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If you were thinking that this mobile application thing is just a fad, you may want to reconsider as the American Dialect Society has just named “app” the word of the year for 2010. “App has been around for ages, but with millions of dollars of marketing muscle behind the slogan ‘There’s an app for…
Verizon has just released a few updates for the Droid Pro and the Samsung Fascinate and, while none of these bring the much-wanted Android 2.3 Gingerbread, these updates do add some nice features as well as fix some major bugs. I reviewed the Samsung Fascinate a few months ago and felt the hardware and screen…
It’s not a huge surprise, but Samsung is now confirming that the next line of Galaxy S devices will feature dual-core processors and we will be getting a look at its road map at next month’s Mobile World Congress. It’s not much of a surprise because the company has already shown off the Samsung Infuse…
U.S. Cellular is running a promotion related to Valentine’s Day and this includes some solid deals like getting a buy-one-get-one-free deal for any of its Android-powered devices and this even includes the spiffy Galaxy Tab. Of course, the U.S. Cellular promotion requires signing up for a two-year contract on each device but thanks to the…
Well, it looks like this app thing is here to stay, as even PBS is jumping into the game. The PBS iPhone app is now available and it offers more than 300 videos from its shows that can be streamed to your Retina Display. The PBS iPhone app is free and it’s actually pretty slick…
Google said its open source WebM VP8 codec will have hardware decoder IP available to chipmakers in order to make hardware acceleration available on future smartphones and tablets. This is important because Google just dropped the H.264 codec from Chrome and that codec is widely used to deliver video content to devices without Flash, like…
Well, we hate to say “we told you so” but it looks like Verizon will be changing its upgrade discount policy right before it releases the Apple iPhone 4. The Wall Street Jounal is confirming that Big Red will be ending its “New Every Two” plan, which provides steep discounts on new phones for users…
We just saw a ton of tablets at CES 2011 that are vying to take away attention from the Apple iPad with consumers but Forrester research is saying that these other devices will also be facing a stiff challenge in the enterprise market. In a blog post, the research firm said that even devices like…
In another sign that the mobile space is going to be the future of reporting, Reuters is reporting AMD CEO Dirk Meyer is departing because the board wasn’t happy with his vision for the chip maker in the increasingly-competitive mobile segments. AMD CEO Dirk Meyer resigned a few days ago and reports are surfacing that…
I’m sure you’ve heard that the Verizon iPhone 4 will be be hitting the streets Feb. 10 and at least one analyst believes that the marketing push this receives from Big Red will hurt Android. Analyst Shaw Wu said that the Verizon iPhone 4 will be the first “true test” for Android because Big Red…