 62 percent and 52 percent male, respectively, it’s a pretty large bias for the iPad.…
Tim Cook, COO of Apple and Steve Jobs’ right hand man, is rumored to be eyeing the CEO position looking to be filled by Hewlett-Packard. Ever since Mark Hurd’s immediate resignation at HP, the company has been looking for new leadership. What’s the likelihood that Cook would actually leave Apple for HP? I say it’s…
If you love the iPhone but you’re a Microsoft fan at heart, you’re already undoubtedly familiar with the Bing app for iPhone. The good news is that it’s been updated to include even more cool stuff just after update the app with some social networking goodies. This update focuses mainly on travel and maps for…
It’s what BlackBerry fanatics have been waiting for, and it’s finally here — a tablet computer from RIM. Gone is the BlackPad name, though no one was ever really sure that’s what it would be called, and instead we have the BlackBerry PlayBook. It has multitasking, Flash, music multimedia and despite its capabilities and its…
The New Yorker has introduced its very own iPad app with the help of actor Jason Schwartzman. It’s actually more of a day in the life of Jason Schwartzman, undoubtedly interesting and hilarious as the ad depicts, while he shows us the new features of the app. The app itself will dish out an issue…