Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, isn’t going to be, well, for the iPad only much longer. According to rumors, the digital newspaper is being prepped for the Android platform. It makes perfect sense given the onslaught of Android tablets we’ll be seeing this year – a market that Murdoch and company wouldn’t want to…
Big day for the mobile world tomorrow: Motorola Xoom, Captivate Froyo update, Sprint WP7 and maybe Thunderbolt?
February 24 is shaping up to be a weird day in that there is so much going on at once in the mobile space. The most anticipated Android tablet, the Motorola Xoom, is going to be available tomorrow. The tablet boasts some impressive specs, though it will be launching without Adobe Flash player, and it…
Cell phones will do stuff to your brain or something
Look, everyone! It’s another study on cell phones and how they affect the brain, and with the very predictable and usual results, too: it may or may not cause cancer. We don’t know. What we do know is that cell phones affect your brain activity, or something like that. A study that was intended to…
Apple sends out invites to iPad 2 event for March 2
Apple isn’t going about this event invite the way it did with the original iPad launch with splattered art work and vague remarks. Nope. This time it’s plain and simple: there is an iPad peeking out from the invite, and a huge, prominent number “2” right on the invite for both the date of the…
iPhone 5 not launching until September?
We’ve come to expect a new iPhone from Apple every year around June or July. Like clockwork, since June 2007, a new model iPhone has been launched every single summer. However, there is word that this year might be a little different — we might not see a new version of the Apple smartphone until…
Motorola Atrix 4G gets torn down, turns out to be an easy fix
The Motorola Atrix 4G became available to the general public today and it’s already been torn to bits by the folks at iFixit. The innards reveal no surprises as we already knew what this Android device would be packing: an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, 8-core GeForce GPU, 16GB of on-board memory and 1GB of…
Android app helps man get out of a speeding ticket
This is a bit of a stretch, but an Android application might have helped a man get out of a speeding ticket in Yolo County, California. After Sahas Katta of Skatter Tech was cited for going 40MPH in a 25MPH zone, Katta realized he had Google Tracks running on his phone. The app recorded his…
Motorola XOOM coming to Verizon on February 24, $599 with contract
The Motorola Xoom is almost here, just two days away, and Android fans are loaded with anticipation. The 10-inch Android tablet will feature a dual-core processor, front and rear facing cameras and a tablet-optimized version of Google’s mobile OS, 3.0 Honeycomb, which we’ve been anticipating for months now. We’ve seen all the ads and commercials…
Verizon dropped 10,000 emergency calls during snow storm in January
If you pride yourself on being the nation’s largest and most reliable network, you’d think that connecting and sustaining emergency calls would be a no-brainer. However, Verizon dropped about 10,000 911 calls during a January 26 snow storm in Washington, D.C. The FCC now wants a detailed report from Verizon regarding the incident and why…
T-Mobile unveiling unlimited data plan with 4G mobile hotspot this year?
Unlimited data feels almost meaningless these days when we’re used to “unlimited” meaning 5GB or less. Beyond that, there are outrageous charges or carriers will throttle data use. T-Mobile may be unveiling an unlimited data plan this year that might be truly unlimited. Right now, the carrier throttles users who go over 5GB, difficult as…