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American Express is teaming with Foursquare for some location-based mobile money services that will be debuted in Austin next week at the South By SouthWest conference. According to the report: Under the arrangement, AmEx customers can register their cards in the Foursquare system to get access to special offers from merchants who are also Foursquare…
If you’re Research In Motion and you have the super important BlackBerry PlayBook launch just a few weeks away, you would want to ideally have your team at full strength. Well, that doesn’t look to be the case as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer Keith Pardy will be leaving the company for personal reasons. The…
Motorola continues to invest in services to bolster its mobile offerings as the company has announced an investment in the social game-maker Moblyng. Moblyng is best-known for social games on the iOS platform and on Facebook and the company’s games have been downloaded more than 9 million times. It also has talent in the HTML5…
AT&T iPhone 4 users who were anxiously awaiting iOS 4.3 to get the mobile hotspot feature may be disappointed to learn that it looks like this will only support up to three additional WiFi devices. The news comes from a leaked document on Engadget, which outlines the iOS 4.3 features. The iPhone 4 mobile hotspot…
It looks like T-Mobile is preparing to revamp its webConnect mobile broadband pricing, as a leaked document suggests that existing T-Mobile voice subscribers may be eligible for a 20% discount on the mobile web service. All of the pieces of the puzzle aren’t in place, as the T-Mobile webConnect mobile broadband service is expected to…
Saab and Android are going on a road trip as the car maker will be using Google’s mobile platform to power its next-generation in-car infotainment IQon units. As you would expect from Android, the Saab iQon in-car infortainment unit will give you e-mails, Google Maps, media and more. Because of the concerns about security, this…
Apple is reportedly in talks with the record companies to allow multiple re-downloads of tracks on multiple iOS devices and this could be part of a revamped MobileMe. Currently, you can buy these tunes via iTunes and transfer them over to separate devices or you can purchase them directly on the device. Apple will enable…
If you saw the Apple iPad 2 and wanted to wait to see Microsoft’s response, you may have to wait a long time. A report out of Businessweek suggests that a true Microsoft iPad competitor won’t hit the market until the back-to-school time in 2012. Yowza. We already know that Microsoft’s tablet strategy is Windows…
Oh that Optimus 2X continues to surprise. We’ve already reviewed the device but playing around with some multitouch apps show that the Tegra 2-powered device can recognize up to 10 inputs at once. In the review of the LG Optimus 2X, I mentioned how I didn’t like the keyboard that much because the auto-correct software…
A new study from J.D. Power & Associates has named Verizon the top carrier in the West region. The report was pretty darn comprehensive, as it measured dropped calls, failed connections, text and voicemail notifications, static and other factors. Verizon was the tops in the West with five stars, followed by Sprint Nextel with four…