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AT&T generally gets killed by the tech press because its iPhone service has been poor in cities like San Francisco and New York but the latest survey from Consumer Reports suggests this disdain may be widespread, as AT&T was the lowest-rated carrier for the second year in a row. The survey found that Verizon Wireless…
If brick-and-mortar stores didn’t hate Amazon enough, they’ll really be steamed this Dec. 10 because the online retailing giant is holding a promotion which will give users an additional 5 percent off its prices when they use the Price Check app. Basically, you’ll be able to walk into a store, use the Price Check app…
After quietly introducing a pair of Motorola tablets a few days ago, Verizon officially made the Motorola Xyboard tablets with 4G LTE official but I fear that these devices will still be too expensive to really carve out a market. The Motorola Xyboard is much thinner than the Xoom – Verizon describes it as thinner…
We keep on getting teased about the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, as we still don’t have a solid release date but the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the device will be $299.99 with a new, two-year contract when it lands later this month. There’s nothing official on the release date but the report says that…
Our friends over at WMPoweruser have spotted a great deal on a T-Mobile Windows Phone: the HTC Radar 4G can be had for free when you order online and sign up for a new, two-year contract. Not bad. With a 3.8-inch Super LCD screen, 5-megapixel camera and a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, the Radar 4G…
After reports leaked out last week that Facebook was buying Gowalla, the Gowalla team confirmed the news in a blog post today. The Gowalla service will be going away but Facebook won’t be getting that data. Gowalla started as something of a Foursquare competitor where users shared their location-based check-ins but it recently pivoted toward…
Yahoo is jumping into the group-messaging game with an Android app called Hub and this will go head-to-head with Facebook Messenger and GroupMe to be the place you go to communicate with your friends on the go. I downloaded the Yahoo Hub group messaging app and it has a very non-intrusive, minimalist look and feel.…
The Motorola Xoom on Verizon should be receiving a minor update which will be bringing a pay-as-you-go option for 4G LTE data. According to CNET, the HLK75F update will give you a month-to-month option for 4G LTE data and I think this makes the Xoom much more appealing. While it’s a big old and still…
Once Senators starting demanding answers about what Carrier IQ was tracking, you just knew that lawsuits wouldn’t be far away. Carrier IQ, HTC and Samsung are all facing class-action lawsuits for allegedly violating federal wiretapping statutes. The Carrier IQ software bills itself as a tool for mobile operators to better manage their networks and it…
Amazon may have a bit hit on its hands with the Kindle Fire, as a new estimate from iSuppli suggests the Amazon tablet will be the most-popular tablet in the fourth quarter behind the Apple iPad 2. While the iPad 2 is expected to sell more than 13 million units during the fourth quarter, the…