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The SlingPlayer Mobile app already brings live TV content to your iPhone, Android and BlackBerry devices but you can now make the most of your large Apple iPad screen with the latest app. As you’d expect, the SlingPlayer iPad app can stream your live TV content to the tablet, as well as your recorded content…
You didn’t think HTC and Samsung were just going to get sued and take it laying down, did you? The companies with a large Android portfolio have signed cross-licensing agreements with Intellectual Ventures and are prepared for a mobile patent war now. HTC and Samsung will now have access to the patent portfolio of Intellectual…
We all know that the app world is exploding but as the market grows, will the independent app store providers like Handango, GetJar and others get squeezed out by platform makers and handset providers? That’s the question posed by an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal. Handango, for instance, has been acquired by PocketGear…
Yelp isn’t going to be left behind when it comes to location-based deals, as the company has just introduced check-in rewards for publicly saying you’re at a restaurant, bar or other venue. Yelp added the check-in feature to its app in January, just as the hype around Foursquare began to grow. Since the launch, the…
If you thought Skyfire was happy making a few million on its iPhone app, you’d be wrong because the mobile browser maker has just released Skyfire 3.0 Facebook edition for Android phones. Dubbing it the “world’s first social browser,” the Skyfire Facebook browser gives you one-click access to the world’s largest social network. Another cool…
We know that the Android 2.2.1 build hit the original Droid about a week ago but now Motorola Droid X users can get this with a taste of Blue love. Droid-Life has a good walk through of how to get it on your system, but you need to have your Droid X rooted and be…
Well, it looks like Apple has nixed its plans to build the next iPhone with embedded SIM cards after the carriers cried out, “Bloody murder,” according to reports. As you may know, Apple was reportedly working with Gemalto for the next generation iPhone to have integrated SIM cards which could be flashed to work on…
Well, this could be interesting. It looks like Mozilla isn’t content with letting Verizon and Amazon open its own app stores, as the company will be building its own open app store but the main difference is that the Mozilla one aims to be device independent. Mozilla said it has developed an “Open Web app…
One of the advantages of the Samsung Galaxy Tab over the Apple iPad is the fact that the Android-based tablet has multiple camera. While this is convenient, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the quality isn’t great. “Winter comes to Moscow. Picture taken with a Samsung Galaxy Tab. It’s convenient, but the quality isn’t great 🙁…
We’ve just heard word that the Facebook app has been downloaded more than 100 million times from GetJar and this marks an important milestone for both companies. For GetJar, this just shows how much it is growing, as the company just had 50 million Facebook app downloads a few month ago. By many accounts, GetJar…