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We’ve been waiting for what seems like ages for the iPhone 5, and it just might be announced during Apple’s next live event. There is word that the event will take place September 7, roughly around the same time that the iTunes music event last year. Since we’ve already heard all we need to know…
Apple was recently successful in blocking the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in Europe, and it looks like it may seek an injunction against Motorola for its Xoom tablet as well. Google, maker of the Android mobile platform, has openly accused Apple of going after Android hardware makers because the iPhone…
Big changes are stirring at Clearwire as it just announced a new President and CEO. The new position goes to former COO Erik Prusch, and interim CEO John Stanton takes his position as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. This is big news in light of the other big news, where Clearwire made it,…
Apple and Samsung have been in the heat of an intense legal battle across several countries, but it looks like Apple has taken the upper hand. We recently heard that Samsung had decided not to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in Australia due to the legal issues with Apple. This time around, the…
Apple is continuing its battle against HTC, and this time the International Trade Commission, or the ITC, is reviewing five patent complaints from the iPhone maker. According to Reuters, Apple is claiming that HTC “HTC infringed five patents related to software architecture and user interfaces in portable electronic devices, hardware for touch screens and movement…
U.S. Cellular, the sixth largest carrier in the country, is considering following in AT&T’s and Verizon’s footsteps by moving to tiered data plans. The carrier says that it will launch its tiered data plans within the next two or three quarters, but didn’t specify a date or pricing schemes. Given the competitive nature of the…
The DROID Bionic will be coming this September, and Verizon already has the teaser page up. While we know what it’s going to look like, and more or less what the specs are going to be, the FCC has released documents that give us a look at the revised DROID Bionic – the one we’ll…
Over the weekend, Apple released iOS 5 beta 5 for developers and early adopters on the beta program. Several new changes were added to the iOS 5 beta 5, and some believe that this is probably close to the last beta, if not the last one, before Apple decides to pull the trigger on the…
Sprint has just announced the Samsung Conquer 4G, the first WiMax 4G smartphone that gets just under the $100 mark. This is great news for the low-end market and consumers who don’t need all the bells and whistles of high-end Android smartphones. But that doesn’t mean that Sprint users will be excluded from all the…
AT&T has been saying for months that it will crack down on jailbroken iPhone users who are using its network for unlimited tethering. The carrier has separate individual plans for iPhone tethering, but some users have circumvented the plans by jailbreaking their iPhones. Their free and unlimited tethering days, however, seem to be over. Some…