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If you’re dying to get a Samsung Galaxy Tab but don’t want to shell out any cash for it, you may want to check out the company’s Twitter stream for a chance to win a free Android tablet. According to Samsung, you could potentially win one by: 1. go to http://twitter.com/samsungmobileus 2. become a follower…
It looks like you’ll have a plethora of buying options if you want to pick up the Samsung Galaxy Tab, as it looks like Best Buy will offer this Android tablet in a variety of options including a WiFi-only model for $499. According to a leaked document, Best Buy will offer the 7-inch Android tablet…
One of the most exciting phones from the upcoming Windows Phone 7 launch should be the Dell Venue Pro and the portrait-slider is now available for sale online from Expansys. If you hop on over to the site, you’ll see that you can pre-order the Dell Venue Pro for 499.99 Euros. This will be the…
With over four million users, Foursquare is becoming quite popular and we’re seeing people check in from all sorts of places. I don’t think anyone was expected to see a check in from space though and that’s exactly what an astronaut did. Douglas Wheelock used the location-based service to check in from the International Space…
SCVNGR has released a new version of its location-based gaming app for the Apple iPhone and Android and the latest version includes a host of new improvements. If you’re not aware, SCVNGR lets users check in to locations, kind of like Foursquare and others. What I like about SCVNGR is that it has rolled out…
HP has released an Apple iPad competitor but the Slate 500 may not be the tablet everyone is hoping for. We first saw the HP Slate in January at CES and it will be running Windows 7 with some optimization for touch. It also sports an 8.9-inch touchscreen, 1.86 GHz Atom processor, WiFi, 64 GB…
Verizon had a solid third quarter with $26.5 billion in revenue and $2.92 billion in profit but the company is not keeping pace with its main rival in terms of new customer addition. Verizon Wireless added 997,000 new customers for the quarter, giving it a total of 93.2 million customers. AT&T had a massive third…
The Federal Communication Commission has previously warned us that we are facing a lack of spectrum mobile data networks which could hamper the country’s ability to innovate at a high level but the latest forecast predicts the situation may be even more dire than previously thought. “The explosive growth in mobile communications is outpacing our…
Get ready to waste a lot of time because Zynga has brought its Farmville juggernaut to the Apple iPad. The Farmville app hit the iPhone earlier this summer and the Apple iPad version features a few enhancements to take advantage of the larger screen. It’s labeled as “HD” and it does look noticeably better on…
On the eve of the launch of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is acknowledging that getting back to the top of the mobile computing world will not be an easy trek. “We have a lot of work to do to get back into the game,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, according to the Wall Street Journal.…