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The magical fairies dropped off a Motorola Droid X with Android 2.2 on it and a near-final build of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and you know we had to show if off to you dear readers. We all know that Flash is a contentious issue in the smartphone space thanks to Apple’s belief that…
We all know that Research In Motion is working on a tablet which could be a competitor to the Apple iPad and a story out of the Wall Street Journal suggests that the “BlackPad” may be formally announced next week at the company’s annual developer meeting. The publication cites “people familiar with RIM’s plans” but…
If you’re still jazzed up about the NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip, you need to stop living in the past because the company just said that Tegra 3 is almost complete, Tegra 4 development is underway and that it plans to pump out a new one every year. That’s not super incredible news really, as you…
T-Mobile said it blocked a texting service because it didn’t comply with regulations not because the content was associated with marijuana. The text messaging company EZ Texting is suing T-Mobile because the fourth-largest U.S. carrier cut off its access to shortcodes. EZ Texting implied that this was because it dealt with a company which supplied…
Verizon has introduced a plethora of new application programming interfaces for developers which should make it easier for content creators to create apps for Big Red. Is this a precursor to the Verizon app store for Android? At its developer conference today, the nation’s largest carrier introduced a messaging API which enables app creators to…
The Firefox Home app for the Apple iPhone has been updated with an improved URL bar and boosted language support. According to the Mozilla blog, the 1.0.2 version of the Apple iPhone app includes: * Use Firefox Home in 16 different languages, including French, German, Japanese, Polish and Spanish. See all supported languages * Want…
We generally don’t cover too much enterprise applications here because, well, most of those apps are boring. Sure, I understand the corporate needs but many of the apps are just utilitarian and kind of “meh.” That’s why the Fuze Meeting Apple iPad app stuck out at me because it looks like a useful collaboration tool…
Nokia executive Anssi Vanjoki has heard all the chatter about pundits suggesting the world’s largest handset maker should ditch Symbian and MeeGo in favor of Android and he thinks that’s a bad idea. In fact, you might say he’s pissed at the idea. The outspoken Nokia executive said using Android would be like the Finnish…
We knew this day was coming but Sprint has finally lit up its 4G network in San Francisco. Or, at the very least, it is testing the service as the image above proves and that should indicate an imminent full launch. Sprint’s 4G service is in multiple markets but the lack of availability in New…
Verizon has introduced a Mobile Recovery app which will enable users to remotely lock their devices and more. Similar to the Find my iPhone app, the Verizon Mobile recovery app enables users to sound an alarm on the device (even if it is in silent mode), locate the phone with GPS, or remotely lock or…