All you Android fans will be happy to know that the daily-bargain service Groupon has finally published an Android app. If you don’t know what the company does, then you’re probably not one of the 500 million users on Facebook because Groupon advertises like crazy on the social network. It offers users one deal a…
RIM BlackBerry Desktop Software 6 hits beta
Research In Motion wants to make it easier for you to sync your BlackBerry smartphone with your computer and it has just released the BlackBerry Desktop Software 6 in limited beta. In a blog post, RIM is very coy about what new features are on BlackBerry Desktop Software 6 but it does show off some…
Qualcomm wants to dump Flo TV
It looks like Qualcomm wants to get out of the mobile TV business, as its CEO said the company is looking for “a number of alternatives” regarding Flo TV. “It will get done in the next year but I don’t think I can be much more specific than that,” Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said in…
Google Voice gets faster dialing for Android, BlackBerry
Google continues to improve its Google Voice app for Android and BlackBerry and the latest update now makes it quicker to dial your contacts. According to Google: Until today, the Google Voice app had to make a request to the Google Voice server every time you wanted to make a call to send us the…
Verizon stays quiet on tiered data plans
We heard rumblings that Verizon Wireless will be killing its unlimited data plans by the end of the month and the folks over at Droid Life have received the alleged script that Big Red is sending out to squash concerns. Thanks to “blog activity,” Verizon is coaching its customer service representatives to deflect customers who…
AOL rolls out Android apps, mobile optimized site
AOL is looking to right the ship and it is going after the mobile market in a strong way by releasing a pair of Android apps and it has also rolled out mobile-optimized sites which utilize HTML5. Like Google’s mobile app, the AOL app rolls many of the company’s services into a single program. This…
Please stop encouraging tricky apps like Handy Light
By now, you should be aware that Apple pulled the Handy Light app this morning because the flashlight app could be secretly turned into a tethering program with a secret code. I would like all the people encouraging other developers to include secret functionality in apps to kindly shut up. Tricking the gatekeepers leads us…
Microsoft giving Windows Phone 7 handsets to employees
There’s one way to ensure your mobile platform will get some market share: give away phones for free. That’s exactly what Microsoft will do with its upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphones, as the more than 90,000 employees will be getting a free handset, according to Microsoft reporter extraordinaire Mary Jo Foley. “90K down … just…
AT&T says it drops 1.4% of calls
Apple iPhone owners may think AT&T has a huge percentage of dropped calls but the nation’s second-largest carrier said it drops less than 2% of calls nationwide. In response to a recent ChangeWave study, AT&T said: Statistically valid drive test shows the AT&T network continues to deliver the nation’s fastest 3G network and near best-in-class…
Apple iPhone thief caught with GPS-tracking app
Directly out of the “stupid files,” we have the tale of an Apple iPhone thief who snatched the phone out of the hand of an unsuspecting victim. Little did the thief know that the person was in the middle of demonstrating an iPhone app that provides real-time tracking of the device. The police nabbed the…