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It’s Friday, so I thought I’d share a cool deal I’ve found for the Splashtop app for the Apple iPad. The remote desktop app is now just 99 cents for the weekend, which is a steep drop from the $6 it normally runs. The Apple iPad app is made by DeviceVM and it essentially turns…
Stop the presses! The fanboy wars are about to get really ugly because a new, super-important survey from coupons.com said Android owners prefer pork ribs while Apple iPhone owners prefer chicken. The company examined its mobile coupon usage from the different platforms and came up with some staggering results. Did you know that women’s body…
Samsung officially unveiled its Media Hub for the U.S. market and this content delivery system could become a powerful counterbalance to Apple and its iTunes behemoth and it could also make the company’s Android phones multimedia powerhouses. When we reviewed the AT&T Captivate, T-Mobile Vibrant and the Epic 4G, the Media Hub was a part…
Samsung already said it has sold more than 1 million Galaxy S Android handsets but the company just said that it will hit the two million mark by the end of next week. That’s pretty darn impressive. The company was able to achieve this because it took a blanket approach – it eschewed the exclusivity…
In some crappy but not completely unexpected news, the Verizon Droid Eris will not be getting the Android 2.2 (Froyo) update. Bleh. In an e-mail to Computer World, Verizon spokesperson Brenda Raney said the Froyo update won’t hit this device and: “We have other options in Android devices, so this is part of the normal…
AT&T will begin deploying its 4G Long-Term Evolution network in the middle of 2011, the company’s operations CEO John Stankey said in an interview. The nation’s second largest mobile operator wants to cover between 70 to 75 million people by the end of next year with its LTE 4G network. This will be in addition…
If you’re on Verizon and were hoping to get a brand new Microsoft Windows Phone 7 device when it launches next month, you’re out of luck because the nation’s largest carrier won’t offer one of these devices this year. Geez, are they still smarting over the Kin? From BusinessWeek: Verizon Wireless won’t offer a device…
This may be one of those “too goo to be true” things but a video has leaked out which could be HTC’s version of Sense for the upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform. We know that Microsoft will not allow too much monkeying with the hardware and software for Windows Phone 7 devices, as it…
A new report from comScore said that Google’s Android operating system is gaining market share like crazy and this could be bad news for Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion. The comScore report said that there were 53.4 million people in the United States with smartphones in the second quarter, which was an 11% increase…
The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform is just a few weeks away and the company is definitely jazzed about it but it’s time for developers to start getting excited because the developer tools have also gone gold. Mobile developers have already had access to the beta version of the tools, as well as training kits…