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Google Plus has been all the rage the past week, with some users saying that it’s a pretty formidable alternative to Facebook. The social network already has a fully working Android app, but the iOS app has yet to land in the iTunes store. On the bright side, it seems to be waiting on Apple’s…
LightSquared, Nokia Siemens Networks’ 4G LTE baby, just raised $265 million in another round of funding from new and existing investors for its coming 4G network. To date, LightSquare has raised $2.3 billion despite launch issues due to GPS interference. However, the company seems to have solved its GPS woes and seems to be confident…
Remember back when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone in January 2007? Everyone thought it was a phone from the future, and it completely upended the smartphone industry. We’d seen touchscreens before, but none quite as elegant or responsive as the one Apple used for the iPhone. Why did it take so long for competitors, namely…
We already knew that Verizon was abandoning its unlimited 3G and 4G data plans in favor of tiered packages, and a leaked customer brochure details the new options. Of course, if you’re currently a Verizon customer with an unlimited data plan, it will be grandfathered indefinitely or for as long as you keep your Verizon…
There’s a joke that goes, “Is there anything more dangerous than an old person behind the wheel?” It’s a bit harsh, but perhaps the answer is yes. There is. Teenagers who are driving while texting on their phones are probably just as dangerous, if not more, than someone whose eyesight and reaction times aren’t quite…
It’s hard to imagine that the iPhone 4 fiasco of 2010 was already over a year ago — it seems like only yesterday that the Internet erupted over the Apple smartphone leak and police were breaking down blogger doors. Over a year after its launch, the iPhone 4 is quickly aging with news that the…
The best part of the Skype for Android upgrade last week was that it brought video calling to the popular mobile platform. The bad part is that it’s pretty limited since it only works with Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro and Neo, the HTC Desire S and the Google Nexus S. However, a video calling APK…
The iPhone 5 is likely going to be released in September, and the iPad 3 may come shortly after that. According to rumors, components manufacturers and suppliers are beginning to prepare themselves for production. Apple will have small batches of the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 produced in August, with volume increasing during September and…
The ongoing legal battle between Samsung and Apple has taken a new turn as the Korean manufacturer has decided to drop its patent-infringement lawsuit against the iPhone maker in the U.S. Samsung alleged that Apple has infringed on several patents, including use of wireless radios and technologies for improved battery life, but it is dropping…
What really makes a tablet is its selection of apps, and this is the big reason the iPad is king. Otherwise, you just have a large piece of glass with a display and the 1GHz+ processors and cameras and everything else. What separates the iPad from the rest isn’t just its intuitive OS, but the…