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Nokia reported its quarterly earnings today and while most of us are wondering how many Windows Phone handsets it sold last quarter, our friends at PhoneScoop picked out an interesting fact: Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million in the quarter for “Platform Support Payments.” We had heard that Microsoft was paying Nokia billions to adopt Windows…
After an incredible earnings report, Apple’s stock has risen and the company has surpassed Exxon once again to become the most valuable U.S. company in the world. Apple’s stock hit $445.29 today and that brought its market capitalization to about $415 billion while the oil giant Exxon had a market cap of $414 billion. The…
The LG Spectrum is now available for Verizon and we’ll review this 4G LTE smartphone soon but we wanted to give you a few pictures of the unboxing and give some initial impressions. Fundamentally, the LG Spectrum isn’t much different than the LG Nitro on AT&T and that’s not necessarily a bad thing because both…
If you’re out shopping for electronics, you may want to use your smartphone to help you determine what’s the best price. One app to help with this is Decide.com and it has just released its app for Android. Decide.com uses more than 60 terabytes of historical data to help you figure out when the best…
Google is making some sweeping privacy changes to better integrate its products into a single, unified product and this will also include Android, the company said in a blog post. If you don’t like it, it’s too bad because the privacy changes won’t have an opt-out option. Basically, starting March 1, whenever you sign into…
We’ve covered shopkick before and think it’s a cool way to use smartphone technology to help you shop but the company has just released some new usage numbers and it looks like it is really gaining traction. There are now more than 3 million active users and the service has had 1 billion in-app deals…
We all know that tablets are blowing up in coffee shops and in planes but a new study from Cisco suggests that these devices will play an ever-increasing role with businesses. The study surveyed the tablet opinions of 1,500 IT managers and executives in multiple countries about their opinions on tablets in the workplace and…
Research In Motion has a new CEO but you can be pretty sure that its 2012 roadmap will remain the same unless something dramatic happens. Well, the spies over at BGR have got their hands on what the BlackBerry maker will reportedly release over the next 15 months and I’d be lying if I said…
If you’re waiting to get your hands on the Droid Razr Maxx, you’ll be happy to know that Verizon Wireless said the device will be available Jan. 26 for about $300 with a new, two-year contract. Internally, the Droid Razr Maxx isn’t much different than the Droid Razr but it packs a huge battery inside.…
Ewww. I guess it shouldn’t be surprising to find that some enterprising company found a way to integrate a Fleshlight holder with an iPad but that doesn’t mean it’s still not very icky. With this contraption, you can really show your iPad how much you truly love it. If you’re out of the loop, the…