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Are you a webOS developer wondering what your future holds because your platform was recently announced as dead? Microsoft will save the day! The software giant is looking to pick up webOS developers who are looking for a new home and platform by offering whatever “they need to be successful.” Ars Technica reports: Microsoft’s Brandon…
You never really wanted an HP TouchPad. Or maybe you did, but it was just too damn expensive, given other options. Well, now the decision has just been made for you. Since HP announced that webOS is pretty much dead and that it will no longer be making any hardware to support the platform, something…
Few of you need a brief history lesson when it comes to how long it took LG to start making some decent Android smartphones. If I could sum it up in just two words for you, they would be “a while.” The first sexy LG handset that comes to mind when I think of Android…
If you’re like me and you fire up Google Reader every single morning to go through your hundreds of feeds and news articles, it helps when you can access it easily while on the go. Sometimes you just aren’t around the computer and every last bit of news is essential either to your job or…
Apple is sued for allegedly selling refurbished iPhone handsets as new in China, which is a pretty damn big deal if it’s true. I’d like to think there is more to this story, so hopefully we’ll get to the bottom of it sooner than later. But I can’t imagine what it must be like to…
Just when I thought that Motorola shareholders would be happy with its sale to Google for $12.5 billion, it turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. In fact, shareholders were hoping that the sale price would be so much higher that they decided to sue Motorola Mobility for the insult. I guess selling itself…
AT&T has just “streamlined” its messaging plans all over again, leaving unlimited mostly untouched for both individual users and those on family plans. The carrier claims that most people prefer to be on unlimited plans, anyway, so this might affect a smaller percentage of people. Perhaps it’s true: nearly everyone I know is on an…
The Droid Bionic for Verizon is coming in just a few weeks, as we’ve learned not too long ago, and as its launch date approaches, we are learning additional details for the 4G LTE device. It turns out that the Bionic will have a 4.3″ qHD screen, which isn’t much of a surprise given the…
In early 2010, Apple purchase mobile advertisers Quattro Wireless for $275 million. It was a big move in response to Google’s rising threat in the mobile ad space. A few months later, Apple turned it into its own mobile app advertising unit – iAd. Today, we learned that Quattro co-founder and head of iAd, Andy…
Verizon still commands a huge chunk of the Android market share in the U.S., but it showed some slow decline over the past few months while AT&T picked up a few percentage points. Chitika, the online advertising network, has always been in a unique position to dish out figures like these because of its presence…