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LG Electronics will be bringing out an NFC payment system in Europe in 2012 which will let customers swipe their phones to pay for goods. “The point-of-sale technology, which will be targeted at small and medium-sized businesses and will involve NFC or near field communications and cloud computing, is currently in beta testing,” Jin-Yong Kim,…
If you’re tired of Google or Bing, you should check out Blekko search for Android and the iPhone because this uses human curation to try and provide more relevant results. If you don’t know, Blekko search takes a different approach to finding stuff on the web. Sure, when you go to the main page, there’s…
We know that Intel is going to be pushing smartphones in a big way and an executive recently showed off a prototype device based on its Medfield chipset. The Medfield processors are the next-generation chips from Intel which may help it get in the mobile space in a big way. Right now, the market for…
The Motorola Xoom tablet will be getting a huge marketing push and we’re just starting to see the first teaser ads which take a bunch of shots at Apple and the iPad. As you can see from the ad below titled, “Goodbye 1984,” the Motorola Xoom will be pushed against the Apple iPad by focusing…
If you’re sporting a Sprint Samsung Transform and think it’s just a tad bit too slow, then you’re in luck because the wonderful Android tinkering community has brought a stable port of Android 2.2 Froyo to the Sprint ID device. Over at SDK developers, we get a few glimpses of Android 2.2 Froyo running on…
We all know that the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 update should be coming soon and now we have a rumored landing date: February 7. Of course, this date for the Windows Phone 7 update is just a rumor swirling around the Internet and it’s attributed to unnamed sources, so we have to take that for…
So, the Big Game is just a few short days away and we’re searching for cool apps which will help you watch the Super Bowl. The Vualla iPad app has just received an update which helps it fit that description, as the social tv companion offers a wealth of information and neatly ties in social…
The good folks at LG Electronics have just dropped off one of the most-anticipated Android handsets of the year and we’ve had a few hours to paw at the Optimus 2X. We were able to take an early look at it but this is our first glance at a retail version. Does the dual-core handset…
We know that Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb is the version of the platform that will be optimized for larger-screen tablets but there are many questions about if this will be coming to smartphones. The just-released Android 3.0 Honeycomb emulator may reveal a few clues as it has some support for smartphones. According to Chris Ziegler…
It looks like the Google Nexus S may have a nasty random reboot bug but there’s already a fix on the way and it should be landing in a week or two, Google says. The reports are scattered and the random reboot bug doesn’t appear to be impacting every user but a few are complaining…