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The Samsung Galaxy Tab is now available on Verizon, so you can get your Android-tablet backed by Big Red’s 3G network. Interestingly enough, Verizon is not offering a subsidy on the Samsung Galaxy Tab even if you sign a new, two-year data contract. The 7-inch Android tablet will cost $599 with or without a data…
The Apple iPhone app Bump continues to get better, as the sharing application has just added the ability to share music by bumping devices. The Bump 2.2 version for the Apple iPhone and iOS devices now lets you show off your tunes by bumping. You don’t actually transfer the song itself, but the recipient will…
Radio Shack is backing Windows Phone 7 by offering three new smartphones at many of its nationwide retail stores. “Windows Phone 7 is extremely intuitive and user-friendly, allowing people to use their smartphones more efficiently and bring together the things they care about most,” said Daniel Liberman, senior vice president of mobility for RadioShack, in…
Apple said it will be handing the reigns over to Oracle for Java, as it will be contributing its key components of Java Mac OS X to the OpenJDK project. The move accomplishes a couple of things: it allows Apple to focus on its own software without having to preload Java and it could also…
Amazon is well-known for its deals on smartphones but the online retailing giant is going nuts this weekend and offering many cool smartphones for a penny with a new, two-year contract. This penny sale includes multiple Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 devices. The Amazon penny sale includes multiple cool phones on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile…
We are about to see a flood of Android-based tablets over the next few months but if you ask NVIDIA, the company will tell you that Google is a “little behind Apple” when it comes to the tablet market. “Now it’s going to take something absolutely great to compete against the iPad and the iPhone,…
We all knew that Verizon would be landing an EVO-like device sooner or later but this latest leaked shot of a device being called the “HTC Mecha” shows off that the smartphone will run Android 2.2, have a 4.4-inch screen and it will be capable of LTE. Are you excited yet? If you look very…
A zombie virus has infected more than 1 million cell phones in China and the virus sends out spam messages that can cost as much as $300,000 a day, according to Shanghai Daily. The “zombie” virus, hidden in a bogus anti-virus application, can send the phone user’s SIM card information to hackers, who then remotely…
We all know that Apple has a habit of rejecting apps but one iPad maker got a nice little treat for having his program rejected: a personal call from Apple CEO Steve Jobs explaining the decision. You can find the details on this blog, but a developer was working on an economy app for the…
If you’ve found Apple’s Ping social network to be a bit isolated, you’ll be happy to know that Apple and Twitter are working together to help you spread your musical tastes. If you don’t know, Ping is a social network based on music that is available on the iPhone, iPod touch and desktop that enables…