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With e-commerce growing and huge shifts toward mobile trends, PayPal is making sure it stays right on top of its game. The e-commerce company has been partnering up with companies like Google for mobile payments, and it is expecting to see some huge business before the year’s end. More specifically, PayPal expects to see approximately…
If you’re a fan of the HTC Desire with Android, you’re undoubtedly holding your breath for the HD version. It has been rendered and looks rather accurate – and sexy – by German site BestBoyZ. There will be an HTC event in London next week, and it looks like the Desire Z and Desire HD…
Yesterday, Apple released iOS 4.1 and fixed many bugs with the iPhone and brought along new features like HDR photography and the ability to rent or purchase TV shows and movies in iTunes. Perhaps one of the bigger features added was Game Center, an application that allows users to befriend other iPhone gamers and earn…
Who says people don’t really make phone calls these days? J.D. Power recently conducted a survey saying call quality is still very important to most consumers, which puts Verizon and Sprint at the top of the charts. AT&T, popular home to the iPhone 4, however, doesn’t fare so well. As far as T-Mobile goes in…
Earlier today, Apple posted its new terms and conditions for iOS developers and the world rejoiced as the Cupertino based company eased up on its restrictions. In addition to loosening up, Apple has also become more transparent and open about its review process, which should be a big aid to developers in getting their apps…
AT&T is surely delighting New York City users as coverage has gradually improved over the last few months with an 850 overlay. The 850MHz band employed by AT&T is now being used for 3G data transmission, and this is important because that particular frequency travels farther and penetrates buildings a whole lot better than what…
Speculation has been running rampant about the BlackBerry Torch 9800 for AT&T not doing very well in sales. Today, Fred Devereux, President of Wireless Operations in the US West for AT&T, gave the impression that the carrier was a little disappointed and somewhat surprised in BlackBerry Torch sales. Funny, I’m not all that surprised about…
With today’s release of iOS 4.1 for the iPhone, a new HDR photography feature was included with the camera software. For those of you unfamiliar with HDR, it stands for “High Dynamic Range.” It’s a style of photography that can capture great detail in scenes and areas where there is a wide range of available…
We’ve been waiting for what seems like ages, but iOS 4.1 is finally here and it brings along some greatly needed fixes and upgrades. The update is now available for your iPhone 3G, 3GS or 4 via iTunes. iOS 4.1 promises to fix performance issues with the iPhone 3G, proximity sensor issues with the iPhone…
This morning, Google announced a new feature called Google Instant, and it basically does what the name implies. These days, “to Google” something has become a verb mostly meaning to search for something on the web. Add “instant” to that and, well, you have instant results. The way it actually works is quite amazing. Usually,…