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Yahoo has lost one of its top mobile engineers, TechCrunch first reported and confirmed by Yahoo, as Sandeep Gupta will be leaving the company. Gupta was the company’s senior director of application development and there’s no word on where he will be heading to next but he is just the latest departure from Yahoo’s mobile…
By now, you should know that Facebook flipped the switch on its location-based sharing service and I really think Facebook Places will have a big impact on smartphone users. The service is not incredibly innovative, really, as you check in to locations and share this with your friends. This is what companies like Loopt, Foursquare…
Intel plans to spend $7.7 billion to buy McAfee and its security products and you can be sure that mobile phones and smartphones play a big role in this acquisition. Smartphones have generally been free of major viruses that plague the desktop but, as smartphones continue to grow market share, most experts think it is…
It looks like our earlier rumors were right, as the Motorola Charm with Android is expected to hit T-Mobile August 25 for about $75 with a new, two-year contract. We had previously heard that the Motorola Charm would be free on contract and that seemed like a really good deal. The company confirmed on its…
We had been hearing rumblings this would happen for a while but the world’s largest social network finally introduced its location-sharing service with Facebook Places. During the press conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said there are three major goals of this new service: help you share where you are in a fun and social way,…
You got to love competition. One day after Yahoo revamped its iPad web Mail app, Google has introduced a new version of its Gmail web app for the Apple iPad and it features a redesigned user interface. The previous version had multiple toolbars which Google thought could confuse Apple iPad users, so the new UI…
Oh no. Justin Long, the star of the “I’m a Mac” Apple ads, apparently sports a jailbroken Apple iPhone 4. I’m sure Steve Jobs isn’t happy about that. On the Jimmy Kimmel show, Justin Long showed off his Apple iPhone 4 to show off a funny text message exchange. He hooked it up to an…
Well, we passed along a rumor from Mashable which said the HTC Droid Incredible would get Android 2.2 today and it looks like that was full of bullspit. On the Verizon support Twitter account, Big Red said, “We currently do not have information for the Incredible update at this time and is not being sent…
Apple is rolling out a new iPad ad which calls the device “delicious” and it also shows off a few apps. It’s actually a pretty cool ad, as it shows off the various uses of the Apple iPad. Of course, they can’t go 30 seconds without calling the device “magical” but this is a neat…
We know that a Halo offshoot will be coming to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and the idea of controlling Master Chief on your phone has many gamers salivating. The company is showing off a brief demo of the Waypoint app and it could just be a taste of what’s to come. If you’re not a…