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Verizon has confirmed what many of us suspected: it will have a Motorola 4G LTE smartphone in the not-too-distant future. The company had previously said that it will offer smartphones for its just-launched next-generation mobile data network but it hadn’t named a handset maker. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Verizon Wireless COO…
Fandango is trying to make it easier to plan your movie-going experience and the just-released Fandango iPad app brings some visual panache to what you’d expect from the service. One of the cool new things about the Fandango iPad app is a feature that it’s calling “The Pulse.” This provides you with a real-time update…
The Facebook app for Windows Phone 7 has just been updated and the world’s largest social network has added some much-needed features to its app for Microsoft smartphone platform. The first big addition to the Facebook Windows Phone 7 app is the ability to broadcast your location with Places. This feature is similar to the…
The Apple TV is still considered a “hobby” by Steve Jobs but that hobby is on track to sell more than a million units by this week, the company said. The Apple TV was revamped in September to be a sleeker and, some would say, less advanced device. Gone is the ability to play local…
We all know that Palm is readying an Apple iPad competitor for early next year and a few more details about the PalmPad have leaked. The folks at Fox News got the scoop and the image above, as the PalmPad is expected to be unveiled at the CES trade show in early January and it…
A new study released Tuesday said 17% of homes with the Apple iPad have two or more tablets in the home. Does this portend a future where everyone will have multiple tablets? The study was released by YouGov and it said that most who owned more than one iPad purchased the second device for their…
Google said it will allow users to continue making free calls to the United States and Canada for all of 2011 and this is definitely a cool thing. Still, we can’t help but wonder when this VoIP free calling will be landing on mobile phones through Google Voice. If you don’t know, the search giant…
Apple has finally rolled out a way for app makers and content providers to build their own specialized ads for apps and the iAd Producer could help boost its mobile advertising network. Apple rolled out its advertising network as part of iOS 4.0 and it promised to give ads all the functionality of the app…
I get the feeling you’ve already heard a lot about the Instagram iPhone app, as the photo-sharing service has been quite popular with the Apple crowd. How popular? Well, the company just announced that it has surpassed one million registered users. That’s a pretty impressive achievement for the Instagram iPhone app when you consider it’s…
Zynga and GetJar are bringing the popular Mafia Wars game to your smartphone or tablets, as Mafia Wars Atlantic city will be a browser-based game using HTML5. The Zynga Mafia Wars will be the company’s first game targeted at the mobile browser and it will enable the company to reach the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and…